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(Greetings from Belgium) Tech support: What the title says... I've recently had to expand my storage. I added in a 1TB WD Barracuda (Came from an old iMac, am using at my own risk. I know) and had an old 128 M.2 SATA SSD lying around. Since I have Zero budget left, I thought that maybe it'd be possible to use the SSD as a caching drive just like Intel Optane or AMD StoreMi, however StoreMi (Using an AMD system) didn't want to install and had not the most encouraging reviews. After some reserach I found an 'alternative' but that uses RAMdisks, not what I want. I barely have enough with 16GB. Right now I do not use the SSD and have simply set 120GB of page file on that SSD lmao So... what if I set the RAMdisk to that pagefile? Wouldn't that work? It's an SSD so it's still faster than the HDD. Why wouldn't it work? Before attempting this I have tried researching a bit, but the only results I found were "Pagefile in ramdisk", the opposite of what I was looking for. Is there anyone savy enough about this topic to help me out? I do not feel like finding out the hard way myself (Like I did with 2nd hand PSUs :))))) I did not want to use storage spaces, since it limits storage to 256GB (128GB from the SSD + 128 from the HDD) for some reason. I want the full 1TB to be used. Additional info: Windows 11, latest Ryzen 9 5950X non OC + NH-U12A 16GB PC4 3200MT/s GTX 780 3G Aorus B550 Elite v2 (rev1.2) -> CPU and MOBO appear compatible with storeMI, but does not work Thanks in advance. rode PS: Might be a stupid question and the answer might've been there all along, but let this be the answer to those lost with the same question as I have.
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Hi all, I have an existing mirrored pool of 2 disks on my Windows 11 machine, and I was wondering if I can add a read-write (or any) cache to the pool? Without rebuilding from 0? Thank you in advance.
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I'm baack, . I've built a NAS out of my old computer with six 6TB drives, an old SSD SATA drive thats somewhere between 150-250 Gb. I'm using Unraid as suggested by a User and I've had some fun with it since then. After doing some tests I see that I have some damage starting in that old SSD drive, and I've seen that the smart way to go forward is to use 2 drives for cache to protect against a dying drive during data saves. So when I installed it made 1 of the 6TB drives a parity drive leaving 5*6TB for my data storage. Extremely rough math says thats 30TB and with the suggested 10% cache to storage ratio I'm looking at 3TB. So (I was going to go with two 2TB Crucial ( https://www.amazon.ca/Crucial-MX500-NAND-SATA-Internal/dp/B003J5JB12/ref=sr_1_9?crid=3LK2PQZ2JWH0&keywords=2tb%2Bcrucial%2Bssd&qid=1702445143&sprefix=2tb%2Bcrucial%2Bssd%2Caps%2C251&sr=8-9&ufe=app_do%3Aamzn1.fos.d0e27fc4-6417-4b26-97cb-f959a9930752&th=1 ) drives. My amazing wife asked me if the 4 TB drives were on sale and if it was worth it to go that route. I think it's serious overkill, but again, I'm turning to those with more knowledge. This will be used to store our media (movies music and photos) and to be a Jellyfin media player to our 4K 85" tv. I say this only because I've read that pushing out the data for the bigger 4K TVs is harder than a small tv. Not that I think cache is involved with playing movies and music back, but I could be 100% wrong! The old computer uses a P67 Sabertooth M0b0 that has 8 sata ports thankfully.
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Okay, I'm really sorry to bug y'all, but I'm finding real spotty info on this topic. I'm running Windows 10, and (separate from my boot drive) I've got a 2TB SSD, and 5x3TB HDDs. I'm trying to run the HDDs in Parity, with the SSD as a cache. I've run Storage Spaces before on just the HDDs with Parity, and I've seen several posts around the web discussing Tiered Storage with Storage Spaces as well. However, I've only seen folks talk about striping or mirroring with tiered storage. Every time I see someone with the same thoughts as me ask, it's just people dunking on Parity without being much help. Look, I'm just a gamer with a habit of data hoarding. I'd like to maximize my storage, with a little redundancy, but still have whatever game is my addiction of the week load relatively snappy. I appreciate any advice y'all can give me, and hope everyone reading this has a lovely day!
