Follow up to new SSD drives

As it's been almost a month since I installed the two new SSD drives, here's a follow up post.

First thing is that this issue has basically gone away. Or if it is still a thing, it has become so negligible as to be unnoticeable.

Also, just in general, things like games just load (and unload) more quickly now, as would be expected, even ignoring the above (i.e. they load faster on first load as well as all subsequent loads, compared to what they did previously). This includes Windows itself, in both start up and shut down. Granted, they don't actually run much better (or worse) once they're loaded in, which is likely due to the CPU on my computer currently being the main bottle neck, but they do at least load and unload faster, for what it's worth.

One bad thing about replacing the drives is that I was not able to remove the little broken off piece from my old HDD from the inside of the SATA cable that was connected to it. As such, I disconnected the SATA cable from my DVD-RW drive and used that to connect one of the new SSD drives instead. This means that I no longer have a working DVD-RW drive in my computer. (Also, I've had to get used to there no longer being the distinctive buzz-clicking of the DVD-RW drive initializing when I first turn on my computer now.) On the one hand, this sucks because I can't use anything CD/DVD based in my computer anymore. On the other hand, the last time I actually did that was... probably when I watched the Firefly and Serenity DVDs my sister let me borrow, which had to have been at least three or four years ago, since I was still living with Ma at the time. In any case, if I ever do find a reason to use the DVD-RW drive again, I'll have to buy a new SATA cable for it (and also find a way to reposition the power cables, since I also used the power cable that was plugged into the DVD-RW drive for the second SSD, as trying to twist and bend the one cable with two power inputs to make them fit both SSD drives was proving a challenge). A silver lining of this, I guess, is that I still have the "custom" SATA cable to use on the broken-piece drive again, should I have a need to reconnect that, though I don't foresee ever needing to do that.

Lastly, I guess I'll never need to run a defragger ever again, which is nice.

"LOST 'NBA JAM' Arcade Baseball Game Released!"

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"The lost Power-Up Baseball -- an 'NBA JAM' style arcade game -- was documented and released!"

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Huh. First I'm hearing about this. Not a thing I would have been too awfully interested in, even with the NBA JAM-ish nature of it. *shrug* That said, it's still pretty cool that such things are still being found now, decades later.

"Dragon Quest's Timeline - Chronologically Confused"

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The only Dragon Quest/Warrior games that I've played are VII and VIII. VII was amazing for the time, and VIII was pretty good, too, from what little I recall of it now. This has always been one of those "maybe I'll try to gather them all up and play through them someday" series, but I don't know if I'll ever get around to actually doing it.

(EDIT) Wait, no, I also played IX on the DS, though I never completed it. It was pretty good, too, what I played of it. (/EDIT)

(I certainly won't be buying Dragon Quest XI while it's laden with the malware Denuvo, though, that's for sure. ¬_¬ [EDIT 2] And so, now that they've wised up and removed the shitty malware, I may actually consider buying it now. [/EDIT 2])