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QUESTION #40

Currently, I am just running 2 regular 7200 rpm HDDs.
I am planning to do a fresh install of Windows on this:
http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=20

combined with this:
http://www.sandisk.com/products/ssd/sata/readycache/

Is this GENIUS or STUPID?
Meh.

An SSD is significantly faster than a 10kRPM drive, but at the prices you'll pay for a VelociRaptor plus a small SSD, it would actually make more sense to get a large SSD from OCZ or Micron or Intel. It would be only a little more expensive ($249 for a Vertex4, as opposed to $125 + $50 for the same space on a HDD+SSDcache), but significantly faster overall, and doesn't come with the added setup work of putting it in as a cache.

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QUESTION #40

Currently, I am just running 2 regular 7200 rpm HDDs.
I am planning to do a fresh install of Windows on this:
http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=20

combined with this:
http://www.sandisk.com/products/ssd/sata/readycache/

Is this GENIUS or STUPID?
I'm in complete agreement with psychic. A larger SSD is smarter. If you plan on keeping those other hard drives and have a current Intel platform you could even setup caching on those drives. Get a 256GB drive and allocate a 20GB cache to each of the HDDs via Intel SRT. You'll have caching on your slower storage and have a much faster drive for your OS, since higher capacity SSDs offer higher performance.

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I heard that the performance of a SSD will degrade after a certain amount of re-writes. MOBA games & many games on steam receive a lot of updates. How about a cache SSD on a Western Digital Caviar Black? Would that have a better bang for the buck?

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I heard that the performance of a SSD will degrade after a certain amount of re-writes. MOBA games & many games on steam receive a lot of updates.
That's not what happens. The performance doesn't really degrade, it just has to find more sectors to write to. Besides, with a new SSD, that won't happen for at least 5 years of heavy use, so long as TRIM is enabled.

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I heard that the performance of a SSD will degrade after a certain amount of re-writes. MOBA games & many games on steam receive a lot of updates. How about a cache SSD on a Western Digital Caviar Black? Would that have a better bang for the buck?
You really don't have to worry about SSDs degrading in performance. That isn't what happens (writes alone aren't the problem)and there are plenty of measures to keep performance at its best.

But here's a question; have you ever had a hard drive that was slow when just browsing your files?

If you were to setup caching any applications you run will be run from the SSD. The odd time you install a new program on your HDD you will need to use that app before it will get copied to the SSD, but the differences in hard drive performance are barely perceptible at best and cannot compare with that of modern SSDs. There's nothing wrong with getting a good hard drive, you're just not going to notice if you also get a good SSD.

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Question #41

What is the BEST smart phone for porn?

I have a rare medical condition where
if I don't maintain a constant erection,
I will die.

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What is the BEST smart phone for porn?

I have a rare medical condition where
if I don't maintain a constant erection,
I will die.
Define "best". Also, if you watch enough porn it is highly likely that it simply won't do the trick anymore at some point. Get yourself some Viagra or talk with a professional health technician.

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What is the BEST smart phone for porn?

I have a rare medical condition where
if I don't maintain a constant erection,
I will die.
Cute. If you maintain a constant erection for more than 5 or 6 hours, you have a high risk of blood clotting, which will ultimately necessitate surgical removal of substantial parts, and you can kiss those erections goodbye.

The answer is "any." The small screen size is always going to be a problem, and using a phone for this is inconvenient at best. It will be painful for your eyes, and the screen will always be too small for details.

But anything with a reasonably high-quality display (really, anything medium- to high-end built in the last 3 years) will be adequate for viewing pictures and video.

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Question #42

When running ScanDisk, does ScanDisk only identify the bad sectors on your hard disks or does ScanDisk also disable the bad sectors so data won't be written on them again?

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Question #43

I'm trying to use Windows Update on
a laptop with Windows 7 Ultimate, SP1, 64 bit,
but the download is stuck on 0%.

How do I fix this?

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#42: If you're talking about the MSDOS ScanDisk, yes.
#43: How long have you let it run? It's not unusual for the progress bar to hang at 0% for hours and then suddenly jump up to somewhere around 90% and complete almost immediately. (Especially if there are a lot of pending updates.) If waiting it out doesn't work, you can try this troubleshooter.

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holy crap, have i've been away from Gaia that long?

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#42: If you're talking about the MSDOS ScanDisk, yes.
#43: How long have you let it run? It's not unusual for the progress bar to hang at 0% for hours and then suddenly jump up to somewhere around 90% and complete almost immediately. (Especially if there are a lot of pending updates.) If waiting it out doesn't work, you can try this troubleshooter.


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was a this "OR" that question.

#43
I believe I finally got around this, but I don't remember how.

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holy crap, have i've been away from Gaia that long?

Apparently so!

Quote:
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was a this "OR" that question.

Yep. "Yes" as in "yes it also does that other thing." IIRC, newer hard drives perform bad sector reallocation in the firmware on the drive itself, so the software running on your computer may not even be aware of them. They just get fixed behind the scenes, at least until the drive runs out of spare sectors.

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Problem #44

My laptop is a HP Laptop Pavilion dv6-3143us. It originally came with Windows 7 Home Premium (64bit), but I qualified for a free upgrade to Windows 10.

http://support.hp.com/us-en/product/HP-Pavilion-dv6-Entertainment-Notebook-PC-series/4247579/model/4332795/

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834157466

Ever since I upgraded my laptop to Windows 10, I can not game on my laptop anymore. Everything I start a game like Borderlands 2 or DotA, I would heard the game start up like normal, but the screen would be completely black. I usually have to ALT+F4 to get back to my desktop. All of my games work fine on my Windows 10 desktop & my laptop when it had Windows 7.

Also, my laptop is suppose to have both Intel HD graphics (for power conservation) & ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650 graphics (for gaming). When my laptop had Win 7, it was very clear which graphics I was using, because the option command for the other graphic would be gone from the right-click menu of the desktop, but since I upgrade to Windows 10, the option command for both graphics are always on the right click menu, so I really have no clue which graphics is enabled.

Furthermore, I can no longer output my display to an external monitor either.

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Problem #44

My laptop is a HP Laptop Pavilion dv6-3143us. It originally came with Windows 7 Home Premium (64bit), but I qualified for a free upgrade to Windows 10.

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Your laptop has switchable graphics, which requires an HP-proprietary driver to enable. Without it, your OS doesn't know how to use the Radeon chip. Judging by the HP support site, that driver is not available for Windows 10. If your model supports it, you will have to go into the BIOS settings and disable the switchable graphics option (set to "FIXED" mode) so that the laptop will always use the Radeon chip. Then you should be able to install the regular AMD drivers from the AMD support site.

Note that the success of this method is ... questionable at best. You'll probably need to update your laptop's BIOS, and even then the option may not be present (some models never got that update). As to whether the AMD drivers install after that, you might as well flip a coin. There might not even be any for Windows 10 for that model.
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