and not as a main os

not main os, kali will be for laptop

which isnt my main comp

@uberrice I'd just like to interject for moment. What you're refering to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.
Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called Linux, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.
There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called Linux distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux!

pentesting laptop is my side bitch

just bought this SSD : http://www.ebay.com/itm/301933086855

64 gb

what is gnu xD

main os is whatever os is installed on the hard drive/ssd and boots when you just turn on the computer without touching anything else

>64gb

literal waste of money

I'll be using it on an auxiliarry shit laptop, it will be my game/media server

64gb is a lot tbh

once you install that OS you'll only have like 20-30 left

>he buys the chinkshit ssd that's slow as fuck and is going to fail in a year instead of a name brand ssd that only costs 6 bucks more

lubuntu ? I don't think so

lubuntu 👌

first distro I ever used

SSDs do not fail

they do

chinkshit ones do.

We haven't had reports of failing Chink SSD, though

well, less likely than HDD, amiright ?

thank you Aerione

they fail over long periods of time

not really, unless you use your laptop as a hockey puck when it's running

after continous use

Well, SSDs don't have moving parts

So they cannot get wrecked by physical shaking

@Aerione knows his shit.

HDDs will, however

Still

please SSDs can fail but the warning signs are so obvious

Going by the TLC/MLC standards set by the manufacturers

that in a few decades or so

"so obvious"

The cells should last double the duration of an HDD, at worst?

you'll have it not work anymore and move your data out

"OH OOPS YOUR FILE IS CORRUPT : ^)"

if you see a help ! my ssd is broken thread on /g then it's me..

"OH WHAT IS THAT? OH MY FILE SYSTEM JUST GOT CORRUPTED"

Windows 8 and up warn you when you SSD starts to fail

And that's roughly 2 thousand or so cycles before it does

can't like disk drives quarantine the damaged sectors and still be usable except for the damaged part ? why do they have to fuck up all at once ?

So far, I haven't actually seen that warning screencap show up anywhere, so I assume we'll have to wait a bit longer

windows normally warns you when your hdd is about to fail too

doesn't work errytiem

Yeah

Cause HDDs can break physically

You cannot account for that

If the spinner fails, it's gone

If the platter fails, it's gone

The creator of the Linux kernel blogged this week that the SSD in his workstation simply stopped working, interrupting his work on the Linux 3.12 kernel.

"The timing absolutely sucks, but it looks like the SSD in my main workstation just died on me," Torvalds wrote. "I had pushed out most of my pulls today, so realistically I didn't lose a lot of work."

If the electricity fails, it's gone

ssds can break physically too

If you open it up and wreck it that way, yes

"oops that solder point just came loose"

While there are no moving parts in an SSD, the semiconductor components can fail. For example, a NAND die, the SSD controller, capacitors, or other passive components can -- and do -- slowly wear out or fail entirely.

"If the electricity fails, it's gone"
No, its not. I unplugged my pc many times before.

"oops because of chinkshit engineering this solder point being loose just caused the whole ssd to wipe itself"

@trackky Referring to when it's interrupted hastily during an operation

"oops the ssd just shorted out between a data pin and a power pin"

It might corrupt an entire sector

SSDs require a capacitor and power supplies, which are vulnerable to malfunctions — especially in the case of a power surge or a power failure. In fact, in the case of a power failure, SSDs have been known to corrupt existing data too, even if the drive itself hasn’t failed completely.

Those sounds like issues you'd find out about right away, though

Just like with anything else

so do hard drives @Jignx

@Jignx that's the most common failure in the good SSDs you buy here, yes, but with chink ssds you never know if the soldering's shitty or something

We're talking about the possibility of it dying after a year of data storage

i mean HDD

In which the risk is significantly lower than an HDD, for instance

Even branded ones

Hell, Seagate had a 30% failure rate with their last batch

so TLDR

First year, that is

SSDs can and will fail

30% ?! that's retarded !

but has a lower failure rate than HDDs

http://www.extremetech.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/HDDFailures-BB1.jpg

My bad

It was ~43

remember when Seagate bought Maxtor and IBM Deskstar

so it's just the 3TB model, right ?

it's a sign of high quality HDDs!

Anyway, just like with most Chink shit

Don't go too cheap

I've had a Kingfast SSD for 6 years now, I think

Works fine still

ayy lmao, my seagate 3tb external hdd also suddenly failed after 2.5 years

it suddenly went POP

but muh papal 180 day warranty

never again seagate

it just clicked after that

click, click click click

I assume head crash

I think there are shops that repair these.

head crashes I mean.

funnily enough I still got a 1 TB hdd from almost a decade ago

Same here

I used it for 7 years, too