Recent content by whitelion1284

I'm old and stubborn. I refused to "upgrade" to Win10 until this past December. I hate it. To assign my personal folders to a local drive I needed to change the registry... and Win 10 keeps changing them back to OneDrive. I remember loading the OS off one floppy and then the software off...

Oh yeah. I have multiple backups including cloud and external USB drives.

Okay so for long term storage platter drives are the way to go but SSD's rule performance. Okay...so I need to purchase an SSD for gaming. Thanks mate.

Hmmm. I was under the impression that SSD's were better for accessing lots of random bits of data throughout the drive but slower when read/writing large bits of consecutive data. They also don't have the same issues with chemical degradation like transistor drives and thus are good for long...

So there are no options for improving it's responsiveness? Ensuring that it is using the full 6gb sata connection (as opposed to 3gb) or implementing RAID or MSU? Right now my data transfer rate is pitiful in a setup that should be blazing fast. And you're saying that that's it? No offense...

I just installed a PCIEx sata 6 expansion card along with a 4tb platter drive. To get windows to use the entire drive I had to use a different kind of formatting. It's all working but I wonder if I overlooked something cos data transfer seems a little slow. 157GB took over a 1/2 hour to copy...

Copy that, mate. Thanks.

Thanks again for the attention. So I need both of those? I ask cos these drives won't be permanent additions to my rig. I just want the data that I'm hoping still survives on them. I'm happy to just wire them in for a few hours and then set them back on a shelf after I get the files off 'em. I...

Thanks for the reply. Not sure I understand what you mean by either an "external enclosure". By a pcie card for ide you mean get a pcie card that will accept ide inputs? What are those called?

Hello tech gurus, I'm looking for an IDE to SATA adapter to use to access several older hard drives. I don't know what is worth buying and what is trash. Can anyone educate me? Thanks.

Hi there. I have an ASUS Z97-A motherboard and recently tried to install a 4-slot sata expansion card. With the card installed the PC will not boot to windows. I'm provided with a greeting from the card manufacturer in the same format as a DOS or command prompt; ie. black screen + basic text...

I bought that exact laptop through NewEgg. Cheers mate.

Greetings: 1. What is your budget? $300-$400 2. What is the size of the notebook that you are considering? Laptop with full keyboard 3. What screen resolution do you want? 1080p 4. Do you need a portable or desktop replacement laptop? Poratble. 5. How much battery life do you need? At...

2 different graphics cards from 2 different manufacturers using 2 different chipsets, drivers and control software are simultaneously manifesting the exact same behavior at the exact same time? I find this implausible. Something else is wrong. Something is causing these cards to fail. At first...

Reliability tool calls it a "Video Harware Error" that is further defined as a LiveKernelEvent and there are several files that describe the problem that I don't know how to open. I can view them in notepad++ but I don't understand what I'm looking at. The old PSU was a gold rated 850w that may...