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[WelperHelper99]

Some motherboard use the same sata port for the m.2 slot and one of the SATA ports.
Is the motherboard incompatible with NVMe? Does there need to be a setting changed in the firmware?

It's not the sata port. I checked that. It literally has a 4x4 nvme slot. It might be something in the bios

 

[The Ugly One]

The time for @The Ugly One to complain about FSR 3.0 is over. Now it's time to complain about FSR 3.1.

AMD FSR 3.1 Announced With Vulkan Support (archive)

Really excited to upgrade my complaining about the shimmer in Helldivers.

 

[Misericordia]

Ok, hardware questions lads

Ok me and my buddy have been working on his new build for the last few days. It runs, everything is downloaded, it's great. Problem, a drive is "missing". It has 3. A 500 gig boot. That shows up. A 1tb hdd. And a 1tb m.2. The m.2 is gone. If I remember before he brought it home (he called later) the BIOS did say the m.2 was in there.



Is it in RAID? How do I stop that?

It might be formatted incorrectly. Usually the UEFI will have a utility to wipe the drive.

 

[Leaded Gasoline]

Ok, hardware questions lads

Ok me and my buddy have been working on his new build for the last few days. It runs, everything is downloaded, it's great. Problem, a drive is "missing". It has 3. A 500 gig boot. That shows up. A 1tb hdd. And a 1tb m.2. The m.2 is gone. If I remember before he brought it home (he called later) the BIOS did say the m.2 was in there.



Is it in RAID? How do I stop that?

have you checked disk management in Windows? sometimes drives come uninitialized and Windows does not automatically tell you about it for some reason

 

[DavidS877]

It's not the sata port. I checked that. It literally has a 4x4 nvme slot. It might be something in the bios

Check the bios settings, make sure it's properly seated, make sure the drivers for the MB are all installed and up to date. Check device manager to see if there are any errors/missing drivers. Might try a Linux boot drive and see if it can be seen there.

 

[WelperHelper99]

Ok, thank you guys. I'll be working on it today, I'll try all of this

 

[The Mass Shooter Ron Soye]

Really excited to upgrade my complaining about the shimmer in Helldivers.

AMD FSR 3.1 Announced: Enables Frame Generation On DLSS, XeSS Upscaling Solutions, Improved Image Quality, 40 Game Support Later This Year (archive)

I read a bit more about it. It splits frame generation from upscaling, so in theory you could use DLSS + AMD frame gen for whatever reason. More relevant with XeSS which does not have frame gen yet. Then it allegedly improves upscaling with less shimmering from 3.0 (article has GIF comparisons with 2.2).

AMD's plan may be to toss this out there, landing in the Microsoft DirectSR soup, and hope that GPU buyers stop treating DLSS as a selling point.

 

[The Ugly One]

AMD FSR 3.1 Announced: Enables Frame Generation On DLSS, XeSS Upscaling Solutions, Improved Image Quality, 40 Game Support Later This Year (archive)

I read a bit more about it. It splits frame generation from upscaling, so in theory you could use DLSS + AMD frame gen for whatever reason.

This will be nice for gamers on pre-40 series NVIDIA cards. It might get 30 series owners to hold off on upgrading, with AMD's hope being that it improves their chances of selling more 7000 or 8000 series GPUs.

Then it allegedly improves upscaling with less shimmering from 3.0 (article has GIF comparisons with 2.2).

Those grainy gifs don't build much confidence. I really think they should just wipe the slate clean and develop a ML-based solution. These heuristic-based methods just seem too prone to high-frequency aliasing.

 

[WelperHelper99]

Check the bios settings, make sure it's properly seated, make sure the drivers for the MB are all installed and up to date. Check device manager to see if there are any errors/missing drivers. Might try a Linux boot drive and see if it can be seen there.

You were right btw. The drive wasn't initialized. Fixed it. My fren is very happy. Now he has a 7400 mb/s 1tb Samsung 980 drive at his fingertips. And I'll tell you what, just working on it yesterday... that 4070 super makes the fucking wallpaper and browser look like a IMAX film. Like holy shit lol.

 

[George Lucas]

You were right btw. The drive wasn't initialized. Fixed it. My fren is very happy. Now he has a 7400 mb/s 1tb Samsung 980 drive at his fingertips. And I'll tell you what, just working on it yesterday... that 4070 super makes the fucking wallpaper and browser look like a IMAX film. Like holy shit lol.

That reminds me of a time when DOS didn’t support large hard drives (the limit was like 32 MB or something). Floppy disks were king, but there were a few instances where I had people who wanted very large (for the time) hard disks.

They came with some janky software that allowed DOS to work with them. I always insisted on including Norton Ghost for those, but I don’t remember anything going wrong. Those systems were already obsolete in just a couple years. It was a crazy time.

