Support ends for XP on April 8, 2014

[Farabomb]

Also, I'm not sure the buses in most computers can handle the throughput of a 6g SSD RAID array. That's a hell of a lot of bandwidth and I'm not sure the internal buses are that fast yet leading to a bottleneck.

Then again I've been out of the bleeding edge computing scene for a while now so things may have changed.

[Joe]

How many USB drives/RAM sticks have you had fail vs. how many HDD failures have you had? I know I've had far more memory chips die on me than HDD's.

I think it has to do with the finite amounts of writes you can do with NAND chips. This will not always be the case though. I know they are working on drives and chips that get around this.

Actually I've had a rash of bad HD's lately. I've got two 2 TB, two 1 TB, and two 500 gb drives less than a year old that have failed. I have been able to reformat all of them and use them for about 2 weeks and then they fail again. Lather, rinse, repeat...weird. Run a disk utility and they check fine but none of them will work after about a new 2 week cycle.

[Farabomb]

Hmm, strange. I have 10 year old HDD's that have been submerged in 2 floods and they still work. I don't use them for long term storage but I do use them to transfer large files.

[Joe]

Yeah I have some really old hard drives too that still work but it seems anything from the last year that I have bought are crap. And they are a mixture of Seagate and WD drives.

[Farabomb]

Crap, those are normally my go-to manufacturers but the only drive I've bought recently have been 2 SSD's and a enterprise Seagate.

Hope that doesn't shit the bed. Excuse me while a go do a backup.

[Joe]

I haven't had any issues with enterprise drives or SSD's which is why I just bought the SSD the other day.

[Farabomb]

Looks like they didn't totally hang XP users out to dry.

http://blogs.technet.com/b/msrc/archive/2014/05/01/out-of-band-release-to-address-microsoft-security-advisory-2963983.aspx

[Joe]

It's a pretty serious bug. It's the least they could do.

[Designia(o_O)]

Wow, that's really cool they did that, but if your using IE with a unsupported OS, it's kind of the equivalent of having unprotected sex with a syphilitic hooker. If you look up syphilitic hooker in the dictionary, there's a picture of Internet Explorer. True story.

[Farabomb]

Anyone using IE is a syphilitic hooker.

[Designia(o_O)]

LOL, there's that too.

[Possum]

I've gotta give Microsoft props here for fixing something on an unsupported system. Apple wouldn't do that. They'd just try to get you to spend $2,000 on a new computer. Like it's your fault if you're using an old system. Hey, we're not all that rich.

[Joe]

Want Windows XP SP4? Unofficial versions are on the way

[Farabomb]

I'll give him $5 to do that for server 2003.