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Are you kidding?? THAT is how you fix bad NAND. For hard drives everyone recommended cold so you put them in the freezer (except that stopped working after stiction problems were resolved with a change in lubricant) so for NAND you need HEAT, so sure.... put it in the microwave!! /sarcasm

Does your BIOS/UEFI have a setting for legacy/INT13?

Sold Out right now, but showed in stock at $679.99 (including very-early-adopter-tax!!) for the 2TB this morning.

I was going to say flash last longest when maintained at a constant temperature, instead of fluctuating between extremes of heat and cold. Run a USB extension cable to the flash drive, and dump it into a vat of liquid nitrogen. It will keep the bits chilled and operating at maximum efficiency.

Unfortunately, that is not an option that is open to you. In all honesty, in all but the most extreme cases or people with very narrowly tuned workloads you would see no benefit to doing that. Instead of paying for 4x the NAND only to use 1/4 of it, put that money you are wasting into something...

The "SLC" cache in MLC/TLC/QLC drives is not actual SLC silicon. It is the same MLC/TLC/QLC silicon but that small area is treated as SLC by the controller, (eg it only stores 1 bit per cell instead of the multiple charge bits it is capable of). Instead of wasting 99% of a 2TB SSD for the "SLC"...

Unfortunately, welcome to enterprise hardware on consumer motherboards. First, make sure you are running the latest BIOS on the motherboard and the latest BIOS, FIRM, BOOT & MBR files on the card. Next, see if the box boots with the HBA in the x16 slot you have your video card in. If all of...

You need an ECC Single Rank, 1Rx8 or 1Rx16 and the 4GB need to be DDR3-1333 and the 8GB are "supposed" to be DDR3-1200 but I have seen 1333 sticks come from Areca with 8GB on them.

MrGuv already went over why overprovisioning in this day and age is not importantnot/as important (depending on the device and your workload.) As far as 4k (and sequential) performance, overprovisioning can actually diminish your performance depending on how the controller allocates the space...

I don't think you will ever see SATA go beyone SATA600, it is a dead interface as far as innovation at this point. In addition, there is no need for even greater than SATA300 per port at this point in spinners, and SSD's already have nvme for the future. SAS signalling is much more advanced...

Is this going to be a bulk storage drive (if so, buy the one with the best $/TB rating if MTBF (and Backblaze ratings) show all things being equal between the drives you are looking at.

As many above have already said, 2.5" spinners are (for all intents and purposes) a dead product. At the low (Sub 2TB) end they are so close in price to SSD's that they are generally not worth it. The only density work that was really being done was in high-rpm drives (3.5" 15K drives generally...

Angie! Definintely! B**ch broke my heart! A new game for general mayhem. Kill or No Kill?!?

If the hardware isn't even seeing it from multiple slots, most likely the drive is toast. You could always buy a cheapo USB/NMVE adapter and see if that gives you anything in another machine just to remove any issues your machine as a whole could have but I honestly wouldn't expect that to...

Oooooooooooook, You say you have a need for "large amounts" of storage, but are only looking at a 2TB drive. If you were looking for 20TB of storage in a single device, sure spinners are great, cost effective devices. Do as you wish, but as I and others have suggested it is a poor choice at this...

You can get 2TB SATA SSD's for under $100 now, I would do that 100x before I bought 2TB of spinning rust for $50.

Many of the schucked drives back to about 6TB were 3.3 issue drives, so that could be an issue. Do you need the data? If it is iretrievable and you need it, don't screw with it (the more you do to try and get it back the worse you can make the situation (especially if it is a head crash)) and...

No, I mean they suck in general and can cause all sorts of problems even if left alone. Screwing with them increases the chances significantly.

Because most consumer SATA cables are shit. I have seen internal SATA cables go bad never having been touched since installation, let alone one that is constantly moved, flexed and bent.

