Loot

I've got plenty of loot queued up to review, just had a bit of a hiatus for a while. The SSD has had time to become part of the collective, but was a definite 'aha moment' for the technologist in me.

...And it went something like this. The shift between spending time and spending money - A Good HDD enclosure costs about two-thirds the price of an SSD drive, and then you have to buy the HDD too. The end result is that the SSD is cheaper, fast, quieter, lighter, and physically smaller than its magnetic uncle at the cost of lower storage capacity.

So on the subject of terrabytes, What needeth thou? You want some local storage, which is now a cache/buffer between me and the internet - the advantage of a cache being its close by and fast but capacity has increased faster than data rate such that a modern drive is 'slower' than ever. After my Level1, I've RAM, virtual RAM, local storage, NAS and then then internets with each layer getting more bloated, harder to search, slower and further away.

Anyway I'm here to talk about loot. The Latest loot being the SSD drive with nowhere to mount inside my case - which obviously means the next loot added to the basket will be a new case. Or two new cases, as the aha moment of storage was a mirror of my build philosophy which - of late - has been to put everything in a box and hope it boots. So I've found the excuse to talk about build strategy which only adds to the list of unblogged topics I want to pen and havn't gotten around to reviewinf the 64GB Crucial SSD that is lying forlornly on the bottom of my case suspended at one end by a power cable that has to navigate the passive cooler of an oversized video.

More about loot after I have sobered up. I really want some of those socks though. You know the ones? Yeah. Those Ones.