kght22

to put it bluntly, i am just looking for a good software solution for 3 3tb drives, raid 5 is a good answer i think, but what are my other options. it has been ages since i really got deep into anything like this. i'm 35 and i worked at a computer store last when i was 21.

i could write a batch file and sched it to run to do that, but it just seems too simple. not to mention you do get a read speed advantage from raid, and i store my games on my redundant so it helps, not but much, but some.

also, if i go windows software raid 5 instead of using the hardware raid?? because next time i switch platforms i don't want to fight the hardware. when i went from amd am3+ to am4 i had to break the raid on both drives before i could put it back together. EDIT: lost allot of data because i only had about 1tb of scratch available. and that scratch itself had data i wanted on it

i know with 2 drives in raid 1 you can end up corrupting the data on the good drive, with 3 is that avoided?

i am about to get a third 3tb drive so that i can relieve my 3tb mirror raid of it's data and build a better redundancy. nothing on this redundancy is critical but i am tired of hardware raid, when i went from am3+ to am4 i had to do allot of screwing around and lost allot of data tossing it on old 512gb drives because the hardware wasn't compatible, i want to move to a software solution that can move with my upgrades, but i haven't done IT for nearly 20 years now, while i know things like unraid exist i can't afford to do that with my personal unimportant data. what can i do with three 3tb drives in software that won't have one drive corrupt the other? without using a second computer? i have a second computer but i also want to be able to use the data on the redundant drive, and i only have a gigabit network. am i hopelessly lost with this idea? i would be willing to vm my windows instance if i can get decent gaming performance performance. my current system specs are: r7 1700, 32gb ddr4 2800 (running at 2666), gtx1660ti, 500gb crucial p1 nvme, two older 3tb seagate hdds in hardware raid1. and on the way a newer seagate 3tb drive and a usb adapter that i intend to send back (i have never pulled that type of asshole move before) so i can easily dump my mirror into it. any ideas on how to do a simple 3 drive "raid" or "unraid" where a single drive can't take all 3 down? i'm so out of the world on these things now i am lost. my instinct would be raid 5, but i know that it can fail from a single drive.

while i am not a great person to say something, i would have to emphasize what kevp said, try to reduce your voltage at this point while maintaining 5ghz. you found the max speed for your proc, the lower the voltage at that speed stable the longer it will last. the difference in how long you can sustain the speed might be a difference of 6 months if you can minimize the voltage.

as a response to you, ultimately i ended up just having to dump all of the data off to temps from one of the drives, then i (stupidly) rebuilt the raid on the new motherboard's built in raid, then copied the stuff back in. but now i am stuck on a ryzen platform with a hardware raid 1 again and no idea how i would properly recover if my motherboard failed, because i wouldn't buy the same board in that case, i would end up with the update/upgraded ryzen board. i've been dealing with computers since i was a kid in the early 90s, and raid since the late 90s, why won't they fucking standardize, i shouldn't have to rebuild my array or not be able to read it just because i changed my motherboard. btw, when i changed from one 970a motherboard to another 970a motherboard, the raid broke. wtf, same chipset, same chip for the sata controller, wtf. i expected it when i went to ryzen, but still, shouldn't have happend, why is raid so fucking non-standard? does that make even a hair of sense? i got it in the 90s, you had adaptec, and ibm, sun, actual competing standards that were different. raid 0 is raid 0 and raid 1 is raid 1, why do controllers have non standard protocols concerning those implementations? it makes no sense.

if you don't know you can set affinity by opening the task manager and going to processes then right clicking on the task you want to set affinity for, from there you can figure it out because while it takes longer to type this, if you can't i couldn't possibly help you. but with 4 cores it is going to become increasingly impossible to stream and run from a single computer over time, and really quickly right now because the next generation of consumer level procs are going to be 6 and 8 thread hyperthreaded parts, so 4 threads is just not going to be usable anymore in the next few (three at most) years.

overclocking won't help, that i5 is being core killed because more than one program upgraded/updated to use more cores in the last year. your fix is to set affinity for the game and for the recorder, but you are still stuck with 4 cores. so yeah, 4 cores is a limitation. been a long time that 4 cores was the "it" thing, but 4 cores. that's the problem.

awesome find norris, memory regardless of ddr3 or 4 is pretty expensive right now for the same reasons that video cards are exepensive, and even ssd prices are starting to go up, there aren't enough fabs at the moment for the demand, and around half or more of all computers right now still use ddr3, so it is still in production. we need more fabs, maybe 5 more by the end of the year. probably 3. awesome find norris, memory regardless of ddr3 or 4 is pretty expensive right now for the same reasons that video cards are exepensive, and even ssd prices are starting to go up, there aren't enough fabs at the moment for the demand, and around half or more of all computers right now still use ddr3, so it is still in production. we need more fabs, maybe 5 more by the end of the year. probably 3. EDIT: i bought the 16gb of memory i have on my ryzen 1700 last year for it and i paid 94.99, i could sell that memory this year used at a profit. i dare someone to find memory like that new right now for less than 150 bucks. by the way, cpus are not produced on the same fabs, that is why cpu prices have remained unaffected.

overheat protection has been a part of all cpus since the flipchip era, they just shut off instead of letting themselves die. intel started with the later end of pentium 4s and the orignal core series made it mainsteam, but amd was a little later so you only see them implement this on the consumer level at am3 and beyond. but to make it simple, you can't overheat a modern cpu to distruction, kinda. you can overvolt it too much and end up destroying it ultimately through heat but just because the voltage was too high and some traces flash vaporized before any sort of internal regulation could take control. in other words you could start your computer with no heatsink at all and not destroy the cpu.

usually you don't need an air impact tool for a torque wrench, but i do find it hilarious that you can id the tool that amd used for the torque tool on threadripper so easilly even with the rebrand. and really it isn't a rebrand, i don't think that tool has a brand. but anyway honestly you'll be fine with the tool amd provides, and both of those tools would be a pain in the ass if you used them inside a computer case while repairing or upgrading a computer. don't be insane please.

lol its a bike tool that they repurposed: https://www.competitivecyclist.com/competitive-cyclist-torque-tool?skid=CCY000N-BK-S5NM&CMP_SKU=CCY000N&MER=0406&CSPID=0914&mr:trackingCode=4258DD28-F23D-E611-80EE-0050569428E8&mr:referralID=NA&mr:device=c&mr:adType=plaonline&mr:ad=185090834803&mr:keyword=&mr:match=&mr:tid=pla-349248598766&mr:ploc=9024249&mr:iloc=&mr:store=&mr:filter=349248598766&CMP_ID=PLA_GOc014&CSPID=0914&utm_source=Google&utm_medium=PLA&k_clickid=7cd8b6a5-6ae8-4688-a91e-6779ba1f5620&gclid=Cj0KCQjw5LbWBRDCARIsALAbcOfj1eSbDHzYbnQVY9Xr4YmBDUcfxcNO8CHm66-q-Jaze3GI0SUnn0UaAoGIEALw_wcB

i know at some point i saw a video about finding blank/unpopulated motherboards (no components) and i'm hoping that someone remembers, saw paul from paul's hardware's test bench again and i feel like i need to source a blank board. for things, and stuff. don't judge me.

as far as display fusion goes it doesn't look like it would resolve my issue, and i refuse to pay money for something that just tweaks my registry concerning this particular problem. i make less than ten bucks an hour, that would be stupid for something that isn't that important a thing. even if someone were using their computer for money making productivity that would be kinda crappy.