no RAM, no SSD and no GPU PCs. AI is taking us to the dark ages
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They're nuking the SSD market too? This feels malicious, like a concerted effort to purge the personal computer from the market.
When you're a monopolist, they let you do it.
Maybe we should just vote harder and that will stop it.
You: "STOP SAYING WORDS. START HOLDING WEAPONS."
You have my permission to follow your own advice and act now.
Now you can finally act instead of just posting the same call for others to act.
Report back and tell us of your success.
"Don't reply. Go out into the real world and prove me wrong."
I quit being an accelerationist when I realized accelerationism requires intent and the right has zero intent of doing anything. So basically we accelerate in to civil war and the right gets assfucked by the left.
This subsequently changed my opinion on the second amendment too, but that also tied in to how tired I got of listening to "SHAEL NAWT B ENFRINJD YEEHAW" from rednecks who subsequently militantly adhere to 922(r) when it comes to US-made parts on their AK, and are terrified of anyone even talking about extralegal gun content.
When the ATF brace ban dropped in 2023, I pointed out a simple legal fact: Under the NFA (26 USC sec 5861), possessing an unregistered SBR carries the exact same penalties as possessing an unregistered machine gun, up to 10 years and $250k fine. Machine guns have ZERO barrel length requirement in their definition. So if you're already "breaking the law" by keeping your braced pistol (which ATF said made it an illegal SBR), you might as well slap a real stock on it and drop in an autosear. The crime doesn't get worse, it's the same felony under the same section. It's literally all one big NFA bucket.
If you're a true "shall not be infringed" type, then the ban shouldn't have fazed you at all. Why comply with registering or removing the brace when the downside is identical to going full send?
Instead Arfcom banned me for being a "glowie" and the thread nuked. Meanwhile everyone was whining about the rule like it was the end of the world, but god forbid anyone mentions actually ignoring a law you have almost zero chance of getting caught breaking unless you are in the process of a crime with the guns in your possession.
They're complete cucks. Every conservative owns guns to show off how rich and cool they are first and foremost, the exact same reason they drive fucking gay trucks and wear Oakleys while being proud of how there's no scratches in the truck bed. It's all just status symbol peacocking with them.
He'll probably ask you to redeem amazon gift cards because he's a pajeet and a demoralizer shill lol.
Vote harder for TallestSkil!!
Aww, did the yid get its feelings hurt? You’re powerless over anyone here.
What advice? The thing you can’t read?
Never happened. Thanks for admitting you really can’t read.
Thanks for proving me right, by the way. It’s not my position. It’s yours. And you won’t do it.
Good Lord, you really do have dementia.
What part of "STOP SAYING WORDS. START HOLDING WEAPONS." is NOT a call for others to act?
What part of “It’s not my position. It’s yours. And you won’t do it.” was difficult for you to understand? YOU believe something will happen. YOU believe people will act. YOU think these things, despite zero evidence whatsoever.
Put the fuck up or shut the fuck up, voter.
You never had a position. You just spam demoralization propaganda because your foreskin-munching masters fear this small internet forum.
lol
Translation: “Truth hurts my feelings.”
Said the admitted brown that posts things only paid jewish shills have ever posted.
Clearly they don’t; they control it already.
Someone just shot at some jews and the same normies took the side of the jews.
Even when someone DOES SOMETHING, people can't support the better guy in the scenario.
"Damn i sure do hate these globalists" - normies
migrant shoots at globalists who brought him in
"Oh no stop him arrest him" - normies
That's because what they did does absolutely zero to help the situation, and almost exclusively backfires on the goyim. To the point where I'm not sure if 99% of these are just Jews or ruling class doing these kinds of things to push more restrictions on whites. If someone wanted to make some actual change, they would secretly take out bad people, one by one, and not let it become a Jew talking point.
And to the feds: I'm not advocating for committing isolated murders. I'm making a logical point about cause and effect. But I AM advocating for you to paint the ceiling with your brains instead of using your position to trample on the basic human rights if innocent people.
Can we just kill the stormfaggots before they get bold again?
Fuck off retard.
Thanks for admitting that you remain physically incapable of refuting a word I have said on any topic.
