Why SSDs are obsolete

Lee said:

Holy Cow what i the world is so important that you need that much storage. . .Unless all your music is Lossless, and all photos are 20 gig each. . .:)

I'm in the process of digitizing my life: my CDs to both mp3s and .wav (already done), scanning my enormous book collection (over halfway done), all my documents (done), photos (all new ones are already digital), and eventually, all my videos.

lehnerus2000 said:

...My PC has 8 TB of internal storage.
I have 10 TB of external storage for holding my backups.

Now you know why I laugh at people who say, "store everything in the Cloud."

I also have 8TB of storage (two 2TB and one 4TB) but I have 34TB of backup storage (each HDD in my machine has four backup drives—two local and two offsite—and, yes I am anal, not to mention OCD).

While I do use Carbonite as an auxiliary offsite backup, I don't laugh when people say, "Store everything on the Cloud." I cringe!

LF, You do realize that the digitized versions will be long dilapidated when the hard copies are still in good shape. In 20 years from now you will not even be able to read those media any more. Try to find an 8 track tape reader today.

whs said:

LF, You do realize that the digitized versions will be long dilapidated when the hard copies are still in good shape. In 20 years from now you will not even be able to read those media any more. Try to find an 8 track tape reader today.

At the rate my body is falling apart, I'll be dead within 20 years (or wish I was if I'm not).

Actually, the digitized versions will last longer than the original media in many cases. I have already had some music CDs (commercially stamped, not burned) go bad. Tapes and DVDs also can go bad over time. All are subject to destruction by fire, weather, etc., are impractical to backup (unless digitized), and take up way too much room to store.

True, all media, including HDDs, will fail eventually, which is one reason why media has to be updated periodically. The same is true of obsolescence; if media isn't updated as it becomes obsolete, there will come a time when there is no hardware to read it. Updating HDDs as they age or need replacing with newer technology is much cheaper than paying storage costs for older, volatile media, such as dead tree books and CDs.

Maybe we ought to store in wedge writing on clay tablets. Those lasted for 4000 years.

TechnoMage said:

I've combined several helpful tweaks into the same script, so I had to look through the script to find the exact tweaks that I wanted, to answer your question.

I believe these are the registry tweaks needed, but please research them for yourself before applying.
I've used the same tweaks for every OS since '98, so I know that they work without causing any problems, except for Windows XP Media Center. If you have that OS, then do not use the second tweak ("LargeSystemCache"-"1")
Using that tweak on Media center will cause it to become UN-Bootable. I learned that the hard way!!!

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management]
"DisablePagingExecutive"="1"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management]
"LargeSystemCache"="1"



TechnoMage

Thanks a lot! The information on the first setting is very contradicting however. If I search on Google, then there are lots of websites that claim that this setting is one of the "tweaking myths" and does not do anything, while other claim that it might improve performance at the expense of high memory usage. Microsoft is somewhat vague on the subject, stating that it's useful for debugging.

What are the other tweaks you're using? perhaps the overall performance gain is not due to one single setting but a combination of all of them?