The SHOWOFF Thread

[Zangetsu]

Nice! I miss those days before SSD when I used to burn every good movie/game/software on CD/DVD. Now a days nobody burns CD/DVD. All are killed by usb drives and SSD. If Cloud becomes affordable that will kill SSD/USB too.

 

[bubusam13]

Nice! I miss those days before SSD when I used to burn every good movie/game/software on CD/DVD. Now a days nobody burns CD/DVD. All are killed by usb drives and SSD. If Cloud becomes affordable that will kill SSD/USB too.

There are affordable cloud but trust and integration is the problem.

 

[Vyom]

Sharing mine, inspired by the post above.
There is one 1TB SSD attached in PS5. Also several 256 GB SD cards in Action camera, R36s, etc.
I need a 10 TB HDD and 4 tb NVME (as Forza 6 is not running well from HDDs), I am searching for options. Last year I got WD Ultrastar HD330 for 23k Is there any change of price coming down.

More than 32 TB is a lot, atleast for me.

Someday I will post my collection of CD and DVDs which I burned around 20 years ago.
Hopefully it work, or else a lot of nostalgia will be dead!

 

[bubusam13]

I am thinking of doing the same using Bluray as we are moving to a world we own nothing, but will it be worth.

 

[Zangetsu]

I am thinking of doing the same using Bluray as we are moving to a world we own nothing, but will it be worth.

This is like SONY going diskless in 2028 with no physical copy.

 

[bubusam13]

Yes. I can't share my games with my kids in future unless I share them my account. Who knows they may even disable console sharing in future just as Netflix disabled password sharing and SONY even removed movies without refund.
Even PCs are becoming unaffordable.

 

[pillainp]

The final build.
There is a temporary change of plan, in that I failed to realize that the HCG1200 Pro would need a 10A/16A outlet, which my UPS does not have.
Therefore I have been forced to temporarily reuse my old (2023) PSU, which is a Coolermaster MW 1050 Gold V2.

The rest of the build is as listed in my post above.

Sorry the build took so long. Got a little busy so it took 3 Sundays instead of the planned 1.

Also the system kept getting stuck with an A2 error code, and needed a BIOS flash before it would behave properly.

Anyway happy to report system is up and running on Windows 11 Pro 26200.8894.