Recent content by Dr. Gray

I just got off of NewEgg's site and they have the WD 8 TB Elements for $145. That is abn attractive price and the direction to go if your mainboard supports USB 3.1 or better yet 3.2

Have you considered the MVMe M.2 SSD drives. With the Gen 4 drives reaching unbelievable R/W speeds the Gen 3 drives are going down in price. I was just looking and you can get a 2TB Crucial for $225. Now the data transfer rate on your SATA HDD is 600 MB/s at best, most likely in the 350-400...

The spin specs change a lot in a comparison of 5400 vs 7200 rpm. All of the specs like cache, spin, read / write. Don't kid yourself. If budget is a limiting factor you tend to accept and live the slower speeds, but if you can afford the difference in price, by all means go with the faster...

I would not buy a kingston. I've had problems with 2 64 GB G4 drives and 6 32 GB G4 drives. Have not had any problems with 32GB ADATA UV128 USB 3.1. I have 8-10 of these and they are still working fine.

By the way it did accept an 8 GB key with the update on it.

I have an older Toshiba TV and had a similar problem. I was able to discover that it would not accept a 16 or 32 GB USB key to update the firmware. So my suggestion is to check the TV manufacturer and see what the specs are on your model.

Try resetting the bios to default.

You will definitely have to go with a SATA SSD. That laptop does not support NVMe at all.

I have 1 easy question for you. Is your CPU overclocked? One of my machines is an AMD 9590 CPU, extremely overclocked (5GHz) and running at 220 watts. Would not see any SSD drives, regardless of where I plugged them in. This is the only machine I have ever had to underclock to get it to...

Go to the board manufacturer and see if your model is backward compatible. Simple as that. You need to understand that with the advent of NVMe M.2 it is my opinion that SATA is going to join IDE, EIDE, CD-ROM, etc. as obsolete. Which would you prefer to have in your new machine, 600MB/s R/W...

What speed are they, 5400 or 7200? The 7200 are considerably higher and if your replacing a 5400 drive with a 7200 you are definitely going to experience a price increase.

What brand of USB is it? I've had a lot of trouble with the Kingston G4, especially the 64 GB. I do have a question for you though. Why partition a 64 GB USB? Why not just buy 2 -32 GB or 4 -16GB then you would have a lot more flexibility.

I have a 500GB and a 1TB Intel 660 in an MSI BRAVO laptop and both perform very well for the price. Not even close to the fastest, but I'm hoping they are rock solid. With the luck I've had with Kingston USB drives lately I am going to avoid them in the SSD field. I've had better luck with...