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Are there any negative sides to M.2 SSDs? |
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Biggest SSD problem is in way how they work - principle of FLASH memory operation. FLASH cell is fully isolated charge storage, like completely sealed bottle and water inst... Read more »
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What was one of the most historic gold medals ever in Olympic history? |
Asked in Extremely interesting facts • Answered by Alessandro13 • April 17 |
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Olympic Games 1996, Atlanta. Paola Pezzo crosses the finish line of the mountain bike race obtaining a historic gold. Due to the great heat and fatigue, she walked the last k... Read more »
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Will USB Type-C replace HDMI? |
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It might, in places. First, for those who don’t know, the USB Type-C connector is seen increasingly as a universal connector, because it can support any number of “alternate... Read more »
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How much RAM would you need to store the full name of every person on Earth? |
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The Earth’s population is 7.53 billion at the moment. You have to start with some assumptions:
- You’re using UTF-8 for your encoding, which can represent all names in a single...
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How many FLOPS is the human brain? |
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FLOPS = FLoating point Operations Per Second. Think fast! What’s 372236068.318888 divided by 0.000200020150189915, to 17 digits of precision? Are you done yet? How about no... Read more »
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Is Apple dying? |
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The risk for Apple is not that they will die. The risk is that they become IBM. A long time ago, a really long time ago, IBM was a very cool company. It was THE computer com... Read more »
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Does SSD permanently delete files? I know HDD just remove pointers and overwrite the data, but what about SSD? |
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TL;DR : Well, sort of. Explanation: As you said in your question, HDD just removes the pointer to the data and mark them for overwriting later. But SSD is kind of different. U... Read more »
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With SSDs becoming cheaper, are they already a good choice over HDs, and can we safely rely on them for everything (speed and storage)? Or how much longer will we need to keep backups on hard drives? |
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You always need to keep backups. Always always always. SSDs are an ideal choice over spinning-rust hard drives, but that has nothing to do with not keeping backups. They’re ... Read more »
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What could I do with 1TB of ram? |
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If your computer had 1TB of RAM, what would you do with it? Thanks for the A2A. Honestly… sell it. Seriously, the money that I would get from 1TB of RAM is more than worth th... Read more »
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Why do PCs gradually get slower with usage? |
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There’s 4 main reason for this, but only 2 of them are genuinely noticeable unless it’s a severe case of the latter reasons. Here are they by rank of likely hood. With the ... Read more »
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Is a CPU upgrade worth it for more cores? |
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The i7–7700 was the second best gaming CPU of 2017 behind the 7700K. Today’s i3–10100 beats the i7–7700 by about 3fps in almost any game tested. Granted, with a RTX 2080 Ti,... Read more »
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SSDs have a lifespan of a decade, HDDs are prone to data rot and corrupting. What do companies and governments use when they need to keep digital data stored for a very, very long time? |
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Online storage with ongoing replication. You keep it all in a live file server that keeps track of replication levels of every bit of data, and replicates it again when the ... Read more »
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