Recent content by man114

The 3 and 4tb HGSTs really are a work of art In terms of reliability. The used drives pulled from datacenters will probably outlast new ones, I‘m loading data today in a secondary backup rig using ones already used sometimes as much as 7 years after I bought them used already. 9 times out of 10...

While I bought the XFX swft 6700xt mainly as a display out for a media computer that I rarely game on my ears have been plugged from allergies and it’s been warm out so I’ve been keeping the heat generation down in the living room. I’ve been Skipping out on gaming on my headset 6900xt rig and...

I’d buy em. For all the bad press I’ve had maybe 8 drives fail since 1994 when my dad bought me a PC as a kid and one DOA. 4 were refurb HGST/Hitachis, all from one batch that were badly handled in shipping that I attempted to use during the Chia shortages because I needed the specific size for...

I did some digging with the one that comes up as Netac since it reported more info. Appears it’s a Dramless SATA which is why the write speed starts fast and drops off. Controller appears to be SM2258xt. Nothing groundbreaking. I doubt it’ll die outright unless it’s defective I’ve had the 500gb...

It’s in a fairly well sealed aluminum case. I never tried to open it. I assume there’s some sort of nvme or SATA m.2 drive inside. While hard disk sentinel reported the 500gb as generic the 1tb showed up today, I tried that it’s apparently OEMed by Netac.

Can’t really comment there, had the 500gb since last year around this time. I’d give it a good workout early But there’s no real reason it should fail any sooner.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07TWVY1BJ/ref=ox_sc_saved_title_4?smid=A26KTAFAO5S2LI&th=1 use apply 20% off, use coupon code 359KW4VZ also works for the 500gb which comes out to $28 and change May work with the other models. Dunno how long it runs. Let’s you buy 1 with the code. Despite...

The SWFT? I just got one today, it has a dual BIOS switch is one clocked higher than the other?

I think it’s fio-status -a

Well it’s here looks brand new and 97.72% remaining

Keep an eye out I have seen new Lenovo ones pop up from time to time. I paid $400 or so for a new one. The issue is I’m sort of out of computers to use a 6.4tb. Also it’s 8x PCIe so depending on your slot arrangements you could have issues on a HEDT. I’m using this one on an x299 simply for...

More just turned up from another seller. https://www.ebay.com/itm/125201613623 He took $175 as an offer. I’m not far from this seller so I should have it in a few days. I’ll check the remaining life. My 3 from the last go around are all working fine. The 6.4TB sx350 is too.

EVGA is pretty decent about RMAs but I dunno if they’re really better. I just RMAed a 6900xt through XFX and they were honestly more communicative and just as fast if not faster. I’ve had to send a lot back to EVGA and the process is fairly smooth but not perfect and kinda slow.

If anyone needs a resizeable bar bios for this board I got gigabyte to send me a test one. It seems to be otherwise identical to the F12 Release.

Great card, had it since March and I love it.