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koraks
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Re: ok should i install raid or buy a ssd? [Re: imachavel]
#14578153 - 06/08/11 03:13 AM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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I'm not sure if I completely agree with your views on the tech. job market, but if it works for you, then that's great! In any case, knowledge = power, so it can't be wrong to accumulate some knowledge along the way, with our without certifications.
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5HTSynaptrip
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Re: ok should i install raid or buy a ssd? [Re: koraks]
#14578826 - 06/08/11 09:22 AM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Well you can easily return the SSD if you don't open it. One thing to be wary of is the fact that you have IDE. Aside from the fact that SATA has been the standard (2008 99% of drives were SATA), you will not be able to initiate a secure erase command for your SSD when it comes time to do housecleaning on it after a good amount of use. The winsxs folder grows and grows with use, and we all know how shitty Win computers perform after a long time.
The best way to get an SSD back up to brand new standards is to initiate the secure ata erase, which is a function inherent to SATA drives. The problem is that most BIOS', especially Dell from what I've read trying to figure out what I had to do, freeze the drive from allowing that command to run as a sort of protective measure against malicious sources. In order to bypass this you have to unplug the power cable to the drive. The best way to do that is to have AHCI enabled, but it can be done in IDE mode. The one thing that can't be done in IDE mode is a hotplug. It can be very dangerous and it can brick the drive.
Just wanted to let you know because the SSD will not be that great on an IDE controller anyways compared to SATA II (or SATA III since most are that now). If you run benchmarks at the start (be careful which to run and look around for Win 7 tweaks to prolong the read/write life of your SSD) you'll see the SSD can quickly lose some performance in a short period of time.
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Re: ok should i install raid or buy a ssd? [Re: 5HTSynaptrip]
#14579498 - 06/08/11 12:16 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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no I know. thanks for the great advice 5ht synaptrip( awesome name by the way, makes me want to drop a hit right now)
but I never bought an ssd, I bought an ide hdd for my dell dimension 4700. the pc currently has an ide hard drive, so there is an ide controller in there right now. i'd be more worried if I accidentally bought an sata drive, because with an ide hard drive, and an ide cd rom I'd currently have no way of installing a sata hdd. but anyway a controller swap I believe is $25. thanks a lot though for taking the time to give me great advice. I give you a rating yet 5ht synaptrip? your name makes me want to trip balls btw 
in response to koraks, yes a degree or certification will definitely help you get a good job in the tech field. I was just saying that with a cert or not, if you get hired for a job and can't perform the tasks they want you to, often times you won't keep the job. It depends how much they are paying you, how many domains you are working with, how many i.p. adresses on the subnet you have to look over, etc. I think having a cert is a great way to get a good job, but I also think the more you know, the easier those tests are, i've heard to an expert, someone taking a ccna, or ccvp, or mcse, or however you spell that, will have relatively no problem passing those tests, but to someone who has no idea what all that stuff means, that it's virtually impossible.
like for example buring an disk partitioner to a cd, if you've done it before, no problem. for me I never got those iso cd burners to work, or maybe I downloaded the wrong partitioner. I know once you get it to burn, you just restart the computer with the bios set to read the startup device as 'cd rom' or 'dvd rom'
weird example, but basically completing technical issues can simply be a matter of experience. the most difficult things can be really easy if you have done it a thousand times, or the simplest thing greek if you just don't know what to do.
thanks for the great advice.
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