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Isn't that overkill for my needs? Would displayport drive from the on board graphics drive the 1440p monitor OK? I don't care about frame rates and gaming stuff for this rig. Also, my case is full ATX so size isn't an issue.

Here's my system - old but still not too bad for what I do! I'm currently using on board graphics. Intel 3570k P8Z77-V LK motherboad 16GB Up until now two 24" monitors 1080p have been fine, but my goal is to get a new 27" monitor greater than 1080P. I won't be gaming, just need to support...

Several months ago I migrated a 1tb spinning drive to a 500GB Evo 850 using the included Samsung Magician software. But first I shrank the partition of the source drive to 500GB. I was pretty amazed by how well Magician worked, after reading that a clean install was usually needed. Great to save...

Thanks! The cooler is a big XIGMATEK, and to replace the CPU fan the MB has to be removed. The rubber fan mounts that attach to the cooler fins makes things complicated. I'll need to get a 4 pin adaptor to connect to molex, only have 3 pin to molex.

I have an old AM3 system - AMD Phenom II X4 955 and Gigabyte MB. Not my primary rig, This system is used for light stuff and a single virtual machine. OS is Linux Mint. It recently overheated and noticed the CPU fan wasn't spinning. When I give it a flick with my finger it spins up. I...

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Unlike most of you, I'm using the drive un-shucked. Thailand version, paid $150 for it on BF. I'm using FreeFileSync to mirror an internal drive in a Windows 10 workstation to the easystore attached to a blue USB 3.0 rear port. Getting 80 - 90 MB/sec write speed. Is this on the slow side? Any...

Yup and there's nothing like Windows 10 waking up from sleep in the middle of the night with disk activity.

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For Wordpress Siteground is really good. I used a client's account and very easy to deal with and excellent at problem solving.

Sorry if off topic, but this is why I bought the 8TB USB drive from BB. I have two identical 6 bay NAS that are kept in sync, and that data backed up to the 8TB. I think this is a good strategy - two similar NAS synced and a single large drive kept off site.

$129 OOS - NYC area

I got the $159 version. Not $130 but good enough. Nice off site backup for my 6 drive Nas.

Selling those drives isn't a good idea. Nobody wants to spend money on used mechanical drives. SSD drives or enterprise NAS drives are different. Can you keep those drives and backup to a single 8TB USB drive, such as the BB black Friday special?

Boot a PC using a Linux live CD with GUI of your choice - Ubuntu or whatever, and view the drive either installed in a USB enclosure or connected to a spare SATA port. Recently I was able to recover data for a friend that was marked as unformatted under windows. I used a SATA port since the...

On Halt and Catch Fire (season 4) Donna and Camron tried to recover data from a failed hard drive - didn't go well.

If you find 4tb for less than $70 please post here. The WD Red 4Tb for example was $120 on Amazon earlier in the week and has been bouncing around since then. Currently heading back down, $137.05 at the moment.

This is overkill but the price is right. It can be used for prints of any size - 19"x19" (a3+) all the way down to 2"x3" Canon Pixma PRO-100 Photo Printer + 50-Sheets Photo Paper $60 after $250 rebate from B&H. Hopeuflly you'll get some better suggestions. Bump.

What size prints are needed? That's important to know.

Any cloud provider of your choice (Dropbox, Onedrive, Google Drive, etc.) with folder sync - IF she can keep all of the docs/photos in specific folders. Likely a free account would suffice - 5GB and passive - nothing really to do.

The NAS is no longer under warranty so support isn't an issue. The drives listed in the drive compatibility page include discontinued models - with the exception of the one drive that I mentioned. My goal is to avoid buying used or old stock drives. Since I posted I found some old 3TB Seagates -...

I have two 5+ year old Readynas 6 bay NAS. Max capacity is under 7TB. The drives are a mix of 1.5 & 2TB Seagates. For the last 6 months the drives have been dying of old age at an increasing rate, and I've exhausted my stock of 2TB spares. There's a Netgear Readynas approved drive list, but the...

I'm late to the world of SSD - or buying them for my own use lol. Since I have an unlimited supply of old server drives (WD Black etc.) from work, I've been using those. Or purchasing large non-SSD drives for personal use. I recently broke down and bought my first SSD - Samsung 850 Evo 500GB...

Every time I've RMA'd a drive, never asked for any kind of receipt. Just a valid serial number. A receipt only helps if beyond date of manufacture warranty but still within the purchase warranty. But good to know Samsung supports their products.

Consider the memory too...ecc vs. non-ecc and compatible CPU and MB. Some NAS use ecc memory!

You looked in the secret compartment? That is where they might be found. The secret compartment is great for your stash of whatever, btw. If you need the screws unfortunately you have to rely on the kindness of forum members.

So no problems in Event Viewer/logs? I always check that first, only takes a minute.

I used The Seagate for DOS, boot disk, and no errors found. I think that disk manufacturers don't like to find disk errors. I'll keep an eye on it and so far no other ATA Bus Error. Thanks for the replies.

The disk software - It's a package that came with Mint Linux. Not sure of the name off hand. Nothing critical is on that drive. I have a 3TB extra drive unused, but I think I'll continue to use this until the errors got worse. Based on that test I can rule out a bad SATA cable or other things? I...

When I saw the problem I assumed that "ATA bus error" indicated bad controller, or motherboard. One of the drives has some errors - but not failing: The problem s- -Seek Error Rate -UDMA CRC Error Rate Is this 2 year old 3TB drive already going south?

Good idea. I did a "quick" test on the drives but not the full test. Since my original post the logs still clean.

30+ views and no comments or suggestions? Any ideas on what is going on would be appreciated! One more thing, the PC is usually on 24x7. But the Clonezilla errors occured after the required reboot. Clonezilla works by booting their live cd.

The PC is a 4 year old, specs as follows: CPU - AMD Phenom II X4 955 Motherboard - GIGABYTE GA-880GA-UD3H AM3 AMD 880G SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 HDMI ATX AMD Motherboard PSU - 500W Corsair Bronze - not sure of model # Memory - G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 Drives...

Did you try breadboarding? Placing the mainboard on cardboard out side of the case and connecting PSU, ram etc.?

I edited my original post, using Lightroom CC. I'm not using high res monitors, so based on your reply I'll try OC. I also did research on SSD (my system has mechanical 7200RPM drives) and even that doesn't make a difference. Thanks for your reply.

I have a PC with - 3570k CPU - two 24" monitors. -I use the GPU on the motherboard It works OK, could be faster for Lightroom CC/Lightroom 6. This PC is mostly used for photo editing and I frequently edit well over 1000 RAW images per set. I have a Geforce GT 440 1GB DDR3 PCI-E that I can...

OK I will admit it is bad practice to name a directory "temp1" or similar and have that in root, but that's what I have been doing since I've been using Windows XP! Recently on my work PC (Windows 7 Professional) on a "temp12" folder I got access denied. After installing update and rebooting...

I've had a single reallocated sector on a drive for years, and still working fine. But the Seagate 1.5TB 7200.11 has a very high failure rate. Any other drive - I would recommend watching it. With that model - I suggest you replace asap unless you have solid backup procedure in place. By the...

I can't open that on the PC I'm on right now. I'd only open the rar in a virtual machine, no offense. Did you try a Linux live CD? Linux is much less tolerant of hardware issues. If something is bad with the hardware it may catch it right away! I urge you to try that.

You can just use VGA if it's easier. The resolution will be fine for your needs. I have a TV connected to an HTPC across a large room and I'm too lazy (or cheap) to get and HDMI cable. The benefit is use HDMI for your monitor and VGA for the TV.