Kilrah

It's irrelevant given there are power limits (that you also can't change). But yeah none of this applies to your locked CPU, and anyway it's only recommended to disable when encountering isues since there's obviously a significant performance penalty.

That, try it in another machine, possibly from a live linux boot... if it's recognised with proper capacity you can use e.g. ddrescue to make an image of it and hopefully mount it then, if it still freezes or doesn't get recognised correctly there's nothing you'll be able to do outside of using a data recovery company.

You have disabled automatic installation but not automatic downloading - once downloaded it'll keep reminding you to install

WD still does it... Seagate tends to have regular SATA drives. But yeah, soldering wires and using a breakout as temporary connector the time to get the data out would be the solution. PCB replacement is much less trivial.

That'll be the key. CPU transcoding on a 8100 isn't gonna cut it.

The question is indeed did you click the unsubscribe link and still receive them? Because it's all standard, only if they don't respect your requests to shut up would it become shady.

Should be fine, I've got both of them mixed, essentially the same drives.

Definitely. Any memtest fail is unacceptable and means the machine won't work right.

Yeah, still the most compatible, but also not the most reliable. I would keep the important documents NTFS and mount that read-only on linux, and have one exfat drive for steam and as "exchange" between the 2. But then I'm mostly using Windows and when I'm on linux I usually can do with only reading the Windows docs.

If your existing install is an MBR drive you'll need to enable Legacy boot/CSM.

As mentioned mobos and laptops typically don't support PD out so no sufficient power for a monitor. There are PCIe cards with PD e.g. https://www.delock.com/produkt/89001/merkmale.html?g=2069 but then they don't tie in to the iGPU so no display out, only data. Actually most mobo ports also don't do display out, some do but it's usually difficult to even find out whether they do. There are USB-C powered monitors, usually portable ones, but e.g. the one I have will limit its brightness to "barely usable" on a standard port, needs additional supply from a sufficiently powerful source on the 2nd USB-C port it has to get full brightness.

I'd then open the Resource monitor, go to drives page, sort by writes

Use something like Process Hacker, set it to highlight starting/stopping processes for 10 seconds, plug the dock in and see what comes and goes. It's likely something the driver does when it sees it, the dock itself should not have the ability to run something on the host machine.

It's alive and well, got an entire aisle of them at the hardware store here.... https://www.stanleytools.com/systems-campaigns/stanley-systems/stanley-fatmax

AIOs are a sealed thing, not designed to be serviced. You won't find parts for it. Expect it to live 3-5 years and then replace. Of course the fans are separate from the loop, you can replace them with whatever you want.

Where did you get the precompiled kernel from? Same place should have modules. And yes it's entirely possible a bunch of other things break if you downgrade just those.

Downloads at 300Mbps here. Probably depends on what servers/peerings they have at your location and how much load there is on them. Rest is just choice on their part, only they would know why they did those.

If you don't want to compile the whole kernel and modules yourself you likely need to install the matching modules package.

An HBA is just "an interface card for drives", they can have external, internal or both types of ports. The interface is SAS3/12Gbps yes but a mechanical drive can't access more than 2.4 or so from its platters so it's useless unless you either use SSDs or get into schemes with large numbers of drives and SAS expanders. They use different ones and how should we be able to make sure from a picture rather than a listing... the 9200 uses SFF-8087 and the 9300 uses SFF-8643. Drive side connector is correct.

No. Most programs install system dependencies, store things in Windows' registry, in your user profile... even if the actual program files are on another drive. And anyway even if the whole user profile was on D that could still get corrupted... Usually when I do a fresh install I then copy the actual documents (downloads, desktop, pictures,...) back into the new user profile from the old, along with the appdata folders for a minimum of specific apps where it makes sense.

In the Shift-F10 type explorer, that'll launch explorer then you can browse to your driver and run its setup program.