Reply again, paid jewish shill.
Fuck off retard.
Thanks for admitting that you remain physically incapable of refuting a word I have said on any topic.
Reply again, paid jewish shill.
Last word.
I’m guessing due to lower demand for SATA SSDs compared to NVMe, but still. Being able to use SATA for slower storage is useful, and SATA SSDs I find can be a good compromise in between NVMe performance and SATA HDD lower price depending on the use case.
Exactly.
I'm at the point where I'm looking to phase out my storage HHDs for SSDs just for the noise reduction but now that whole plan just had a monkey wrench thrown in it.
I did exactly this earlier this year (or was it last year? Can't remember). Any way, got rid of all the mechanical HDDs for NVME and SSDs. Glad I jumped on that before this clown world bollocks kicked in.
Yeah, me being too lazy and cheap to toss out my old HDDs might save my butt here.
I'd imagine it's exactly this... The question is whether they'll increase NVMe production, but somehow I think the answer will be no.
It's more likely they'll cut NVMe production too, along with HDDs.
I wonder what they've realized we could build with computers that they're terrified of us having.
Our own media.
We're going to go back to the olde ways. You're just going to have a dumb terminal that connects to the cloud.
All your stuff will be stored there. All your content you purchase will be there. All the games you play will be there.
And when you commit double plus-ungood bad think you'll be locked out.
That really is the gameplan, isn't it? Fortunately people are turning on subscription services a lot, never mind cloud gaming which no one uses
I built a new PC earlier this year. It may very well be my last.
My computer is from 2017 and is beginning to show cracks... the occasional hardware bluescreen, odd slowdowns, sometimes it won't wake up from sleep, POST takes a long time, and for sure the GPU can't run anything modern. I need a new one. And oh boy what a great time to have already bought most all of the parts except the GPU and RAM...
I was supposed to rationalize buying PC parts to build one as ''it's a Christmas frivolous spending''.
The year has been rough and I don't have much motivation to do it.
That RAM price apocalypse made me lose interest. Plenty of great retro games run on basically anything nowadays anyway.
I'm pretty sure we're seeing a concentrated effort to destroy the personal computing industry and force us onto the cloud.
Yup, this is 100% what's going on, imo.
The Judeo-Government and Judeo-AI companies realized that if people can just run AI dedicated on their personal computer, then people won't have need for cloud AI services and that means 0 control.
They want to force everyone onto cloud computing services so the Juice maintains full control.
Mental illness.
Me: describe what's happening
You: denial
I doubt I can convince you of anything but a friend once told me, once you drop the jew-pill, you never go back. Why is that? Because, it's the truth.
When stuff happens like this, it's never an accident. This is being orchestrated. Who runs the AI companies? Who did Musk meet with when he said he wanted a free speech platform and was demonitized? Who has Trump aligned himself with? Who meets with Zelenskyy when negotiating a peace treaty?
You can say I have a mental illness as many times you want but try to open your mind. The evidence is right in your face and it's undeniable once you choose to see it.
Thanks for admitting everything he said is 100% correct, jewish woman.
To be fair, the cloud can't do fuck-all without RAM in the end-user machine.
You can argue against GPUs with those gay 'shadowplay' or whatever the fuck that stream games with horrendous unplayable latency, but fat RAM is still needed in even a cloud machine because you have to cache all that bullshit.
It's why Chromebooks and bargain tablets are unusable even when you do nothing with them.
When this is false, will you delete your account?
Since it’s true, yours will be deleted and all your content will be wiped.
Yeah but at least the internet is flooded with garbage fake content. Totally worth it.
The fun part is: it's not just PCs. Consoles, phones, notebooks, tablets, handhelds, etc all require RAM and memory chips.
So you're saying there is a silver lining, and that soon those infernal phones might disappear?
It's more likely they'll become the only form of computer you can get without having connections. And they'll be super expensive.
And it will be completely impossible to remove the tracking and spyware.
How else will you use your single global digital-only currency for all transactions with all other forms of payment banned, goy?
Apple allegedly already bought up enough memory to last years.
Wait until smartphone prices skyrocket. Shit's gonna be fun.
