There Are Pandas, and Then There Are Pandas.
And this isn't either of them! The Pandas we're talking about here, are watches, not bears. And what got me thinking about them (again) was a link posted this morning by @cm.rook who pointed a few of us to the very attractive (and not terribly priced) Yema "Rallygraph" Panda which, in it's most traditional arrangement, looks like the one on the left, but can also be had in the version on the right: The model on the left is a true Panda, while the model on the right is called a reverse Panda. The reason for that distinction is clear--Panda bears, only come in the first arrangement. Now at this point, everyone should be thinking about the most well-know Panda, The Rolex Panda, which is actually a Daytona, and among Rolex Daytonas, the most famous of which is the Paul Newman Daytona, which was famous first, because it was Paul's, and second because it sold at auction for $17.8 million (US Dollars). The story of that auction is well-known so I'll only...
Nov 8, 2019
Edit: To everyone telling me how dumb I am, 1) I was giving them the benefit of doubt that maybe their HDD *does* run as fast as their SSD and 2) back when SSDs were new and not nearly as fast as they are now, if you migrated your OS from HDD to SSD, it was possible to see HDD speeds on large transfers match those of SSD. The technology was new and especially the migration software had its own issues back then. Just to clarify - I don't believe that an SSD is slower than an HDD. I can't believe that a single sentence that wasn't even the focus of my post managed to steal the whole conversation.