TheExDeus
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Reply #15 Posted on: October 23, 2010, 03:57:25 am |
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Holy fucking shit, that's amazing.
I'm sorry, but I'm lucky to get 1 MB/s on ANY server, and if you get 50, that's incredible. Per second? That's up to 12 seconds to download a CD ISO.
I get 8 MB/s max. If I had FiOS, I'd get 40. That's still not close to 100. Sorry, I meant 100Mb/s (Megabits, not megabytes, that's how speed is measured I think). By contract minimum at any one time is 20Mb/s. Thou when I download something I have speeds up to 7-10MB/s. My max is 12.5MB/s, but my router can't keep up with it. And I have almost the cheapest one where I live. Its $23 a month. For $27.13 a month I could have 200Mb/s optical cable, thou they don't offer static IP's, so it doesn't suit me. edit: If I really had 100MB/s my HDD would burn (or explode) after 10 sec.
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TheExDeus
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Reply #18 Posted on: October 23, 2010, 02:03:08 pm |
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A 3 GB/s hard drive wouldn't explode with a 100 MB/s download rate. That's the burst speed. The sustainable speed is max 300MB/s on SataII. Thou you will experience stuttering at 20MB/s download speed too. At PATA you can have some bad HDD damaging even at 10MB/s. Specifications don't mean shit I guess. Thou it won't "explode", I was just exaggerating for the sake of the argument.
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TheExDeus
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Reply #20 Posted on: October 23, 2010, 03:40:59 pm |
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I always assumed the OS would just refuse to store data faster than the HDD could handle since it's the only sane approach. I mean, when writing data in C with fwrite, I'm not usually concerned about storing data "too quickly". Well it usually does limit it. That is why people usually experience stuttering instead of permanent damage. Thou I personally have had about 3 HDD mess up because of this. If several programs at once use HDD (like downloading 8MB/s, watching HD movie and installing something really big) then it can cause some of the data be corrupted. About 7 years ago when I used PATA, I actually needed to limit all my download programs because of this, if I didn't limit the speed, then 80% of what I downloaded were corrupted. Anyway, this is the reason why I don't mind 14mb. Its not really that much, and I just want to flame everyone when I read a topic in GMC about 5mb game being 5mb too big.
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Josh @ Dreamland
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Reply #21 Posted on: October 23, 2010, 05:49:48 pm |
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Prince of all Goldfish
Location: Pittsburgh, PA, USA Joined: Feb 2008
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A five megabyte game is one megabyte too big. Until ENIGMA outputs smaller exes. Then it'll be like, 1.5 too big.
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Josh @ Dreamland
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Reply #23 Posted on: October 23, 2010, 06:26:36 pm |
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Prince of all Goldfish
Location: Pittsburgh, PA, USA Joined: Feb 2008
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Too lazy.
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