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...
You are measuring the performance of the inner most tracks versus the outer most tracks. The inner tracks usually transfer at around 1/2 the rate of the outer most tracks.
WDC and Seagate were both pretty painless at work for my 75+ RMAs that I have done in the 24 years I have been on the job. However I am a university customer. I have not had to RMA a single SSD.
I always do the self-checkout because I am significantly faster than most checkers. However with that said I understand. I couldn't maintain my speed for 8 hours in a day or want to do it for that long at least not any more. Reminds me a little of my first official paying job where I tagged...
Depending on the situation I would lean to 2 x 12 drive raidz3 vdevs. Or at least that is what I would do at work where I can't have down time for reconstructing an array and I can't have a second system duplicating the first (no budget for that). I do have LTO7 tape backup and offsite storage...
Could be heat related. My WDC black G1 drive disappears if the temp exceeds a little more than 80C. Inside a my gaming laptop this randomly happened until I enabled software to alert me so that I can put the fans on turbo mode.
C6 represents sectors that were written to the disk but could not be read at last try. The raw value is the number of sectors.
I would be more cautious of the 8TB drive.
I don't believe this has ever happened to me in hundreds of builds however I always attempt to touch the metal part of the case before touching any components. I did see this happen to someone else however and was when I first started out at work in the late 1990s.
With that said I have on rare...
For me as a programmer on my laptop I have a 256GB NVMe SSD as the boot and a 512GB NVMe SSD as the programming drive. Both are over 90% full. I also have a 2TB spinner but it's too slow and annoying to use.
I work on several projects where the build tree for the project and all of it's...
Try this program:
https://hcidesign.com/memtest/
use the free version. Launch as many instances of it to get it to test almost all of your ram. Look at task manager to determine the usage. If any errors are reported at all with this you most likely have some HW or settings problem.
It likely won't slow down boots but you may not notice any benefit unless you have a more unusual workflow. As a c++ programmer who spends minutes to hours a day compiling I believe it helps but I don't spend effort to benchmark.
I like AOMEI for windows backups and recovery using a bootable ISO and recovering over a network or USB drive. I use it for a few dozen machines which I have the backup files on a network share that I upload to an "unlimited" cloud drive. Although if you just want to image the entire disk...
It means the products they sell will not sit on the shelves at all. Although in AMD's case I expect they could and would sell more products if TSMC could produce more for them.
I have in the past used HCL memtest the free version to diagnose problems with RAM in windows. You end up launching a bunch of instances until you see almost all of your ram covered in task manager. When I have had problems HCL was the fastest to identify the problem. I have seen cases where it...
For me between home and work I have several motherboards and laptops with some SATA only M.2 slots sometimes in addition to a NVMe + SATA M.2 slot. I have no problem buying a 1TB or 2TB SATA M.2 drive to put in that slot instead of cabling up a SATA drive and purchasing a 2.5 inch bracket. Also...
I think the data still may exist on the flash but since it's marked in the mapping table on the SSD as unused reading and the sector through normal means will return 0s that is if you can even read the sector because sectors are not necessarily mapped in order. The controller may just not read...
Your BIOS may likely be the reason for the frozen state. I believe the reason for unplugging is to disable a command that the bios enabled at boot.
Related:
https://ata.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/ATA_Secure_Erase
As said above this frozen state prevents a secure erase from happening which...
I am not sure they were much to do with being practical or high performance. Maybe more of an expensive and unique item for those who can afford it. I wish I could find the video.
NVMe drives inside gaming laptops can easily hit these temps.
On my MSI laptop in my sig I have software alert me of the high temp on either of my NVMe drives and I push a button on my laptop turn the fan profile up to full speed to cool it down. I am unhappy with this solution but it works...