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My 4TB 990 Pro NVMe drive just shipped. I should get it in a few days. I'm excited because it replaces my 2TB 990 Pro and offers - in addition to more space - even better performance for small file access (important to me) due to additional cache.
But then I have to figure out how to get this GPU out of my PC. The previous GPU took me an hour to remove due to the release for it being underneath the card and surrounded by heatsinks. I had to use two tools and a lot of fiddling so as not to damage anything in the process. This GPU is wider by half again. This is my concerned face. 
If I can't get it into my desktop, then my sister is getting a 13th gen intel with a 4080 in it sooner rather than later, and I'm out some serious money on a new PC, and my laptop will have 6TB total across two 990 Pros.
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Upgrading is fun and exciting when everything goes right, but when it goes wrong it's a PITA.
Had an upgrade once; bas MOBO and 1 out of 4 sticks of memory was bad. It took a while to figure out which stick, it was an intermittent problem would pass stress test but intermittently crash.
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What kind of processing do you do that makes small file access important?
The difficult we do right away...
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Recompiling zephyr or esp-idf. C++ compiler likes to deal with lots of source files, so small file access is good when compiling large codebases.
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What's your opinion of the Resilient Filesystem? Is it anything that a power user might want to consider?
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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I have no idea what it is.
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That most certainly is a different discussion than the present one.
If you want people's opinions, make it a new thread. My guess is that most people (like myself) have no experience with it, and can only judge it from what other people has written about it. As long as the API is the same, Windows developers are one the average far less concerned about the different underlaying file systems, whether FAT32, NTFS, ReFS or some *nix style FS, than the typical *nix developer is.
Wikipedia has an article about ReFS (Wikipedia: ReFS[^]) that provides some introductory information.
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trønderen wrote: Wikipedia has an article about ReFS (Wikipedia: ReFS[^]) that provides some introductory information.
It doesn't provide what the Codewitch thinks, though, does it?
I think my question was totally legitimate, given that CW was referencing file access performance.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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then my sister is getting a 13th gen intel with a 4080 in it
Is there a vacant "brother" position in the family?
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Or two. I would be fine with cousin / adopted / stray whatever 
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Too many QA issues with Samsung 9xx drives in recent times, luckily I heard of them a few hours before committing to my 2.5k € order and switched to Crucial P5 + Crucial P3.
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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That's probably due to the firmware bug on the early 2TB models. That has been sorted out. I've never had problems with mine, and I'm running two of them currently, but I patched the firmware before formatting.
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I thought software subscriptions were a ripoff until I did the math | ZDNET[^]
It uses a couple examples to show why subscription software is better than buying a stand alone at a one time cost.
But the cost isn't why I buy stand alone. I look at the following reasons.
- It must continue to work regardless of how long I keep the computer.
- It must work even if the internet is not working.
- If I cannot afford to pay for a new computer in the future then I can't pay for a subscription either.
- There should be no possibility that my work will disappear. Related to the above, but one can also look to cases like kindle where books that had been bought suddenly disappeared from the device.
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A subscription might be OK for people who rely on something every day, particularly for making money and having access to all the latest features. I don't.
One example is Photoshop -- I bought Photoshop v7 back in 2002 and I still use it on occasion. How much would I have spent if I had been paying for a subscription all that time? I certainly don't need most of its features. It works for my needs.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: One example is Photoshop
Good example, I bought the last version that was not subscription and I use it occasionally, but definitely not enough to justify subscription.
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The same could be said for web newspapers: Over the years, there must be at least two hundred web newspapers/magazines that have told me that if I only sign up for a subscription (which, experience shows, may be very hard to have terminated), they will let me read that article someone linked to.
I am not going to pay for two hundred different web publications, reading on the average one or two articles a year in each of them.
My ideal payment method, both for web publication articles and for software, would be a voucher / ticket based system: I would go to a ticket office to deposit to my account the pay for, say, 50 general vouchers/tickets. Whenever I want to read an article in publication X, I would ask the ticket office: Give me one of my 50 paid-for tickets, marked for publication X, for me to show so that I can read that article I want to see.
If that ticket was for the X web site in general, not for just the one article, but valid for, say, 8 hours or 24 hours access, I might discover other articles that would make me later return, again and again. After a while I might realize that a regular subscription would be cheaper than 8- or 24 hour single tickets.
Similar for ticket based software use: If a software house would, through a ticket office (hopefully, a lot of software houses would come together for a common ticket office) sell me a 24-hour or maybe a 1-week ticket for a specific software suite, or maybe for any software from a given software house, I could pay according to my use. If 365 single-day tickets cost ten times as much as one year regular subscription: Fine with me. If I use the software more than 36 days a year, I can switch to a regular yearly subscription.
I would like such a ticket based system even if the ticket office handled only one large software vendor (MS, say) as long as I could ask for a 'cheap' ticket for one single application, or a more expensive and comprehensive ticket for a software suite (such as MS Office), all from the same account, paying for the use of different tools in the same 'currency'. It would of course be great if many software houses would agree on a common ticket office, a single 'currency'.
The software to implement such a system is more or less readily available - the Kerberos would need minimal modifications to do the job (maybe a little bit in the Ticket Granting service, both for accepting deposits to each account and for forwarding payments to the software houses according to the tickets issued). Each application would have to be instrumented to require a valid ticket for unlocking its functionality to be provided. This would be a standard mechanism, common to all - a lot of it can be picked from the way applications are 'kerberized'. A one-year or a perpetual license would use the same ticket mechanism, using tickets with a different expiration time from those provided by the ticket server.
With such a ticket based system. the threshold for accessing services would be so low that I would probably spend a lot on single tickets before realizing late that switching to a monthly/yearly subscription would be cheaper. Along the route, I would probably have seen (and spent money on) a lot of software that I might become a regular (subscription) user of, at some later time.
I never heard of anyone providing access to software (or web publications) using a ticket based system such as this. Yet I think that if some major software provider (MS, say) introduces such a system, a lot of others will say "Why didn't we think of that before?"
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Yeah, I have thought something similar many times. In my case was with the example of a fitness studio.
Numbers not real, just as example
Fee for one day only access = 20€
10x one day access fee (not limited to a month) = 150€
Monthly fee for unlimited access = 300€
This method could be applied to many, many online (and even offline) things.
M.D.V. 
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trønderen wrote: would be a voucher / ticket based system:
That is a an interesting idea.
I also would be interested in that. I don't mind paying for something because I know people rely on it but just like you I am not going to be paying for all of them.
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Or Paint.NET and get updates at any price you want to pay.
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