Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD
On Thursday, March 05, 2020 01:56:27 PM Michael Stone wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 05, 2020 at 10:11:55AM -0500, rhkramer@gmail.com wrote:
> >On Thursday, March 05, 2020 03:27:09 AM tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> >> On Wed, Mar 04, 2020 at 06:53:12PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> >>
> >> [...]
> >>
> >> > That is lieing to the user, and not nice at all.
> >>
> >> Disable your caches! now!
> >>
> >> What? Your computer is just 1/3 as fast as it used to be?
> >>
> >> Computing is about lying -- and trying to not get caught.
> >
> >Not always, or not in this respect. There are applications where, in
> >essence, a real time kernel is (leading to quick responses to real world
> >events or similar are) necessary, sometimes for the protection of life or
> >limb (as Gene has alluded to).
>
> nice red herring, but those aren't going to be dependent on a commodity
> hard drive unless someone really screwed up.
What kind of hard drive would it use?
Was this discussion limited to commodity hard drives?
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