Storage & Backup
SSDs, HDDs, NAS boxes, RAID and backup strategies.
ok so confession: my only backup of my tax documents is cloud storage... im fairly suree thats not enough, but every guide i find is either enterprise level or a sales pitch. whats a sensible, low effort setup for a normal person with a desktop and a laptop?…
im literally losing my mind here my laptop takes forever to become usable after every boot... task Manager shows this: Disk at 100%, and the response time is huge. Clicking anything takes ages. After 15 or 20 minutes it calms down. Its a few years old with a…
guys pls help got this today: the old boot SSD holds a lot of my backups and this is the first SMART warning Ive ever seen. uncorrectable Sector Count went from zero to a small number. should i replace it right away, or is it normal for a few sectors to go…
ugh. question for teh backup nerds: how often do you test restoring? i realized Ive been backing up my client projects to a NAS for years and Ive never once tried to get a file back from it. Is that as risky as it suddenly feels? Also curious how you…
not gonna lie this is driving me nuts added a new NVMe SSD to my PC for extra games storage. its nowhere to be seen in Device Manager: Also, one of my SATA drvies disappeared at the same time 🔥 That feels connected but i cant figure out how. Id really like…
hmmmm ok i just installed a second M.2 drive and it doesn't appear in File Explorer: its seated in teh M.2 slot and screwed down. the motherboard manual says teh slot supports it lmao im starting to think the drive is defective. before i send it back, what…
trying to do a fresh insatll of Windows on my second M.2 drive, and teh installer says there are no drives: It asks me to load a driver, but I don't know which one. The drive shows in the BIOS, so it's not completely dead. What am I missing? lol I'd rather…
