Recent content by progrockfrog

I am sorry, I am too confused. Today, there was an important game in women's chess I need to analyze and look into. The results of a second was expected, but you can see the final outcome tomorrow (EST time) between one and two where two gladiator ladies will clash in tiebreaks at...

Thank you for replying faster than I can edit my clerical errors. 😄 So..... If I got a 1tb external hard drive, is that better than two 500gb drives? I think the SanDisk one you linked is NVMe. Does it matter? That is one of the main queries I have. I already have 2 of the HP ones, and they...

Ok, by the looks of this, any flavor of an NAS is not needed now. I am looking for a portable storage device that will NEVER EVER need to be hooked up in any way shape or form to a network. It will be things like a photo album of wedding photos, graduation photos, vacation memories...

Ok, I will now type less and listen/look more. 🕵️‍♂️ AI Gemini is confirming what I am being told and have read in past years. A spindle drive has a shorter lifespan than non-spindle drives. Why have NAS? What is the benefit of that over NVMe?

Other than learning about NVMe yesterday, I have read the same things mentioned in @USAFRet 's reply. Another member posted, "A simple solution would be to get a NAS with two big spindle drives that are mirrored. I just picked up a 10TB enterprise-class (refurbished) spindle drive for under...

You apparently know much more about this than I do. I am going to have to do some more researching to understand spindles, and I am not sure I am clear on the HDD reference. My understanding was to upgrade to SSD, and I assumed the next logical upgrade might be NVMe SSD.

I don't think I stated an NVMe drive wasn't an SSD, I was referring to an SSD that I saw online stating it wasn't an NVMe. When you talk about which USB port it will connect to, are you referring to 2.0 and 3.0? Are there others that NVMe would work on that a regular SSD wouldn't? (I don't know...

Ok, I saw the 4TB mentioned and just assumed it meant drive size, but would it make a difference if it were 2TB instead? It wasn't clear to me which option you would go with? Do you prefer SSD or not worry and just use USB flash drives if you have multiple backups as I outlined earlier? And...

I was explaining to a friend yesterday about HDD vs. SSD and then he mentioned his laptop had NVME SSD on it. That threw me for a loop, and I looked it up. I currently have two HP SSD P500 external drives. Am I correct in assuming the main advantage in having NVME as opposed to the SSD ones I...

But it will make me feel defeated. 🤪

The monitor is Dell, a E228WFPc, 22-inch Widescreen LCD Monitor 22 inch VGA There are connector wires inside (paired wires: pink with white and blue with black) that connect into two locations. I don't think there is a problem there so I won't put up a screenshot. When I try to turn on the...

Short description: Battery didn't work and stayed at zero, ordered new one, inserted it, replaced it with the old battery and now the old one is charging. Here is a rundown of what has happened. This laptop has a HDD which I am certain is the reason for it running really slow in Windows 10...

I forgot to ask for confirmation as to whether or not the first image with the chip in the glass is most likely the cause of the black line or something else. In researching this, it appears the metal looking parts missing were sandwiched between two layers of thin glass making it impossible to...

Unless someone else has something to add to the contrary, I figure this is resolved (if not solved). Not sure if a moderator or I have to change the status.