I've read a couple of days ago that they're already reducing the RAM of future smartphones, like 4GB for entry level phones.
there's a slim chance that could be a good thing. it would require Android to actually optimize their operating system. if Microsoft and Apple have to do the same, maybe just maybe we will see quality operating systems again.
a man can dream.
Bloat OS, bloat apps, bloat background spyware. Something has to give.
I already had a taste of this on my 32 GB home computer.
Me: "Hey this IDE is using 10 GB of ram and it's mostly a text editor and parser. This is ridiculous."
Engineer: "Memory is there to be used. You still have over 20 GB to dispose of."
Me: "My browser is using over 1 GB."
Engineer: "Memory is there to be used. You still have over 19 GB to dispose of."
Me running another memory expensive program: "This tool tells me I'm almost out of free memory."
Engineer: "Your computer is a few years old; just buy more ram."
I think the meme of Spidermans all pointing at each other is going to be real in the form of software vendors all telling us that we'd better pony up for more memory or stop using other software. Unfortunately corporations would sooner use a popular piece of garbage than an efficient program that does the job far better.
Underrated comment. I had like.... 16 GB of ram which ro a strictly office computer should be more than enough. In HS I was using Maya and 3DSmax and the entire adobe suite for my multimedia course. And I only had 4 gigs of ram at.the time. That was consider a TON of ram at the time when most computers brand-new at best buy had 1.
Fast forward and I just upgraded to 48 gigs. It's such a large amount it sounds stupid. But it's not. Not to mention a 2tb hdd. I resent that I even need this size machine now for fucking office work. I don't even use fun programs anymore. It's just browsers,.adobe acrobat, and fucking Excel.
The government will put fuel efficiency requirements on cars. Sometimes I wish they out ram efficiency requirements on software. At least for basic shit.
And what were the resolutions you were working at during that era?
Exactly. While I agree that this is all starting to feel malicious, the quality/resolutions were minuscule compared to what we work with today
Probably 1280*1024 or something. But it was all I needed. If you aren't watching a movie or new gaming, you don't need more than that to be honest.
Email, spreadsheets.
I'll give some latitude for multi monitor setups.
I remember upgrading my winXP machine to a whopping 4gb of RAM so I could run Mass Effect 2. before the upgrade, it would run but the frame rate was extremely low. before that upgrade, I was also running games Pacific Fighters, a world war II flight simulator with fully destructible planes and detailed damage models, no problem.
games today hardly look better, both at a technical and artistic level, yet the system requirements have increased 10x
10GB is still absurd but in the days when those were significantly smaller, the undo stack was 1 action deep instead of infinite and you couldn't "show references" instantly in a 200 file project.
And sometimes it actually is a sort of optimization. They generically know how big the RAM pool is. They don't know what your individual CPU is capable of. So the simple approach is to cache the shit out of everything in memory to avoid having to calculate it multiple times.
Or basic bitch software like mod loaders coming in hot with 1.4 GB installs because they're made by faggots on SDKs who have to bundle the entire fucking thing.
I had one crisis where I couldn't figure out where my C: drive space went, turns out I had to install some Python SDK and unbeknownst to me the Python SDK downloader required some fucking insane 20GB piece of shit software bundle.
The thing is, hard drive space has NOT increased. HDDs reached 2TB and basically stopped. SSDs reach 4TB now and there's not much larger. And not much matters in that regard anyway because only specialist boards support more than one or two m.2 connections.
Pass a law that has a 'size tax' where every GB of your install comes with a tax the developer has to pay and watch these sizes shrink to reasonable levels.
What? You can buy brand new 24 TB HDDs right now. They make 8 TB external SSDs.
Those drives are just racks/arrays of ~2TB storage. The 24 TB HDD has 10 2TB platters in it.
I love how I've never installed a game on my phone but it has like 20 games installed and new ones appear with every update.
I wish we had a government who gave a shit about us and made it a fucking crime to install anything on my device without my explicit permission. That includes any updates. If I say 'no updates' then that's it. Besides Windows, that would apply to Steam.
Sorry, that only works one way. When you get extra space, you fill that extra space up, but when your amount of space decreases, you become a hoarder.
You don't like your browser using 4gb of ram?!?!??
