Recent content by Abula

Second the WD Black recommendation. Although depending on the load you are planning, you might want to a U.2 with higher endurance?

I still used HDDs on my servers, but on my pc n laptops, all ssds.

Most Sata ssds will work fine, most will saturate sata III standards, firmwares are very mature by now, you can still get higher endurance drives, but really dont matter for your use. With this im just saying buy whatever is cheaper imo, in the past i used be a Samsung fan, today... i really...

I really want the P5800x 1.6tb U.2, but $2k is the cheapest i found it. I really hope it reaches around $1k, and ill jump the wagon.

I feel the 110mm (22110) will never be adopted heavily due to laptops, it will require better planning by them, and in some cases its already tight as it is. Not saying it cant happen, but i doubt it will. To me we are going to reach 8/16 TB, where m.2 will no longer be able to grow above, and...

I would avoid Raid 0 if possible, you only doubling your risk of a failure, and while in hard drives raid 0 was a speed boost, in ssds sometimes you introduce latency, and if high sequential is what you after, there u.2 SSDs that will sustain sequential much higher... at a cost of course. If i...

Blue Iris imo is a better surveillance software than Surveillance station from Synology, much more tweaking and less expensive if you run multiple camaras, but Synology is easier to setup and use, the only thing lacking imo is hardware on Synlogy is on the low end, but they do maximize their dsm...

I'm not completely sure, but the motherboard might not boot if no GPU / iGPU is present to pass the the bios check, i would crosscheck this to avoid needing to use your GPU, personally i would prefer to buy an intel cpu with iGPU, not that much more money and its very efficient, and capable of...

PCIe 3.0 on a 4x port max is 4bg/s (on a perfect world), so that should be the most you able to achieve with your motherboard, but there are 2x ports that will cripple the drive to half of that. Personally i would just get a 970Evo, likely cheaper than the PCIe 5.0 and will give you the same...

I have 10x 4mp cameras, and give or take a 10tb gives me a month of recording. So with two cameras depending on the setup and camara characteristics maybe you get a month with two cameras.

I do agree to some point, thinner is better, as long as you do have good contact, if not, thicker with better contact will be better. To me thickness of the thermal pads has to be more about following how it was design than always go for thinner.

I would go with SK hynix Platinum P41 2TB one of the best Gen4 ssds, i really wished they had a 4tb version, but for $150 imo would be my pick.

This is more a personal preference, do you have lots of games or tons of games? But whatever you buy, get this heatsink ElecGear PS5 NVMe SSD Heatsink

Most SSDs today will net a good experience for the average user, mostly on pure benchmarks where you see differences, that said, there are lots of good ssds, the 990pro is the second gen of samsung gen4 pcie, that competes with also new iteration of WD 850X and Sk Hynix P41, also lets not forget...

Its a good choice, i also bought one =)