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Hardware Unboxed recently did some testing comparing the 16GB Radeon 6800 vs the 8GB Geforce 3070.
Some surprising results with the 6800 sometimes having 50% more performance.

And not even 720P+DLSS can resolve issues in games like Hogwarts.



More games will push more than 8GB VRAM going forwards.

JEMC said:

Pemalite said:

The only issue it may introduce is extra vibrations as it's not actually secured, which is pretty much a non-issue in the modern era... It's not like we are running with Quantum Fireballs anymore in a massive RAID array.

For a period, drives used to come with rubber grommets to reduce vibrations even in desktop cases.

I do use one of these frequently when grabbing an old spinning rust drive and sourcing data from it... But to be honest, the best thing I ever did was buy an 18TB HDD on sale for $500 AUD a month ago, you get a better sense of data security as the drive has low operating hours.

Thanks for your comment.

At one point, I thought about buying a 14-16TB drive because they're better value (a 16TB drive costs roughly 3 times more than a 4TB one) and put everything in it to reduce the amount of drives inside my system. But then I remembered that just because it's bigger, that doesn't mean it will last more hours before failing compared to other mechanical drive, and the idea of losing virtually everything if one drive goes bad is kind of terrifying. And yes, I know the answer to that fear is to buy two drives and use the second one as backup, but that makes the whole change a lot more expensive.

They have a MTBF.

That is... For every Hour/Day/Year/Decade that a drive is in use, the probability of it failing increases... And increases exponentially.
And the more individual aging drives you have, the greater your overall chances of at-least one failing.

The modern and large drives by their very nature of having Helium that can leak through sealed metal, I would probably lean towards replacement every 5 years anyway to be on the safe side.

RAID is definitely your best bet of ensuring data retention, but even that isn't always fool proof.

Last edited by Pemalite - on 10 April 2023