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    How Seagate Tests Its Hard Drives

    Well if anything useful was gained out of this comment section, its that I learned the infamous 3TB drives (as well as other brands/sizes) were not rated for 24/7 use. And not that it matters but I also haven't had the Seagate problems everyone keeps mentioning, though that Backblaze piece did...
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    Need additional opinions on CPUs

    Thanks for all the feedback. I definitely understand what you are saying Synphul but the price aspect is more of a personal preference of mine. Even though I've already paid off the cost, it still annoys me that I could have saved $100 or so during my first build for the same performance. I'll...
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    Need additional opinions on CPUs

    So I've been using an AMD build for a few years now with small changes. Its actually been performing pretty well for gaming, browsing, screen captures/multi-threaded video processing, etc, but lately I've been feeling the upgrade itch. Part of me wants to purchase an Intel based processor for...
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    Obama Is First US President To Write Computer Code

    The hate is strong with this crowd jeez, it could be an article about Obama saving a group of kids from a burning building and there will still be complaints