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Question Does over-provisioning accomplish anything useful for typical SSD use?

I just got a Crucial MX500 SSD, and the software that comes with it recommends reserving at least 50GB for "over-provisioning," to provide space for load leveling. But when I was trying to find out more about it, I found this post from a Micron employee, talking specifically about Crucial SSDs...
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- Apr 9, 2019
- Replies: 20
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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2 free years of Shoprunner for PayPal users

Thanks for this, I've used Shoprunner before and it's great for Newegg.
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- Post #7
- Aug 28, 2017
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Adata 16GB USB3.0 Yellow or Blue x3 combo $10.99 + ship @ Newegg

In for one, shipping was free for me, thanks for the link.
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- Nov 7, 2016
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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$91.55 gets you your very own Mario Kart!

Can it shoot turtle shells?
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- Post #3
- Oct 11, 2015
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Toshiba 6TB external desktop HDD $169.99 @ Newegg

Why would this have nearly 800 reviews at Amazon, and zero at Newegg? I give Newegg reviews a lot more credibility than Amazon, since the buyers are usually more tech savvy. You always get a few one-star reviews at Amazon complaining that it says 3GB, but it was actually only 2.7. ETA: on...
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- Post #4
- Oct 9, 2015
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Newegg SS: Seagate SSHD ST4000DX001 4TB 64MB SSD Cache SATA 3.5" Hybrid $135 FS

I bought one of these a few months ago, and have been using it as my boot drive for Win8 and now Win10. I don't see much benefit from the SSD, but I haven't had any problems with it, either, and the price per TB is pretty good.
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- Post #2
- Oct 1, 2015
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Newegg Skylake combo deal, 6600K, GA-Z170X-UD5, 8GB DDR4-2133, $429.99

You may not believe this, but lots of people don't OC.
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- Post #6
- Sep 11, 2015
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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[DEAD] Windows 7 Core 2 desktops starting at $55 ( $49 after promo code) free ship

Amazing prices. What does "Condition B" mean?
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- Post #2
- Sep 11, 2015
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Can I freely alternate between Win 8 and Win10 forever?

Yikes. I have booted Win10 with a Win8 drive (different physical drive) present without problems, but maybe the reset is different. And I don't remember exactly what happened, but a few years ago, Windows screwed up a drive that it should have left alone, so I absolutely believe you. I also...
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- Post #12
- Aug 23, 2015
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Can I freely alternate between Win 8 and Win10 forever?

That is good news. I hope that means that if I get a new motherboard or something in the future, I can call MS and switch the key over, and still use both versions.
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- Post #11
- Aug 23, 2015
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Can I freely alternate between Win 8 and Win10 forever?

I have images of my Win8 drives, so I wouldn't have to reinstall it; I'd just restore it, unless Microsoft does something with my activation to prevent it. In any case, the first thing I did after I installed Win10 was delete the Windows.old folder, because it makes the backup image about 50%...
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- Post #5
- Aug 22, 2015
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Can I freely alternate between Win 8 and Win10 forever?

I didn't think Win10 would corrupt the Win8 drive, but I thought they might check the hardware hash on the Win8 drive and see that it was the same as one that was already registered as Win10, and block one or the other. No reason they should, since I obviously can only run one at a time, but...
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- Post #4
- Aug 22, 2015
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Can I freely alternate between Win 8 and Win10 forever?

If you just want my question, it's this: as long as I use the same PC, will I be able to switch between Win8 and Win10 indefinitely (or at least as long as Win8 is supported), using only the free upgrade, without a new product key? Background for the question, in case it doesn't make sense: In...
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- Aug 22, 2015
- Replies: 15
- Forum: Operating Systems
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XFX DD 290x 4gb with lifetime warranty for 280$ AR and promo code

I thought, "Wow, lifetime warranty," and then I realized I've never had a video card go bad, and yet I've never gone more than a couple of years without getting a new one. But it seems like a good deal on the card, even without the warranty.
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- Jun 21, 2015
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Run VeraCrypt and TrueCrypt concurrently?

