429 replies to this topic

[Noah Fentz]

ok screw it i'm not gonna use glass in the bg anyway

anyway i was thinking of changing the hdd to a ssd i was thinking of getting a Corsair Force Series 60GB but there's mixed feelings about ssd exsp on whirpool they say they tend to break down a lot is it really worth getting ssd for vp/hp?

I've heard the same thing about SSD's and was told to wait until the technology improved.

Personally, I don't think it's necessary, anyway. If you mount your PC toward the back, the shock/jolt/overall movement of your HDD is minimal at best.

Never had a problem with HDD's yet.

[bladexdsl]

not sure if i should get an ssd or not. anyway the cab is finally ordered!

[wildman]

not sure if i should get an ssd or not. anyway the cab is finally ordered!

I thought you already had the cab and were trying to put it together along with all the other parts you already have???
I have come to the conclusion you dont have jack just a pipedream with pics is that fair to say blade......

[CaptBlackwood]

Didn't you post this same stuff at the HyperSpin site?

Edited by CaptBlackwood, 14 June 2011 - 08:10 PM.

[bladexdsl]

I have come to the conclusion you dont have jack just a pipedream with pics is that fair to say blade......

if you had bothered to read the whole thread instead of just jumping in and posting without a clue what your talking about you'd know about the progress i'm at and where i'm up to. Oh and i suppose all the images on the 1st post I made which i update regularily are pics of the neighbors pin?

Edited by bladexdsl, 14 June 2011 - 10:29 PM.

[wildman]

I have come to the conclusion you dont have jack just a pipedream with pics is that fair to say blade......

if you had bothered to read the whole thread instead of just jumping in and posting without a clue what your talking about you'd know about the progress i'm at and where i'm up to. Oh and i suppose all the images on the 1st post I made which i update regularily are pics of the neighbors pin?

OK why in 1 thread you post how you have everything already then in the next your ordering..
((not sure if i should get an ssd or not. anyway the cab is finally ordered! ))
and yea i think your post are bull**** ..you ask a ? on one thread and than you post another thread and give advice you have no clue
wtf your talking about...so why dont you grow up and cut the bull and quit asking everybody to do your build...
If you had a little clue about what your doing you wouldnt be bothering people with your bull....
oh yea ps i have read the whole thread from day 1 and its BULL.................................

Edited by wildman, 14 June 2011 - 11:19 PM.

[Dazz]

So, bladexdsl, are you still planning on selling these with HyperPin and table setups?

Anyone need a good laugh? Read this

Edited by Dazz, 15 June 2011 - 12:42 AM.

[H4CK3R]

removed offending text

Edited by destruk, 15 June 2011 - 01:23 AM.

[destruk]

Guys - if you don't have anything nice to say here, please skip the thread. I think we've all gotten our impressions of what is happening in this one.

[CaptBlackwood]

Bro, I'm just gonna say, Stealing other's works and making a profit on it...is NOT cool.

Edited by CaptBlackwood, 15 June 2011 - 01:32 AM.

[Noah Fentz]

Bro, I'm just gonna say, Stealing other's works and making a profit on it...is NOT cool.

No, it's not cool, neither is flaming a member of the board.

Guys, I think he's figured out it's not a good idea, and he wants to build a cab for himself.

Let it go.

[Rawd]

not sure if i should get an ssd or not. anyway the cab is finally ordered!

I am hoping to get an SSD for my birthday so I can install it in my cabinet. The HD has been fine, but I think the SSD should run Hyperpin and load the tables a bit quicker.

[bladexdsl]

i'm just not sure i've been reading a lot of bad things about ssd mainly they just blowup at the drop of a hat

[Rawd]

I have come to the conclusion you dont have jack just a pipedream with pics is that fair to say blade......

if you had bothered to read the whole thread instead of just jumping in and posting without a clue what your talking about you'd know about the progress i'm at and where i'm up to. Oh and i suppose all the images on the 1st post I made which i update regularily are pics of the neighbors pin?

