Honestly I wish at this point we could just have a summary on the first post, or a sticky thread, summarizing our findings to help others who get here via Google. Mainly: avoid JMicron, and just by an off the shelf solution from a trusted brand if reliability is a must and the data is important...
So I’ve been running it on 3 of my machines now. Two of them have a single 6TB HDD caching to a partition on NVME SSD, and the other has 4x 10 year old 2TB 7.2K rpm HDDs in RAID0 caching to a NVME partition.
My experience and opinion up to this point hasn’t changed. First launch of games is...
Great feedback, thank you! I hadn’t even considered the write cache. Have you seen a benefit to also enabling the L1 caching? I have 64GB ram, so I have plenty to spare for caching if it provides meaningful improvement.
So I’m seriously considering pulling the trigger on the primocache software, and I’m curious to know if anyone here is using it for their steam library?
I have a large library (close to 5TB), and it’s not economical to purchase a SSD large enough to fit that much. And with SSDs relegating HDDs...
I picked up a Samsung T7 2TB, it uses the ASMedia 2362 chipset. I also picked up an Orico enclosure with the Realtek chipset and moved my 1TB 970 Evo to it. The Realtek chipset is far more stable than the JMicron, but has still dropped out on me at least one.
The T7 has been dead stable though...
What version of afterburner are you running? A while back, I had similar issues that was fixed by installing the latest beta. Something to do with rivatuner statistics server if I recall correctly.
I don’t believe the issues are power related. My dual 2.5” bus powered raid enclosure draws more power than this and doesn’t have issues.
Photo attached is power draw while doing crystal disk mark run. Cable is Apple thunderbolt 3, attached to the 10Gbps/thunderbolt 3 port on my Aero 15x.
EDIT...
6 to 8 pin should be fine as long as the total power draw doesn't exceed the specification of the 6 pin, assuming the wire gauge and power supply rating is sufficient as well.
I personally wouldn't trust a PSU that couldn't already accommodate a 1660ti out of the box though.
As for the SATA...
I would stay far away from any modern Seagate 2.5" mechanical drives, there is a very good reason they are called "the bread and butter of data recovery". Google 'Seagate rosewood' if there is any doubt about what I say. Rosewood is the code name for the platform their 2.5" drives are built on...
I think its important to parse the question that has been asked. In general, most people are not like us (enthusiasts). They aren't chasing lower temperatures, or overclocking.
As a general answer, they want a machine that powers up without a fuss and meets its performance specifications; so...
So I found something interesting... Out of the 12 or so USB C cables I have (including 2 TB3 cables and the one this enclosure came with), there is only one cable that is working reliably; the Apple Thunderbolt 3 cable. It seems to me that the JMS583 chipset is very picky about what cables it...
Your experience with the JMS board mirrors my own, so maybe we both got duds.
Tangentially related, I have a dual 2.5in raid enclosure that has random disconnects. Opened it up to find... a JMicron chipset, color me surprised /s.
I second this, an SSD is a MASSIVE upgrade over spinning rust. If you need space, the inconvenience of having an external drive is well worth the upgrade in usability IMO.
What do you use the computer for? For web browsing, media consumption, and Word/Excel/PowerPoint you aren’t likely to see a...
It’s not a question of if, but when *all* drives fail.
All new consumer facing drives that you could purchase today will likely meet your needs, with a few considerations... you aren’t likely to run into something like a host managed SMR drive. Not to be confused with drive managed.
WD Red is...
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