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These details benchmarks on PC Part picker are very helpful. The Gigabyte AORUS Gen5 10000 2 TB is worse than Sabrent Rocket 4 Plus G 2 TB over a longer time frame, when it comes to file transfer. Very informative. Once you get past the burst speed, it slows down quite abit.

Not sure I follow ? Do not but the slide in ones ? 2-3 Feet is enough. Just so I can get it from behind the PC to the bare min of the side or the front.

With a price range of $300 Almost, I could get a pretty good External Enclosure and use say something like a Western Digital Black SN770 ? What do you mean by thread your transfers ? Split them up into smaller file chunks vs trying to copy an entire drive at once ?

I found a 20 Gbps case that come with an actual screw, vs these silly "tool free" rubber screw. https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B0CBP8XR81/?coliid=I3UB94WXPNT80C&colid=22MJTFZLPL9NV&psc=1&ref_=list_c_wl_lv_ov_lig_dp_it The problem is that the cable doesn't seem to be long enough. It's good enough for a laptop but terrible for a desktop PC, and I've not been able to find a reliable or trustworthy cable manufacturer that sells a longer 20 Gbps USB-C cable. What sustained speeds are you getting, and how big are the files you are transferring?

I was testing with Video files that where 700 MB - 1 gig in file size, and even tried 4 gig zip files. Wouldn't it be better to put a SSD into a External Enclosure? 10 Gbps would be good enough, if I could keep the SSD cool.

What is the Crucial X8 using ? They don't mention it on the site.

I got a Crucial X8 2TB for back up, and I've been testing the transfer speeds and I notice they drop off pretty quick when transferring even 40-50 gig to the OS SSD. What I'm not able to tell, is where is the bottleneck. I'm not sure is the OS Drive is running out of cache/buffer or the Crucial. The OS drive is a Intel 660p. The drop off is pretty horrible really. I get several factors below a mechanical drive transfer rate. So my question is, how do I find out the transfer speed of any given SSD AFTER the buffer is used up. I would like a SSD that isn't going to tank down to 20-50 MB/s Transfer speed after the buffer is used up. I see all these drives that claim these huge transfer speeds, but they fail to tell you what the general constant transfer speed would be.

I never thought of doing it that way. I will look it into it. Thanks!

I'm trying to find a proper pogram that actually shreds files properly, vs claiming it's doing something and it actually has not. I'm currently trying out AVG Internet Security and did a test on a old USB Drive. I emptied the drive, and then had AVG do a Shred of the free space on it. Then I ran EaseUS Data Recovery to make sure it actually did, and I found nothing. Not a single file could be found. So that's a good start.. However, with individual file shredding. It did nothing.. Said it "Shredded" the file, but it was still there! I'm also trying Kernel File Shredder, to see how it works. Using DoD 5520 3 pass method. Suggestions, aside from filling up the hardrive, deleting and repeating several times ? Eventually I would sell my drives as I upgrade, as I've looked @ getting either a bigger OS Drive, or even standard SSD for Storage or files. I'v thought about going nuts and getting a external SSD and replacing my mechanical drive with an SSD as well, so I can back up files faster and transfers files to and from either drive quicker. I have a ton of pictures of family, friends, and photography work that I would not want anyone to get, even if they where determined. I guess I'm a little on the paranoid side.

@Slottr I like what you did with the GPU. It turns out, it has around 25% more performance than the card I had selected. I'm not sure why you went with Intel though. Benchmarks show that i7 only gives me about a 20-25% performance increase, but at more than double the cost.I even cross checked it on You tube, with a side by side comparison of both CPU's running games. Especially if you factor in the more expensive Mobo. I like AMD, always have. I find there isn't a huge difference compared to Intel and they are cheaper. As for the cooler, I'm ditching the water cooler and going to go with your suggestion. I just need to make sure the ram I selected, doesn't have very tall heat spreaders. Per the Sata drive. I selected 512 GB so I have more free space. If I went with a 256, I have less than 80 GB free space, based on my current space being used. I should mention, I plan to keep my current system intact as a media center. This will require me to keep the case it's currently in.

1. Budget & Location $1800 CDN after taxes 2. Aim I'm overdue for a system overhaul. I play heroes of the storm and edit on LR and PS for now. I may pick up WoW again later on. 3. Monitors I plan to keep my current Monitor but might upgrade to a larger one. 4. Peripherals I plan to keep my current peripherals 5. Why am I upgrading ? I want to do a big enough upgrade that I won't need another one for least 5 years or longer. The system I have works fine for what I do with it, but I know it's time is limited. This is my current system specs AMD FX 8150 H55 Cooler Cooler Master HAF 922 Mid Tower ATX case M5A97 LE R.0 8 Gig DDR3 GTX 660 Corsair 750 watt Semi Modular Power Supply Below is what I've come up with so far, but flexible on GPU on Case. The water cooler is to keep the system whisper quite. Cool and quiet is the goal https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/user/Gnexus01/saved/PzD6sY

It was a assumption. I see now, I was wrong.

I've yet to hear of a computer that can predict patterns of behaviour as a AI, on it's own. Computers can do it now, but we have to give them the data to do it. Having a AI do it, is different. It has to think on it's own and study human patterns, and habits. As for what it would monitor ? I would say phone calls, both landline and cell phone, as well as the camera's all in a city the size of New York.

I was watching person of interest, and I wondered what kind of computing power would you need to monitor all the camera's etc etc that it does in the show. That is of course, if we could even build a AI that would be smart enough to be able to do that, and predict crimes. Currently our computers only understand yes and no, black and white. Possibly isn't something they would understand. Let's say for moment they could though. How large would the server farm have to be to achieve this ? The size of New York City ? Bigger ?

It's hard to explain what I mean. Basically, when did we start going from the old metal white cases. To cases like we have today, with big 200mm fans in them.