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    How long should a platform last?

    Somewhere between 5 and 10 years is my answer.
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    Nvidia is ‘No longer a graphics company’

    I had several hundred shares of nvda. Purchased them at $9 per share and sold at a little more than $27 per share in part to put down a downpayment on my current house. I wish I would have kept those.
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    $10 AutoZone Credit for Old UPS Batteries

    I will have to check on this. I assume there is a limit? I have a stack of 50 or so UPS SLA batteries at work waiting for us to pay someone to take them away.
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    $10 AutoZone Credit for Old UPS Batteries

    I took 10 to 15 5qt jugs of oil to advanced auto a few weeks ago. They had no issue with that.
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    Spectre RETurns with new speculative execution vulnerabilities: Retbleed

    It's a bit frustrating that the mitigations are so expensive in terms of performance loss.
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    Drive Image silliness

    I second the AOMEI recommendation. I have used it for several years.
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    Laptop cooler

    I have this one for a few months. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B087WF59N1?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details completely solved my nvme drive overheating problem with the fans on low speed. I have 2 issues with it however. It says 17.3 inch but with that size you can't really use it at an...
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    Do you still test new RAM?

    I test every single time I add ram. Usually I test for a around 72 hours.
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    WD 16 TB Gold HDD

    That may be the problem.
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    Do people actually upgrade just the CPU and keep using existing motherboard?

    I used to do this all the time in starting in the 1990s but not really in the last 10 years. In the 1990s I had several dual processor rigs including dual Celeron 300As overclocked on slotkits
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    quick format or Full format of new 16 TB HDD ?

    I have done this on over a hundred new drives over the last ~15 years. I don't do it on SSDs. I have no good testing method for those. With this said I always have a few linux servers available with a few open slots to easily plug in a drive and test.
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    quick format or Full format of new 16 TB HDD ?

    I would do a 4 pass badblocks on it and yes I know that will take over a week. If it passes that I will have no trouble putting it into a raid array at work or putting my data on it at home. And yes I have had a few brand new drives fail badblocks but not very recently. Recently during the test...
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    NVME Drive Disappearing

    Is the temperature of the drive reasonable? On my laptop my WDC black nvme drive disappears if it gets much over 80C.
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    Best way to do a backup?

    At work I use a program called freefilesync to synchronize between network storage and cloud services in a similar manner to what you want to do with your backup https://freefilesync.org/
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    best program to test HDD heatlh?

    I run a four pass badblocks (data destructive mode) and check the SMART before and after the test. On 5+ TB drives this takes a day or more per pass. Here is a thread where long ago using this testing method I found a problem which ended up being a firmware bug on a Samsung F4...
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    Looks like the 14TB Elements can come with 7200 Rpm Helium drives

    You are measuring the performance of the inner most tracks versus the outer most tracks. The inner tracks usually transfer at around 1/2 the rate of the outer most tracks.
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    Samsung 850 EVO issues - can't read from drive in any OS

    WDC and Seagate were both pretty painless at work for my 75+ RMAs that I have done in the 24 years I have been on the job. However I am a university customer. I have not had to RMA a single SSD.
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    Samsung 850 EVO issues - can't read from drive in any OS

    Can you use hdparm to secure erase the drive?
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    Robots running a grocery store

    I always do the self-checkout because I am significantly faster than most checkers. However with that said I understand. I couldn't maintain my speed for 8 hours in a day or want to do it for that long at least not any more. Reminds me a little of my first official paying job where I tagged...
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    How best to configure a 24 drive zPool??

    Depending on the situation I would lean to 2 x 12 drive raidz3 vdevs. Or at least that is what I would do at work where I can't have down time for reconstructing an array and I can't have a second system duplicating the first (no budget for that). I do have LTO7 tape backup and offsite storage...
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    Right to repair executive order

    I expect some would make them so costly that its cheaper to throw away.
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    Anyone have experience with Inland's warranty?

