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Comment Re:I was shopping for one recently (Score 4, Interesting) 444

I'm currently running a WD Green with an old Samsung SSD 830 as cache. I get the occasional pause if a game loads in something that isn't on the SSD. Overall though it's very fast with that combination and seek times, in particular, aren't an issue except for the first time you play a new game. A WD Black with an SSD as cache should be even better.

My statistical insignificant experience with HDDs: WD: Old WD Caviar died, but the replacement lasted years. Two WD Greens still working. IBM (Now Hitachi): Had one die, two others still work. Samsung: Both still working. Seagate: Never had any.

Comment C/C++ operator = (Score 5, Interesting) 360

It's why placing constants on the left of the equality operator is a good idea in C/C++. The whole line then looks suspicious because its constants are on the right, and the first thing you'll think about is bugs involving operator = instead of operator ==. Unfortunately there's a lot of old code that doesn't do this, but it's easy enough for a compiler to issue warnings about operator = in if-statements.

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