$220 seems a bit steep. I just picked up a 2500k system with 60GB SSD, 500GB HDD, 16GB of RAM, and an RX570 for $200 locally here in Orange County, CA.
It would be very cost ineffective to manufacture as there would need to be host interface hardware for both SATA as well as NVme, along with corresponding firmware.
I understand your pain. We can't even get a discount on any of the HGST drives and I work there. The employee store only has WD and Sandisk products for the most part.
That's a great choice (I don't work for Samsung but can admire good quality at a good price). I personally wouldn't enable RAPID, especially if you don't have a USP.
Interesting. Before I changed to Google WiFi I used to have a router downstairs and another router upstairs configured as an AP. Both had "guest network" features. I guess I never checked that the "guest network" on the AP was actually isolating clients connected to it from other devices on my...
I don't think he needs his devices to be able to talk to each other at all, and I think he uses wifi for everything. What if I just run a cable upstairs, set up an access point with guest network capability, and have him only connect to the guest network?
It's not the power on hours that is the problem, it's the PE (program / erase) cycles, ie how many times the NAND has been written and then erased. Eventually it wears out.
What OS are you using now? If Windows 10 it should auto activate if you clean install on a new drive in the same system.
Otherwise, do you know anyone that currently or used to work at Microsoft? They have access to Windows 10 for I think 40 bucks and it's ok for them to buy for friends and...
Well it looks like it is reporting 0 program failures and 0 erase failures (which I find hard to believe, but I guess maybe....), so it isn't end of the world or anything, but I certainly wouldn't trust the drive long term at this point.
Can you go into a bit more detail on this? I am still regretting deciding NOT to mine bitcoin back in the day when you could do it with just an AMD GPU and get great results....
Thanks for the reply. I don't think the landlord is willing to do much of anything with this, so I guess double NAT it is. I think my brother uses it mostly just for basic web browsing anyway, so I doubt he will run into any issues and if he does we can cross that bridge when we come to it I guess.
Hardware issues happen from time to time, even on Enterprise hardware that can cost tens of thousands of dollars. It's how the seller and manufacturer deal with it that matters.
I would insist on being put to the head of the line since you have already been charged for the phone and it is likely the only one you have. People on the waiting list haven't been charged yet and also likely still have a current device to use.
I had to move away from LG phones. Every generation they suckered my wife and I in with amazing stats, and ever generation at least 1 of the 2 we bought had major issues. Boot looping, overheating, etc.
This time we went with a Pixel XL (me), and an iPhone 7+ (her). We have both been very...
My brother lives in a very large, old duplex. The landlord provides all utilities, including internet. However, the internet is shared between the two units. This pose a couple of problems: 1. My brother gets a terrible signal upstairs as the internet comes in downstairs 2. I am worried about...
Cloud for mass storage isn't practical unless you have extremely quick upload speeds. If you are uploading at say 5 Mbps, it will take ~20 days per TB just to upload your data.
In my media server I have a 4-in-3 adapter to go from 5.25 to 3.5 bays, and then a 3.5 to 2.5 adapter to put the two SSDs I run in the system, with 3 HDDs in the other 3 slots. Comes with a fan to keep everything cool and it works great.
The drives are amazing, but obviously that comes at a cost. For example, Backblaze still buys mostly Seagate drives even though they fail at a MUCH higher rate.