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So I get into these werid situations where my disk is more than 75% filled and I get to have <= 12GB of dynamic cache available. When I burn through that my 660P gets into high latency situation where it can reach as high as 10000ms and speeds drop to 1MB and less. Now I've been surfing through the internet and there is so little about all of that my last chance is asking it here. How can I improve all of that? One option would be changing the NVMe for a better one and higher capacity one, but I want to complicate my life a little bit and experiment a little bit, maybe it will come handy in the future. I was look at StoreMi from AMD as I am on AMD platform that is the only software I came by that could turn my storge device into caching drive. I'd also like to understand how it exactly works, I feel like it's close to temporary storage variant where it doesnt bother the main disk and I am free of lag when my main disk gets closer to filling the capacity. I've been checking out few NVMe disks and saw that 2TB options are better compared to 1TB ones as you get higher speed DRAM for example, everything else almost scales as you go up in numbers. There are few main differences between the disks that i cannot find anyone talking about and it's sort of a hard to decide when you try to think about it. Solidigm P44 pro Samsung 990 Pro Kingston Fury Renegade SN850X FireCuda 530 Now I feel like all of those disks are good, but some are better at something than the other and vice-versa. The one thing that pains me the most is SLC Write Cache: dynamic caching and static caching, FireCuda has only 55GBs of it dynamic cache only, Kingston ups that number to around 320GB and then you have something like 990pro and P44 Pro which dont offer as high dynamic cache as kingston on 1TB versions, but they do feature static one, and i have no idea what that really does in any kind of way other than that it might not lose any information upon turning your pc off, if i go by the logic of SRAM vs DRAM. Now my question is how do I set additional cache drive besides my main drive, and what should i be looking in NVMes the most other than mainstream "top seq speeds" and price. I've read review on those disks and many say firecuda is blazing fast, but i wonder what happens to it when you run out of so simingly low cache and especially when you start filling the space up comapred to others. My goal is to understand this and to make or improve my PC experience better, thanks.
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I got a good deal on this SSD. It's got no DRAM cache. Are ADLINK SSDs reliable? Should I worry about it not having DRAM cache? link: https://www.nanotek.lk/product/1779
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My older laptop has still uses a hard drive. I will upgrade to an SSD and more ram very soon, but I don't do much important tasks on it anyways so I have it for what it is for now. Restarting takes ages, while Shutdown with fast startup is acceptable. But I found out the hibernating is even better and is so much faster. It's not ideal for the freshness of that session, but that's the idea. To not clear the configured memory, and keep reusing it to waste less time making fresh memory. But I found out that even after hibernating, the standby memory or cache is not stored to disk and is flushed when the system is down. This causes 2 problems. First, there is very less cache, so my programs load slower. Second, as soon as Windows detects that there is more Ram to eat up as cache, it immediately calls SysMain (aka prefetch), and start hammering my disk to load the cache. My disk then sets at 100% for at least 5 mins until all the cache is loaded, and then the usage goes down a bit. I want to know if there is a way to save the memory cache to the drive and boot using that to load faster, or if there is a way to delay the SysMain prefetching, so Windows first boots properly, let me open my apps, and then it starts hammering my disk. Probably this second might be possible, with like Task Scheduler maybe.
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can i use an if so how a Intel Optane P1600X 118 GB M.2-2280 PCIe 3.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive vi a Sabrent NVMe M.2 SSD to PCIe X16/X8/X4 Card with Aluminum Heat Sink (EC-PCIE) on my pop os build Gigabyte B550M DS3H Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard and set the drive and adapter in the 2nd pci x16 port an config as a cache/scrach will that work an if so how do i set that up ?
