That's funny because any good C++ programmer will take advantage of auto_ptrs which effectively do manage memory for you automatically. Or is Bjarne Stroustop only a "dumb programmer" since he advocates their usage?

That's funny cause I've never seen a single C# or Java apps that uses as much memory as C++ programs like Firefox (currently using 350 megs of RAM) or OpenOffice.org (current using 250 megs of RAM). On the other hand I have 5 different .NET apps and a Java app running and their combined RAM usage isn't even 200 megs.

Because C++ is the pinnacle of programming knowledge? *giggle*

Just because one can understand memory allocations and pointers doesn't mean one wants to have to deal with them manually in all their programs. There is a reason why there are auto_ptrs in C++ and it's not because those people are "noobs", it's because people want to actually spend their time writing the program rather than having their time eaten up by writing tons of boilerplate memory management code.

So that means Java and .NET are good to go as neither one of them have 400MB runtimes.

Only if you can't code worth shit.

That's fine. Most web proxies (like Opera's) and dialup services like AOL's will re-render images to lower quality in order to compress the web pages down before sending them out to the user which is what commodore64_love was talking about.

It doesn't serve any purpose. If you can't understand the statement:

if (isTrue)

Then you're worse than an amateur coder.

Considering this topic is about consumer SSDs I figured we were talking about home desktops. Of course in a business environment you would back things up because it is critical information and as I said in my post:

Yes, the record that have to keep would amount to this: "x user paid his monthly fee". There is no need to retain any other information.

Well drives in servers are also put through far more strain than a home desktop so their failure rate would be expected to be earlier than a 5 year mark for a consumer drive in a home PC.

Based entirely on my own experience and that of those around me? No, not really. For extremely critical information, sure, but I don't really bother backing anything up as it's pretty much all replaceable and I've never really had a hard drive fail before the 5 year mark. By the time I've ever had a drive fail it's been probably 8-10 years old and is storing nothing of extreme value anyway so anything that may get lost is easily replaced.

No shit? They said it was going to be a paid service when it was first announced. From the title of the original Slashdot article from March: Pirate Bay To Offer VPN For $7 a Month. From where did you get the idea that this was ever going to be a free service?

Oops that was meant to be:

if (isTrue == true)

There's nothing lucky about it. Unless you are just straining the drive constantly or don't have any adequate ventilation in your box, an HDD lasting 5 years if not longer is a pretty mundane thing for quite some time.

Because he's one of those morons who when checking a bool do something stupid like this:

bool isTrue = false;
if (bool == true)

Protip: Intel's SSDs are also "SATA drives".

From here

The term you meant was hard disk drive (or HDD) not the name of the connector interface (SATA).