When i check on my toshiba 32gb usb thumb drive. With nothing inside, free space is about 6mb. Does this mean the thumb drive has wear out badly ? Check uploaded pictures. View attachment 25175 View attachment 25176 ..read more

Folks, i found some useful products (convertor and extension cable) that allow nvme/m2 ssd users to mount their nvme ssd to other location and drive bay for better space and cooling. Someone like me would be glad about such finding. https://www.delock.com/produkt/62704/merkmale.html https://www.delock.com/produkt/83387/merkmale.html... Mounting nvme/m2 ssd to a dive bay ..read more

Hello everyone! My external hard drive has stopped working. The disc is no longer readable. When I connect the drive to my computer, the system asks me to format it. It’s an HHD drive that was in FAT format, but now appears as RAW in the disc manager. I have important files on the drive. Can anyone help me ..read more

So i finally got round to reshuffling the drives in various PCs. The Sabrent Rocket 4 Plus stayed as the C Drive, the new MSI 480 Spatium became the new Steam drive, the Corsair MP600 Pro XT moved from Steam Games to DCS and the solid as a rock SSD stayed as my data drive for dumping screen captures and random programs. The spare drives either went into my new HTPC or into enclosures and became OS back ups. There was a fair bit of cross-decking for data as id previously had my Steam games on... Drive Shuffling ..read more

hi everyone, finaly decided to pull the plug and build a storage solution, i went for a fractal design node 804 case, Be Quiet! 450w PSU, NAS J6413 motherboard, and 2x16tb ironwolf hdd (will probably buy another one to use RAID 5 and another M.2 as cache drive) i've got a few questions : my goal is mostly to use it as a plex server, pi-hole would also be nice, but nothing too fancy or advanced to begin with. would Freenas Core be ok for my use ? can i keep my data if i... building my first DIY NAS, might need some advices ..read more

Members of guru3d forum, i need copies of firmware for my sandisk ultra 3D and plus SSD. Can anyone help ? Thank you ..read more

I am looking for reccomendations for a harddrive for use in mye bequiet 802 pc case with my gamingPC/media server. This pc is placed under my office desk in my living room (small apartment), I have today a failing 8TB and 2 6TB Baracuda drives, and the noise level is not to bad. I am thinking of switching out the the 8TB bad drive and one of the 6 TB with a new drive of 12TB or bigger. Does anyone have any suggestions? The big enterprise drives have a reputation of beeing noisy. (like the... 12 TB or bigger harddrive that is not noisy? Any suggestions ..read more

I would need to implement a backup for a folder of about 7-8GB, which contains word and pdf files that are created/modified daily, in addition to other old files, also of other type, that are stored. I don’t know if in this case you need to make an incremental backup, differential or file synchronization. I tried Cobian, setting an incremental bacup of a folder to do at 21 of every evening, but I find in the destination folder a full named folder and several crtelle incremental calls... Backup Free Solution ..read more

i need some help. m2_3 and m2_4 slots have a shared heatsink. i am only using m2_3 slot, should i remove the protective film also from m2_4. i am little bit concerned that maybe the plastic could melt. example img View attachment 22230 View attachment 22232 ..read more

Long story short, I wonder what RAID or whatever PCIe cards you gurus use for NVMe SSDs. And verified that the OS can boot from that. Bought some spare NVMes, wanted to see how to pair those as a single unit for OS, or whatever. I am still on AM4/B450 MSI Tomahawk MAX ..read more