OK why in 1 thread you post how you have everything already then in the next your ordering..
((not sure if i should get an ssd or not. anyway the cab is finally ordered! ))
and yea i think your post are bull**** ..you ask a ? on one thread and than you post another thread and give advice you have no clue
wtf your talking about...so why dont you grow up and cut the bull and quit asking everybody to do your build...
If you had a little clue about what your doing you wouldnt be bothering people with your bull....
oh yea ps i have read the whole thread from day 1 and its BULL.................................

What the heck Wildman?

He had all of his computer stuff in the first thread... Then later in the thread he shows his setup with no cabinet. Then he ordered a hardware kit from Paul, and now he has ordered and is waiting for his flat pack cabinet to arrive.

I don't want to drag this out further, but I think that your response was messed up. Why would someone bullshit about building a cabinet? When did he ask everyone to do his build? He doesn't have a clue and bothers people with all of his bullshit? Did I miss something?

You seem like a real nice guy in the chat room. Maybe I don't know the full story, but if you posted that response in one of my threads, I would be pretty hurt.

Edited by Rawd, 15 June 2011 - 04:54 AM.

[CaptBlackwood]

i'm just not sure i've been reading a lot of bad things about ssd mainly they just blowup at the drop of a hat

TBH I wouldn't trust SSDs with important stuff...like tables.

[Darkfall]

I wouldn't trust any hard drive, SSD or otherwise, with anything important. Throw a second drive into the machine and back up to it, so you don't have to reconfigure everything from the ground up if there's a failure.

In terms of SSDs, the newer ones are better than the older ones. In my experience (which is reasonably extensive - I own a small IT company, and use a fair number of SSD and spinning drives for desktops and servers), newer SSDs have been proving reliable enough to trust. Over the last year or so, they've gotten much better. When I've experienced a failure on older SSDs, they tended to not just die, but start to lag and return timeouts. I was still able to retrieve all of the data from them and move it to a new SSD.

Still - backups are the answer. Or RAID, if you're a fanatic (use RAID class drives, not desktop drives, though - desktop drives wander off for several seconds when they have problems, which will cause the whole machine to stop in it's tracks while it does it, and often cause a blue screen. RAID class drives don't waste time on problem data - they just mark the sector bad, report the error to the RAID controller, and move on. Something like the Western Digital RE4 is a good choice for RAID).

What I've done with the build I'm working on is put an accessible USB on the cabinet, then if I add a table or change something, I plug in an external USB hard drive and image the entire SSD to it so I have a complete copy of the entire install, Windows and all. That's as safe as safe gets *grin*. I could just as easily connect a network cable to the cabinet and image to a machine on the network, too. I could even automate the process to happen at 3am or something, too, if I wanted to go bananas - lots of desktop backup tools have that ability. Acronis comes to mind right off.

So, there's some ideas to protect your hard work. Setting up the perfect configuration is a fair amount of effort - it's worth backing it up.

[bladexdsl]

what brand of ssd would you recommend? and yeah i'm putting a 3.5" usb 4 port device in the front of my cab i've got an external hdd i can backup stuff on to plug into it.

[StevOz]

This one...

http://www.vtechindu...-...gb2%2Dbrkt]

[Blitz17]

I have been using my OCZ - Vertex2 for 7 months and it is doing great. It is a small 40G SSD that I currently have 300 tables loaded on. 200 of the tables have a HyperPin video so it is a fair indicator of how little space a full pinball cab takes up. Now I did have space issues when using Windows 7. I switched to TinyXP and saved myself 16G of hard drive space. Something to consider if you are looking at a smaller gig SSD. But you have been sparing no expense bladexdsl so go get a 100G SSD.

I backup my cab using an external HD connected via the USB hub I mounted on the underside of my cab. You can just backup all of the folders and registry and you are covered. Doing a full image would be nicer though. I may look into that.

Edited by Blitz17, 15 June 2011 - 02:24 PM.

[bladexdsl]

if i get 1 it will prob be a 60GB