I haven't heard again that 2.5" HDDs are more fragile. I would have thought (like manly) that they would be better suited given they have evolved for laptop. I've had two of them in operation for more than 8 years. One of them died a few days ago but the other one keeps going.
I was just...
I didn't thought to research that, thank you, it's a nice idea.
I prefer the 2.5" ones because they produce less noise.
What difference in speed are we talking about? I'm getting close to 120-80MB/sec (depending on how full it is) on a 2.5" USB drive I have.
I need a drive to add one more backup point on my data scheme and I'm considering WD Elements Portable.
It's the cheapest portable drive by WD. I know that it's not supported by their software and I don't care about that. What I'd like to know is whether it's any good in terms of quality and...
For the 980 Pro, a sustained write performance of 1.9GB/sec is still great. The SN850 has a larger SLC cache but lower sustained performance, at 1GB/sec. I now understand the value of cache: most of our day-to-day operations are within cache size so the drive is effectively that fast.
Prices...
This is interesting. What is the sustained speed for 980 Pro and 970 Evo Plus? Does Samsung have an MLC M.2 drive today?
Is there a place I can look at drives who use MLC?
I thought that M.2 used one lane. That's great to hear! Having 3.5GB/sec speed is going to be great boost over the 70MB/sec I'm getting now from my platter disk now.
One more question - Is the 970 a drive of less quality or consistency, or is it just slower?
I am aware that WD owns SanDisk and it's quite possible that SanDisk manufactures the WD drives but I mostly want to stay away from their USB SSDs which I have seen have many problems. I rarely see a WD M.2 SSD with issues. Maybe they use a different process.
I am still considering everything...
I want to get a 2TB SSD to use as my main storage and I'm here to get a few suggestions on what I should be looking at.
I will use the drive to:
Store and access files
Run VirtualBox VMs
Run apps (most of my apps are portable)
Do image processing (Lightroom)
Do video editing (Sony Vegas)
Watch...
I have a Dell U2520D LED QHD IPS 210-AVBF which I use for work (from home) and fun. It's very usual that I'll have the exact same apps open on the display for 8 maybe 10 hours straight. I've noticed that when I finish work and switch desktops there is some ghosting that goes away after a few...
Ah, but of course! It makes perfect sense! My initial question has been answered, thank you!
The noise. I tested 3.5" drives back then but the noise was too much for me. I would consider them again, of course.
Also, thank you for suggesting these docks. I didn't know they existed.
My data...
The only way I can explain this is if they're using shingled magnetic recording. But that doesn't slow down reading, doesn't it?
I know I've got options if I want to go faster but I don't want to spend the money right now. The reason I got 2.5" drives back then is because they're quieter than...
Nothing changed between the two tests. I used the same OS, the same port, the same USB cable, and it had the same free space (completely empty). I didn't even unmount the device.
I have two 2.5" USB drives: a 2015 WD My Passport Ultra 2TB and a 2015 Seagate Backup Plus Portable 2TB.
Up until the point they're 50% full, their read and write speed is around 120MB/sec. When 70% full, their r/w speed is around 70MB/sec. And when 90% full, the r/w speed is around 50MB/sec...
Crystal Mark shows around 100MB/sec write speed but when I transfer a 10GB file from my SSD (capable of doing around 500MB/sec) to the thumb drive, I get around 30MB/sec.
It's a Kingston Kyson 128GB, and the drive specs mention 60MB/sec. The Kyson at 32GB and 64GB don't list write speed in the...
My drive is the Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500GB which as I see is an MLC drive, so it's good news!
I've got one more question, out of curiosity: a fresh Win10 installation is around 25GB of data. Doing a restore is like writing 500GB or 25GB of data to the disk?
Every couple of months I restore my Windows installation with ntfsclone. It's a command line Linux utility similar to dd or ddrescue, only that it specializes in NTFS partitions. It's included in Clonezilla.
My question is, will doing this every 2 months wear down the drive?
If you're...
I want to buy a 2.5" USB HDD to transfer big chunks of data.
