qubit
Overclocked quantum bit
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System Name | Quantumville™ |
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Processor | Intel Core i7-2700K @ 4GHz |
Motherboard | Asus P8Z68-V PRO/GEN3 |
Cooling | Noctua NH-D14 |
Memory | 16GB (2 x 8GB Corsair Vengeance Black DDR3 PC3-12800 C9 1600MHz) |
Video Card(s) | MSI RTX 2080 SUPER Gaming X Trio |
Storage | Samsung 850 Pro 256GB | WD Black 4TB | WD Blue 6TB |
Display(s) | ASUS ROG Strix XG27UQR (4K, 144Hz, G-SYNC compatible) | Asus MG28UQ (4K, 60Hz, FreeSync compatible) |
Case | Cooler Master HAF 922 |
Audio Device(s) | Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatal1ty PCIe |
Power Supply | Corsair AX1600i |
Mouse | Microsoft Intellimouse Pro - Black Shadow |
Keyboard | Yes |
Software | Windows 10 Pro 64-bit |
I've used WD Green drives for years for my data storage, but they do start to corrupt data after a few years and/or make odd bearing wear noises. My latest is a 4TB Green, which started corrupting my data a few months ago, even though there's only a "minor" warning from Hard Disc Sentinel about a handful of weak sectors that should get mapped out. Of course it's out of warranty, so I gave it one more chance. I moved all my data (except the corrupted files) to an old 1.5TB WD Green drive that works fine, zerod out the 4TB drive. I then then created a new partition and NTFS formatted it just to hold my Steam games, all 2.3TB worth of them - the original partition got significantly scrambled causing games to bomb out and Steam to behave strangely. Note that I've always kept my data on its own partition. I've now got two drives in my system while I test the suspect drive.
I then duly forgot all about it for several months, cuz I'm dippy like that. I only realized I had this temporary arrangement yesterday when I fired up Paragon Hard Disc Manager to check something. I did an error check using the right click tools on the Steam partition on the drive in This PC and sure enough, it came up with lots of errors. Thankfully, they were all recoverable though, some requiring a reboot. Clearly this drive is unreliable and cannot be used for mission critical data storage any more. The old 1.5TB checked out fine on the error check and in HDS. So that's it, time to get a replacement.
After doing a bit of research Googling for WD and Seagate drives, I decided to go all out and get a NAS drive with a proper 5 year warranty and built for reliability, so I settled on the Seagate ST4000NE0025 4 TB IronWolf Pro 7200 rpm drive for £155 from Amazon. My only concern is that this drive might be noisy and periodically make recalibration noises - I've come across one or two forum posts saying this, but the reviews don't report this (but they can't be trusted). Since it's gonna sit in my desktop PC that has the side panel permanently off and sits right next to me in a quiet room, noise performance is critical to maintain what's left of my sanity lol. If this proves to be a problem, then I'm not quite sure what I'm gonna do, but I'll cross that bridge when I come to it.
https://www.seagate.com/gb/en/internal-hard-drives/hdd/ironwolf
Note that even a regular data backup like I do to a 1TB SSD doesn't help to relieve data loss in this situation, since I use a very simple mirror backup, so it simply copies over the garbage to the backup. I was lucky that it didn't hit my 2.5GB Outlook .pst file. I might move to a more sophisticated backup regime one day, but that would cost significant money for extra drives and likely a NAS to isolate them from the main system.
The drive should arrive in a few days, so I'll let you know then how I get on with it. I'm gonna flog the faulty drive on eBay where it belongs, once I'm set up with the new one.
UPDATE 02SEP18 Got a big update in post 13.
I then duly forgot all about it for several months, cuz I'm dippy like that. I only realized I had this temporary arrangement yesterday when I fired up Paragon Hard Disc Manager to check something. I did an error check using the right click tools on the Steam partition on the drive in This PC and sure enough, it came up with lots of errors. Thankfully, they were all recoverable though, some requiring a reboot. Clearly this drive is unreliable and cannot be used for mission critical data storage any more. The old 1.5TB checked out fine on the error check and in HDS. So that's it, time to get a replacement.
After doing a bit of research Googling for WD and Seagate drives, I decided to go all out and get a NAS drive with a proper 5 year warranty and built for reliability, so I settled on the Seagate ST4000NE0025 4 TB IronWolf Pro 7200 rpm drive for £155 from Amazon. My only concern is that this drive might be noisy and periodically make recalibration noises - I've come across one or two forum posts saying this, but the reviews don't report this (but they can't be trusted). Since it's gonna sit in my desktop PC that has the side panel permanently off and sits right next to me in a quiet room, noise performance is critical to maintain what's left of my sanity lol. If this proves to be a problem, then I'm not quite sure what I'm gonna do, but I'll cross that bridge when I come to it.
https://www.seagate.com/gb/en/internal-hard-drives/hdd/ironwolf
Note that even a regular data backup like I do to a 1TB SSD doesn't help to relieve data loss in this situation, since I use a very simple mirror backup, so it simply copies over the garbage to the backup. I was lucky that it didn't hit my 2.5GB Outlook .pst file. I might move to a more sophisticated backup regime one day, but that would cost significant money for extra drives and likely a NAS to isolate them from the main system.
The drive should arrive in a few days, so I'll let you know then how I get on with it. I'm gonna flog the faulty drive on eBay where it belongs, once I'm set up with the new one.
UPDATE 02SEP18 Got a big update in post 13.
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