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Re: Disk Prices on Amazon

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Post by dmos62 »

MayeulC wrote: post #208
londons_explore wrote: post #147

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My ranking of security: "It's secure because we say so" "It's secure, and we have a published design and audit" "It's open source" "We're offering a reward to anyone who can break it" "Our company would go under if anyone found a flaw in it" SSD's are currently at the first stage.

Add to that: "I designed it" (and was checked) "I built it myself" Which is actually cumulative with what you wrote. We currently have a bit of a "trusting trust" issue with open hardware: how do you check that the fab didn't tamper with your ICs before manufacturing them?

> how do you check that the fab didn't tamper with your ICs

Same goes for deployable software. How do you know that that program is compiled from that source?

Re: Disk Prices on Amazon

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Post by winrid »

Havoc wrote: post #207
winrid wrote: post #122

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Well, it's not a lot of links. Few hundred maybe. I bet that's not enough for them to start to notice. Hard to parse the page still, maybe.

>I bet that's not enough for them to start to notice. I got blocked on very first attempt to scrap from cloud. Literally request #1. ...with code that worked fine on residential IP five mins earlier (where I coded it). I'm sure it can be circumvented, but that experience led me to believe it's better to just save the time and pay for a res proxy (as sketchy as that concept is)

Wow that's impressive. One solution is to just have some random subset of your users do your scraping for you... Then send the data to the server.

Insecure, but probably good enough for a page like this.

Re: Disk Prices on Amazon

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Post by numpad0 »

londons_explore wrote: post #147
dmos62 wrote: post #146

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Audit-based security is ok, but the ideal solution is open hardware and firmware.

My ranking of security: "It's secure because we say so" "It's secure, and we have a published design and audit" "It's open source" "We're offering a reward to anyone who can break it" "Our company would go under if anyone found a flaw in it" SSD's are currently at the first stage.

Is it ranked from middle to top & bottom? Because both ends looks weak

Re: Disk Prices on Amazon

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Post by numpad0 »

StavrosK wrote: post #156
lizknope wrote: post #154

Earlier quoted context omitted.

SATA2 is really old. The SATA revisions are: SATA1 - 1.5Gb/s SATA2 - 3.0Gb/s SATA3 - 6.0Gb/s SATA3 is often referred to as SATA6G although because of 8b/10b encoding overhead you a SATA6G link maxes out at 4.8Gb/s There are many NVMe SSDs that use 4 lanes of PCI-E Gen 3 which is just under 32Gb/s If you read this review you can see read speeds of 3500MB/s which is 28Gb/s or just under the 32Gb/s limit. https://www.an…

Hmm, maybe my disk is using SATA3 then, I have an Evo and a not-ancient motherboard. However, I'm wondering whether I'll see a practical difference in my day to day workloads, which is mostly web development and no gaming.

NVMe is always electrically PCIe and always M.2 or PCIe card form factor for PC users. If it’s 2.5” it’s 100% SATA. If it’s M.2 then 50:50.

Idk but what I’ve heard is anecdotal small files I/O and boot time speed up stories so webdevs might appreciate it on next builds. The premium is dropping fast anyway.

Re: Disk Prices on Amazon

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Post by numpad0 »

pingyong wrote: post #135
gambiting wrote: post #130

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>>I don't understand why anyone still buys anything at Amazon. Their Fulfilled-by-Amazon (FBA) idea was quite a game changer, but the implementation with the inventory co-mingling is something that I'd much rather stay away from as a consumer. As far as I know it doesn't happen in the UK at all. I have placed 200+ orders with Amazon in last year alone and haven't had any issues except for a couple deliveries which we…

I wonder if this knock-off problem I keep reading about is something specific to the US. I've ordered ~200 things over the last 3 years from Amazon, and I've never received a knock-off either. I've never even heard of that happening outside of internet comments. Plus sending things back to Amazon is usually fairly trivial.

No, not US specific. I see some of sellers in my country includes stickers or keychains just to change ASIN.

One aspect is that not everything has counterfeit counterparts, e.g. there is no counter-counterfeit to, specific counterfeits, products that require exotic parts, or foods.

I’ve never seen a 4-cell(Lipo) knockoff battery for Lenovo X200 and I know the reason is because it is not easily possible to source appropriate components.

So there could be specific usage model for Amazon of a person that could completely avoid receiving unexpected items.

Re: Disk Prices on Amazon

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Post by beatgammit »

dmos62 wrote: post #166
londons_explore wrote: post #147

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My ranking of security: "It's secure because we say so" "It's secure, and we have a published design and audit" "It's open source" "We're offering a reward to anyone who can break it" "Our company would go under if anyone found a flaw in it" SSD's are currently at the first stage.

I'd put "it's open-source and simple" somewhere below "it's open source". There are quite a few open source codebases that are very hard to trust due to the sheer complexity.

Yeah, like OpenSSL a few years ago.

Re: Disk Prices on Amazon

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Post by beatgammit »

StavrosK wrote: post #156
lizknope wrote: post #154

Earlier quoted context omitted.

SATA2 is really old. The SATA revisions are: SATA1 - 1.5Gb/s SATA2 - 3.0Gb/s SATA3 - 6.0Gb/s SATA3 is often referred to as SATA6G although because of 8b/10b encoding overhead you a SATA6G link maxes out at 4.8Gb/s There are many NVMe SSDs that use 4 lanes of PCI-E Gen 3 which is just under 32Gb/s If you read this review you can see read speeds of 3500MB/s which is 28Gb/s or just under the 32Gb/s limit. https://www.an…

Hmm, maybe my disk is using SATA3 then, I have an Evo and a not-ancient motherboard. However, I'm wondering whether I'll see a practical difference in my day to day workloads, which is mostly web development and no gaming.

I was a little annoyed that I didn't notice a big difference, but then I figured that I'm bottlenecked by other parts of my system. It's still a win because it's stuck to the case instead of hanging out in a bay, so my computer is a bit more neat.

Re: Disk Prices on Amazon

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Post by ejjpi »

spectramax wrote: post #49

It is worth noting the design and density of information presented in this website - we've forgotten how to present lots of data to users because the modern trend is to pad everything with whitespace. Dense design, no frills, just a table - this is what the web needs more of.

Clear and simple, with filtering and sorting: https://pangoly.com/en/chart/ssd (also performance included)

Re: Disk Prices on Amazon

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Post by ejjpi »

mNovak wrote: post #48

Setting aside the issue of counterfeits on Amazon, this is really nice. Clear, simple, functional and allows you to explore the space not just comparison shop for a specific item. I've long thought Amazon has terrible search and sort options for things like computer parts. Trying to buy e.g. RAM is a nightmare.

This is why you have to rely on third party services to perform advanced search and filtering. Pangoly and PCPartPicker do that exact job with advanced filtering, eg: https://pangoly.com/en/browse/ram

Re: Disk Prices on Amazon

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Post by MayeulC »

dmos62 wrote: post #211
MayeulC wrote: post #208

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Add to that: "I designed it" (and was checked) "I built it myself" Which is actually cumulative with what you wrote. We currently have a bit of a "trusting trust" issue with open hardware: how do you check that the fab didn't tamper with your ICs before manufacturing them?

> how do you check that the fab didn't tamper with your ICs Same goes for deployable software. How do you know that that program is compiled from that source?

That's quite easy actually: with reproducible builds, hashes and signatures. None of this is possible or easy to do in the hardware world.
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