Recent content by hmj8469

Keep seeing these articles "Best streaming devices for <enter current year>" msn.com has a 2024 article and you see all the usual suspects - Fire TV, Roku, chromecast, Apple TV, Nvidia Shield TV Pro, etc. There doesn't seem to be anything worth getting excited about, and the best on the list...

okay well the hard drive is in an external enclosure so it isn't powered by the PC. The Orico enclosure has an internal power supply.

To troubleshoot a shucked hard drive in a USB enclosure you need to know the make and model of the computer's power supply? I can't imagine what value that would provide. To provide an update, I went into device manager and in the USB section I disabled all power saving settings. The make and...

A couple weeks ago I attached a new 4 bay DAS to my Hades Canyon (Windows 11) and I populated it with three older 4TB red label drives. After a week one of the drives started failing. I put a WD80EMZZ from a easystore in the same bay as the drive that failed and started loading files on it (I...

Assuming it can, is there a way tell CPU intensive games (games that the i7-4770s will struggle with) from GPU intensive games?

I believe it can take a full size graphics card.

Here is my current system that I use as a media server: LIANLI Mini-Q PC-Q18B SEASONIC S12G-550 550W Power Supply INTEL Core™ i7-4770S CPU ASUS H87I-Plus LGA 1150 mobo KINGSTON 8GB (2 x 4GB) HyperX Beast XMP PC3-12800 DDR3 1600MHz CL9 1.65V SDRAM DIMM, Non-ECC SAMSUNG 120GB 840 SSD 4x4TB...