Pfft, it's perfectly reasonable for an app that amounts to a few buttons and text boxes and a couple background images to be a 40MB download and use 400MB of working RAM.
Buy used or buy new older versions. I'm betting the used laptop market will go through the roof, and older phones will go up in value.
Buying used has always been the way to go for phones IMHO. They churn out so many new versions every year that 3-4 year old higher end phones are still better than new mid range phones and MUCH cheaper.
You can usually get 2+ year old flagship phones (brand new) for 1/3rd to 1/4th the price.
Or do what I did and buy new and just use the same flip phone for 17 years straight. They only got me off that thing because they literally disabled the 3G network, it was still perfectly functional other than that.
Skyrocket AND run worse because they'll halve the RAM they normally came with.
That's a market that has needed to die for everyone's best interest.
We don't have an affordability problem, we have a spending problem. People buying the latest greatest phone non-stop is why nobody has money.
My current phone is a Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra. Before that was an S7. And the only reason I upgraded from the S7 is because the S7 screen developed a tiny crack and the OLEDs began to decay and fail, and the battery had gone long enough that it couldn't keep up without two charges a day. Plus it wasn't compatible with 5G. Also, the camera on the S20 Ultra was (and still is) extremely good, the S7 was trash.
In that case I had objective reasons for upgrading.
Ask someone who just bought the latest iPhone what objectively makes it better than last year's model and they'll just stare at you dimly and say 'it's better cuz number go up'.
Phone cameras were the only technology I really followed the progress of and even that has stagnated. Phone cameras consistently got better with every model for a decade to where they are now comparable with real cameras.
I got the S23 Ultra for its 10x zoom camera which was genuinely really cool and I have taken over a hundred professional-looking photos with it. Naturally with following releases they dropped it to a 5x camera with "Ai-pOWeReD 10x zoom" (it looks like shit) while raising the phone price. Meanwhile the main cameras on all phones have remained basically unchanged since 2020. Since realizing these companies have actually given up I just downgraded to a smaller phone and got a real camera.
Smartphones will be fine because a lot of the globalist plans hinge on everyone owning a personal tracking/surveillance device.
Data Hoarding is the enemy of information control.
Data hoarding since 5 years old
I have never allowed my phones to be cloud only devices, but there are people that don't understand payment plan hell has more problems than just being more expensive in the long run.
They're not thinking. They just want things to work... NOW
Which is even more stupid since the cloud is just someone else's computer. Things twnd to work better NOW when you're in control of your own equipment. But, some people follow the trends even when the trends are not in their beat interest.
You'll own nothing and be happy.
It is past time to give all CEOs the Mangione massage.
It's ok I only pirate dopamine crack incremental games with barely serviceable graphics anyway.
What's the good crack these days? I haven't touched anything since "finishing" Antimatter Dimensions something like five years ago.
To ensure the NWO PCs have to be taken out of the hands of the people.
Only controlled computer APPLIANCES which comply with state identification edicts will be allowed.
This is absolutely malicious and controlled.
The fact that like four companies can literally just buy the entire fucking market is why I will never respect capitalism. I'm no Marxist, I respect the value of what the free market can offer, but I'm for heavily regulated markets. There doesn't have to be rhyme or reason, literally just someone saying 'nah, you can't do that'. "Hey your acquisition will negatively impact the market for more than 20% of consumers, so we're just going to tell you 'no' and you can't do shit about it."
I'm old enough to remember a time Microsoft was called a 'monopoly' because they simply included Internet Explorer with Windows.
Now look at the fucked world of big business today.
Google has been ignoring the sherman anti-monopoly laws for decades -
using their monopoly to subsidize and control other industries (eg youtube)
Democrats control our courts and give it a pass
All politicians fall in to four categories on this.
Retarded boomers who don't understand dick shit and therefore cannot be counted on to do anything.
Those having their pockets filled with lobbyist shekels.
Political operatives who have a weaponized interest in the outcome.
"What are you complaining about? Line go up!!!"
Literally nobody cares otherwise. Europe is fucked up but at least they have some major legislation in place to protect consumers, like the GDPR.
