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Hi all, I currently have a media drive (8TB WD Gold) which I write DVDs / blu rays to (rarely - every 6 months I'd say). I hate that it is a spinning drive. I'm contemplating upgrading it to an SSD. Either a Samsung 8TB 870 QVO or the Kingston DC450R TLC. As I do not write to it often, does...

Spinning platter thing... I believe they can be installed horizontally or vertically, but can they be installed diagonally?

Hello all, I am taking a break from looking for GPUs that don't exist and turning my attention to storage drives. Hopefully there's a deal to be had over the weekend. I want two drives - one as the boot drive and install drive for my CAD programs. The second can be for storage, CAD files and...

Hi guys, I installed a NVME SSD in my PC and installed windows on it for my dad to use until I got his PC built. Now that his PC is built, I’ve swapped the SSD into his PC and it’s not recognised as a bootable device. I’ve since found out that leaving my SSD installed when I installed windows...

Hi All, Is it possible to build a tower unit with several optical drives that would act as a hardware extension to a computer, a break-away-box (i believe), with its own power and options to add PCI cards for different buses eg USB, Firewire, Lightening? Preferably that is 'transplantable' to...

More of a curiosity post really to see what others do and what SSDs they have as their OS drive with games/software installed. I have had an Intel Skulltrail 730 series (480GB) since close to launch and having had many many SSDs since at both home and work, it has been the single most reliable...

One of my SSDs that holds my MacOS install on my PC has seemingly failed without warning. It was 4 years old (just over the 3 year warranty, well played SanDisk...). It now doesn't appear in Windows on the same machine or even in BIOS, but it does appear in EaseUS backup software...

My D Drive doesn't seem to be working properly. I noticed this because I had Steam installed on my C Drive and then when space ran out, I began moving the installed games over to the D Drive (st2000dm001-1er164) which is 2TB. I noticed that games weren't launching or updating correctly and it...

Sort of found my answer here: https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/threads/full-format-or-quick-format.18032416/ However, I need some extra advice. I bought a new HGST Deskstar 8TB hard drive for use as a media backup drive. Should I do either A or B below: A) Full Format (GPT Partition) or...

ive installed a Samsung m.2 drive on my PC, and cloned my old SSD to it. Every time I try and boot from the m.2 it tells me to insert a valid boot drive and press any key. What could I have done wrong? What else Can I Check? Thanks in advance

I plugged in a Sata2 drive when pc was on (intentionally), pc did not respond for a few seconds ( i can still right click, but no program opened and left click menus did not appear), then I could use my pc and use the connected hdd, then I notice I have over 70 svchost processes. No svchost...