When turned on it'll sit unbothered (no shocks and no vibrations) on a desk. But when turned off it'll get the usual everyday treatment my cell phone has: I won't drop it but it will get transported on foot in a messenger bag or...
I'm playing first-person shooters and racing games at 85 fps (anything above doesn't make a difference to my eye). What characteristics should I seek in a monitor?
Do the 85fps translate to 85Hz, and anything above is redundancy? Should I seek 1ms response time?
I have an AMD supporting...
Never mind! I just realized that I forgot to install SP1!
I just installed SP1 and the driver installed as well. I'm getting a few strange errors which I'll need to investigate, though.
I just reinstalled Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 and the latest ATI Radeon driver (WHQL-Win7-64Bit-Radeon-Software-Crimson-ReLive-17.4.4-May3):
This is strange because on my previous Win7 installation, this driver installed fine.
I've kept on my hard drive an older driver...
Using a VGA or HDMI cable extender is going to weaken the signal?
pfSense is primarily handled via it's web UI. ssh is there too. I need to have direct access to the machine (as opposed to web UI or ssh) to install it and because I'll probably screw things up at some point.
For machines that...
So... There is 100MB of rewrites if you write nearly nothing to the drive. And if I'm writing heavily to the drive, there will probably be a problem. The problem is not reaching TBW, but the drive having low endurance (I don't know what endurance means). Have I got this right?
1TB SSD drives cost far more than what I want to spend for a drive right now.
The Samsung 850 EVO 500GB costs 200 USD. That's 20% more. One review I read places the EVO 750 at 100TBW, which sounds acceptable to me. Does this TBW take into account the re-writes necessary?
I'm considering buying a barebones mini PC for a pfSense router. It has a VGA output which will help when I need to troubleshoot something. Problem is, my display only takes signal from HDMI.
I know there are adapters, but how good of a job do they do?
I'm running an i7-6700 on an Asus H170-Pro with 16GB of RAM and a Radeon R9 380.
Out of pure sloth I've been running this PC for a year with a platter 1TB WD Black disk.
The computer feels sluggish and I want to add a Samsung 750 Evo 500GB SSD, which costs 167 USD on my local market (I don't...
I found a Celeron 433Mhz on the basement and said "lets setup Win98 in this little ah heck for nostalgia".
Problem is, it doesn't recognize the PS2 keyboard. That PS2 keyboard works fine on other computers. The Celeron machine can see a USB keyboard, and it'll take me to the BIOS but Win98 setup...
I want to buy a 4K 23" monitor (I'm impressed by the crispness of small pixel pitch). This means I'll need to upscale otherwise things will be tiny. I need to see if the software I use fares well with upscaling. Problem is I only have a 17" 100-DPI CRT monitor (ancient history, I know).
So I...
No no no! It is fast at installing Win7. Have installed multiple times. It's the first time that this delay takes place. I'm suspecting of a hardware failure.
I'm trying to install Windows 7 64-bit Ultimate on a 8-year-old PC and it just pauses on the Windows background graphic (the first graphical screen that you see just after the CD loads files). I'm supposed to see the window where you click Next to proceed with the installation but that window...
Lets say that I do and it works. Does this involve any kind of danger for any component? Should I expect any kind of malfunction from this? Maybe data corruption at some point in the future?
Also: this RAM is meant to be overclocked? So even if I had a Z170 mobo, I would be overclocking it to...
Oh man, I paid x2 the money to get 2666Mhz RAM because I thought it was going to operate at 2666Mhz as part of its standard operation. I'm gonna be so frustrated if all that money was for nothing :-/
I can see that Intel XMP is an easy way to overclock your memory. If it's within the specs of...
I have an Asus H170-Pro motherboard with Crucial Ballistix Elite 16GB Kit (8GBx2) DDR4-2666 UDIMM
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I'm really not sure about this (my BIOS seems convoluted to me and I'm still not comfortable finding my way around it) but the BIOS says it currently runs at 2133Mhz and it also...
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