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Current Specs: Gigabyte b460m Aorus Pro i5 10400 2x8gb HyperX Fury RTX 3060 Ti 1x 500gb 860 Evo 1x 4tb Seagate Barracuda ---- I was wondering if it is possible to use a ssd as a cache for my 4tb seagate barracuda drive. I saw a post with AMD and StoreMI but I'm on an intel platform. I know you could use Intel Optane M10 but I feel like the price is just way too expensive Anyone have any Ideas so that I can make is so that I can make a cache for my hdd? I'm planning to buy a new ssd.
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Hi, in one of our computers the C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows Defender\Scans folder consists of a bunch of mpcache files that add upto around 10gb. I would like to delete them as it is consuming too much space. Tried deleting them manually but I get the error saying Windows Defender Service is using this file and it cannot be deleted. I noticed that even if I turn off Windows Defender from settings, it doesn't allow the files to be deleted. Also noticed that the Defender service cannot be stopped in the services Window as the options are greyed out. Some insight to get this done would be really helpful. Thanks.
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Hi, I'm looking at using/ upgrading a old optiplex with a SATA3 ssd, 4590, and 16gb ddr3 to try and set up a steam caching server, along with some other smaller servers (2-5 vinilla mc, SCP Secret Lab, etc) Mine main question is what my bottlenecks are going to be and how much it's going to affect performance of the cache. Ideally once I have that then i can start looking at what upgrades I should get and/or whether they are going to be worth the cost. I also don't know if this is the right place to be asking so please point me in the right direction if it's not Thank
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My 1TB SSD Boot drive only has 60 GB remaining, and a good chunk of it is taken up by recordings (whether by shadowplay or downloaded lecture series). I also have a 3TB HDD that I initially planned to use as secondary storage. Although from my previous methods of moving some of my dated recordings to it, I basically thought that I'm just using my boot drive as a cache for recordings and just write them to my hard drive after some time anyway. This over time will get pretty tedious and so I've looked into maybe using a partition of my boot drive or maybe getting an additional SSD just to act as a cache for my HDD. Looking into methods for SSD caching however, I've only seen it being mentioned done for HDDs used as boot drives. Would SSD caching be possible on my secondary drive? And is it feasible? My initial idea of getting a HDD when building this PC was for media storage but after checking SSD cache, it might be also be used on additional games that demand a lot of storage. Below are my drives' userbenchmarks if it helps with your assessment and recommendations. Thanks!
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Hi I am trying to copy my Steam library to a 1tb Seagate Baracuda HD, a spinny one not an ssd. Once copied I will use the Seagate drive for Steam instead of the current one which only has a small Steam partition (and which is full) so I can use the old Steam space for other files. I have the Seagate drive plugged into a usb to sata adaptor which I have used without any issues in the past, and used around 3 months ago for a similar task. Once the copy is done it will go into the pc case; I’m doing it this way as I can also make sure the drive is working without having to open the case repeatedly. However the copy is not working. It runs fine for around 10 mins and then just stops with a transfer rate of 0 bytes, which periodically rises to a few k or maybe a few mb before dropping to 0 again. As a result a copy that should take a couple of hours is likely to take a couple of decades. I thought that Seagate used cmr for drives below 2tb but am now wondering if this is a symptom of me having an smr drive, or maybe I just have a dud drive? Could it be some weird caching issue? Does anyone know if this is a symptom of a dud drive, smr – rather than cmr (I am confused as to effects of one or the other), or something else and how I might be able to find out? Oddly I can access the Seagate drive while the copy is frozen and just reading directories etc is fine, so it does not appear to be a communications issue, rather a problem with the write speed. There is no odd clicking from the drive and the heads are not hunting as far as I can tell Hope someone can help and thanks in advance.
