Subj : Re: What to do with a gia To : Barry Martin From : Ky Moffet Date : Thu Feb 17 2022 10:01:00 BARRY MARTIN wrote: > KM> match the individual drive. There's an outfit that sells the > KM> logic boards, and also does the repairs for under $100 or so, but > KM> it's no longer something you and I can really do. > > Right: opening would have been more to physically see the innerds as > opposed to just seeing a picture. If even attempted to repair I doubt I > woudl have trusted the HDD any longer. Not doubting my repair ability, > more the HDD failed and it shouldn't have. Repair is only for data recovery; no failed drive is EVER considered "working" after repair. > KM> Yeah, same reason I don't care that Bullet, who until I started > KM> rearranging hardware was doing duty as file server, is 14 years > KM> old. Reliable, so who cares? And unless some nullwit breaks into > KM> my house and peers into my files, there really isn't any security > KM> issue. > > Pretty much the same here. Actually I'm more concerned with the > neighbour's tree falling this direction and smashing stuff than a break > in. (We did have a severe wind storm after the Derecho and I did move > stuff from my desk as it's right next to the window: was a bit concerned > the window might break.) Yeah. Physical security makes sense for corporate, but for us, we don't want to be bothered, when the worst hazard is falling trees. > KM> The Asustor, if I were rich and buying a NAS, looks like a really > KM> nice unit. Since I'm not rich, some low-power PC will do. :P > > I'm thinking more towards building my own mainly because I have the > parts laying around (or at least think I have!). As far as physical Yeah, and can put to use a lot more than the two drives handled by the average commercial NAS with a consumer-practical price. In a pinch my preferred case will handle ten HDDs. I don't want RAID (cured of that by a summer spent recovering a friend's RAID-mangled data) or anything but HAND OVER MY FILES AND NO ONE GOES TO THE SCRAPYARD. No flaming hoops, just storage. I do have a very old actual for-really NAS here somewhere, but haven't been able to get it to work. How old? IDE, not SATA. Cisco, probably cost a fortune new. Came in some box of free stuff. Interesting, but not useful. > > > use some of the old/smaller HDDs > > > for end-directories (instead of a sub-dir on a huge/new HDD). Some > > > other project bullies its way in front of the line.... > > KM> I guess until you run out of connectors... > > Strip and solder a few of the wires together to make Y-adapters. > KM> Cheat :P > Would work for power, probably not data. :( It can, in fact that's how some of the cheap adapters work, but you still have the same total bandwidth, so it gets real slow. > The trouble was both the yellow and blue ones were Adata, 16 GB, USB > 3.0, UV128 (whatever that means). Physically identical except for the > colour. Blue ones "always" worked -- I did manage to kill a couple but > seemed to be more me doing something as opposed to the yellow ones just > failing 'mid-air'. Different source for the seconds, probably. I recall that mattered exceedingly with vidcards in old OEM boxen... Matrox chips were seconds (I had a firsthand confirm on that) but still worked right. ATI chips were also seconds but a crapshoot. Box still said Gateway on the front. > A while back (year, maybe two) I did sort of check and the blue ones had > differences from the yellow per diagnostic/recovery utilities. The > experience definitely soured me on Adata, so no buying anything from > them. When I looked, the average of all reviews was "Nothing but trouble". > > KM> At this point, in a flash drive or memory card, I'll only buy > KM> Sandisk. > > I've been sticking with SanDisk and Kingston. Only RAM I've ever had fail was Kingston. All sorts of other random RAM of every and no brand, no problem. So they're not on my top buy list. I've used Lexar flash drives, but larger than 128GB like to default to USB 1.0, and walking data over one bit at a time is faster. In SSDs or NVMes, Sandisk/WD or Samsung. Only reason I have an NVMe that's a PNY is cuz "cheapest one I could lay hands on til we see if they work with this ...vintage... hardware and OS." With the 3rd party driver, XP64 likes 'em fine. But Win7 threw up in new and creative ways, and Win10 corrupts them (permanently sets a dirty bit so they perpetually want "disk checking"). þ RNET 2.10U: ILink: Techware BBS þ Hollywood, Ca þ www.techware2k.com --- QScan/PCB v1.20a / 01-0462 * Origin: ILink: CFBBS | cfbbs.no-ip.com | 856-933-7096 (454:1/1) .