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Hence multiple posts to reply to a single post...This shows impulsivity control issues to me. Very quick to type a quick reply before thinking out everything one wishes to say.I struggle with this myself in my day to day life, as does my oldest. I wish I was more impulsive.... Or had traits to that effect.My process, as Sean noted to be thorough, is laborious and super drawn out. At a frantic pace In other words you are always jerking off

You should never exceed the gain capability of your amps; however, your post clearly shows how stupidly useless a DD-1 is EVEN if they actually worked.

thorough...

Sort of saying the same thing.

Have some ugly ass wood stairs in my garage. What is a more suitable outdoor to indoor transition?

Budget? 3-400 including amp. Ok, then you are on the right page. I suck at budget builds.

I have ZERO interest in cloud storage. Fuck paying monthlies or getting tied into something that inhibits future selections. I do "cloud" my own stuff. Things I really don't want to lose get backed up to my parents house and vice versa.I would be using it primarily for music and pictures. While I only share pictures that are 'up to snuff' I still like to keep the shitty ines to learn from. J I have 75,000 pictures on my PC (avg about 20mb), 3,000 CD's that I've ripped. No way no how I am paying to store that somewhere nor require a connection that brutal to grab anything. Can't escape paying for storage, either you pay for it and own it or you rent it. That's a LOT of porn man. Ha, none of it is regrettably.

I have ZERO interest in cloud storage. Fuck paying monthlies or getting tied into something that inhibits future selections. I do "cloud" my own stuff. Things I really don't want to lose get backed up to my parents house and vice versa.I would be using it primarily for music and pictures. While I only share pictures that are 'up to snuff' I still like to keep the shitty ines to learn from. J I have 75,000 pictures on my PC (avg about 20mb), 3,000 CD's that I've ripped. No way no how I am paying to store that somewhere nor require a connection that brutal to grab anything. Can't escape paying for storage, either you pay for it and own it or you rent it.

Budget?

I have ZERO interest in cloud storage. Fuck paying monthlies or getting tied into something that inhibits future selections. I do "cloud" my own stuff. Things I really don't want to lose get backed up to my parents house and vice versa.

I feel the same...but have nothing I need at Rock. Pretty sure I will have something break within 10 minutes of me hitting buy though.

.188 bullet connectors. Found a dual female one at an O'reilly. Led me to Dorman's website where I could find what I needed and then on to the net where it seems pretty only Rock can get them. Then Rock wants rape on shipping. Yay.

And Rock Auto Dorman 84456 & 84453 $4 parts $11 shipping Makes me want to order a bunch for no reason other than what if. Aaargh

Like WAY by far. And yes of course I am also privy to all sorts of test methodology differentiation which makes it a bit unfair as compared to other HDD.

I'd trust an HGST server drive over anything. BY FAR.

The habits you will create by having an "operating system" only drive are also good. Allows you to run a fast small SSD for that and store data on a platter. I then use Macrium to back up my SSD install and have a second copy of the HDD and if either fails I can be back up in less than 20 minutes. Large data transfer can take longer of course, but that doesn't effect running.

You can have our bullshit weather. Was 58 here yesterday. WTF? Raining like hell today and there is NO MORE WHITE in my yard. Fuck you weather.

Why are you not sold on SSD? Is it because of Sean's bad luck? In theory the 8GB should be plenty for a OS and a couple programs, but I can say I have no idea of the Read/Write speeds of the hybrid SSD. In terms of a HDD a 5400rpm is a bit slow, but pleyny usable. PS - Just checked my HDD (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148371) which ironically cost more for something that is half the drive (at best) as what you proposed and has worked just fine for me. Not just Sean's bad luck. I know of numerous premature failures. When you consider the ratio of SSDs to traditional platter HDDs out there, the percentage of failures is tremendous comparatively. I have far too much info on my drives that are terribly important to me to take that chance. Unfortunately the failed drive had a ton of info I cannot recover. Some of the information were case study information, captures, videos, and PP presentations that have cost me a lot of income... not only that, but the information lost are references I saved that I may never be able to recover. This drive is only the second failure I have ever had, and this one was from physical impact... not really a drive issue. I have no one to blame but myself for this loss. I also have some old externals that are 7 years old and still function. Time for more backups. SSD has a much lower failure rate than HDD in consumer products. Like crazy less. Order of magnitude maybe. This is taken up in fall related deaths, and climate changes in laptops. In enterprise servers that changes. Even so, it's no more than 1% or so in the applications I have access to. That's mostly university and small server data. SSD also makes up for the cost difference in power savings and cooler running. The most common failures are related to firmware death, or the SSD being old. If you have a 5 year old drive of any kind you are kind of on borrowed time already. In every system we have built with an SSD I have never seen a complete fail. We have in HDD after months of operation though. Either way most failures on either side are firmware related. I just had to completely wipe my machine as Windows lost itself on a BIOS update. Stupid fucking error durring start up. Even then I was able to image the RAID and get all the data back. I had to move up to Windows 8.1 though. Lost the 7 CD key somewhere..... What? You are reading Samsung releases, not real ones. Per GB stored SSD's have WAY higher failure rates.

Why are you not sold on SSD? Is it because of Sean's bad luck? In theory the 8GB should be plenty for a OS and a couple programs, but I can say I have no idea of the Read/Write speeds of the hybrid SSD. In terms of a HDD a 5400rpm is a bit slow, but pleyny usable. PS - Just checked my HDD (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148371) which ironically cost more for something that is half the drive (at best) as what you proposed and has worked just fine for me. Not just Sean's bad luck. I know of numerous premature failures. When you consider the ratio of SSDs to traditional platter HDDs out there, the percentage of failures is tremendous comparatively. I have far too much info on my drives that are terribly important to me to take that chance. Unfortunately the failed drive had a ton of info I cannot recover. Some of the information were case study information, captures, videos, and PP presentations that have cost me a lot of income... not only that, but the information lost are references I saved that I may never be able to recover. This drive is only the second failure I have ever had, and this one was from physical impact... not really a drive issue. I have no one to blame but myself for this loss. I also have some old externals that are 7 years old and still function. Time for more backups. Every time I do anything important I backup. I use a program called Allways sync. Allows me to easily back up the same folders to multiple pc's and not have all go to either. I also sync with an external regularly. I've had 7 conventional drives fail and 3 SSD's. I've purchased probably 50 conventional and 5 SSD's. I'd agree with your odds of failure. I personally would do the hybrid though. Get an SSD, run it, rock it and BACK that shit up!

The Bills are my second favorite team. First lost, but this year that is expected. Super woot on Buff this week though. Of course, next week it will be someone other than the Bills since by default my second favorite team is whoever plays the Pack.

That too

I understand that, but there are millions of people out there like me for whom a HU makes the most sense. I was being pointed based on how the conversation started. I will add though if you don't listen to the radio I'd do smart phone and a volume control knob anyday. That required pretty much no knowledge. If active is required conveniently the minidsp gives you a knob for $2 or something silly like that.

And Ryan the whole point of the conversation had nothing to do with you.

I do, and I'm not computer saavy enough to entertain the thought of anything other than something already pre-packaged. That's how 99% of the world is. You are a 1%er. use your phone.... Why would I want to do that? The HU is cheap, easy, readily available, a known quantity, cheap, easy, easy, easy. My volume knob was cheaper.

I do, and I'm not computer saavy enough to entertain the thought of anything other than something already pre-packaged. That's how 99% of the world is. You are a 1%er. use your phone....