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My system currently has 2x 8TB HDDs, an unused SATA SSD and an NVMe boot drive. I want to use the SATA SSD as a cache. In my research so far there is a software called primocache. My question is are there any free alternatives? If not is primo cache worth the money? System Specs: Motherboard: B550 Aorus ELITE AX V2 CPU: R7 5800x GPU: Gigabyte Gaming 3080Ti RAM: 4x 16GB Team group Delta R @3200MHZ (XMP) Storage: 2x 8TB Seagate Ironwolf, 1x 256GB Gigabyte NVMe boot drive, 1x 256GB Samsung 860 EVO SATA SSD CPU Cooler: iCUE H115i ELITE CAPELLIX Liquid CPU Cooler Case fans: 3x Cooler Master MF120 PSU: Corsair RM 850w
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I already have an 512 GB M.2 VPN100 Patriot as a boot drive, prior to that I was using a cheap 120 GB GX1 Teamgroup Sata SSD but now that drive is not doing much, I use it for storing some lightweight games but I was thinking if it would be a good idea to use it as a cache device for my 2 TB HDD. I was planning on buying 1 TB Sata SSD so I can store big games like RDD2 and get good loading times but if I could use what I already have to get a decent experience in terms of loading times, that would be awesome. Thing is I don't know much about using SSD as cache, it'd be much appreciated if someone explained to me. I have an AMD platform (R7 2700, B450 Tomahawk, 2x8 GB 3200 MHz RAM). As far as I have read, there's a utility called StoreMI that can be use on AMD systems.
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Hey, I wonder if it is worth to use an SSD as cache for a hard drive. I use Windows 10, and I use my hard drive for games mostly. I'd love for the games I play the most to load faster but I really don't want to micro manage installing some games on SSD and others on the HDD. Could I just use an SSD as a cache? My specs: Asrock AB350 Pro, Ryzen 5 1600, 1 x SATA SSD, 1 x NVME SSD, 1 x SATA HDD.
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I've been looking at drives, and noticed (a while ago) that a lot of them have cache, which as far as I understand is kind of like cracked storage that runs out over time, but I also heard that the 2tb 980 pro is supposed to be faster than the 1tb, but according to pcpartpicker it has no cache, does it not have/accept any? Or something else? also, according to this link the 980 pro is kind of cracked https://thepcenthusiast.com/review-samsung-980-pro-2tb-vs-wd-black-sn850-2tb/ so why does it have/say it has no cache
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Store mi cant be used with an NVMe drive it says. my problem is that i have a different SSD that i want to use as the cache that is sata driven so this should? be fine? but it wont even install because my boot drive is NVMe. anyone had this problem or solved it?
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Hi, I want to upgrade my PC CPU for online school and just light gaming on a low budget. I want to upgrade it from Pentium to Core i3. My motherboard is LGA 1150 socket with H81 Chipset. After I searched the online store I got 2 choices. i3 4170 3.7GHz with 3MB cache and i3 4330 3.5GHz with 4MB Intel® Smart Cache. Should I choose i3 4170 0.2Ghz higher frequency and Integrated Graphics Intel® HD Graphics 4400 or i3 4330 with 1MB larger Cache and Integrated Graphics Intel® HD Graphics 4600? The price of these two CPUs is the same, which is $41.55 (Convert from IDR 600,000 to Dollar) Sorry, I'm new user in Linus Tech Tips and newbie in PC Components Specifications of the 2 CPUs Above (Source ark.intel.com) [i3 4170] https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/77490/intel-core-i3-4170-processor-3m-cache-3-70-ghz.html CPU Specifications # of Cores 2 # of Threads 4 Processor Base Frequency 3.70 GHz Cache 3 MB Bus Speed 5 GT/s TDP 54 W Supplemental Information Embedded Options Available No Datasheet View now Memory Specifications Max Memory Size (dependent on memory type) 32 GB Memory Types DDR3-1333/1600, DDR3L-1333/1600 @ 1.5V Max # of Memory Channels 2 Max Memory Bandwidth 