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I have been testing and “burning in” two new identical enterprise NAS drives which will be used for storing many years of photography work (large photoshop/photography files). Both drives have tested fine in multiple tests (e.g. short and long smart tests, surface tests, etc.). I am currently...

Hi, I need help with a problem with a linux laptop machine. The laptop was installed with a Linux Ubuntu 15.10 and I took the time to upgrade the distro. So I upgraded from 15.10 -> 16.04 LST -> 18.04 LTS and it all seemed so far, so good. Then I put the machine to upgrade to 19.04 and went...

I touched upon my difficulties with this update in another thread, but since it wasn't relevant to the topic I figured it was best to just start a dedicated thread. *specification of PC in question is listed signature, line #1* Normally I wouldn't make a stink about an update not working, and...

Are these trustworthy for NAS use? I want to try 8 of them in a QNAP box. Don't feel like getting burned (by Seagate) again! Even though will be running RAID6, it makes me a bit nervous. At $189 a pop it seems like a decent price. I've read that Toshiba X300 (desktop) drives are cheaper option...

Hi All! So I recently upgraded my rig from 16GB DDR4 (2x8GB) to 32GB DDR4 (4x8GB). I am using Corsair Dominator Platinum DDR4 ram which OC's to 3000 Mhz. My motherboard is the ASUS Prime Z720-A. When I had the original setup of 16GB, just two sticks of 8GB each, I could use XMP on my...

Two of our engineers at the office are both experiencing nearly identical problems, on identical drives... so I have a theory. They work with a lot of the same clients so, is it possible, that a virus may have come through attached to an email and fried both drives by way of hijacking and...