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The 3 and 4tb HGSTs really are a work of art In terms of reliability. The used drives pulled from datacenters will probably outlast new ones, I‘m loading data today in a secondary backup rig using ones already used sometimes as much as 7 years after I bought them used already. 9 times out of 10...

While I bought the XFX swft 6700xt mainly as a display out for a media computer that I rarely game on my ears have been plugged from allergies and it’s been warm out so I’ve been keeping the heat generation down in the living room. I’ve been Skipping out on gaming on my headset 6900xt rig and...

I’d buy em. For all the bad press I’ve had maybe 8 drives fail since 1994 when my dad bought me a PC as a kid and one DOA. 4 were refurb HGST/Hitachis, all from one batch that were badly handled in shipping that I attempted to use during the Chia shortages because I needed the specific size for...

I did some digging with the one that comes up as Netac since it reported more info. Appears it’s a Dramless SATA which is why the write speed starts fast and drops off. Controller appears to be SM2258xt. Nothing groundbreaking. I doubt it’ll die outright unless it’s defective I’ve had the 500gb...

It’s in a fairly well sealed aluminum case. I never tried to open it. I assume there’s some sort of nvme or SATA m.2 drive inside. While hard disk sentinel reported the 500gb as generic the 1tb showed up today, I tried that it’s apparently OEMed by Netac.

Can’t really comment there, had the 500gb since last year around this time. I’d give it a good workout early But there’s no real reason it should fail any sooner.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07TWVY1BJ/ref=ox_sc_saved_title_4?smid=A26KTAFAO5S2LI&th=1 use apply 20% off, use coupon code 359KW4VZ also works for the 500gb which comes out to $28 and change May work with the other models. Dunno how long it runs. Let’s you buy 1 with the code. Despite...

The SWFT? I just got one today, it has a dual BIOS switch is one clocked higher than the other?

I think it’s fio-status -a

Well it’s here looks brand new and 97.72% remaining

Keep an eye out I have seen new Lenovo ones pop up from time to time. I paid $400 or so for a new one. The issue is I’m sort of out of computers to use a 6.4tb. Also it’s 8x PCIe so depending on your slot arrangements you could have issues on a HEDT. I’m using this one on an x299 simply for...

More just turned up from another seller. https://www.ebay.com/itm/125201613623 He took $175 as an offer. I’m not far from this seller so I should have it in a few days. I’ll check the remaining life. My 3 from the last go around are all working fine. The 6.4TB sx350 is too.

EVGA is pretty decent about RMAs but I dunno if they’re really better. I just RMAed a 6900xt through XFX and they were honestly more communicative and just as fast if not faster. I’ve had to send a lot back to EVGA and the process is fairly smooth but not perfect and kinda slow.

If anyone needs a resizeable bar bios for this board I got gigabyte to send me a test one. It seems to be otherwise identical to the F12 Release.

Great card, had it since March and I love it.

It doesn’t matter I just returned it. It’s Amazon, I mean the worst harm here is someone wastes some time.

They were $60, so roughly a $12 savings off a sale on a low end name brand, though I’ve occasionally seen a WD green go that low. Not a price that should imply an outright fake, usually just a low end dramless drive. The intended use was just to download a bunch of extra games from steam and...

These drives are being sold on Amazon, maybe $10-20 cheaper than you can buy a more known brand So not unheard of cheap to suggest it should be a scam. I’ve used these types of drives before to speed up old laptops. Usually these types of drives are just meh drives, cacheless cheap and not...

Yes, it’s a Nu Audio. EVGA has a trade up on them to the Nu Audio Pro so if you watch the midweek madness sales you can get a b stock one for like $40-45 ever month or two. I put one in every computer I have just for the heck of it, even got a spare in case they don’t have any more. They’re...

My m590 with the fake 100mhz fsb still works…

Nothing wrong with ES gaming. I don’t use this case but used two of one of their other models. Fit the x299 FTWK nicely

think the main purpose of finding out what happens is to see if anything can be done with them

3090, I have both. I actually think the 6900xt is better in some gaming circumstances but if it’s not what you’re doing.

