Recent content by Agent L

Holy Jesus on a bicycle, It would be enough to cache mine several times! :) I deliberately skipped the volatileness issue, because I'm talking about performance at all cost here. Both money and convenience. Of course entire concept is crazy. Just as throwing 680$ at marginally better SSD is. :)

Exactly, because the point of the experiment is to test heatsink, not your case. Now you're trying to tell us that white is black. Are you a politician or what? Here are some random variables present in real world setup: unknown and uncontrollable power output of a real CPU low precision of...

Yes, but TheFocusElf wanted performance significantly better then his current SSD and that'll deliver. We were not talking about data drive, but app drive, which doesn't need persistent changes often. In large datacenters, yes. In single HDD-RAM chain, no. There is at least one cache on the...

Why not simply put all this money into RAM and just cache entire HDD at system boot? This would certainly eliminate any drive-related bottlenecks, as data will be already in RAM. Most programs (ie. Office) are slow because they were designed to be slow. You can throw lighting fast machine at...

I'd vote for Thermalrights. Even when not on top, they're always hovering nearby. BTW, why don't you guys get a proper heater (or a row of them, for seasoning the grease) instead of introducing randomness with actual CPU? Well, the difference between sleeve and dynamic bearings is mostly...

From WD announcements, it's not going to happen. It might not be technically possible (had to be pre-implemented as an option in older drives), and it doesn't make much sense from business point of view either. Considerable expense for producer in form of development effort AND lot's of bad...

All advanced format drives today do emulation in hardware, so in fact they pretend to have old, 512 byte sectors. So all operating system ever concieved will be compatible. Issue discussed here is 100% OS independent, because they all access all drives in same way. As long as drive is...