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Not Sure Why Copying Files To An Internal SSD Takes Forever

4 days ago 326.3K views 1 shares

So you're transferring files to your blazing-fast internal SSD at a blistering 45.1 MB/s, and it's only going to take... *checks notes* ...13 hours? For 161 GB? That's literally slower than a 2004 external hard drive having an existential crisis. The irony here is chef's kiss. SSDs are supposed to hit speeds of 500+ MB/s (SATA) or even 3000+ MB/s (NVMe), but here we are watching paint dry at speeds that would make a floppy disk blush. Either Windows decided to copy each of those 425,199 items one molecule at a time, or something is catastrophically wrong with your setup. Could be USB 2.0 bottleneck, could be the source drive is dying, or maybe Windows just felt like taking a leisurely stroll through your file system today. The "30% complete" progress bar is just mocking you at this point. See you tomorrow when it finishes!

Insert Disk #4287

Gamedev Hardware

12 days ago 262.0K views 0 shares

So Moore's Law says computing power doubles every couple years, right? Cool. Storage gets cheaper, SSDs get bigger, everything's peachy. But somehow game developers looked at that exponential growth and said "challenge accepted." Your PC gets more powerful. Games get bigger. Your storage cries in the corner. It's like watching two exponential curves race each other, except one is your poor 1TB SSD watching Call of Duty demand 250GB for the third update this month. The real kicker? PC power is barely staying ahead. That gap between the blue and red lines? That's the only reason you can still install more than two AAA games at once. Give it another year and we'll be back to the floppy disk era, except instead of "Please insert disk 2 of 4" it'll be "Please delete 3 games to install this 400GB texture pack you'll never notice." Moore's Law 2 isn't a law of physics—it's a law of spite.

100 Gb Game To Download

Gamedev Hardware Android Ios

17 days ago 344.0K views 0 shares

Your phone with 128GB? That's basically a data center. You've got apps, photos, videos, music, and still room for a AAA game or two. Your gaming PC with 128GB? Brother, you're one Call of Duty update away from having to uninstall your operating system. Modern Warfare alone needs 250GB just to sneeze. Add in Cyberpunk, Baldur's Gate 3, and whatever 4K texture pack you downloaded at 2AM, and suddenly you're playing storage Tetris like it's your full-time job. Fun fact: The entire Apollo 11 guidance computer had 72KB of memory. Now we need 100GB just to render realistic horse testicles in Red Dead Redemption 2. Progress!

Anyone Remembers Their Last Burned Data?

Hardware Cloud

18 days ago 352.3K views 0 shares

Anyone Remembers Their Last Burned Data?

There's something oddly poetic about the fact that somewhere in your past, you burned your last CD-R without knowing it would be your last CD-R. No ceremony, no farewell tour—just a quiet 700MB of data slowly becoming obsolete as USB drives, cloud storage, and git took over. That Sharpie sitting there is the real nostalgia bomb. Remember carefully labeling "Project Backup 2007" or "Linux ISOs" (sure, buddy) in your best handwriting? Now we just drag files into Dropbox like savages and call it a day. Technology moves so fast that we don't even get to say goodbye to the tools that once felt essential. RIP to CD burners, floppy disks, and the satisfying click of ejecting physical media. You served us well in the pre-cloud era.

Alphanumeric

Programming Hardware

27 days ago 377.3K views 0 shares

Back when 1 MB was considered massive storage, developers had to get creative with their character choices. Alphanumeric passwords? More like "alpha-NO-numeric" because you literally couldn't afford the extra bytes. Every character mattered when your entire codebase had to fit on a floppy disk that held less data than a single smartphone photo today. Those were the days when optimization wasn't a best practice—it was survival. You'd compress, truncate, and abbreviate everything just to squeeze your program into existence. Modern devs complaining about a 500 MB node_modules folder would've had an aneurysm in the 90s.

Stay Safe Out There

Hardware Security

1 month ago 328.2K views 0 shares

You thought you were getting a premium Samsung 990 PRO 4TB NVMe SSD, but surprise! The sketchy seller shipped you a "WangDong" branded knockoff with 64GB of SATA 3.0 speeds claiming to be "ULTRA PERFORMANCE." Going from 4TB to 64GB is like ordering a mansion and receiving a porta-potty. The counterfeit even has the audacity to call itself "999 PRO MAX" because apparently adding an extra 9 makes it 10% better than Samsung's 990. The "V-BUCK SSD" label is chef's kiss—nothing says legitimate hardware like naming your product after Fortnite currency. Pro tip: If the deal seems too good to be true and the seller has 3 reviews (all from accounts created yesterday), maybe don't trust your precious data to something that sounds like it was named by a random word generator having a stroke.