25.6 GB/s ECC Memory Supported ‡ Yes Processor Graphics Processor Graphics ‡ Intel® HD Graphics 4400 Graphics Base Frequency 350 MHz Graphics Max Dynamic Frequency 1.15 GHz Graphics Video Max Memory 2 GB Graphics Output eDP/DP/HDMI/DVI/VGA Max Resolution (HDMI)‡ 4096x2304@24Hz Max Resolution (DP)‡ 3840x2160@60Hz Max Resolution (eDP - Integrated Flat Panel)‡ 3840x2160@60Hz Max Resolution (VGA)‡ 1920x1200@60Hz DirectX* Support 11.1/12 OpenGL* Support 4.3 Intel® Quick Sync Video Yes Intel® InTru™ 3D Technology Yes Intel® Clear Video HD Technology Yes # of Displays Supported ‡ 3 Device ID 0x41E Expansion Options Scalability 1S Only PCI Express Revision Up to 3.0 PCI Express Configurations ‡ Up to 1x16, 2x8, 1x8+2x4 Max # of PCI Express Lanes 16 Package Specifications Sockets Supported FCLGA1150 Max CPU Configuration 1 Thermal Solution Specification PCG 2013C TCASE 72°C Package Size 37.5mm x 37.5mm Advanced Technologies Intel® Turbo Boost Technology ‡ No Intel vPro® Platform Eligibility ‡ No Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology ‡ Yes Intel® Virtualization Technology (VT-x) ‡ Yes Intel® Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O (VT-d) ‡ No Intel® VT-x with Extended Page Tables (EPT) ‡ Yes Intel® Transactional Synchronization Extensions No Intel® 64 ‡ Yes Instruction Set 64-bit Instruction Set Extensions Intel® SSE4.1, Intel® SSE4.2, Intel® AVX2 Idle States Yes Enhanced Intel SpeedStep® Technology Yes Thermal Monitoring Technologies Yes Intel® Stable Image Platform Program (SIPP) No Security & Reliability Intel® AES New Instructions Yes Secure Key Yes Intel® Trusted Execution Technology ‡ No Execute Disable Bit ‡ Yes [i3 4330] https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/77769/intel-core-i3-4330-processor-4m-cache-3-50-ghz.html CPU Specifications # of Cores 2 # of Threads 4 Processor Base Frequency 3.50 GHz Cache 4 MB Intel® Smart Cache Bus Speed 5 GT/s TDP 54 W Supplemental Information Embedded Options Available Yes Datasheet View now Memory Specifications Max Memory Size (dependent on memory type) 32 GB Memory Types DDR3-1333/1600, DDR3L-1333/1600 @ 1.5V Max # of Memory Channels 2 Max Memory Bandwidth 25.6 GB/s ECC Memory Supported ‡ Yes Processor Graphics Processor Graphics ‡ Intel® HD Graphics 4600 Graphics Base Frequency 350 MHz Graphics Max Dynamic Frequency 1.15 GHz Graphics Video Max Memory 2 GB Graphics Output eDP/DP/HDMI/DVI/VGA Max Resolution (HDMI)‡ 4096x2304@24Hz Max Resolution (DP)‡ 3840x2160@60Hz Max Resolution (eDP - Integrated Flat Panel)‡ 3840x2160@60Hz Max Resolution (VGA)‡ 1920x1200@60Hz DirectX* Support 11.1/12 OpenGL* Support 4.3 Intel® Quick Sync Video Yes Intel® InTru™ 3D Technology Yes Intel® Clear Video HD Technology Yes # of Displays Supported ‡ 3 Device ID 0x412 Expansion Options Scalability 1S Only PCI Express Revision Up to 3.0 PCI Express Configurations ‡ Up to 1x16, 2x8, 1x8+2x4 Max # of PCI Express Lanes 16 Package Specifications Sockets Supported FCLGA1150 Max CPU Configuration 1 Thermal Solution Specification PCG 2013C TCASE 66.8°C Package Size 37.5mm x 37.5mm Advanced Technologies Intel® Turbo Boost Technology ‡ No Intel vPro® Platform Eligibility ‡ No Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology ‡ Yes Intel® Virtualization Technology (VT-x) ‡ Yes Intel® Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O (VT-d) ‡ No Intel® VT-x with Extended Page Tables (EPT) ‡ Yes Intel® Transactional Synchronization Extensions No Intel® 64 ‡ Yes Instruction Set 64-bit Instruction Set Extensions Intel® SSE4.1, Intel® SSE4.2, Intel® AVX2 Idle States Yes Enhanced Intel SpeedStep® Technology Yes Thermal Monitoring Technologies Yes Intel® Stable Image Platform Program (SIPP) No Security & Reliability Intel® AES New Instructions Yes Intel® Trusted Execution Technology ‡ No Execute Disable Bit ‡ Yes
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Has anyone already fully set this up and I just can't seem to find it? If so could I get a link? Goals: Allow one phone to request install/update game or app. Allow other phones / tablets to benefit home server speeds. Using capped data this limiting a.m.a.p. so that family and friends can download the same game / data apk and all be up to date near the same time. Related posts: To be edited. Multi server has potential Lancache https://youtu.be/3bfJdtA7GtA
