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as with all patching you get risk. I'm a bit lazy with bios patching unless I read release notes and want the fix (e.g. new bios's have security fix/may slow you down slightly, but I went for the one that improved 5800x3d support). if you have old bios you need to read back as its cumulative...

One day when I'm feeling flush I should stop using the free version of macrium. Everyone should keep an eye out for smart errors. Use as early warning. Hwinfo etc.

My guess would be cost. they got caught sanction busting to China. Do they care?

? https://blocksandfiles.com/2021/11/02/backblaze-find-seagate-disk-drives-fail-most-often/ https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-q2-2022/ Hence rep. Lies, damn lies and failure rates.

Keep an eye on seagate they have a bad rep. something that can read smart info. hwinfo64 :-) other monitoring tool...

Best advice above, "take plastic film off" and make sure you cover the ihs. (paste spreads out when you secure the heatsink) So long as you are not an l33t overclocker you cant really go wrong / check temps against expected under full load after a couple of days of application. (hwinfo64 etc) My...

Its the sort of thing that fluctuates, esp usb enclosures. Wait for a bit........... wd recently got hacked. Luckily I'm OK atm. 249 for 16tb is what I want to go down.

My qnap with 6x 12tb wd shucked (mix of types) sounds as expected ) not too noisy.

HWinfo64 does a not bad job of showing whats going on, but it can confuse with the quantity of information. I have found getting a nvme with a better controller / larger capacity / more cache has helped / over the other factors. (only notice in benchmarks / waste of money / but meh)

Hence why I got into shucking. The HD market is price fixed.

Bit scared, my brain automatically changed the subject. Something to think about next rebuild, bit like using top nvme for boot on the cpu rather than chipset/switched.

Not really... is the boring answer. If you had a third you could swap over and find out.

Getting old, hardware is so fast these days... /i'm an old man "I remember the days" when you could get your pentium an extra 20 - 40mhz and you were really happy. I have found having a few nvme slots useful as the price comes down I fancy more / not wanting to bin old ones.

Only if its cumulonimbus.

It just works with what you have, if the OS can't snapshot and copy to new disk your best bet is to copy files individually (to usb disk etc) and start again...

fyi Macrium Reflect FREE Edition has been reliable for general cloaning dutys for me.

Not sure I saw on other comments but ram is fine, spend on gpu and nice 1440p monitor. 4k = loads of money... (4090 - good 4k monitor - bigger psu), be upset when 4090 ti comes out.

I was looking at it as I like two nic's, but apart from that I may just be borring and get a gigabyte.

Some had USB problems (back in the day) / chipset / driver / upgrade to try fix it, but if you are happy....

Trays are not bad for dumping none rack mount kit in a standard rack... /dirty/quick