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Pickles von Brine

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  1. Um, ram is one thing but what else? Processor? What kind of storage? etc.
  2. T1700 is a nice system. Do you know the specs? Also, does it have ram and whatnot in it? Does it work?
  3. Pickles von Brine

    do you wanna f(x)=(4/(5x^2+4x+4))

  4. use it as a NAS. otherwise I would retire it. Poor thing is over a decade old. It deserves sleep.
  5. You have a damaged file system bud. As you said yourself. It got damaged after not ejecting properly. Do you know why OSX requires you to eject the disk instead of ripping it out? When OSX is using a drive, it isn't just sitting there doing nothing when the drive isn't in use. OSX is constantly updating file system components and they are hooked by the OS. When you yank a drive while OSX is using these file system components you run the risk of damaging them. In this case, that is what happened. Nothing to do with the OS. I am surprised it opened on an ipad. The drive isn't damaged. It is the file system that is. This isn't the fault of the OS. It is the fault of the user for yanking the drive while it was in use. Sorry to say it. Each time a drive is yanked on OSX you run the risk of this. Regardless of the file system but especially so for FAT32 and ExFat drives. NTFS, APFS and HFS have resiliency but kick out the right leg and they will corrupt too. Not all file corruption is repairable. Make sure you eject the drives properly. When you have a damaged file system most cases OSX is useless in fixing it. Software is required. However, in some cases the file system cannot be saved and a raw recovery has to be done. The fact you loss data also shows weaknesses in your data handling strategies. It would be best to look into and possibly revise them to avoid this in the future.
  6. They do have a company they work with that facilitates merch for. They do not do all the merch sales out of their building. Linus and co (because it isn't just linus running the company BTW) work hard to have good products. If you don't think it is good, that is on you. Linus helps guide a multi-million dollar business that requires a team of editors, writers, cinematographers, general staff, accounting, and more. Yes, linus is on every video but he has a team behind him. I bet you lunch just his payroll alone is close to 4 million a year. He isn't a god, he is a person who has worked his ass off to get what he has. He also stands behind his word and his product. Yes, he makes mistakes. But he does give a shit. And, he has a vision. So he is doing his dammedest to get there. Is he doing too much? Yes, maybe he is. However, he has a vision and he is throwing himself and his team into it. Making merch, videos, getting sponsorships, ad revenue, affliate links, R&D (yes, they do this) and now a lab. He isn't just steering the business on a whim. Him and his business team has made a decisions to get here and where to go from here. Furthermore, if he doesn't have the knowledge or people to do what he wants or needs he is willing to put his money where is mouth is. Hire the right people for the right job. He has and continues to do this. Any effort into trivializing any of that effort of not just him, but his team deserves than a snide remark. What he does is more than just a YouTube video company. A hell of a lot more.
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    I love how cheap old high end hardware is. Just…

