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System Name | Lynni PS \ Lenowo TwinkPad T480 |
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Processor | AMD Ryzen 7 7700 Raphael \ i7-8550U Kaby Lake-R |
Motherboard | ASRock B650M PG Riptide Bios v. 2.02 AMD AGESA 1.1.0.0 \ Lenowo 20L60036MX Bios 1.47 |
Cooling | Noctua NH-D15 Chromax.Black (Only middle fan) \ Lenowo WN-2 |
Memory | G.Skill Flare X5 2x16GB DDR5 6000MHZ CL36-36-36-96 AMD EXPO \ Willk Elektronik 2x16GB 2666MHZ CL17 |
Video Card(s) | Asus GeForce RTX™ 4070 Dual OC GPU: 2325-2355 MEM: 1462| Nvidia GeForce MX™ 150 2GB GDDR5 Micron |
Storage | Gigabyte M30 1TB|Sabrent Rocket 2TB| HDD: 10TB|1TB \ SKHynix 256GB 2242 3x2 |
Display(s) | LG UltraGear 27GP850-B 1440p@165Hz | LG 48CX OLED 4K HDR | AUO 14" 1440p IPS |
Case | Fractal Design Meshify 2 Tempered Glass White/Black | Lenowo T480 chassis |
Audio Device(s) | Steelseries Arctis Pro Wireless |
Power Supply | Be Quiet! Pure Power 12 M 750W Goldie | 65W |
Mouse | Logitech G305 Lightspeedy Wireless | Lenowo TouchPad & Logitech G305 |
Keyboard | Akko 3108 DS Horizon V2 Cream Yellow | T480 UK Lumi |
Software | Win11 Pro 23H2 UK |
Benchmark Scores | 3DMARK: https://www.3dmark.com/3dm/89434432? GPU-Z: https://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/details/v3zbr |
I been looking to replacing my 2 old WD Red WD40EFRX drives because 1 of them has now failed with a bad sector.
They have surved me well I think I purchased them back in 2014/2015 and they been used for DATA and Games all this time so this was a good purchase back in the day.
Now in moderen times there is all this talk about CMR (Conventional Magnetic Recording) and SMR (Shingled Magnetic Recording) and I do not run ZFS or anything like this just Windows 11 Pro with NTFS so what should I buy if I want 2 drives to try to last as long as these 2?
I been looking at these 2 RED drives.
WD40EFAX (Red), 5400rpm & 256MB cache (CMR) for about £87/$121 a pop
WD40EFZX (Red Plus), 5400rpm & 128MB cache (SMR) for about £91/$126 a pop
One of the disk will be for DATA/download scratch drive and the other for my Plex server.
*EDIT*
I actually ended up ordering 2 WD Purple WD40PURZ to release both my old read drives.
I still got a WD10PURZ and WD40PURX running with no issues at all.
The 4TB I got in a second hand deal it was unopened and unused still running strong and I purchased the 1TB model to replace a failing WD Gold driver it still runs perfect.
I know these models are only got 64MB cache but for my Plex and data use they are fine and they been powered on for plus 15.000 hours with hiccups.
They have surved me well I think I purchased them back in 2014/2015 and they been used for DATA and Games all this time so this was a good purchase back in the day.
Now in moderen times there is all this talk about CMR (Conventional Magnetic Recording) and SMR (Shingled Magnetic Recording) and I do not run ZFS or anything like this just Windows 11 Pro with NTFS so what should I buy if I want 2 drives to try to last as long as these 2?
I been looking at these 2 RED drives.
WD40EFAX (Red), 5400rpm & 256MB cache (CMR) for about £87/$121 a pop
WD40EFZX (Red Plus), 5400rpm & 128MB cache (SMR) for about £91/$126 a pop
One of the disk will be for DATA/download scratch drive and the other for my Plex server.
*EDIT*
I actually ended up ordering 2 WD Purple WD40PURZ to release both my old read drives.
I still got a WD10PURZ and WD40PURX running with no issues at all.
The 4TB I got in a second hand deal it was unopened and unused still running strong and I purchased the 1TB model to replace a failing WD Gold driver it still runs perfect.
I know these models are only got 64MB cache but for my Plex and data use they are fine and they been powered on for plus 15.000 hours with hiccups.
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