Recent content by drescherjm

Somewhere between 5 and 10 years is my answer.

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 took 10 to 15 5qt jugs of oil to advanced auto a few weeks ago. They had no issue with that.

It's a bit frustrating that the mitigations are so expensive in terms of performance loss.

I second the AOMEI recommendation. I have used it for several years.

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 test every single time I add ram. Usually I test for a around 72 hours.

That may be the problem.

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...

Is the temperature of the drive reasonable? On my laptop my WDC black nvme drive disappears if it gets much over 80C.

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...