Recent content by flamery

Got the drive in, incase anyone else is wondering if its worth it, the answer is yes. No issues with compatibility, booted up and it was visible in disk manager, allocated a drive letter and it was good to go. In terms of speed: Existing hard-drive (Seagate st500lm021 ): M2 connected in the...

I am going to. I am asking the forum if anyone knows whether M.2 is 3.3v or 5v. If its 5v i'll plug it into the slimline sata, if its 3.3v ill need to find another power source one the board to use.

I completely agree with both your comments, but what I am saying is, I have this M.2 sata drive spare, it cost me nothing and I have no other use for it, so using a regular sata drive instead would mean I need to go out and buy one. With an M.2 to sata adaptor and sata cables (that I already...

Hi all, got an old HP Probook 6570b which although old still use it a bit and want to give it a speed boost, I also have a spare M.2 SSD (CV1-8B256-HP) - which has no M.2 connector, not surprisingly. My plan of attack is to remove the optical drive, buy a very cheap adapter on aliexpress (ie...

Appreciate the responses but the question was whether a controlled or uncontrolled fan should be used for the intake (front of case)

Hi guys, I am upgrading my PC shortly and I am re-using my current case, its pretty old (7 years) but its good enough to keep. Its an INWIN Mana 136. I will swap out the current two fans, because after so long they are a bit noisy and probably don't work as well as they used to. For the rear...

Hi all, I will be upgrading my system in the coming months, its been a while (I think over 5 years!) Im currently running an AMD FX-6300, I managed to overclock this quite a lot, (stable at 4.5ghz on all 6 cores) so I guess that's why I have taken so long for an upgrade. I will be planning to...

Hi guys, I got offered an 8700K delidded with IHS lapped. I only know a tiny bit about delidding, so my understanding means that the top cover has been removed, and the die has been polished is that correct? I currently own a hyper evo 212 cooler which I would want to re-use, do I basically...

I ended up just copying and pasting the files inside Windows safe mode, as I say inside Safe mode there is no indication of any issues and I can seem to see all the files, its taking a while, only writing at 20MBps so 3.5 TB is going to take a few days. Once everything is copied across, Ill...

okay after a few attempts, I did manage to get raidxpert control panel to open, it showed one of the drives had 1 bad sector and had taken it offline. I got a new drive, so I will try and copy all the files across from the raid to the single spindle drive luckily its not a system drive just a...

HI guys, I have a win7 machine with a AMD RAIDXpert raid 0 array (2x 2tb drives) all has been working well for 3 or so years, now last night 3 minutes after logging into windows, I got a message saying "raidxpert drive set down" the entire logical drive went missing. I immediately suspected...

Sorry for this dumb post, it seems it was my voltmeter misbehaving!

You will need to partition the drive first. try software like partition magic and its quite easy to use.