    Could be heat related. My WDC black G1 drive disappears if the temp exceeds a little more than 80C. Inside a my gaming laptop this randomly happened until I enabled software to alert me so that I can put the fans on turbo mode.
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    Are Both my Seagate Drives on the way out? How Bad is this Smart Info

    C6 represents sectors that were written to the disk but could not be read at last try. The raw value is the number of sectors. I would be more cautious of the 8TB drive.
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    Bad AMD Driver causing BSOD's and Boot failures

    I use a lot of SAS devices and those would be SCSI. With that said windows categories label things that are not exactly SCSI as SCSI devices.
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    M.2 SSDs that use SATA protocol - Why?

    I don't believe this has ever happened to me in hundreds of builds however I always attempt to touch the metal part of the case before touching any components. I did see this happen to someone else however and was when I first started out at work in the late 1990s. With that said I have on rare...
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    Laptop hard drive stagnation

    For me as a programmer on my laptop I have a 256GB NVMe SSD as the boot and a 512GB NVMe SSD as the programming drive. Both are over 90% full. I also have a 2TB spinner but it's too slow and annoying to use. I work on several projects where the build tree for the project and all of it's...
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    Memory error questions ?

    Try this program: https://hcidesign.com/memtest/ use the free version. Launch as many instances of it to get it to test almost all of your ram. Look at task manager to determine the usage. If any errors are reported at all with this you most likely have some HW or settings problem.
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    Thoughts on Samsung Rapid Mode?

    It likely won't slow down boots but you may not notice any benefit unless you have a more unusual workflow. As a c++ programmer who spends minutes to hours a day compiling I believe it helps but I don't spend effort to benchmark.
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    Windows 10 system image backup - opinions?

    I like AOMEI for windows backups and recovery using a bootable ISO and recovering over a network or USB drive. I use it for a few dozen machines which I have the backup files on a network share that I upload to an "unlimited" cloud drive. Although if you just want to image the entire disk...
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    AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su Discusses Chip Shortage and Xilinx Acquisition

    It means the products they sell will not sit on the shelves at all. Although in AMD's case I expect they could and would sell more products if TSMC could produce more for them.
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    AMD Misses Big CHANCE

    I think this is more about TSMC than AMD.
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    What ram stability test are you running these days?

    I have in the past used HCL memtest the free version to diagnose problems with RAM in windows. You end up launching a bunch of instances until you see almost all of your ram covered in task manager. When I have had problems HCL was the fastest to identify the problem. I have seen cases where it...
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    M.2 SSDs that use SATA protocol - Why?

    For me between home and work I have several motherboards and laptops with some SATA only M.2 slots sometimes in addition to a NVMe + SATA M.2 slot. I have no problem buying a 1TB or 2TB SATA M.2 drive to put in that slot instead of cabling up a SATA drive and purchasing a 2.5 inch bracket. Also...
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    Does TRIM effectively does the same thing as permanently deleting data?

    I think the data still may exist on the flash but since it's marked in the mapping table on the SSD as unused reading and the sector through normal means will return 0s that is if you can even read the sector because sectors are not necessarily mapped in order. The controller may just not read...
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    SSD in Frozen State?

    Your BIOS may likely be the reason for the frozen state. I believe the reason for unplugging is to disable a command that the bios enabled at boot. Related: https://ata.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/ATA_Secure_Erase As said above this frozen state prevents a secure erase from happening which...
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    What is the "Bentley" in terms of build quality of cases?

    I am not sure they were much to do with being practical or high performance. Maybe more of an expensive and unique item for those who can afford it. I wish I could find the video.
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    What is the "Bentley" in terms of build quality of cases?

    I have seen cases on videos that are 15 thousand dollars US. Although that kind of thing does not really interest me.
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    AMD EPYC “Genoa” (Zen4) to feature 96 cores across 12 chiplets, 12-channel DDR5 memory and SP5 (LGA6096 socket)

    I doubt this has much to do with the AM5 socket. This is about LGA-6096 EPYC. Not even sure that the additional TDP will make it to a TR socket.
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    SSD with average temperature of 65°C

    NVMe drives inside gaming laptops can easily hit these temps. On my MSI laptop in my sig I have software alert me of the high temp on either of my NVMe drives and I push a button on my laptop turn the fan profile up to full speed to cool it down. I am unhappy with this solution but it works...
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