Project Zabanya

[Deleted member 24505]

A 12-14-16 TB SSD does not exist other than the new Nimbus 50 TB SSD for $10.000 or the 100 TB for $40.000 and i dont have that kind of money
a 4 TB is barely enough for my own personal music pictures and other other stuff and thats not counting any video at all

I understand as i said HDD's are better TB/$ You do have a awful lot of storage though, pare that pron collection down a bit

 

[shilka]

I understand as i said HDD's are better TB/$ You do have a awful lot of storage though, pare that pron collection down a bit

I work with audio video and pictures and just a few hours of 4K video takes up a huge amount of space
What takes up the most amount is all the movies and TV series i have ripped to my PC i got tired of digging out DVD´s and Blu-Ray and turning on the old Blu-Ray player so i ripped everything to the PC

2000+ DVD´s and Blu-Ray´s also takes up a huge amount of space even if most of it is SD and HD and not UHD
Sometimes i think i got a better selection than the danish netflix lol

 

[shilka]

The brand new Noctua NH-D15S chromax just showed up on Amazon.de so i ordered one of those and i ordered a G.Skill 32 GB 3600 MHz CL16 to replace my 3200 Mhz kit

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[shilka]

Replaced the 32 GB 3200 MHz G. Skill RGB kit with a 32 GB 3600 MHz G.Skill Neo kit which was the original RAM i bought and exchanged i because i thought they where broken

This RAM upgrade can give me as much as 15 FPS more depending on the game

 

[shilka]

My Noctua NH-D15S Chromax showed up today

 

[shilka]

I have been trying to get my hands on an RTX 3080 for weeks with no luck other than the usual overpriced cards being sold by scalpers
Gave up and ordered an Asus RTX 3070 TUF OC instead and even that has a 3 week waiting time but at least its better than the 3 months waiting time for an Asus RTX 3080 TUF OC

Also decided to upgrade my second PC to a much more modern standard so that one will moved to the brand new Fractal Design Meshify 2 XL
Bought two Deepcool GPU holders a Deepcool fan hub 4 Artic Cooling P14 PWM fans for the Meshify 2 XL and a new deskmat

I have been thinking about if i should upgrade the SSD in the second PC right now it has a 1 TB Samsung 860 Evo which is fine i almost never use that PC
On the other hand a 480 GB Corsair MP510 dont cost a lot of money so keep the 860 Evo or buy the MP510?

As for the Noctua NH-D15S Chromax i have not had the time to install it yet and i am thinking of putting it off untill i have all the parts so i can get all the work done in one go

 

[shilka]

Right so the 3070 TUF OC is going straight back to the seller it has massive coil whine so nope i ordered a Radeon 6800 non XT Strix instead to replace the 3070 TUF OC

 

[shilka]

Finally got around to replace the CPU cooler

 

[shilka]

So its been a month since i posted anything and in all that time i have been trying to see if i could buy either a Zen 3 CPU or ANY GPU and have had no luck so i am going to give up i am going to drop it and keep what i have now its good enough so rather than upgrading for the sake of upgrading with stuff i dont need all that much i am going to replace my oldest HDD since its almost full

Bought a Seagate Ironwolf Pro 18 TB to replace my older Ironwolf Pro 12 TB
I had to move a ton of stuff around on 4 of the drives to get some more space but that was only a temporary solution and all it did was give me less space on 4 drives instead of 1 drive

With the 18 TB i will have 70,7 TB instead of 65,3

Hopefully i can last untill the new Seagate HAMR 20 TB drives show up but those are probably going to cost an arm and a leg at somewhere around 750 euros so another Ironwolf Pro 18 TB using CMR might be a cheaper solution

 

[shilka]

Seems like there is some delays since i have not gotten my new HDD yet but in the mean time i ordered a second 18 TB Ironwolf Pro since i am fed up with the slow speed and noise of my WD Ultrastar 14 TB
This will bring me up to 74,3 TB

 

[shilka]

Got around to pick up my 18 TB Ironwolf Pro

The order for the second one was cancelled

 

[phill]

I need to look at this thread more!! 18TB drive... I can but dream for the moment!

 

[shilka]

I need to look at this thread more!! 18TB drive... I can but dream for the moment!

I actually ordered a second 18 TB but the order was cancelled so i decided to push it back at least another month maybe more

 

[phill]

I could do with some bigger drives, but I'm not sure how many or which to get just yet lol All depends on how I set up my storage

 

[shilka]

I could do with some bigger drives, but I'm not sure how many or which to get just yet lol All depends on how I set up my storage

The Seagate Ironwolf Pro are some of the most expensive drives but they are also some of the best and the 18 TB is my 7th Ironwolf Pro
Never had any of them fail or have problems which is more than i can say for the WD Red i had that died

I managed to recover everything but one 50 GB folder before it died for good and to this day its the only data loss i have had since 2009 or 2010

Think it was in 2015 or 2016 i had that drive and that was the first and last time i bought a WD Red should have spent the extra for a Red Pro but i moved from the WD Green which i never had a problem with but WD stopped making them around that time

I also have a WD Ultrastar which is a HGST drive and i not a huge fan of that drive its loud and slower than any of the other drives
Seagate might have a consumer grade HAMR drive this year or next year which is probably going to be a 20 TB unless they skip ahead to 22 TB