    I almost bought a 20 core server with 48GB of ram for 400 bucks the other day just to have a new toy. Amazing at the awesome old hardware out there.
  8. You are good man. Just enjoy your games. System is a little old by modern hardware standards but who cares? Answer these 3 questions: Does my system work? Does it play the games I like? Does it play the games I like well? If you answer yes then be happy with what you got. You can dive down the rabbit hole of this and that (trust me I did for a long time) but you get to a point of just being satisfied with what you have. The only reason I have the computer I have now is because I had a 7 year old processor at the time that had a dying motherboard, I wanted a GPU upgrade and I had the money. I bought the CPU, motherboard and RAM first. Then when the 3000 series came out I managed to snag one at a good price. Sold my 1070 to a good friend of mine for cheap and he has been happy like a hog in slop. My old system played all the games I had at 1080p just fine. Now I have a 4k monitor and a 3070. Am I happy? Yes I am. Am I eying the 4000 series? You bet I am. Will I upgrade? Likely not. If the opportunity presents itself? I might. The key is keeping perspective and keeping your head out of the weeds. Also, as the second poster said. Ignore the calculator stuff. You got a good balanced system.
  9. At 1080p you become CPU bound and mainly at frequency. However, even so you are fine. I rocked a 3770k @ 4.5 and a 1070 until Ryzen 3000 came out. I did get a nice bump in performance but it was like 10-15 FPS? Don't worry so much about bottlenecks. Just build a PC with what you can and enjoy it. Take this from someone who has been building and repairing computers for 17 years. I don't even worry about bottlenecks when I build my systems. I grab a good processor, slap in a good video card, good ram and board. Grab a reliable power supply and an SSD and call it a day.
  10. My system is super quite and also has no lights to indicate it is on. I only hear the relay from the power supply, wait 5 or so seconds, here a post beep fans ramp and post. Every time I turn this thing on I scare myself XD Any of you have something similar?
  11. Solid advice here. Would recommend the same.
  12. Bro, they just had two MASSIVE launches in less than 3 months. They are swamped. And yes it can take that amount of time to higher people only to realize you need to hire even MORE people. However, you also have to note that just because you have a huge influx of orders and tickets doesn't mean you will still have that same workload a month later. Panic hiring is counter productive too. Linus has stated and and acknowledged this is an issue. He has also said to be patient. LTT pumping out videos is one of their main ways they pay their bills and employees so that would take a priority. That being said, they have an entire separate section of the company called Creator Warehouse that handles merch. They are swamped. They just sold 20000 backpacks and over 90000 screw drivers and whatever else goes along with those things, plus all the other merch they do. That is a lot of customers. They have a total team of 80 people. 10 or so people are from creator warehouse. There right now are 2 people who handle tickets. Though I am sure others from creator warehouse are pitching it. This is just a massive amount of people and orders. These are growing pains. This kind of shit happens. It sucks ass. However, screaming and yelling ain't going to fix it. Being patient and not an jerk goes a long way.
  13. You know, instead of describing things a photo would do wonders. Just saying.
  14. used drives are fine, however I am hesitant to buy and use them. Drives are cheap these days. You don;t know what history that drive has been through.
  15. You need to change Crystal Disk Info from hex to decimal to read that. Go Function > Advanced Features > Raw Values and change it to 10 [DEC]. Then what is there will make sense. The things to pay attention to with a hard drive are going to be the following: Reallocated Sectors Count Current Pending Count Current offline Sector Count Your drive only supports reallocated sector count. I replace drives once they have bad sectors and no longer trust them. Currently in hex that value is reading as 0. So no bad sectors found. There are other parts of SMART that can give indications of drive failure such as read error rate, CRC error count, g-sense (g load detected AKA your drive was dropped), and free fall detection (detects a drive failling, retracts the heads and prepares for impact). Go a bit futher: Read Error Rate - Rate at which your drive is having read errors. This can indicate something is wrong with the drive. This is the read error rate of attempting to read data from the surface of the disk. Spin-up Time - Can indicate spindle issues. Basically measures how long the drive takes to spin up. Reallocated Sector Count - These are bad sectors. Areas of the drive that cannot be read or written to. These are bad. They do accumulate overtime and drive can reallocate bad sectors. However, there are times it cannot, ran out of spare sectors or there is other damage on the drive. One or two isn't bad. But if goes over 10 I would replace the drive. Remember, it isn't the fact your drive has bad sectors but WHERE it has sectors that can cause a lot of pain. Bad sector in the right place can do a lot of damage. I have seen it many many many times. Power-On Hours - How long the drive has been powered on. This is measure of how much work and time the drive has on it. Power Cycle Count - How many times the drive has been powered on and off. G-Sense Error Rate - This is how much g load the drive took. High g load means the drive was dropped and potentially very hard. Drops can and do damage or even destroy drives. Generally this is used for data recovery (to know what the drive has been through) or for warranty. If the drive failed because it was bad that is one thing. But you drop it? Nah, that ain't covered under warranties. This is one way drive manufactures can tell. Power-Off Retract Count - Another way of indicating number of times the drive was powered off. This measurement is how many times the head stack assembly has been fully retracted for power off. Load/Unload cycle count - A single “load/unload” cycle sees a disk drive ready itself for operation by spinning up its spindle so that the disk starts to rotate, a necessary action before its read and write heads are activated to go about their business capturing or creating data. When the operation is finished, the disk unloads, ceasing rotation and returning the read/write heads to a safe position. I had to look this one up. Temperature - How hot the drive gets. This can cause drives to behave... weird or even stop operating. High temps can also kill a drive sooner. There are a number of other things high temps do to a drive. UltraDMA CRC Error Count - Can be caused by bad sectors but most of the time it is caused by a bad connection. Bad sata cable, bad port, etc. Head Flying Hours - How long the heads are flying over the surface of the disk. Total Host Writes - How much data has been written to the disk in LBAs Total Host Reads - How much data has been written in LBAs Freefall Protection - The drive can sense a freefall, spin down and retract the heads and prepare for impact. This measures how many times this has happened. BTW, drives should NEVER be dropped. Bad things happen. Some drives have more telemetry others have less. Toshiba generally doesn't have as many things it keeps track of with SMART. I used SMART a lot to determine how bad could be when I was doing data recovery. SMART stands for Self Monitoring And Reporting Technology. It has been around for a very very long time. Fun fact, super old drives (I think early 90s late 80s) didn't keep track of these kinds of things. SMART was developed to help do this and mainly for mainframe and server use since HUGE number of drives were deployed. This gave operators a way of keeping tabs on the health of drives before they became a problem.
  16. If you reset the CMOS on your board do they come back? I am thinking it is either something munged up in bios or the controller is done. To rule out the drives are okay you can always get a USB 3.5" dock and test both drives with it. It sounds like either the board experienced a failure, bios got munged up or something happened to your drives.
  17. I have had a bad cable do this. Or bad connection. Do you have a way of testing the drive outside of a computer using a drive enclosure?
  18. Hard drive running at 100% when ram is in high ususage can be caused by page file usage. As far as RAID 0 goes, check in bios under sata configuration and make sure it says "RAID" then you reboot and you should be able to press control + I to gain access to the intel raid setup. If the sata mode operation is not available in bios then the system does not support RAID natively on the board and would require a raid card.
  19. They are hiring new people to help but it takes time to get people and train them.
  20. Pickles von Brine

    Friend spilled water on his MacBook keyboard, n…

    What gen is that machine?
  21. @Mel0n.Summoned me. @Esfand14So a few things first. There is a possiblity your drive could be recovered as long as none of the chips are damaged. If the NAND or controller are damaged your are hosed. A data recovery company could possibly recover it by possibly transplanting the controller and nand onto a donor PCB. That should work. If the controller is damaged your are hosed. The adaptives and encryption keys for the nand are stored there. A cracked name is like a shattered platter on a drive. You cannot recover it. All modern SSDs use encryption for their NAND because SSD manufactures like to protect their IP. Which makes data recovery difficult at the very best. Oh, and pricing you are easily looking at 1500+ USD. Probably closer to 2500+ Maybe a more. Good luck!
  22. I choose 2-3 of the best cables and throw the rest out. Then I wrap themselves up with themselves and they go into a box. No organization. However, there are only about 10-15 cables in there.
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