Recent content by chrysalis

I own the z690 version of this board and I find what they did on this version really interesting. The reason I picked the z690 steel legend is I felt the way they drifted away from the way the industry is going was nice for me, it has extra pcie connectivity which is important for me and kept 8...

I replaced mine finally with a 870 EVO which guess what has its own issues lol, luckily my 870 EVO is ok so far, but its gaining a bad rep on the internet. In terms of my two MX500's I have a RMA approved for one of them and fighting them for the second. They are really resisting. Both have...

The idle MX500 with read errors has had an erase cycle already, pending sectors are down from 214 to 37 with no uncorrected errors, I am still finding old data slow to read though.

Full SMART test (is done in background so can use at same time), magician does support this now but samsung have feature locked out of older drives, if yours isnt supported, then boot a live linux and run it in that. If SMART is good and the full test passes and magician confirms its a legit...

Make sure to include all the boot partitions, you can also choose to use incremental or differential backups to reduce the sizes as well.

Yes in my opinion, I dont mean hardware terminal failure but in terms of data corruption and SMART errors. A while back I started getting corrupted windows boot files, and had also noticed some backups were failing to read data. It was very difficult to diagnose as the cause I considered...

We cant tell her how to use her PC, but I would only consider raid0 for scratch storage or for data you are ok to lose if something goes wrong. What was the reason she set it up in the first place, performance? one big drive convenience? or maybe she isnt sure and just did it as some dude on...

Thats good, when did this come to market? I brought both my MX500s in early 2021, I feel they should have recalled existing unsold stock to replace the firmware. I also think they should offer newer firmware drives as replacement to those who query their tech support about it, instead I was...

SSDs in the same case typically are in mid to high 20s in winter and low to mid 30s in summer, this is when they powered up of course.

Ok I have some interesting news. It is about my 2nd MX500 drive. This 2nd SSD is not completely unused, it was temporarily used to boot my main PC before I moved my 970 EVO back in as the boot device, since I stopped using it, it was left in a bay not connected to any cables in the case, its...

What I can do is when I swap the SSD, keep the data on there and if I have a spare SATA port, put it in one of my PC's and without using the drive just see if background writes keeps increasing even with it been a non OS idle drive. Not sure if I will have a spare SATA port though.

Just read a post I think you made on reddit, here is my reply to it, tell me what you think? The post is here. View: https://www.reddit.com/r/unRAID/comments/gwighw/solution_to_i_can_not_recommend_crucial_ssds_for/fthxdfv/ My reply I note also these drives are very cheap for what their...

Depends on the nature of the app, if its not an app that runs a service then there will likely be no performance hit just from installing it. Thankfully windows isnt android which constantly starts installed apps even when you dont use them.

Discounted Samsung SSD ordered to replace it courtesy of visa falling out with amazon, I used the debit card discount.

It allocates SLC which all writes go to, but part of the background activities is moving data from the SLC to the TLC area, but the self tests might be preventing that, it might be that is the buggy background activity, no idea. I am doing the 30 second pauses as is in your script, and its a...