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    Question about my SSD

    Samsung's ssd magician allows you to specify how much space to reserve for over provisioning. I've set mine to 10% of my 256gb 830 ssd, ssd life suggests that based on my usage since september 2012 it should last until 2022... ...I'll have replaced it before then
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    Are the WD Reds better than the Greens for 24 hour operation?

    i have two very old 1.5TB wd greens with about 30,000+ hours on the clock each. they're still chugging away, no signs of degradation and im able to stop them going to sleep. i want to replace them due to being 4+ years old but I'm not overly concerned about their health. i also have two of the...
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    Is it normal for a HDD of the same brand, same model, same firmware and same revision

    sometimes hdtune can be pretty crappy with it's benching. I've had different results benching the same drive ffs. either way, it's a tiny tiny difference and you're just peeling hairs apart now... just roll with it. also, last time i RMAd a drive i got a larger one back, and they sent two by...
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    How do I determine if my CPU is bad?

    my cpu displays similar blank spots in the Performance tab of the Task Manager like that screenshot above. it depends really on what programmes you're running and which/how many cores get used. The fact that you're able to get past POST suggests the processor is fine. Post your specs; as much...
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    WD RE4 or Black?

    can i ask.. the RE drives versus the Reds? i ask because I've seen both and although I've not seen much about returns, dabs.com offers a lot of "b grade" REDs and they're all factory refurbished which suggests an amount of DOA returns.
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    WD 1TB VelociRaptor vs. SSD?

    i used to have a few of the velociraptors, they were fantastic back in the day, went from those to ssd and didn't notice regular hdds getting quicker in the interim, sometimes i still see a copy operation between my mechanical storage disks hitting 100MB/s and im like "oh yeah, they can do that...
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    XP users: Three days to D-Day. Are you prepared?

    eventually, people are going to stop writing viruses and malware for XP, I'd imagine as the years go by it'll become more secure, and obviously less compatible with hardware. Like when you try to install windows 95 on a modern machine and it doesn't know what a wifi card is.
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    Gygabyte is selling more than Asus.

    I was a devout Gigabyte fan for years until a DS3 died on me and took the CPU with it, it was a Q6600 that I'd just bought that day. I tried to RMA it and they refused to replace the board. i went i7 after that with the 920 on an asus p6x58de and never looked back.
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