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According to this Samsung link, 250GB drives are good for 150 TB Written. My total TB written so far: 0.32 TB. There is no way I would go over the 150 TBW. That is a non issue. Unless storage space is a concern, SSD is the only way to go, and has been that way for a while. Raw data for my SSD is as follows:

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Scataphagos said:
In many cases, the opposite is true!

Many early models were discovered in hind-sight to have been "overengineered" and have longer life than current ones. Still, you should be able to use any modern SSD for 10 years without fear of wearing out its writes. If you're really concerned about longevity, there are a few SSDs with 10-year warranty.

(New SSDs today have a warranty of "____ TB written"... which may be the equivalent of only 300-1000 write cycles. In one early torture test, an Intel X25-V had gone "40,000 write cycles" and was still performing without fail when the test was abandoned.)
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In a later test with 240-256GB drives, the first to fail was the Samsung 840 Evo... as expected, as the only one with TLC NAND. Even so, it made it to 600TB written (2400 write cycles), while all others exceeded "1PB in writes".
 
Trader13 said:
I found the old Toshiba laptops would overheat. Had less to do with the apps load and more a symptom of poor ventilation and fan placement.
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I have not had any problems with Toshiba last four years. I carry with me plastic tubs and place laptops on two edges of tubs so it has 360 degrees of air and they kept cool.
 
DarthSidious said:
According to this Samsung link, 250GB drives are good for 150 TB Written. My total TB written so far: 0.32 TB. There is no way I would go over the 150 TBW. That is a non issue. Unless storage space is a concern, SSD is the only way to go, and has been that way for a while. Raw data for my SSD is as follows:

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Well, you clearly don't write much data on it, that's only 320 GB. When you program and handle lots of data that's written onto the disk the numbers balloon fast, add to that things like torrenting you might want to do and...
 
The days of a requirement for local systems that are loaded with processing power and memory are really behind us to a great degree. Modern front ends are performing all of the heavy lifting on servers away from the client application. We have high volume traders executing on Macs and phones through our browser based order entry solution. Take a look at the TT platform and remove yourself from the need of an expensive local PC.
http://about.trade.tt/
https://www.tradingtechnologies.com/blog/2015/10/28/no-compromise-the-next-gen-tt-platform/
 
Can't see much data sadly,

Power on 577 Days.
100% lifetime left, Condition Good.

145,013,378 Blocks Read, about all I can see of interest sadly!
 
Handle123 said:
I have the cheapest 2 laptops I can buy so long as they have 8G ram, Have 17" Acer and 15" Toshiba, 17" for charting and 15" platform, then 15" Toshiba for backup and anything else. I never have found in past 29 years that speed or extreme fast internet speed matter that much but Ram most important. Each year I buy a fresh 3 laptops and donate the others. I usually keep couple laptops in reserve as I haul them to Starbucks or wherever and break. My days of buying the best as way over, never will buy again are HPs, always overheating. I have found putting too many apps drains CPUs plus always chance of virus etc.
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Agree about HP!
 
prc117f said:
I enjoy building my own as well, carefully building them, making the cables inside look good etc..
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Assembling, Building them would involve making your own chips and wire and hard drives, your just connecting pre built things, therefore assembling.
 
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