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Hello, I recently got both a high capacity (8TB) HDD and a 500GB SSD that I would like to use as a cache. I remember Linus talking about some software that is used to achieve that but I always forget the name so I wanted to ask the community if someone remembers which one Linus said is good for that or if someone maybe has some other good programs or ways to do that. Additionally, I wanted to ask if 500GB is too much for 8TP? If so, can I use half of the SSD as cache and the other half as normal storage? Maybe i should add that the HDD will mostly be used for games and game related programs (launchers, mod tools and so on). Thanks to anyone that may take their time to answer me.
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So I have been running a 9900k in my msi Z390-A Pro for about a year with no issues or errors. The cpu has always boosted up to 4.7ghz stable. The other day I was looking at task manager and noticed i had forgotten to set my ram to full speed. My ram sticks are Corsair lpx 3000mhz ddr4. I went into the bios to turn on xmp. While i was there i noticed the overclocking Guinee. I thought i would turn it on to see if i could get any higher clocks on the cpu. Once i got back into windows my ram was fine at 3000mhz but my cpu clock was bouncing around all over place. Between the 4.7ghz it manged before and up to 4.9ghz. Later on in the day i was playing Rainbow six siege and the pc bluescreened. I think it was "Clock_watchdog_timeout" but I am not 100% sure as i don't remember too well. Anyway after this i disabled both xmp and overclocking Guinee as the pc had been fine for a year prior to changing those 2 settings. The pc seemed to run fine after disabling those 2 settings and the cpu is stable once again at 4.7ghz. However i noticed that videos would reload a couple of times before playing and that concerned me. So i thought i would check event viewer and that's how i found these warnings. The reloading has since stopped and i am not having any crashes or freezing so far. I tried running cinebench and actually got a better score then the benchmark i tested when i first built the pc. Any help understand what this issue is or how to fix it would be great. Should i even be worried since the system seems to be running fine now?
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Hei, i want to get an new ssd to expand my PS5 and I wondered if I should spend the extra money fa a cached one or not? I know that you should use in a pc a cached, but in a PS5? greetings julius
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Just yesterday I upgraded my main machines Linux installation to Kernel 6.0.0-2-amd64 for Devuan Linux (Daedalus/Ceres). Today, after having my computer running for about thirty minutes while not doing much other than watching YouTube, I got a long series of messages in my notifications explaining some errors that happened in the terminal. I keep three terminal windows open, one for OpenRGB, another for Radeon Profile and an extra one for any work I need to do later on in the day. These are the errors that I got. The way they're explained on an old forum post from nine years ago is that it's either a failing CPU which doesn't seem likely, as I've just bought this 5950X three months ago and it's been working perfectly .It could have also been a small solar flare causing massive amounts of bit flips in memory or somewhere else in the system, as I don't have ECC or anything similar (not to my knowledge). The most likely culprit to me is just the new Kernel, as like I said I just upgraded it yesterday and today is my first time running it. I just want to know if this is something I should be worried about, it would be a massive inconvenience if I had to replace hardware after only three months.