I am not sure if i should replace any of the drives i have or just give up on having 5 drives and move to 6 or 7
The problem is nobody these days other than Asrock make motherboards with 8 SATA ports anymore which is a titanic pain in the ass if you have more than 5 drives

I dont want to deal with having to disconnect one drive so i can add a new drive copy the data from the old drive to the new drive take the old drive out and then re-connect the drive i disconnected
A host bus adaptor card would be a solution but thats going to eat up an x16 slot eat PCI-E lanes and take up space in the case and cost money

 

[shilka]

Trying to get an Asus Crosshair VII Dark Hero is like trying to get a new GPU right now and the place i buy from wont have stock on the motherboard untill the end of may
So i can either live with the garbage motherboard that i have for another 2-4 months and wait for the Dark Hero or i can just give up and buy a Strix-E instead

As for a GPU Nvidia have said shops should have normal stock in June which means they might have stock in the autumn
I would still rather have a Radeon 6800 or 6800 XT but those are even harder to find than the lost ark

Anyone have any thoughts?

 

[shilka]

My Asrock X570 Taichi is completely FUBAR i so i gave up and bought an Asus X570 Strix-E since it was the only motherboard i could find in stock at the store i always buy from

Going to RMA the Taichi and once i get a new one back i will be giving it away to my best friend since he needs a better AM4 motherboard and i never ever want to touch another Asrock motherboad with a 10 foot barge pole

The Asrock X570 Taichi is the single worst motherboard i have ever had in 30 years of being around computers pretty much nothing worked like it should on it the BIOS and software is trash and the fan is louder than a Pratt and Whitney F135 turbofan engine on full afterburner

Since i was shopping anyway and needed to pick up an NVME SSD for my second PC and they only had the Samsung 970 Evo in stock when it came to 1 TB drives the only other option was the XPG SX8200 Pro 2 TB and that was too much both in space and price

After almost a year and half i hope i will finally get a stable PC that actually f...ing works!

 

[mouacyk]

Nice feeling when something finally works as expected.

 

[shilka]

Nice feeling when something finally works as expected.

Hopefully with a new motherboard it will finally work
I am sick of crashes lockups BSOD´s hard shut off´s and stuff randomly stops working

Newest problem is the network chip or something related to it stops working and the only way to get internet back is to turn off the PC reset the BIOS set everything up again and then it works for a little while again before it randomly stops working again

Thats besides the system locking up crashing or just turning off with no warning and i ruled everything else out its the motherboard since the same parts beside the CPU and motherboard work without problems in the other PC

Unless i somehow got a faulty CPU which seems unlikely

 

[shilka]

Picked up the new motherboard

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[shilka]

New motherboard is installed and is working and i already far more happy since the chipset fan is so much more quiet
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I removed the aRGB strip since the connector could no longer reach the motherboard header so might or might not use the extension cable that came with the motherboard and re-install the strip later

 

[shilka]

Turned my PC off yesterday when i went to bed and turned it on this morning only to find the new Asus X570 Strix-E motherboard stuck on the good old 0d error

Took 45 min of work to get it to start dont know what got it to work because a BIOS re-set taking the battery out draining the system of power taking the GPU out and putting it back in and trying every RAM stick i had in every slot and nothing worked but after a while being stuck error A2 it finally booted

First thing i did was updating the BIOS to version 3606 which i hoped will fix this problem

Talked with the PC shop about the Asrock board i sent for RMA and all of the problems i have with all my X570 parts and he decided to give me an almost full refund for the Asrock board because of all the problems i have had with it and because i bought an Asus board while the Asrock was at RMA

After all the problems i remember the very first Asus C8H board i bought had a short circuited USB header and since the 0d errors can be CPU related could that board have damaged my 3700x?
The 3700x is the only part left of my old Dreissen system so would it make sense that if the CPU is damaged that is why i am still having problems on my second working X570 motherboard

Or is the 0d errors just a problem with X570 because i have seen lots of others have problems with this error
0d can mean failed RAM but not always and in this case i am sure its not RAM or a motherboard problem since more than one motherboard has done it and all my RAM does it no matter which kit in which slots

Tried every type of RAM this morning some old crappy 2666 MHz the 3000 MHz from my second machine and the newest 3600 MHz i have and NOTHING worked it refused to boot no matter what i did and after god knows how many trieds and work it got stuck on an A2 error so i turned on the second machine to look up what A2 was and when i got back it finally booted to Windows

Drained the machine of power took the BIOS battery out took the GPU out about the only thing i did not do was take the CPU cooler and CPU out
And no nothing in the system is under any kind of OC or any tweaked settings its out of the box other than XMP profile for the RAM

Saw another thread on OCN where someone said that a fix for the 0d error was caused by a display port cable being plugged into GPU and it boots fine with HDMI but not with a display port plugged in
Anyone has anything to add about this problem?

 

[shilka]

Because of the news of the new Chia cryptocurrency that uses hard drives for mining which has seen prices on hard drives triple in Hong Kong over the last week i ordered another 18 TB Ironwolf Pro while i can still get one and before all of the god damm miners buy up all the hard drives on the market

Its in stock thankfully so i should be able to get a drive here in april

 

[shilka]

Took more than a month for me to get another 18 TB drive and i had to pay 20% more than my last 18 TB because of the dammed Chia mining craze that has casued a hard drive shortage
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This will replace my WD Ultrastar DC HC530 14 TB from 2019

 

[shilka]

Time to retire some of older Ironwolf Pro drives