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"Idle" doesn't mean the drive isn't spinning! That's most of the power consumption.

I imagine most of these drives have been running 24/7 for 5+ years. But they nuke the SMART data so you can't see it. Ignorance is bliss etc.

3.3V was never used by hard drives. A few, very few, SSDs used it.

Prices were abnormally low, nobody was making money.

https://shucks.top/ Deals come and go. The WD Easystore 18TB sold for $200 recently, but it didn't last long.

Your motherboard can split the x16 from the CPU into two x8 slots (two slots! not x8/x8 in one). That's the full extent of its bifurcation abilities (bifurcation requires extra hardware, it's not just a firmware thing). So you can add two m2-pcie cards using two passive adapters in two slots...

I'm amazed they actually used proper hard drive packaging. Usually it's just bubble wrap in a random size box.

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In olden times the HD light was driven by a disk controller. Some M2-PCIe adapter cards have pins for connecting the case LED. Otherwise it's entirely up to the motherboard to generate it (or not).

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/wd-easystore-18tb-external-usb-3-0-hard-drive-black/6427995.p?skuId=6427995

The first invasion of Ukraine in 2014 made Putin genuinely popular for the first time. War has risks but also rewards.

I'm not convinced there's a problem, but anyway, have you tried limiting it to PCIe3? Assuming your BIOS gives you the option...

Depending on how strict with terms you want to be...340x0 cards could be used for 3D acceleration. Since they were full fledged CPUs, they could do 3D even if lacking dedicated 3D functions.

What bus type? ISA, vlbus, PCI, something else?

It's a shame that the optical audio port has never been updated. It's stuck in the year 1982 forever. But still beautiful because of the electrical isolation.

By bootable you mean has a boot ROM? I doubt you would find a "normal" IDE card with one. A RAID card perhaps.

Was $330 11 days ago. https://shucks.top

Which is why the capacity boost from TLC/QLC is a bit misleading. You can't (or shouldn't) actually use all of it.

Though the specific results vary between models, in general SSDs work better when they are not anywhere close to full. This is even true for "enterprise" SSDs.

You would need to incorporate a 12V->3.3V power supply since you wouldn't be able to power all those m2 cards using SATA plugs.

I remember when the standard was 4^N. 128mb was the first "half step" DRAM.

Overflow storage. If I run out of space, I move unimportant stuff to these drives. Feels better than deleting.

https://www.westerndigital.com/products/internal-drives/wd-black-sn850x-nvme-ssd#WDS200T2X0E

I put them in USB cases, which costs me nothing since I do the "shuck" thing and therefore have extra cases.

These are host managed drives. They need custom software (or a standard-drive emulator). So you'll never see them for sale.

If density increases equally in both dimensions, then it would take a 4x (per platter) density increase to double the transfer rate.

https://www.intel.com/content/dam/developer/articles/technical/envisioning-future-simplified-architecture/figure-2.png 64-bit mode of AMD64 supports 32-bit apps and x86-S doesn't remove this.

"64 bit only" refers to OS...x86-S still runs 32-bit code. The only thing you might miss is the ability to boot up in classic BIOS mode, run MS-DOS, etc. Not an every day necessity but can be useful.

I suggest the low tech approach...no RAID, install two drives, use the other two as external USB backup drives. Periodically connect and refresh the backup drives.

Wow they lost massive market share to Intel. My opinion: AM5 has been a disaster because of the DDR5 cost premium.

It's been 11 years.

Check the status of the manufacturer warranty.

I see that Microcenter has dropped the price of the Inland brand QLC 2TB to $60.

Memory is a boom and bust business. There are only 3 major DRAM manufactuers left (and I guess about 5 flash manufacturers?). They will all survive and be just fine. Enjoy the low prices.

Nobody knows and it doesn't matter anyway, since nothing is reliable long term.

That's a rather melodramatic way to say that motherboards cost $50 more.

You linked to a completely unrelated product, it's not even a laptop. Give the memory a try. Is this it? https://web.archive.org/web/20210603232644/http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c06248869.pdf

This part was surprising to me - it turns out you can bypass all that stuff simply by writing an "off" code to the registry. You would think it would be harder!

Is this TLC or QLC?

You said SSD but I'm guessing you mean hard drive? I haven't seen anything that supports Power Delivery, but I haven't really been looking either.