Recent content by Acps87

Anyone have any possible suggestions?

I am looking at trying to divide the on-board USB 2.0 and 3.0 ports into 2 different PCI lanes. I think the best way to do this is within the bios with the xHCI and EHCI settings, however after trying dozens of different settings, I cannot get it to do what I want. EHCI is for 2.0 USB xHCI is...

I am looking to upgrade my Chromebook to something I can dual boot linux easily. I currently have an Acer C670, however I believe I am limited by the bios unable to boot another OS aside from Chromium, and possible hardware/hdd limitations. So I want to upgrade to something with some more CPU...

I start college next week and I have a few decisions to make. Buying textbooks from the Bookstore and notebooks at K-Mart are no longer the only options, or even the most efficient! I already have an Acer Chromebook, which I absolutely love, its compact and light, and does everything I need it...

Ok, my PC came with 4 USB 3.0 ports. However several brownouts and surges later, I have only 2 left. USB 3.0 speed is very important for me. I have 5 external hard drives all USB 3.0 willing Sp my questions begins with how should I go about expanding my USB 3.0 ports? Option (A) would be a 4...

I am looking for the best way to compress media, specifically .mkv and .avi files, into some type of archive format ex. (Winrar, 7zip) for long term storage. I have nearly 4 TB's of media that I would like to back-up to prevent a total loss of data in the event of a HDD failure. The goal would...

I have a 2 part question for you guys, and would love some input on bother and/or either! Little bit about my setup to give you an idea. I have around 3-4 terabytes of media stored on a single 3.0 USB western digital MyBook. Recently I cam across PLEX, and I love it, it seemed like the perfect...

Ok I was able to download the Matrix storage software from intel, and while it does give some great information about my disks in my raid configuration, there is nothing really for troubleshooting or testing the ssd specifically for errors. Any ideas?

Ok, so I looked and it is an Intel Raid 0. Does that mean I need to use intels software to check my SSD's in my raid?

I was able to find plenty of threads on software to test ssd in other threads however, I couldn't find any that mentioned being able to test a raid 0 configuration. I think one of my ssd's are going bad. It was so bad I had to reinstall windows and setup raid again. But some of the errors are...