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I have a WD30EFRX that's over 8 years old and have recently started to act up.... in an unusual way. This drive is part of my NAS which recently reported that this specific disk has crashed. Anyway, long story short, in Hard Disk Sentinel, the disk still shows 100% health, but the transfer...

That's a loaded question. As with any frequencies on the RF band, 2.4GHz is chopped up into smaller chunks and each chunk can be further shared with multiple devices. Standards were developed so there's always order in the chaos. The most common set of rules in this context is the IEEE 802.11...

It is generally fine to use NAS drives in a regular PC. Even NVR drives (Skyhawk, WD Purple, etc.) will work equally well. One caveat though, if you need decent and/or sustained write performance, stay away from Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR) drives. Certain models of WD Red are SMR and TBH...

What kind of failure modes are you anticipating? RAID or any variation of it (whether done in hardware or software) pertains to mirroring, striping with or without parity, or any combination of such, across different physical disks or storage units. Data is written concurrently to all drives...

It's the nature of the beast. Motherboards are sophisticated pieces of hardware and it does a number of things after you press the power button and before it boots off your SSD/HDD. It essentially checks itself and the components installed on it. The fan cycling on, off, then on is likely just...

Nothing there jumps out to me as out of the ordinary, much less, dangerous. As long as they're all electrically grounded (3rd prong on the plugs) to your home, it should be all good.

And don't forget to a have a backup regimen. No matter the brand, hard disk quality and longevity is pretty much a lottery. You will never know you have a lemon until it presents itself.

You can choose which mic will be active in whatever software you're using.,.. albeit, it's cumbersome. Best approach is a USB audio interface with multiple inputs (or a mixer with at least two mic inputs, for your use case, that sends the mix to your computer via USB) that can use conventional...

Not familiar with your Asus router but there should be a page that shows you what IP address is assigned to the WAN port. For it to be able to access the internet, it should have three basic things, assuming there are no other issues: An IP address issued by the upstream security router...

When you use optical, you're asking the DAC your speakers to decode the digital stream to analog. When you connect via analog cables, the sound card's DAC does the decoding. It's a question of which decoder is better and more capable, the one in the sound card or the one in the speakers.

At face value, I think your Asus router does not have a route to the internet. How is it connected to the security router, as in, which port on the Asus is connected to which port on the upstream router? Are you able to ping anything on the internet from within your Asus router management...

But almost everything electronic you have at home, they're all more or less, connected to an outlet and in fact, can pass current from one device to another through Ethernet, USB, audio inputs/outputs, etc. So for the most part, the main source of surges will be via the outlets. To your point...

Also remember that the surge that affected the PSU>Motherboard>GPU, et al., may also have affected other devices that are plugged into the wall outlet and your PC... like monitor(s), USB devices that has an AC adapter, USB printers, powered speakers, etc. Electricity will always follow the path...

It's not so much the actual chair, but the materials used on it. Whenever you move about or rub your clothing on it, that might be enough to build-up static on your body, If the chair has to stay, you can alleviate any static build-up by touching anything metal (ie. PC case, metal frame of your...

You won't be able to find a perfect review on Amazon. If you do, they're likely to be fake or manipulated. Just pick one from any reputable brands like APC, Eaton, CyberPower, etc. with the features and capacity you need and one that has a respectable return and warranty policy.