Recent content by kirkdickinson

Looks like that is a Linux utility. I don't have a Linux box set up here. I have a VM Linux Mint that I have played with inside of Virtual Box. This utility probably won't run in a virtual will it?

Can you please tell me what happens if I would try? If I were able to clone this drive to a new drive, the bad physical blocks wouldn't be bad... would they? If I cloned it, wouldn't it basically keep my OS and installed programs in place? I did restore a MR image to an external drive, but I...

It is my OS drive and I don't keep any mission critical data on it except for the programs and configuration that I need to run. All my data is stored either on a NAS or a large HD. It is only a 1TB M.2 drive and other than as the boot drive, I don't think I have any use for it. I do use a...

It is the OS Drive. I have a Macrium Reflect Drive image of this drive, but MR reports that the image was created with errors. This computer is running smooth with no odd behavior.

I have a Samsung SSD 980 Pro that is showing some errors in both HD Sentinel and Samsung Magician. SMART health status is 87%. When I run a full diagnostic scan from Samsung Magician, it runs about 15 minutes then gives me this error: "Recovery failed. Check the disk connection and perform a...

I added that one to the list because it had 6 SATA ports. All my spinning media is front loaded with a hot swap box. I need to have at least 5 slots + DVD. I could use a SATA card and not worry about built in ports I guess. All my RAID storage is offloaded from the workstation to a TrueNAS box...

Here is my build list on Newegg right now... Newegg PC Builder Component List: https://newegg.io/ff5a0fa CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 9950X - Ryzen 9 9000 Series Granite Ridge (Zen 5) 16-Core 4.3 GHz - Socket AM5 170W - Radeon Graphics Processor - 100-100001277WOF ($539.99) Motherboard: MSI MPG X670E...

So if I don't play games at all, there wouldn't be much reason to upgrade from 9950X to 9950X3D?

My current computer is in my sig. I want to build something that is significantly faster for my next computer. Do any of the current chipsets support quad channel RAM short of Threadripper or Epic CPUS?

I asked ChatGPT If I purchased a AMD Ryzen 9 9950X and added a video card with the price difference vs a AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D, would the separate cpu and gpu perform better than the integrated cpu ChatGPT said: Yes, purchasing the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X (non-X3D) and pairing it with a dedicated GPU...

I have ASRock mobos in about half the computers in my office. A couple Asus and maybe a Gigabyte. I had never used ASRock before about 5 years ago and the first one was the only one that ticked all the boxes and it seemed to work good, so I have been leaning toward using them. I haven't had any...

I usually build myself my personal workstation. I do a lot in the Adobe suite of programs... Photoshop, Premere, Lightroom, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, etc... I sometimes work with very large Photoshop files with a lot of layers and also have a lot of programs open at the same time. I try to go...

Bluejeans wasn't on my radar at all. Never heard of that. Will look into it. Thanks.

This may be the wrong sub-forum to post this in, but I didn't see one that really fit this question. I have to host 2 three hour webinars for a non-profit association that I belong to. The webinar features a power point and 3-4 people explaining the slides. The presenters will need to be able...

I was leaning toward NTFS. I asked Chat-GPT too. Here is what it said: For compatibility between Mac and Windows systems, both exFAT and NTFS are viable options, but each has its own advantages and disadvantages: exFAT (Extended File Allocation Table): Advantages...