Recent content by pyeloyev

Could you explain exactly what your goal is? Usually when people have HDD/SSD problems, there are two different and mostly unrelated goals: 1. Data recovery 2. Drive restoration You said you tried to recover data and format it in the same paragraph, which accomplish opposite goals and are not...

A 2GB? I think you mean 2TB. Are 2GB drives even made? For movie storage, it really doesn't matter. Even the slowest drives will work. I have seen no reliable/consistent evidence regarding reliability between 5400 or 7200 or brands (provided you're talking about the big names). Assuming you use...

Games also benefit greatly from SSD. In fact I'd say games benefit especially. I keep my OS, apps, and games on my SSD. Movies go on the 2TB HDD since pretty much any 1080p movie will play fine from even a USB connection an a SATA HDD is faster than that, so you get no benefit from having your...

That's what I thought. Bad idea to mess around with a questionable drive. Looks like it's copying no problem at the moment. Already ordered a 2TB 7,200 Toshiba.

I have a 1TB HDD. I don't remember when I bought it. Maybe 5+ years ago. It came in a USB enclosure, but 1-2 years ago, the enclosure failed and would not be detected. Thinking it was the controller in the enclosure, I detached it and plugged the bare drive directly into computer via SATA...

I got the card. Haven't played any games yet, but the first thing I noticed was that the card was about 1/2 the size of the GTX 260 I had in there. Unlike the GTX, it does not require any external power (GTX required a whopping 2 direct lines from the PSU) and it does not have SPDIF in pins...

Is that fully compatible with my system? I have EVGA SuperNOVA 750 PSU btw. So as you can tell my last upgrade upgraded everything except for the GPU. Assuming it is compatible, do you think I should pay a bit more for something better or save some money and get something lower end? Can this...

Not sure if it's the temp from that reading. Mine gets to 105 degrees C and still won't BSOD. They usually throttle themselves when they get hot. Something else could be the problem or maybe you're not getting an accurate reading (like if the sensor is on the heat sink and there is bad contact...

I want to upgrade from GTX260 since modern games seem to make its temperature go to 105 degrees C. I'll keep it as a back up and maybe reseat the heat sink using thermal paste instead of the crap thermal pads some electronics come with (it worked on an overheating motherboard!). I'm thinking of...