Recent content by warc1

I'm pretty sure I know the answer to the following issue, but I thought I'd ask in case I'm wrong. I just bought the subject drive which has a specified max read spec of up to 800MB/s. I can't find a write speed spec for this drive, which I know would be lower. Still, I tested this out on my...

I have a new PCIe 4.0 PC build using a ROG x570-e motherboard with a Ryzen 9 3950X CPU and a PCIe 4.0 1TB Firecuda 520 system drive. I've benchmarked the system drive using: CrystalDiskMark, AS SSD Benchmark and Samsung Magician Specs for sequential read/write (MB/s) are 5000/4400 and I get...

Personal practice follows: 1) I do both. I have three active internal drives - a 1TB system SSD and two 4TB data SSDs. They all get backed up locally to two 8TB internal backup drives using Shadow Protect SPX backup software. It's set up to do full backups of each drive every two weeks and...