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I currently have a WD Red in a NAS, backuping using Macrium Reflect free edition. I really like this software, so I have no intent on switching. However, as it's the free edition, I don't have the ability to do incremental backups. So I'm pretty much doing full backups 5 times a week, each being roughly 580 GB in size, taking 2:10 hours every time. No problem practically for me as it backups when I'm away from home, but I wonder if this will affect the lifetime of the harddrive vs perhaps doing a weekly full backups and then the rest incremental backups? The NAS is off most of the time, only being on perhaps 8 hours a day.

I spoke to Intel support a longer time ago when I was looking for a CPU able to handle 4k video playback, and at least they said the HD630 should be able to push it given that other factors match as well (mobo I/O, internet speeds, etc). Haven't tried it though as the build is yet to be ordered. One point though that people told me on Tom's Hardware is that it might be a good thing to make sure you go with a dual channel memory config as the internal graphics could benefit from it, hopefully giving some extra help reducing any stutters.

Here's an Intel temperature guide from Tom's Hardware. http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/id-1800828/intel-temperature-guide.html

XMP is just the manufacturer's guaranteed RAM settings memory wise (i.e it might still not work because of other hardware disliking the configuration). This means you might be able to squeeze out some extra juice out of the RAM sticks over XMP by manually overclocking it. I usually just manually input the XMP settings, check if the system likes it, and then take it from there and do further overclocking and tweaking. Though as stated above, one should only dive into memory overclocking if you really enjoy overclocking as one can argue wether or not the small performance increase is really worth the effort and time (at least at those low speeds).

Bit off topic as this is about various backup methods inside a specific software. But to answer your question, I want to do scheduled backups twice a week at specific days, and in Windows own backup utility I can only either backup every night, or once a week. Once a week is too seldom, and every night is too much of a hassle imo as I just want to turn off the PC every night when going to bed, except the 2 backup nights of course. As far as I've experienced, if I were to just setup every night -backup and just turn off the PC before it starts during the nights I don't intend to run the backups, it would just launch the "missed" backup when turning on the PC the next day.

It didn't match my needs unfortunately so I'll have to go with thirdparty software

In the free version of EaseUS Todo there are the following available backup methods: - Disk/Partition Backup - File Backup - System Backup - Smart Backup What are the differences between these alternatives, and which one is the best for my use case scenario? My use case scenario: I have 2 partitions on my PC, both on the same drive; one for Windows and all installed programs, and one for storage. Every Monday and Thursday night 1:00 AM I'll completely backup everything from the PC to my NAS server by setting up automatic backups. At the moment I use the Disk/Partition Backup method to backup both partitions, but I'm wondering if any of the other alternatives are more suitable for me - for instance System Backup for the C drive and then a 2nd backup for the storage partition?

To find out by yourself, connect the charger to an electricity measurer, which in turn is plugged into the wall socket.

AIDA64 can detect instability and shut the test down before it crashes the system (it's not doing it successfully always though). Your overclock isn't stable. Either back down your overclock or apply more voltages. Can't suggest what you should do between those two as I'm not familiar with the AMD platform.

And even if you were to get better network speeds in the future, I don't think you will fully utilize even the SATA2 speeds unless you would add in an SSD into the NAS, so don't worry about it.

I recently got a QNAP TS-228, and although I've learned how to browse the OS (QTS 4.3.3) and UI I still haven't figured out how to setup scheduled automatic backups to specific folders in the NAS. Basically I just want my entire (!) PC to be backed up every monday and thursday at 23:59 to a folder for the backups of my PC. Is this setup from the NAS OS, or do I need to set this up inside Windows 10? I've found a backup utility inside the control panel, though I'm not sure if this is the proper way to do it?

If I were to setup automatic backups during daytime to my NAS server, would I notice the slowdown on the PC as it reads my SSD, and/or notice any slowdown in the network speed?

If you can't pinpoint anything and think "yeah I really should upgrade that in the near future" - then wait.

I forgot to mention that I still live at home, so I'll share the backup solution with the rest of my family, however I might move out within a year or so - and my intention is to hopefully let my family back home still be able to access my backup solution across the internet with automatic backups to my NAS. With this in mind - AIO or DIY?

What would be the typical early advantages people start using once going from AIO to DIY?

I'm planning on grabbing a NAS which will solely be used to regurarly fully backup 3 computers at home. To be clear, I won't use it as external storage. I'll just set everything up and let it automatically backup 1 computer each night, so I won't actively use it and browse it. To this NAS I'll also hook up an external HDD with the same size to backup everything from the NAS, which will be once a week or maybe more. This is to have a safe backup in case of a ransomware attack. Wether the HDD will be hooked into the NAS all time, or stored offline, I have yet to decide (will do more reading regarding the one solution vs the other). There will be no RAID. I have no plans on setting up snapshots or similar, since it's a bit beyond my knowledge. At this moment I'm not sure how I want my setup - an AIO complete NAS, such as WD My Cloud, Seagate Personal Cloud, etc... or to set it up myself and buy a QNAP empty NAS server or similar brand and a WD Red HDD. It all comes down to what will suit my needs the most in terms of functionality etc. If there are no advantages in my specific use case scenario, I'll just grab an AIO since it's cheaper. Any recommendations?

1067MHz is half of 2133MHz. 2133MHz is the bandwidth, but the actual clockspeed is always half of it, therefore the 1067MHz number. To get it to 2933MHz you need to enable the AMD version of XMP (whatever it is called, or however it works), or manually overclock it. Until then it's at what's called the JEDEC standard of 2133MHz as a failsafe. Once you've setup the proper RAM speed, it will show 2933MHz for bandwidth as well as 1467MHz for clockspeed.

Thanks, solved it

I've temporarily used my 32GB USB stick to hold Memtest86 for testing my RAM. Now when I'm done with it I want to get it back to it's state before installing Memtest86 on it. And though I've managed making a partition with most of the space, I still had 2 waste partitions just lying around at less than 100MB each. One I can't repartition, and then other I managed removing the partition, however I can't include it in my new main partition. How do I fix this?

Still wondering

SnotBubble Or that one time when I was killed in PVP and it said "You were blown into pieces by TheDarkImmigrant"

I just use a DXRacer, and it did miracles for my back (having a lighter soft tissue injury between the 5th and 6th vertebra). But that doesn't mean you should go and grab one of those of course. Make sure you're able to try out the chairs you're interested in. You also have Arozzi chairs. However these are just gaming chairs with entry level ergonomy, and not all people want them. If you want higher standards or more regular styles, go to an ergonomic chair store or an office store.

Is it a regular OEM license of Windows 10, or a full retail license? If it's a the standard OEM, it gets locked to the motherboard. Calling Microsoft support should solve this and lock it to the new motherboard.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I do believe I've heard them say a long time ago on a WAN show that they personally don't think 60 FPS looks that good in YouTube videos and they're therefore not interested in it.

Been seeing this as well