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    Upgrading 10 year old Dell for parents

    For myself I always build but for others I prefer to recommend OEM business models. You can occasionally find PC's that were returned to Dell for whatever reason that they cannot sell as new and are near untouched. If you're lucky you can even get one with 3 yr warranty like the link below...
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    Windows Licence + install media question.

    I have in the past bought broken dell latitude laptops just to use the Win7 Pro COA on other laptops. I've used a Dell Win7 Pro disc and I've downloaded stock disc from MS site online and used those Dell COA's on HP, Lenovo and Toshiba laptops. I've never run into an issue because I believe...
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    WD Redesigns World's #1 Selling Portable Hard Drive

    Yeah, these days I wouldn't buy an ext. just to open it up. Back 3ish years ago when I was buying my 2TB ext WD Essentials, there were stories that some shipped with WD Blacks inside. I even remember reading 1 post where the guy said he ended up with a 3yr warranty even though the ext's only...
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    GPT drive mysteriously converts into a MBR drive on it's own

    The only time I've ever had a hdd lose it's partition is my old 2TB WD Essential Externals. I found repeatedly that if I pull the power before the USB cable that it'll either corrupt data or just crap the MBR totally. I actually found a blog where this guy used a hex editor on the MBR to...
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    HGST 4TB Deskstar Coolspin ("5K4000")

    If you're up for a lot of reading the backblaze blog has lots of information. From this blog post below they suspect the flooding from a couple years ago to affect the quality of drives produced during the period. I know Seagate among others dropped warranty periods to 1yr for a while and have...
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    Show Your LCD(s) setups!!!

    Dear Lord. Now THAT'S a command station lol
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    How can I organize a MASSIVE messy folder?

    I know I'm late to the party but I'd recommend this You can do advanced search/filtering (grepping) to find certain files and move them to a new location.
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    anyone else having Firefox stop redrawing?

    That's one of the weirdest glitches I've ever heard of. I have issues where FF will stop responding and/or start crashing but it's because I have like 100 tabs open in 4 diff windows lol. (yeah I'm crazy) My problem is I do random searches of stuff then leave tabs open till I remember to go...
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    RAID choices for NAS

    FYI if you're using FreeNAS, that's what I'm using ZFS and raidz2 just to let you know, FreeNAS will start giving you warnings if you use more than 80% of your pool. And my friend found out the hard way that when you go over about 90% the system will actually perform sluggish. my 2 cents.
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    SSD and Hybrid Drive really slow, I mean slow...

    @ob1 If the (boot) drive isn't set to AHCI already you can't just change it. You have to update the driver in Windows before you change it in BIOS or you'll BSOD. System slowdowns can be software (virus/malware/settings-config) or hardware (setting/config or possible failure) Make sure your...
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    Does a failing S.M.A.R.T. test at post warrant a replacement?

    I second (or third, forth, nth) replacing it immediately. I work in IT and I've replaced a couple hundred hdd's over the years via diags smart failure. They just ask for the error msg then my address to send me a replacement. IMHO it would be an oddity for any drive to keep working long term...
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    FreeNAS: Pre-Built versus Build-Your-Own

    You can always add a Hot-Swap Cage to any case, I know newegg has several pages of sizes and prices. I'm pretty sure this is what's in the IX System build. I don't know of any other 8 core proc that pulls that low a wattage. This is what I built my freenas with. The only limiting factor is...
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    Mushkin SSD boot drive no longer detected

    A friend of my just bought a Dell e6440 and was telling me he tried testing a mSata from another system. It wouldn't detect it at all. On a different conversation about setting up Windows on his new hdd I recommended to him to flash bios to latest and not forget to set sata mode to AHCI or...
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