Recent content by rbtree

Says who, you? SATA SSD's top out at about 550 MB/s. PCIe Gen 2 motherboards can hit about 1600 read and 1400 write when an NVMe drive is added to an adaptor. That's 3x the speed. Also, most of those 1366 socket boards were only SATA II, so figure 6x the speed. One of mine has two SATA III...

I have two old X58 motherboards. NVMe drives will work in an adaptor in most older boards. I got full PCI Gen 2 speeds. There are some gurus that have modified individual board bioses to make such a drive bootable. Doesn't sound easy and it seems you may need to contact someone like a Turkish...

FWIW, Samsung has a great sale going on right now, so I got two 1 tb 970 Evo Plus drives for $57 ea!! And a 980 Pro for $79!! https://www.samsung.com/us/computing/memory-storage/solid-state-drives/ If you use rakuten, get 10% back in points https://www.rakuten.com/r/RBTREE6?eeid=28187...

Fake 980 Pro's, out of China, naturally. https://www.tomshardware.com/news/fake-samsung-980-pro?utm_term=619B1EC8-72D6-4CA6-BC9B-71E5276BA832&utm_campaign=2F4928DB-7559-479A-B06E-4801050D48B1&utm_medium=email&utm_content=1051D740-78FF-44E1-AD90-C3642146AA15&utm_source=SmartBrief

Hmmmm. I have three Samsungs at this time and have sold a couple, including the first gen 950 Pro (that was a couple years ago, and I got $100 for it, at 500 gb! ) Now, new 1 tb 980 Pro's can be had for about $100 or even less... My 500 gb 970 Evo has been in a PC as its OS drive for almost 4...

Great article! Thanks. I'm about to try to sell my 970, a 3 fan Gigabyte card. I managed to sell an extra 1070 for net 398 after PP fees and shipping. had 20 replies on facebook Mktplace. Leaves me with 3 for my 3 PC's: 106-6 gb, 1070 and 1080. They're all great for my main use, photo editing...

This is what I sent to the mfr, awaiting a reply...... http://ppa-usa.com/computer-products/pci-express/usb-3-... Just received the above card from Newegg, fulfilled by Adorama, to replace a similar card by ioGear which they said wouldn't work properly with Windows 10. It had worked for a few...

Problem solved. It was my Norton Security System firewall. I removed it, and now it works! I'll re-install Norton right away to be protected.

With my 2 yr old desktop running W-7, I have lost internet access totally. It was on my network, connected wirelessly and had worked fairly well for those two years. The first symptom was the Windows network software giving the message "Connected, no internet access" even while showing the...