Most of my drives are encrypted with Truecrypt. As you probably know, Truecrypt support has ended, but a program called Veracrypt, based on the Truecrypt code, is attempting to replace it. A new version of Veracrypt came out last month that supports mounting Truecrypt volumes, but losing my...
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- Feb 15, 2015
- Replies: 1
- Forum: Security
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Fitbit Flex Giveaway

I don't call a drawing a giveaway.
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- Post #2
- Nov 23, 2014
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Official Free Tools Thread

http://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/products/visual-studio-community-vs MS has a new free version of Visual Studio that is supposed to be equivalent to VS Pro, i.e. it has all the languages and platforms, for non-enterprise developers (as I understand it, commercial development is OK, but only if...
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- Post #99
- Nov 13, 2014
- Forum: Programming
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Microsoft Open Sources .NET

Visual Studio Community is claimed to be the equivalent of VS Pro, but I can't find anything that says it will build MFC applications, which is the biggest thing missing from VS Express. I have a slow internet connection, so I don't want to download the 6GB install until that's confirmed...
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- Post #20
- Nov 13, 2014
- Forum: Programming
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Payday 1 on Thursday

Thanks OP.
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- Post #12
- Oct 16, 2014
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Western Digital 3TB Hard Drive $89 Free shipping

Thanks. I really don't understand the WD philosophy on this. Most customers just want the thing to work. They don't know and don't care that it's saving them a few pennies a day on electricity. They know right away if it has a shorter life and huge latency because of all the head parking.
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- Post #11
- May 19, 2014
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Western Digital 3TB Hard Drive $89 Free shipping

Do WD drives still have the problem where they do hundreds of load cycles per day?
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- Post #9
- May 18, 2014
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Seagate 4TB NAS HDD $150 - TD

Sorry, please remedy my ignorance and tell me what that means. 180GB doesn't sound like much of anything in the context of a 4TB drive.
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- Post #12
- Mar 17, 2014
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Seagate 4TB NAS HDD $150 - TD

Will those work as a normal desktop internal drive? I realize I'd have to format it as GPT, but I could use a big, cheap data drive.
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- Post #4
- Mar 17, 2014
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Am Megatrends UEFI - any way to increase the boot delay?

Everything I google about boot times is how to make it faster. I want to make it slower. I have a Gigabyte Z87M-D3H motherboard with an American Megatrends UEFI BIOS. Like most BIOSes I've ever seen, when it first starts up, you can hit the delete key to go into the BIOS setup, or the F12 key...
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- Jan 9, 2014
- Replies: 1
- Forum: Motherboards
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3TB's Partitioned As NTFS With MBR Out There?

I have a Seagate 3TB drive, and I used DiscWizard to make it look like two physical drives, 2.2TB and 760GB. It worked fine with my old PC with a conventional BIOS, including booting Windows 7-64 from the first partition of the 2.2 TB portion. Both parts of it could hold four primary...
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- Post #8
- Dec 30, 2013
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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D3D9 Overlay Not Supported by my new Radeon 7790

Yeah, I found that post before I posted here. The guy asked about it way back in April, for a different AMD card, and no replies. How is this possible? How can AMD be one of the biggest, maybe THE biggest, name in video cards, and not implement features that came out years ago, and are...
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- Post #6
- Dec 27, 2013
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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D3D9 Overlay Not Supported by my new Radeon 7790

I just got a new Radeon 7790 card for my PC, and after downloading and installing the latest drivers from AMD, I ran dxdiag on it. I was surprised to see this: D3D9 Overlay: Not Supported DXVA-HD Not Supported For comparison, the dxdiag report I ran on my Intel I3 CPU's...
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- Dec 27, 2013
- Replies: 8
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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4-pin ATX plug in 8-pin EPS socket?