You can't be serious. The GDPR is a bad joke that exists for the EU to use revenue from fines to subsidize their failing welfare state.
At least go with something like the "Directive on repair of goods" that may actually help a customer someday, despite it being wrapped up in "green" nonsense.
Won't someone think of the poor tech companies?
The GDPR is a massive package of privacy protections. Tech companies cried about it for a reason and not because it was 'poor little us', it was because it shut off their revenue stream of monetizing "free" customer data.
The entire reason for the cookies opt-out we have now is because of the EU. Wow, how terrible, making websites tell you what bullshit they're secretly installing on your computer without your knowledge and consent. How awful! Someone fetch my fainting couch!
California has the CCPA/CPRA which gives legal enforcement for customers wanting tech companies to fuck off and not monetize their data.
Article 17 of the GDPR forces tech companies to delete all your personal data upon request.
Literally fuck right off to hell with your shitty defense of 'big tech'. How many of those poor wittle trillionaire companies have gone out of business because of "fines to subsidize their failing welfare state"?
Oh right, literally fucking zero have. They have more money than ever before. So fuck them. These companies are shit and offer nothing of value but fake make-work nonsense to prop up fake economies with business that produce nothing. If Europe wants to liquidate them into nothingness, why should I care? A shitty evil government vs. shitty evil corporations and you think I'm gonna root for winners there?
It's not a defense of "big tech." It's a defense of small tech.
Facebook and Twitter can afford massive compliance departments. Any potential new competitors can't. It's regulatory capture, plain and simple. And you go lick the boots of the government/tech partnership because they've convinced you that their monopoly is making you safer.
Did your precious crony regulations stop a single one of the things you just complained about?
Said as he defends the people importing infinite illegal Muslims and the guys demanding the infinite H1B imports.
Let's review your points:
Fictional non-existent "small tech" companies might, in your imagination, run afoul of the law, stopping them from becoming "big tech" and that's a bad thing for some reason.
Literally any and every single law imaginable is completely invalid on the entire sole basis of any compliance with law being "licking boots".
Therefore we can put 1+1 together and come up with you genuinely, unironically, literally arguing that a tech company should be free to do anything they want, including stealing your credit card information and selling it, because "any enforcement against things like that would be funding importing infinite illegal Muslims".
That's about right.
You will notice I didn't end 'that's about right' with a question mark, because it's not a question, that's the definite conclusion and nothing you write, ever, will change that. If you have a problem with that, you should maybe think before writing such incredibly stupid fucking shit such as:
lmao what else is there to say. I genuinely cannot imagine why nobody on the planet takes retards like you seriously at all. Libertarians are so fucking stupid it's unreal.
Guess what, OSHA regulations don't fucking change just because you're a disgusting retarded obese worthless stupid semi-literate redneck who doesn't have his own inspectors and compliance office. You're still subject to the same standards and expectations. If you can't manage that, then lose your business and die homeless, idiot.
Tech companies built their revenue streams on being thieving little secretive shits. It's a business model built on amoral, repulsive practices. Any "small tech" that is attempting to partake deserves to be destroyed just as much as "big tech" doing the same thing does.
"Waaah but how will my business survive if I can't launder your data to hackers without your knowledge and consent?!?!" - Data brokering should be 100% illegal with decade-long prison sentences for engaging in it, including buying the data.
All your little faggy 'small tech' companies are artificially propped up by imaginary Venture Capitalist predatory investments anyway. Literally why should I care? That's how fake and gay the entire industry is.
Yes. Because "wear hardhats on site" is totally the same as having to cater to a fiefdom that constantly introduces regulation because someone might be able to tell that Klaus prefers to compose an email starting with the toolbar button instead of the file menu and thinks the penalty should be a two-digit percentage of global revenue.
Give it a rest. We're never going to see eye-to-eye. Mostly because yours point in opposite directions.
Because it's retarded. It exists so an army of bureaucrats in Brussels can get a pat on the back every time a cookie sneaks through without a pop-up window because it means a couple more million Euros to spend on Mohammed.
It accomplishes fuck all and inconveniences everyone. I really hope the EU goes the way of China and throws up the Berlin Firewall because the rest of the world is tired of them fucking with the Internet. They can reign over their little walled-off network of subjects.
