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  • tphb - Friday, August 30, 2019 - link

    The humanity! Why didn't someone stop to ask "Why?"
  • The Chill Blueberry - Friday, August 30, 2019 - link

    Because flashy, looks cool. I like it
  • nathanddrews - Friday, August 30, 2019 - link

    I know it's cool to be anti-RGB, but I think it can be done well. The trick is getting all the different devices coordinate. Anything that helps you achieve the custom look you want for your build... why not?
  • Lord of the Bored - Saturday, August 31, 2019 - link

    In this case, there's a serious concern. LEDs produce heat. There's at least one rainbow LED-spangled flash drive that gets so much heat from them that it has been known to overheat and lock up in use.
  • koaschten - Saturday, August 31, 2019 - link

    that was exactky my thought,
  • AlyxSharkBite - Saturday, August 31, 2019 - link

    That’s the HyperX one team has sever RGB SSDs that are very cool. This was mentioned when they were looking at the Hyper X drive that was so hot I don’t remember if it was Jayz2¢ or Paul’s Hardware that did the video on it
  • Lord of the Bored - Sunday, September 1, 2019 - link

    Paul's hardware sounds right. The whole thing was as hilarious as it was embarrassing.
  • doggface - Monday, September 2, 2019 - link

    It was jaystwocents.

    I think the video was called "you will never guess why this machine won't boot" or something similar and clickbaity.

    Requiring a 120mm fan on your sata SSD to get windows to boot is pretty silly.
  • 29a - Tuesday, September 3, 2019 - link

    I like it too, it would go well with my computer.
  • sheh - Friday, August 30, 2019 - link

    So what's the resolution and refresh rate of this SSD? :)
  • nathanddrews - Friday, August 30, 2019 - link

    768p 47Hz just to please no one.
  • sheh - Saturday, August 31, 2019 - link

    768p is pretty high DPI here, so that's good.
    But I'll wait for 120/144Hz.
  • GreenReaper - Saturday, August 31, 2019 - link

    Good question. The patent doesn't even come up on Taiwan's search engine: https://twpat.tipo.gov.tw/

    Unfortunately the web server the PDF's on also doesn't seem to indicate its type in a way Firefox recognizes or accepts (but it *is* a PDF). But there's no indication it actually has a display, just LED bar(s) combined with a mirror/reflection effect across the SSD.

    Thankfully it uses a separate "ADD" motherboard connection or it might start impinging on bandwidth...
  • boozed - Friday, August 30, 2019 - link

    But why?
  • FullmetalTitan - Saturday, August 31, 2019 - link

    The important question is how addressable is it exactly? I see this as a neat addition to a custom rig if it's relatively simple to get it to display custom images or short animations like a lot of OLED panels on high end motherboards have allowed recently
  • samerakhras - Tuesday, September 3, 2019 - link

    RGB LED bla bla bla

    computer cases turned into glass garbage because of this .. this is not good.

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