 

[Lord of the Large Pants]

Since I'm sure everyone is dying to know, I managed to take odd sized rails from two different kits and get the 9 inch router to rackmount between them. It's not perfect, but it'll do.

 

[George Lucas]

Well fuck. Brand new WD HDD doesn’t work. Mysterious I/O errors that keep me from initializing it. Searching around shows it’s likely an unrecoverable defect, but there hasn’t been a big stink about it. I’ve never had a WD drive be DOA on me before. I wonder if they cheaped out on their manufacturing recently, or are they putting refurbished stock into a new box? Oh well, I got the return started.

 

[DavidS877]

Well fuck. Brand new WD HDD doesn’t work. Mysterious I/O errors that keep me from initializing it. Searching around shows it’s likely an unrecoverable defect, but there hasn’t been a big stink about it. I’ve never had a WD drive be DOA on me before. I wonder if they cheaped out on their manufacturing recently, or are they putting refurbished stock into a new box? Oh well, I got the return started.

Or the shipping company used it for football practice.

 

[Freedom Fighter]

Well fuck. Brand new WD HDD doesn’t work. Mysterious I/O errors that keep me from initializing it. Searching around shows it’s likely an unrecoverable defect, but there hasn’t been a big stink about it. I’ve never had a WD drive be DOA on me before. I wonder if they cheaped out on their manufacturing recently, or are they putting refurbished stock into a new box? Oh well, I got the return started.

Everyday I thank the lord for my decade+ old WD Caviar Blue.

 

[Overwritten Tapes]

So I have this spare laptop, a hp 255 g3. I've upped the ram to 8gb which is the max. I've been using it to emulate old nes/snes/ps1 games. I've downloaded a ps2 emulator but it lags and is very choppy. Apparently my cpu/gpu isn't strong enough.

What would you recommend I upgrade? And what else will be needed to support any upgrades?

I literally just want to sometimes write front end web code and play old games on it, I don't want to buy a new laptop that I'll use once or twice a month at best.

 

[WelperHelper99]

Well fuck. Brand new WD HDD doesn’t work. Mysterious I/O errors that keep me from initializing it. Searching around shows it’s likely an unrecoverable defect, but there hasn’t been a big stink about it. I’ve never had a WD drive be DOA on me before. I wonder if they cheaped out on their manufacturing recently, or are they putting refurbished stock into a new box? Oh well, I got the return started.

You say this as I'm looking at a deal for $40 off of two 8 tb WD blue drives lmao. I just want some cheap ass poorfag storage. Now I'm nervous lol. Still probably will get it, WD is still pretty good.

Or the shipping company used it for football practice.

Probably what happened tbh.

Everyday I thank the lord for my decade+ old WD Caviar Blue.
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That is the dream, the invincible drive. Holy fuck that WD Blue is tough.

 

[Just Some Other Guy]

Meanwhile my two recert exos are working like brand new, and faster. See zero point in buying blues. Buying the WD externals and shucking them to retrieve the white label helium drive out of them was better than buying blues for bulk storage.

*Shrug*

 

[WelperHelper99]

Meanwhile my two recert exos are working like brand new, and faster. See zero point in buying blues. Buying the WD externals and shucking them to retrieve the white label helium drive out of them was better than buying blues for bulk storage.

*Shrug*

Well it's this thing called money. $230 for 2 8tb drives. That's with tax. Even then for me, it's a lot of storage I might never use. I'm seriously considering it though, because it is a steal, and my case has 2 3.5 inch bays.

 

[Just Some Other Guy]

Well it's this thing called money. $230 for 2 8tb drives. That's with tax. Even then for me, it's a lot of storage I might never use. I'm seriously considering it though, because it is a steal, and my case has 2 3.5 inch bays.

Or you could spend $200 on better drives with the same warranty.

*Edit* $90 buckaroos. 12tb ultrastar. 5yr warranty. Great seller rating with shitload of sales:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/156046813385?_trkparms=amclksrc%3DITM%26aid%3D777008%26algo%3DPERSONAL.TOPIC%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20230811123856%26meid%3De154de72221a436aad6e89b60ef7d4c7%26pid%3D101770%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D1%26itm%3D156046813385%26pmt%3D0%26noa%3D1%26pg%3D4375194%26algv%3DRecentlyViewedItemsV2%26brand%3DHGST&_trksid=p4375194.c101770.m146925&_trkparms=parentrq%3A7600c96518e0ad9356729690fffdb882%7Cpageci%3A924ba35e-eab3-11ee-b4b6-5a09ac647ec7%7Ciid%3A1%7Cvlpname%3Avlp_homepage

750k hr durability on a blue vs 2.5mil on the ultrastar.

 

[Betonhaus]

Or you could spend $200 on better drives with the same warranty.

SAS drives are designed to be used in enterprise cases where they are constantly random reading writing data 24/7. If you're only using it for anyone server that has maybe three people streaming at once, even a half worn out drive will last quite a while.