Download Data Lifeguard from WD's website and run a Long Test or two. Just remember the test is destructive, so make sure you have a new mirror up with the new drive before you run it. See if it passes, but even if it does I would treat is as suspect because even though it didn't hit the floor...

That is a rebadged Micron 5100, it should not be vendor locked to Dell. Which Macbook Pro's (Model #) are you trying it in, and what OS version are they running? If you go into Disk Utility do you see anything attached at all? The only time I have seen issues like this is if it was out of an EMC...

Port1 And Port2 are multilane SAS/SATA connectors, usually SATAx4 on the 360's. If you want to install an NVMe drive, get a PCIe slot to m.2 NVMe adapter card and install it that way.

Yes, basically you will add the drives and expand your RAIDSet, then expand your VolumeSet and then expand or extend (depending on your OS) your filesystem. As with any time you make significant changes to your setup (and of course it is an important idea in general) you should have complete and...

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One of the reasons that USM went nowhere is you were plugging your backup drive into the same device and power supply as your storage. This way when the power supply shits the bed (which the Seagate consumer NAS boxes are known for) and takes out your drives, it takes out your backup at the same...

I have never had issues with Intel, I have had weird issues over the years with Realtek. For consumer parts it is not as much of a problem, but for enterprise I know if I can reproduce a problem there is someone at Intel that I can A. Get A Hold Of and B. Gives A Shit To Get It Fixed in this...

If you are unsure and thing you got a China Special (128MB drive re-prom'd to 8TB) try a utility like FakeFlashTest or H2TestW. Those will at least let you know what you really have, before you waste time testing out the device.

There is a good deal on the Seagate Ironwolf Pro 20TB for $339.99 at Newegg right now with a coupon code on their page (From them, not a third party), I just snagged a bunch for upgrades at home. 10^15 URE, 5 year warranty, a little quieter than the EXOS. You can read about the differences...

USM never really went anywhere. You can essentially use any SATA HDD/SDD that is in the right form factor to match up with the connector on the device you wish to act as host. If you are planning on buying additional drives anyway, you would be better served by shucking a few WD 14TB Easystores...

Which is precisely what I said. For most people with general desktop or laptop workloads, outside of synthetic benchmarks they will likley see little to no difference. The additional, significant $$$ they will expend for the latest and greatest in this one particular use case is not worthwhile...

What is your definintion of "best?"

Just snaking SATA (up to 36") and power (a reasonable length (don't wire wrap them together)) could accomplish what you are looking on a point to point connection, but may be a problem if you bundle them as even with locking SATA connectors the tension from the inner and outer cables (or a...

I get what you are trying to do. Unfortunately, it is not really practical if you want reliable data transfer. Either build a cheapo enclosure with a power supply and SAS expander(as mentioned by Zepher above) and make a DAS, or build a box and make a NAS (and/or also add a few Mellanox 2's and...

Yeah, not as much as you might think. These are extremely thin, stranded leads that do not take kindly to being modified (.125mm difference in the overall length of just 1 of the leads in a particular connector can be enough to throw off timings).

Yes. Just keep in mind, as I mentioned since you are staying in a SATA domain overall link length is a significant limiting issue, and the longer you go the worse it gets. The particular model you listed would make it much too long overall with one on each end, plus the 8088.

You need forward breakout cables on one side (SFF-8087), reverse breakout cables on the other side (SFF-8087), 2 4x SATA internal to SFF-8088 External slot adapters and a SFF-8088 cable. Should do what you want (theoretically) as long as you keep it really, really short (less than 3 feet all in...

For most general desktop and laptop workloads, outside of synthetic benchmarks you will see essentially zero real-world difference between NVME 3,4 or 5 (or even SATA.) If you do see a difference it will come at significant increases in $$$$ vs time saved.

As others have mentioned, the biggest problem is humid enviroments with fast temperature swings (speed of change is as important as the number of degrees.) If you are worried you can always get a desiccant pack (they sell them for safes) that you can put next to the device, ideally in the path...