Design your websites without being insidious evil little fucks installing secret bullshit without my consent, then. Come up with a business model that doesn't revolve around being a filthy little perverted data pirate tracking every movement of my mouse so you can sell it to Indian scammers. Is fingerprinting my browser and computer information so you can manipulate the prices I pay for an airline ticket when I come back actually necessary? No, that's fucking twisted and evil.
A story just broke where Instacart mines demographic information to specifically charge White people more money.
If you can't accomplish those things, fucking die in prison, I literally do not care. The entire who's-who of tech presidents, CEOs, directors, etc. is literally a list of people whose complete liquidation would be doing the world a favor.
Literally who the fuck are you defending here? The guys that are demanding infinite H1B imports?
Your ignorance is showing. It's just about impossible to run a site without all that tracking, Google requires it for all of its services, which are necessary to actually make money with a website. It isn't the start up or hobbyist website that wants to add this tracking shit, all this tracking is built into all of the tools necessary to run a website or it won't be seen in search engines, from AdSense to GA4. GDPR compliance only resulted in more hoops to jump for the regular guy who didn't want to track dick to begin with, but is forced into it because every tool requires tracking users. Meanwhile every big company has the money to burn implementing endless annoyances that literally haven't changed shit about what's actually tracked (hence all the lawsuits), beyond being used as an avenue to shake entities like Google down for chump change, which was always the point. GDPR is regulatory capture plain and simple, it locks out everyone but the big players, and you're a moron for cheering it on.
The biggest clue all this shit is fake and gay is that California has a similar law. When you're defending the insanity of California, you done know you fucked up. Congrats dipshit.
GDPR has done fuck all to protect consumers. As a matter of fact it allowed companies like Google to remove consumer owned content from places like the Play Store. It resulted in a massive robbing of consumer digital goods with zero recourse. And that was just the start. It's also resulted in endless popups all over the web, all the while boxing out small players by forcing them to jump endless hoops over tracking they never wanted to implement but were forced into because all the industry tools (conveniently made by big corporations) require it, wasting endless time and money they don't have to spare.
Imagine bootlicking the EU for regulatory capture, forced thievery, and shitting up the web with popups well beyond the scale of the worst we saw in the 00s. Funny how these consumer protections only ever harm the consumer while ensuring more monopolies for big companies, huh.
Nice on paper. Now let's try it in practice. Kamala is president. "Your acquisition is unequitable to 'marginalized' people for some reason we pulled out of our ass, so we're telling you 'no' and you can't do shit about it. And don't bother asking again, we don't like you so you're not allowed to do business anymore."
Wouldn't people just be moving away from SATA SSDs because those M.2 NVMe SSDs or whatever they're called, the ones shaped like a rectangular wafer, seem superior in practically every way? Aren't there are also PCIe SSDs, at the very least, from Intel? (Edit: After a quick search, they appear to have been yet another long gone trend, another Intel thing that failed. The Intel 750 series were SSDs that plugged into graphics card slots.)
I don't like SATA at all. Never bought any SATA drives for anything I assembled.
I didn't know about Micron/Crucial exiting the RAM business. I remember thinking that they were some of the best priced in 2017 when there seemed to be a severe RAM price increase. GPUs were also very expensive at that time. I don't know when that 2017 crisis ended. I can only recall something about South Korean factories. Don't even know if it was RAM or GPUs that were coming out of those factories. I haven't been paying any real attention to computer hardware (or video games) since then: my memories are vague.
Back then, you had a few trends like Intel Optane. They were something like a cache between RAM and hard drives that sped up hard drives at times. That was a total flop. But people into custom PC building were going on about it at the time.
M.2 is the form factor
PCIe is the hardware interface
NVMe is the protocol, requires PCIe
Every single M.2 NVMe is a PCIe card. All those "NVMe PCIe adapters" are purely electrical. Maybe some noise suppression or something but there no active conversion going on.
If you're thinking of SSD cards like the Optane ones, those were designed for enterprise. They weren't even NAND. It was a different architecture to fill the gap between NAND and RAM. it only really mattered for datacenters because low-latency and mediocre sequential speed wasn't impressive for consumer usage. Also, Intel did their typical retard thing and locked it to specific chipsets. Great for databases though.
