ann-arcana

Queen of Burgers 🍔

Writer, game designer, engineer, bisexual tranthing, FFXIV addict

OC: Anna Verde - Primal/Excalibur, Empyreum W12 P14

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Ackart
@Ackart

Without a whole lot of fanfare, hard drives have become these cool little sticks

this Perfect Dark mission objective. fucking Blade Runner android brain-ass computer chip. yes sir, that's where all my favorite games and also my porn are saved.

this little silicon pog? Windows lives there


atomicthumbs
@atomicthumbs

this is true but at the same time, i really wish U.2. would take off. SATA drives had significant advantages in terms of how easy they are to handle in a desktop or rackmount environment, durability, heat management, capacity without requiring ridiculously dense and more expensive chips, etc.

the only reason one would have a U.2. drive is because you are handling Serious Data. Data needing a drive large and fast enough that it's mostly heatsink. Something substantial and weighty in the hand.

we have data cards. we need data blocks to be their counterpart.


y2kcyborg
@y2kcyborg

This made me want to see if there are external adapters for M.2, hell yes, this is what I want on my desk to slide a data stick into



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in reply to @Ackart's post:

in reply to @atomicthumbs's post:

God, look at that heatsink

Magnificent

I am in complete agreement, for an abundance of reasons; not the least being the ability to swap out storage without having to take a screwdriver to your motherboard

u.2 drives are huge in enterprise; I just got out of two years of working in a hyperscale data center, and they were used for almost everything that wasn't a boot drive or some kind of high density long-term archival system.

in reply to @atomicthumbs's post:

apparently all that heat sink and radiator looking bit on a lot of these little portable external enclosures don't really do anything because most of them are slide-in enclosures, so the thermal pads don't actually make contact at all or else they'd get scrungled

Is Orico supposed to be a reliable brand? I just recently got some of these enclosures from Amazon Vine from Satechi and SmallRig, and also had a Sabrent enclosure for cheap. All 10 Gbps. Not that I need it, but a Thunderbolt 4 enclosure would be amazing