I had several hundred shares of nvda. Purchased them at $9 per share and sold at a little more than $27 per share in part to put down a downpayment on my current house. I wish I would have kept those.
I will have to check on this. I assume there is a limit? I have a stack of 50 or so UPS SLA batteries at work waiting for us to pay someone to take them away.
I have this one for a few months.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B087WF59N1?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details
completely solved my nvme drive overheating problem with the fans on low speed. I have 2 issues with it however. It says 17.3 inch but with that size you can't really use it at an...
I used to do this all the time in starting in the 1990s but not really in the last 10 years. In the 1990s I had several dual processor rigs including dual Celeron 300As overclocked on slotkits
I have done this on over a hundred new drives over the last ~15 years. I don't do it on SSDs. I have no good testing method for those.
With this said I always have a few linux servers available with a few open slots to easily plug in a drive and test.
I would do a 4 pass badblocks on it and yes I know that will take over a week. If it passes that I will have no trouble putting it into a raid array at work or putting my data on it at home. And yes I have had a few brand new drives fail badblocks but not very recently. Recently during the test...
At work I use a program called freefilesync to synchronize between network storage and cloud services in a similar manner to what you want to do with your backup
https://freefilesync.org/
I run a four pass badblocks (data destructive mode) and check the SMART before and after the test. On 5+ TB drives this takes a day or more per pass.
Here is a thread where long ago using this testing method I found a problem which ended up being a firmware bug on a Samsung F4...