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Question Any way to resurrect a bricked fake SSD?

Here.
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- Post #6
- Dec 10, 2022
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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Question Any way to resurrect a bricked fake SSD?

Thanks. Any information about using them? I guess I could just try to run a few, but any help would be appreciated.
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- Post #3
- Dec 4, 2022
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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Question Any way to resurrect a bricked fake SSD?

I'm guessing that the answer is "not without special equipment", but I figure I'd ask anyway. I bought a "2TB" SSD off AliExpress, ran h2testw on it, and it died after writing about 1TB to it. This and the way writing slowed down suggests to me that it was a 1TB QLC drive (which is also...
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- Dec 3, 2022
- Replies: 6
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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Question Motherboard dead? CPU fan starts and stops continuously.

Playing IT for a relative again. He gave me his PC after it stopped working (apparently following a power outage) and only blinks a red light at the front, about once a second. It's an old Core 2 Duo PC. I got the PC from him, and checked it. What happens is that the moment the power is...
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- Thread
- May 4, 2019
- Replies: 2
- Forum: Computer Building
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Question Fast, safe storage?

Thanks for all the help. I ended up doing something which I hope I won't regret. I got two Crucial MX500 drives, but to make sure they're not from the same batch I got one M.2 and one 2.5". They're both SATA and seem to have the exact same spec. I also ordered a M.2 to 2.5" adapter. Anyway...
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- Post #10
- Apr 29, 2019
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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Question Fast, safe storage?

I plan to have backups, too. The point of the RAID is to reduce the need for me to immediately take action if a drive fails. And in general I find that drive failures are more common and more serious than virus infections. Not what happened in this case, though. The ADATA is still accessible...
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- Post #8
- Apr 27, 2019
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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Question Fast, safe storage?

Thanks for the quick reply, cfenton. He wants a desktop. For the 2-3 hour restore, are you thinking about keeping a spare drive and restoring to it if the one in the system fails? Personally I'd prefer to have the PC keep running even if a disk dies, because I have to do the IT for him, and...
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- Post #3
- Apr 26, 2019
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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Question Fast, safe storage?

The ADATA SSD in my father in law's PC developed errors somehow. It's just over a year old (the PC itself is a lot older). He wants me to buy him a new PC that's 'fastest and safest', 'money is no object'. He does very little with his PC. Basically it's used for e-mails in Outlook, a little web...
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- Apr 26, 2019
- Replies: 10
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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AMD Bristol/Stoney Ridge Thread

That's what I meant. Custom console chip sold outside the console. The other way is rather natural (Tegra, or AMD's chip in the Atari VCS), because using off the shelf chips is a real cost saver. As for market, RX is an embedded line, not a desktop line, and it could well be that Jaguar has a...
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- Post #1,208
- Apr 8, 2019
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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AMD Bristol/Stoney Ridge Thread

That's what TUM_APISAK speculated, too. The RX 350 designation is too low for the Xbox One X GPU, IMO. Though I guess it could be rejects with a severely cut down GPU (or DDR3 instead of GDDR5, which would kill performance). That'd be a first though, right? For console hardware to be made...
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- Post #1,206
- Apr 8, 2019
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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AMD Bristol/Stoney Ridge Thread

Now that's really interesting. 8 core / 8 thread CPUs called RX-8125, RX-8120, and A9-9820. The first names are reminiscent of the Bulldozer CPUs, the last matches the old APU line.
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- Post #1,203
- Apr 7, 2019
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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AMD Bristol/Stoney Ridge Thread

Gigabyte BIOS update says "Update AGESA 0.0.7.2 for Athlon 200-series (Raven2) APU support".
- ET
- Post #1,202
- Mar 28, 2019
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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AMD Bristol/Stoney Ridge Thread

Yeah, PCIe 4x means it only has 4 PCIe lanes, compared to 8 for Raven Ridge. That was the spec rumour, and it makes sense for a cut down die which isn't likely to be put alongside a discrete GPU. Raven 2 and Picasso have been in the Linux code for about half a year, as reported by Phoronix...
- ET
- Post #1,200
- Mar 25, 2019
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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AMD Bristol/Stoney Ridge Thread

I don't think there's a technical reason for it, but if the 2C/3CU chip performs better than the A10-9630P in most games, and I think it would, then there's no marketing reason to go for anything higher. If backers are already getting an APU that's faster, as well as better featured and lower...
- ET
- Post #1,187
- Mar 21, 2019
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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AMD Bristol/Stoney Ridge Thread

It might be, but I think that's more wishful thinking than anything. More likely it's simply an embedded version of a new 2C/3CU die. As I said before, I see no indication that Atari might go for more than the minimum, and AMD has never offered a 2 core variant with more than 3 CU. So while...
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- Post #1,181
- Mar 20, 2019
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking

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