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  • SoftBank considering sale or IPO of chip design company Arm Holdings

    ciacia
    I don't know if Apple could buy ARM out from Softbank without triggering all sorts of monopoly alarm bells.  They would control the company that licenses the chip design that essentially every mobile phone manufacturer uses.  Would be a massive red flag.  I don't think Google could buy it either for the same reason.  
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  • OWC Mercury Extreme Pro 6G SSD now offers 4TB capacity

    ciacia
    tzeshan said:
    cia said:
    First off, in regards to speed, this is a SATA III drive.  The SATA III bus is the limiting factor for speeds, not the drive.  

    Second, this drive uses MLC, which allows it to provide those peak speeds over very long writes.  TLC is great and cheap, but when you are copying large files (Example, 2 hours of ProRes video in one file, is about 122 gig) TLC based drives will hit bottlenecks and slow down.  TLC has limits that most users don't ever see.  MLC (and even better, SLC) handles stuff like this better.

    This is a "pro" drive for pro users who are still using SATAIII based machines.

    If you don't read/write hundreds and hundreds of GB every day, you don't need this drive, buy a cheaper SSD and you won't notice the difference.   

    I have an NVME PCI card in my MacPro, but also have a cheap $20 SATA III card in there too, this drive will work well in my video workflow as a 1080p live video record drive.
    Thanks for the info? Is TLC suitable for Time Machine backup?
    Literally anything (even old slow cheap massive spinning drives) is fine for Time Machine backups.  I personally use a Western Digital 8TB spinning disk USB3 external drive for my Time Machine Backups.  I paid maybe $100 for it.
    watto_cobra

  • OWC Mercury Extreme Pro 6G SSD now offers 4TB capacity

    ciacia
    First off, in regards to speed, this is a SATA III drive.  The SATA III bus is the limiting factor for speeds, not the drive.  

    Second, this drive uses MLC, which allows it to provide those peak speeds over very long writes.  TLC is great and cheap, but when you are copying large files (Example, 2 hours of ProRes video in one file, is about 122 gig) TLC based drives will hit bottlenecks and slow down.  TLC has limits that most users don't ever see.  MLC (and even better, SLC) handles stuff like this better.

    This is a "pro" drive for pro users who are still using SATAIII based machines.

    If you don't read/write hundreds and hundreds of GB every day, you don't need this drive, buy a cheaper SSD and you won't notice the difference.   

    I have an NVME PCI card in my MacPro, but also have a cheap $20 SATA III card in there too, this drive will work well in my video workflow as a 1080p live video record drive.
    iOSDevSWEwatto_cobra

  • 'Mythic Quest' co-creators detail filming during a pandemic using 40 iPhones

    ciacia
    I thoroughly enjoyed Mythic Quest.  Dark Quiet Death was one of the best episodes of TV ever.
    watto_cobra

  • Apple's first Mini LED product might not launch until 2021

    ciacia
    Mini-LED is cool and all, it's a positive step, but Micro-LED is the real future.  Once that is available at a reasonable price it will be a real game changer.  Sadly still a few years out on that one though.
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