The Form Is Very Similar, But There Is A "Key" Difference

Hardware

1 month ago 298.1K views 0 shares

The Form Is Very Similar, But There Is A "Key" Difference

M.2 NVMe and M.2 SATA both use the M.2 form factor, so they look nearly identical at first glance. The catch? NVMe uses PCIe lanes and absolutely demolishes SATA speeds—think 3500 MB/s vs 600 MB/s. But the physical connector has a different keying (notch position), which is why the centipedes are having an identity crisis here. The long centipede gang represents NVMe drives with their multiple lanes of parallel goodness, while the lone M.2 SATA drive sits there with its single-lane bottleneck wondering why it wasn't invited to the speed party. Same socket on your motherboard, wildly different performance. Nature is healing, but your boot times might not be.

Reading Clean Architecture 2018 Edition

Databases Hardware Programming Backend

1 month ago 265.0K views 0 shares

Uncle Bob really wrote "disks are being replaced by RAM" in 2018 and expected us to take him seriously. My guy, SSDs and HDDs aren't going anywhere—volatility is kind of a dealbreaker when you want your data to, you know, exist after a reboot. RAM is literally wiped clean the moment you lose power, which is why we still need persistent storage. But sure, let's architect our entire system around a hypothetical future where we all have infinite non-volatile RAM and electricity never goes out. Classic case of getting so lost in architectural philosophy that you forget how computers actually work.

Limited Space In My SSD Only For Special Games

Hardware Gamedev

1 month ago 240.7K views 0 shares

Limited Space In My SSD Only For Special Games

You know you've made it as a game when you survive the brutal SSD purge. With modern games casually demanding 150GB+ like it's nothing, your poor 500GB SSD becomes a battleground where only the chosen few may reside. That one game you've replayed seventeen times? Knighted. That indie gem you bought on sale and haven't touched in two years? Sorry buddy, back to the HDD dungeon you go (or worse, uninstalled entirely). The "HDD" peasants in the background watching this sacred ceremony really adds to the hierarchy of storage. It's basically medieval feudalism but with load times.

This Is Genuinely Terrible

Windows Hardware

1 month ago 289.7K views 0 shares

Running Windows on a hard disk in 2024? That's not just a crime against technology—it's a crime against humanity. The judge's stern expression perfectly captures the severity of this offense. SSDs have been mainstream for over a decade now. If you're still booting Windows from a spinning platter, you're basically choosing to watch paint dry every time you start your computer. That 5-minute boot time, the eternal "loading..." cursors, the soul-crushing wait for Task Manager to open when your system freezes—yeah, you deserve this sentence. The punishment fits the crime: continue suffering with your ancient storage technology while the rest of us enjoy sub-10-second boot times. Court adjourned.

What Happens If You Bend A Hard Drive?

Hardware Windows Debugging

1 month ago 241.2K views 0 shares

When your hard drive starts looking like it's doing yoga, suddenly Windows thinks you've got way more free space than you actually do. The platters are literally warped but the OS is like "hey, 248GB free out of 588GB, you're good bro!" That physical damage has corrupted the file system so badly that it can't even read what's actually stored anymore. It's just making up numbers at this point. The disk is essentially screaming in pain while Windows cheerfully reports everything is fine. Pro tip from someone who's seen too many "I dropped my laptop" tickets: if your hard drive looks like it went through a trash compactor, those free space numbers are lies. All lies. Time to grab that backup you definitely made, right? ...Right?

I Was Literally About To Buy A 990 Pro The Other Week And Realised Its 2x Its OG Price Man WTF. When Will AI Go Away?

AI Hardware Cloud

2 months ago 413.2K views 0 shares

I Was Literally About To Buy A 990 Pro The Other Week And Realised Its 2x Its OG Price Man WTF. When Will AI Go Away?

Oh look, the Grim Reaper of tech components has arrived, and he's got a VERY clear priority list! While compute and memory are getting absolutely OBLITERATED (because who needs those when you're training the 47th iteration of ChatGPT, right?), storage is just chilling in the corner like "hey guys, what's going on?" The AI boom has turned the hardware market into an absolute BLOODBATH. GPUs? Gone. RAM? Extinct. But SSDs? They're just vibing, watching compute and memory prices skyrocket while everyone scrambles to build AI data centers. The 990 Pro going 2x its original price is just collateral damage in this silicon apocalypse. Fun fact: The AI gold rush has caused such insane demand for compute that even STORAGE prices are getting dragged up because, well, you gotta store all those training datasets and model weights SOMEWHERE. RIP to anyone trying to build a PC in 2024 without selling a kidney first.

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