Recent content by daglesj

I've used Cobian for years. Just works, range of back up options.

In 30+ years of PC'ing I see little benefit for all the extra steps and lack of shifting it around for USB drives. Plug and play baby!

Thank goodness at that rate I'll be retired 10 years before there is ever the risk of having to work on a laptop with it installed.

More an Annette Haven or Desiree Coustau type myself.

The 16 looks a mess to be honest. They tried to build a 'Homer'.

Always wondered if 10TB plus HDDs with say a 32GB SSD module on the controller and better caching algorithms like the old SSHDs could make a comeback. Optane but all integrated and not like the H10/H20 crappy SSDs.

Did a quick look at a couple of 20TB reviews and it looks like we are stuck at that 7200rpm/data density 250-280MBps limit. Looks like we've gained like 70MBps over the 200 or so my single platter 1TB SSHD (short stroked to 200GB) from 2010 gave me.

Yeah I put one of those in my work laptop a few months ago. Worked fine, I swapped it out later for a Hynix as I needed it for something else.

If I was wanting a NAS style I'd buy up those 16/32GB Optane drives that are now dirt cheap. Pretty good endurance and low latency.

The £mega bucks gaming rig I had in with the faulty 13900KS CPU was runnng 96GB of 7200 ram but I couldn't get 4 sticks to run at that with XMP1/2 or anything. I knew 4 sticks of that was pushing it ...but I wasnt the one that specced and built the damn thing! Latest BIOS updated etc. If I...

Not seen any reviews for 20TB+ drives (kind of niche now) but can they really hit sustained 500MBps read/write rates now?

Yes that was my point. Just try not to collect so much data in the first place you have to go to enterprise levels to manage it all. It becomes a liability then. But everyone likes to think they are really important and thus everything they have is important too. Thing is after you are gone...a...

Again where did I say it isnt of value or use to YOU? Jeez... I have no children so I know 90% of my stuff will go to a charity store or a skip. I have accepted that. That is my path, I can't sit here worrying about it. I do have data and thats fine because it is USEFUL to me currently but I...

"And to anyone else but you, your data probably is worthless." Is my point. But yes the truth is, people really dont care about your stuff unless it's worth cold hard cash. Sorry, that's the cold hard truth. I deal with estate clearances on occasion, if it aint worth easy money it gets trashed...

They would get over it as they would be 50+ by then...house to sell and clear out all the stuff in it.