@Bob amazon.com/gp/product/B00DY5C75E

@allquixotic I'm surprised there's so many good reviews... did you just get a dud? o.o

@Bob my experience was, capacity and stability were fine, and immediate R/W speed was acceptable, but during writes of any significant throughput (more than 50 MB or so), there'd be significant hangs in the writes as if it were waiting for the NAND cells to erase and write.

but I had the 32 GB version

the 64 and 128 GB versions will have more cells, so less contention

if you saved a 200 KB Word document, it would immediately write of course

but if you had any kind of queue in the internal state of the SSD, it would lag a lot

o.o

so things like installing games, Windows updates, browser updates, would often bottleneck as badly as a HDD (or worse)

it would spike to extremely high throughputs - near SATA 6 Gb/s theoretical throughput limit, minus inefficiencies -- then putter out to a couple hundred KB/sec for seconds at a time, before picking back up

never seen anything like that with the Samsung 850 Pro; they mostly keep up with your write demand and almost never get a queue stacking up of any significant size

@allquixotic Well, your 850 is considerably larger too

the 128 GB is 4x larger, and the 1 TB is 32x larger :P

still, the intelligence of the NAND controller and the sophistication of the NAND itself is way better in the 850 Pro than that cheap-ass thing

I wouldn't even trust the 128 GB model of that MyDigitalSSD to be free of bottlenecks under high demand

the read is fine; the random small-throughput writes are probably excellent too

but large volumes of (sequential OR random) writes are going to stack up in RAM or block (aka stacking up in the OS disk queue and decreasing system responsiveness)

...just like an HDD

the cheapest terabyte SSD seems to be the 850 EVO

not sure I'd trust something that differs from the Pro only in NAND endurance and performance, though

it's like buying a car that you know is going to die after 50,000 miles

Huh. Note 4 for $630... tempting

the Note 4 is a really nice phone

I'm not going around salivating after upgrades or waiting with anticipation for the next thing, because I'm so satisfied with what I have

not even rooted

@allquixotic But also knowing you only drive 5,000 miles a year.

@Bob true, except I drive about 20,000 on my SSDs :P

@allquixotic I like at least keeping an eye out for possible replacements in case of spontaneous failure (see: my poor ol' S2)

especially at work... because the security software is an absolute boat anchor and it's constantly reading and writing completely useless shit

huh, note 4's only been out ~6 months

No waterproofing :(

Also costs a good chunk more than the S5

I baby my Note 4, but yeah, it definitely never comes in the bathroom with me unless it's secured in a velcro cargo pocket

bathrooms have water in them; water and Note 4 is a bad proposition

The S6 loses the waterproofing anyway :\

unless they do an S6 Active with a similar or identical SoC

@allquixotic The S4 Active was pretty cut down

A properly waterproof flagship is nice

I consider it desirable but not essential

Hm.

I wonder how HTC and Sony are.

The One M9 looks decent

I don't think either one of them waterproofs their phones

> Nano-SIM

gah

what's wrong with nano SIM?

@allquixotic Yea, think I might just have to swallow that one

take your existing micro SIM and buy a $12 pair of sim cutters online and use it like a hole punch; worked for me

@allquixotic Eh, it's just different. And therefore requires me to either trim mine or request another.

actually the process went: cut it out, then file it down with a nail file for about half an hour, trying to get it slotted repeatedly, until it worked

It's also negligibly smaller... to the point where I question the decision to use it.

@allquixotic I just printed out a template and used scissors for mine (from mini to micro)

but nano seems quite pointless

HTC makes very battery-hungry phones with very poor battery life, but with a kickstand (of questionable usage unless you like to watch movies on a train, or porn ;p), with some of the best built-in speakers you'll find in smartphones, usually a great camera (ahead of most other manufacturers), a current-gen Qualcomm SoC, and a very nice screen. Phone texture and ruggedness is above average.

...I have to keep reminding myself to not read comments

> can aluminium body resist radiation from chip & battery?huh

Based on my experience owning a Thunderbolt, and trying out the One m8

pretty sure I just got dumber reading that

@allquixotic The M9 is a more reasonable resolution. That should help the battery life.

software-wise, HTC's UI customizations are somewhat heavier than Moto's (moto's is next to no customizations) and somewhat less well-implemented as Samsung Touchwiz

HTC's launcher and settings are less of an extreme reskin of Android than Touchwiz, though

also, I think they are butt buddies with your favorite company, Beats

because HTC prides themselves on having the best audio in the smartphone industry, which means obviously they must license a proprietary algorithm from Beats to apply a DRM-forced equalizer onto all your sound that drives the bass through the roof (because nobody's ever thought of a band-specific amplifier before Beats)

@allquixotic btw, Sony (Xperia) has waterproofed since the Z

ahh

The Z3 is waterproofed.

@allquixotic ...yea. I think the M9 dropped that. Maybe.

> It also comes with Samsung’s new, faster, UFS 2.0 flash memory offered in 32GB/64GB/128GB models with no room for expansion – a first for Samsung’s Galaxy S series, but necessary according to Samsung because of the slowness of the SD Card.

S6?

Oh? Are UHS-I SD cards, capable of >90MB/s sequential, too slow?

if they're going to make it so we can't use SD cards, they need to offer at least 512 GB models, if not 1 TB

that's annoying

Are they too slow for bulk storage? I wasn't aware that I needed superhighwtfspeed for my music and videos.

@Bob WHAT ABOUT THE 4K THOUGH?!!

Let's not forget that UHS-I was literally designed specifically for high-bitrate video and pictures

@Bob don't think critically, Consumer; Brother Samsung knows better than you.

accept and be happy with what He offers you.

Cool... Apparently, you can make citizen arrests in Canada. Didn't know that

@CanadianLuke Am I arrested now? O__O

Come over here and we'll see...

I'm gonna run home now though, have a good night (whoever is still left here...)