Gandon

I own an ADATA SX6000PNP NVMe SSD. It works well, but sometimes I get unpredictable abrupt PC reboots (it is not my boot drive BTW). The reason I think it's correlated with it is because every time this happens, the drive doesn't show up after Windows 10 boots again, and even after I reboot again - it's not detected at all by the PC, even when I go to BIOS and look at all the connected devices. It does however show up again if I turn off the PC completely and turn it on again. No data gets corrupted or anything. Anyone familiar with this problem? It is not a motherboard issue because it's happened on two separate motherboards, not an overheating issue either because it doesn't get much above 29-30 C. I heard some power related settings may have something to do with it but I'm not sure.

Since you have an SSD already, there are no further tips to give I guess. It's gonna suffice for web surfing at least. It's not like the old days when a PC that was just a couple years old was completely useless.

Apologies for the unusual file format. I was completely drunk, my phone for some reason saved the photo as this kind of file instead of usual jpg and I completely failed to pay attention to it. Thanks for the replies, I'll look up this standard.

So I got this unusual small PC MicroATX the other day, and I just need to know what kind of PSUs it takes. I know it's not SFX. The dimensions are roughly 95mm in one side, 70mm in another, and hell if I know when it comes to the depth. I hope it's nothing proprietary. 20200811_183423[1].heic

DRAM-less NVMe's work better than SATA DRAM-less SSDs due to HMB, but if you can get one with DRAM cache then get one.

So, I bought a cheap 2,5 inch USB 2.0 external HDD case the other day. I put a very old 320GB laptop drive there, and although it worked very slowly at first even almost stopping the entire system I've ultimately managed to format it and use it for a while, but then just one day when I plugged it in it displayed itself as unformatted, prompting me that it needs a format. So I assumed it's because it's an old HDD and it was bound to fail at any time. I swapped it for a different newer 1TB drive that has never had any problems and had files already on it, and the same happened randomly a few days ago too. Is that even possible? Could a cheap external HDD case actually be at fault? I was able to recover files flawlessly using a disk recovery program but this is very inconvenient.