Recent content by Will Rickards

I did manage to grab an intel arc B580 based on a nowinstock alert.

Card availability is really crazy right now. Rumors about better stock seem to be have been false but we'll see how fast they restock.

I used hard disk sentinel for these used 12TB HUH721212ALE601. I did the test that does a full surface test both read and write. Took a couple days per drive.

Consider this a virtual hug. Let me know if you need anything or just want to talk.

Thoughts on the Toshiba X300 drives? There was a sale on them but I missed it.

apple people use the brave browser to watch youtube or any of the other safari plugins. I have been getting those pop-ups on my desktop computer (brave browser or chrome with ublock) We'll see if youtube takes the measures further than just a popup that can be blocked itself

With those WD Ultrastar drives seems some have some power adaptor and some don't. Any ideas which ones to look for?

My 4TB drives are nearing capacity and I'm looking at larger drives. What drives are you guys using? I see this amazon sale on a seagate 8TB 5400RPM drive for 109 but seems it is shingled and not very good.

After nearly a decade, I'd consider replacing the headlight housing itself. Yes you can "resurface" them but most people aren't sealing them properly after so it just hazes up fairly quickly again. I'd first try changing the lightbulbs with oem bulbs from like autozone or similar. They are...

Mine had a firmware update but I think it just added an option in the bios to disable the app center thing.

Say I wanted to add bluetooth and by extension wifi 6 to this Gigabyte A520M DS3H. What is the best option? Really just for pairing headphones or airpods. The m2 slot has the ssd and there is an expansion card in the first x1 pci express slot for external sata. So leaving the x16 slot alone...

Finished build I did the move in stages. First I bench tested the new build with a linux usb boot drive. Then I moved my boot drive to the new SSD and made sure it booted in the old system and windows still activated. Then I swapped the boards out. I had some issues getting the mbr disk...

I'm keeping this case and just buying this: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00UBFXMXG It will replace all the front ports and seems well reviewed. Problem solved. I just have to wait for restock of some of these cheap A520M boards.

If I had something like this but reliable and with 2 usb ports, I could keep the existing case and just not hook up the existing front usb, which I use. Any good 5.25" drive bay things like this. Searching on amazon I get too many cheap looking ones. I'd like the faster microsd slot reader...

I've been building some 5600G based systems and might be looking to upgrade this system. Any inexpensive case recommendations?