I’d be willing to bet a high number of the “DOA” units of this PSU are not dead, they have a thermal throttled fan stop. This PSU is weird in that it’s well built but not well designed it has obvious design flaws. You could probably toss these in old Optiplexes and they’d run for a decade. I...

I want to say I used one previous version of the Lenovo or WD sourced driver but that was before the firmware was flashed. Try the one previous WD if you can for the moment and I‘ll try and backtrack how I installed. I dunno if you’re in a return window but I’m kinda in a situation with the two...

What driver did you try and run? I remember with the 6.4tb the one I got was a NIB 2017 era Lenovo branded SX350 model. I seem to recall it wouldn’t work with one of the available drivers I tried unlike the 3.2s. I had to use one prior generation to get it operational before the latest firmware...

The wear point will really be the fans. Heat is the real enemy. I mine on the side on cards when I’m not using them, I keep the temps low. Performance degradation is most likely thermally related, repaste and repad the cards when you get them and they’re likely to be fine.

I’ve never checked the temp on any of mine. Still running the 3.2s and the 6.4l rarely even think about them which is exactly what I want out of my storage.

It actually seems to have something to do with the USB drivers and possibly the Killer Ethernet and it got worse after the latest rounds of windows updates. May have something to do with using a card that has its own USB bridge to the PCI but haven’t been able to pin point it to that. Outside of...

The x299 dark may be stable but I’ve had a lot of stability issues with the FTW-K With an i9-9820x Fees like I’m always tinkering with it. My Threadrippers have been infinitely more stable than this. If I hadn’t built it primarily because EVGA had the boards for like $89 over Labor Day weekend...

Ahh good old Amptron... PcChips... So back in the day I got a super good price on one of those PcChips M590 boards Because they had a fake 100mhz FSB (was some SIS chipset if I recall overclocked from an 83MHz fsb). This was after their shady dealing got exposed. So anyway I loaded it up with...

I’ve had several 980tis die from their b stock sales. worst really is turnaround time but they’re fine to deal with. The one I wasn’t happy about was the 980ti hybrid and they made it right. It was artifacting after a few weeks, so they RMA it. They sent the same card back with either the pump...

For anyone who is unaware I posted this in another forum but Asus still makes a board which supports regular PCI slots the B460 Prime Plus. https://www.asus.com/us/Motherboards-Components/Motherboards/All-series/PRIME-B460-PLUS/ So far as I know it’s the only board outside of possibly some odd...

I bought it for $29.99 when Sun TV was going out of business in 1998. I got lucky and had just landed My first job when Sun went bust so I bought all sorts of stuff like any sane minded kid would have done. I used to swap back and forth with the voodoo for comparisons. I had had the orig8nal box...

If a lower end model pci model suits the need the current gen Asus b460 prime plus for Intel still has standard PCI slots. I kept my Voodoo 1, 2 and 3. Think I purchased the Voodoo 1 on clearance for $40 after the Voodoo 2 came out right when I started college. So I ended up buying the Voodoo 2...

My gripe about them is if they go it’s a lot of data to rewrite unless you’re running a Mirror drive and that gets expensive at these capacities. They’re not loud though, I typically use the shucked Easystores at that capacity.

Gigabyte‘s x399 designare and Aorus gaming 7 boards have a 16x slot wired as a 1x. The spacing is kinda weird but It can be used in some configs. In mine I have graphics, fusion io, nu audio, fusion io, fusion io from the top slot down. The nu audio only needing the 1x and fitting between the...

If these are as reliable as the 3 and 4 TB HGST models which shared that case style I’d buy a bunch, those last forever, I’ve got some from 2011?

Its a Great Wall OEM. Has a ball bearing fan. Uses mostly decent caps (Rubycons, solid caps etc). Ball bearing fan. It’s actually really nice for the price. It doesn’t appear certification for 80+ gold was ever actually done, most likely because BFL was shut down. It should still make the grade...

It looks like WD continued evolution of the old Fusion IO line. There were a few of us who got the $400 Lenovo branded 6.4TB SX350 Fusion IOs which were the 2017 or so era successor to the SX300. It should be fairly comparable to any modern NVMe drive in terms of speed but with enterprise level...