Intel didn't find a good use case for Optane. I remember LTT did a video of a PC that's RAM limited but has an Optane cache, it's still way slower than a PC with 16GB RAM
The distinction between the NVME SSD and SATA SSD is really the bus its designed around and plugged into. One plugs into a mainboard directly and the other plugs into a cable.
Both are memory based storage. The SATA cable is just a transfer throughput bottleneck. But there is also limited real estate on the footprint of a mainboard. It is easier to plug cables onto a board to expand storage, where there may only be room for 2 or 3 M2 slots on a standard form factor board.
In my memory, SATA was just associated with 'clunky' and 'slow'. A severe bottleneck.
I'd mess around with hard drives a lot as a more tech-savvy student, frequently data striping, data wiping, defragging, partitioning, and all that, so when it was time to assemble something for myself I recall wanting to avoid that.
I remember looking at the speed of M.2 NVMe and SATA SSDs and thinking that M.2 NVMe totally blew SATA out of the water. I was enthusiastic about trying it, even though NVMe SSDs were very expensive then compared to now.
When I started playing games installed on the M.2 NVMe SSD, the difference in loading speed just blew me away. I'd play Fallout: New Vegas on an old laptop and then again on my custom build and the loading screen, before much closer to a minute if I recall correctly, would be gone in just one or a couple of seconds.
I don't have much of an opinion on other computer hardware types, brands, or manufacturers, but I am opinionated on NVMe: The M.2 NVMe SSD is hands down my favourite computer component. Say goodbye to slow data wiping software and algorithms, defragging, cables, etc.
The shift from unicore to multicore CPU architecture and other major changes in computer hardware haven't impressed me the way that the shift from hard drives to M.2 NVMe SSDs have. Cheap M.2 NVMe drives are still impressive, cheap CPUs and GPUs, by contrast, are frustratingly bad. A budget gaming or video editing build won't be let down by a cheap M.2 NVMe drive, but by the cheap CPU and GPU.
This will be a pinch on ALL SSD, including NVMe, not just a pinch on SATA SSD exclusively.
That has a lot less to do with SATA than SSD vs spinning disk.
Make a spinning disc connect via NVMe, and it'll be just as ow as that laptop.
So what, you used exclusively IDE drives for the last 20+ years?
Pretty sure that M.2 NVMe has little to nothing to do with SATA or IDE. It's separate altogether.
I liked M.2 NVMe SSDs enough when I first started using them that I saw no reason to try other things like Intel Optane, SATA SSDs, or hybrid drives. I assumed that Optane would provide no worthwhile performance improvements, on the one hand, and that SATA SSDs and hybrid drives were too slow, on the other. That the SATA port is basically a severe bottleneck or whatever. M.2 NVMe is an unusual example of something actually being done right for once, whereas I thoroughly dislike hard drives.
I never assembled anything for home usage before NVMe came about. I wouldn't mind trying a PCIe SSD (Edit: Apparently these are no longer a thing) in some hypothetical future build, but I have no problem with M.2 NVMe. For instance, you don't need to do any of that time-consuming data wiping using software like DBAN on Samsung NVMe drives, their Secure Erase software does the job in a matter of seconds.
Ah, makes sense now.
AI is a fucking blight
i dunno boys.. seems everything Trump does is fucking up the PC sector lol. Tariffs made GPU prices and many auxilllary components like cases/coolers become more expensive. And Trump prioritizing AI/data centers indirectly made RAM and future SSD to 3x-4x in price...
It is also not just PC sector.. anything that uses memory like gaming consoles, phones, fridges, etc etc. He is gonna lose the support of young people as they see their electronic prices go up. To the young, electronics is even more important than food sometimes lol. The economy hasnt even become that much better.. so young isnt finding better jobs to afford these increases.
So basically PC gaming is dead, and PC manufacturers killed it.
Not that that is a new observation considering Nvidia's clear hatred for consumers with their pricing for the last four years.
Please don't let Kevin Bacon die.
They are responding to tariff situation
Higher margin in non tariff markets
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