Recent content by brandon3055

So just to give you an update i ended up actually installing both drives in the test system (i previously had them sitting on the desk next to it) i also replaces the cable on the drive showing the errors. I re ran all of the tests including the SMART self tests and there have so far been no...

I guess thats not impossible. I do just have the drives sitting next to the open case. Once this test is complete i may run it again with them installed in the case and some different cables.

Yea a friend of mine suggested G-Parted so i will be using that in the future. Just an update on the drive. Its currently 24 hours into the badblocks run. At some point during the second write pass the pending sectors count dropped to 0 then during the second read pass it threw 3 more read...

Hello! I just received 2 new WD Blue 3TB drives which i will be using to upgrade my storage server. I have been putting them through their paces to ensure nether of them have any DOA issues and i am a little concerned about one of them. I have been testing them using my Ubuntu system because...

Yea... I'm thinking an i3-4150 should be fine for his needs and shouldn't break the bank. But if that FX-4300 still works i would like to use it for something like a NAS or HTPC.

So my brothers motherboard finally died a couple days ago. It was damaged a while back by a blown power supply but it seemed to recover until it finally died. And i mean really died. When i press the power button there is nothing but some clicking in the USB headphones. I tried shorting the...

Well the new bios chip arrived today... But unfortunately that did not make a difference... So i guess the only option im left with is a new motherboard rite?

I really hate to have to ask for help with this but i dont know what else to try. First off a bit about the pc. This is my old custom build which i gave to my brother over a year ago. It has worked fine until the power supply started to go. When i say "started to go" i mean the overload...