What have you bought today?

[Dangerousfish]

was thinking of getting a HDD/SSD combi drive, any thoughts?

Depends on what you're using it for?

If you're frequently only using a couple of applications then a hybrid drive should be sufficient. The SSD works by storing recently accessed files in it's cache for easy reference meaning these applications would typically run faster.

If it's an all out performance upgrade you're looking for, don't even bother and bang a couple of SSD's in there in RAID0

[moranphotography]

Depends on what you're using it for?

If you're frequently only using a couple of applications then a hybrid drive should be sufficient. The SSD works by storing recently accessed files in it's cache for easy reference meaning these applications would typically run faster.

If it's an all out performance upgrade you're looking for, don't even bother and bang a couple of SSD's in there in RAID0

Its on my editing laptop mainly used for Lightroom and Photoshop

Oh I dont know about RAID0 etc, try to read up on it but then it always gets dead technical and confuses me lol

[Dangerousfish]

Its on my editing laptop mainly used for Lightroom and Photoshop

Oh I dont know about RAID0 etc, try to read up on it but then it always gets dead technical and confuses me lol

If you're not sure what you're doing, probably best to leave it for now

RAID works in a number of different ways however follows a few standards:

Striping, Mirroring and Parity - Some RAIDs use one, some use a combination.

The most basic RAID setups are:



RAID0 - Striping


RAID1 - Mirror


Both of the above only require two disks but can incorporate more.
RAID0 is used for performance as data is striped across two drives rather than 1 meaning data can be accessed from two different disks concurrently.

RAID1 is used for redundancy. A copy of the data is moved from one disk to the other so that in the event of a disk failure, you still have consistent data.

In the grand scheme of things, you won't really need a RAID array for your standard home machine. It's only when crunching numbers, big images and I/O intensive tasks come in to play that you'll notice a significant impact.

[Superfly Guy]

was thinking of getting a HDD/SSD combi drive, any thoughts?

They are 'ok', the SSD will just act like a large cache so will speed up progs you use more often but they are not a patch on a true SSD which deals with everything faster.

[Superfly Guy]

If it's an all out performance upgrade you're looking for, don't even bother and bang a couple of SSD's in there in RAID0

A Samsung SSD running on SATA3 and an Intel 6 series chipset and upwards will give you in excess of 500mb/s, as Fish says you will be amazballs enough as it is to not need Raid.

[XanderCage13]

Winter tyres

http://www.tyreleader.co.uk/car-tyre...r17-88h-258226

Not bad, from £173 to £79.

And

http://www.halfords.com/motoring/cle...ber-care-500ml

[MARK.A]

Winter tyres

http://www.tyreleader.co.uk/car-tyre...r17-88h-258226

Not bad, from £173 to £79.

Just need some nice white bellones to put your new tyres on now and I've got some for sale lol

[XanderCage13]

Hahah. Nice try there I'm just gonna put them on my current ones for now ;-) ((Easier to keep clean too! I've seen how quick white ones get dirty - Connors))

[MARK.A]

This was mine on winter tyres and 16 " steelies and wheeltrims last year . These will be going back on over weekend Got to love winter mode lol

[Hyperkev]

Gonna put mine on after next weeks meet

[Clean Your Ride]

This Mesto sprayer with free delivery

[Hyperkev]

This Mesto sprayer with free delivery

Is this good enough for a good foaming ?

[Clean Your Ride]

Is this good enough for a good foaming ?

Certainly is
http://youtu.be/ZhKj9Ll7Up8

[Hyperkev]

From ? Andy

[Clean Your Ride]

From ? Andy

Don't say I don't do anything for you

http://www.detailerspassion.co.uk/et...ay-foamer-15lt