Sorry if this is a dumb question, but... I'm building a new Haswell PC, and I want to use an extra PSU I already have, but the motherboard I'm getting requires an 8-pin EPS socket, and my PSU only has a 4-pin ATX connector (along with the main 24 pin power connector). So I looked around, and I...
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- Nov 26, 2013
- Replies: 4
- Forum: Motherboards
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Reliable LGA1150 MB under $100?

Like I said in the OP, I don't need overclocking. If this MB performs to spec, it will be much faster than my current PC, which is fast enough for me. If I wanted to do gaming, the video card slot would be a much bigger concern that the lack of OC. I'm basically getting a budget system...
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- Nov 26, 2013
- Forum: Motherboards
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Reliable LGA1150 MB under $100?

OK then, let me be specific. I found the ASUS H81M-A for $65 at Newegg, and it looks like it does everything I want (except, as usual, no clue about hot swapping SATA drives). Anybody have any experience with low-priced ASUS boards?
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- Nov 26, 2013
- Forum: Motherboards
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Reliable LGA1150 MB under $100?

I've been building my own systems for years with mid to high-end MBs (mostly Gigabyte UD models), but it has dawned on me that in all that time, I've never upgraded them. By the time I need a new CPU, there are new sockets, or DDR3 instead of DDR2 memory, or USB3, or *something* that makes me...
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- Nov 26, 2013
- Replies: 10
- Forum: Motherboards
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10 different anti-virus downloads for $4.99 each at Newegg.

I've used Panda's free Cloud AV for years, and I like it. I notice it was one of only two products that scored 100% on the AV Comparatives test that's been cited in this thread, so that's pretty damn good for free.
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- Post #34
- Nov 26, 2013
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Toshiba 15.6" laptop - $229 at Best Buy

Actually, I'd rather drive 70 miles one way than stand in line at the post office at Christmas :) The manual said that the battery meter is more accurate if you let the battery discharge completely, and then recharge it, so I tried that. My meter now won't go above 85%. It runs for nearly...
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- Post #109
- Nov 19, 2013
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Toshiba 15.6" laptop - $229 at Best Buy

Oops, looks like I may have a bad battery. The amber light started flashing while the PC was plugged in, which the manual says means either the battery or adapter is bad. I followed the instructions to take out the battery and clean the terminals, which looked fine, and when I put it back in...
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- Post #103
- Nov 17, 2013
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Toshiba 15.6" laptop - $229 at Best Buy

Thanks for the link to shouldiremoveit; that looks like it will be very handy for all my PCs. I'd really, really like to do a clean install of 8.1, and I only have to download the drivers once (plus the preinstalled ones are six months old), so that part doesn't bother me, although for some...
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- Post #101
- Nov 17, 2013
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Toshiba 15.6" laptop - $229 at Best Buy

UPS finally delivered mine yesterday. I've hooked it up to an external monitor and speakers, and I'm pretty happy with the picture and sound, thanks to the tips here about the speakers. But I hate Windows 8, and all the bloatware that came with it. I want to do a clean install of Win 8.1...
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- Post #99
- Nov 17, 2013
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Toshiba 15.6" laptop - $229 at Best Buy

Sigh. Of course it is. Thank you.
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- Post #54
- Nov 10, 2013
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Toshiba 15.6" laptop - $229 at Best Buy

Thank you very much.
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- Post #52
- Nov 10, 2013
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Toshiba 15.6" laptop - $229 at Best Buy

I ordered one Thursday night, but it's still "Order In Process." I guess they took a long weekend. The thing that finally made me order it was that while I was shopping for a new CPU for my desktop PC, I noticed that the CPU in this Toshiba (1037U) supports SLAT (which the desktop Haswell...
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- Post #50
- Nov 10, 2013
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Newegg's new "EggPoints" program

Which makes no sense, but I bought a couple drives last night, and the status is "packaging," which means the credit card has been processed and accepted, but my eggpoints shows no points and no transactions pending. Maybe it will update after it ships?
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- Post #10
- Nov 2, 2013
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways

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