The best way to store data is to develop a photographic memory.... which would be great for letters and such. 

Mightn't be so good if you lost your photos, however.... but you'd remember what they looked like.

That's a terrible way to store data, people have accidents all the time!

Uhm i feel like im Hijacking Jafo´s topic here, which was not my intention.
It isnt as terrible as you think, the way i run this rig atm however should seem terrible to you.

I have about 6,7 Terrabytes to transfer and no additional drive to do that.
That one drive has a consumtion of about 10W while the 4-5 drives are close 150-170W in total.

My PC runs a endless marathon it gets turned off to do neccessary updates and restarts right after.
It is on all of the time and the lower consumption alone will make a difference.

I know that people do run into Hardware failure at a certain point, but so far all of my drives served me well, even my externals which are not rated to run constantly survived over some years.

I just think its worth a shot for 250USD and if it fails after 2 years, i´ll have all of the data on the other drives, while i will be able to buy a new one because i saved enough money on my electricity bill.




 

benmanns....psychoak was probably replying to starkers' comment...

My platters are set to spin down when not being accessed so they're green enough....but the 'real crap' is on the drive no platter could match anyway.

Every now and then I access those platters and I can literally listen to them spin up before they are read....

After 3 weeks away in the sunny US of A, it was the first time since the build that the machine had been turned off longer than 3 days [That was for the Superbikes at Philip Island].

It was shut down on the 3rd Sep...and fired up again on the 28th.

Apart from the usual 2 or 3 cold boots to get to the Win Flag logo it was quite painless....only had to deal with the 360+ emails.....

Meanwhile, the old machine now Terry's also fired up OK the first time [about the 1st of Oct] and got its 100+ emails....

...but not now.

Looks like something fundamentally is screwed....most likely with Comodo IS ... as that's not showing up at all.

I had left it with the notification icon for Win 10 upgrade...and assume it's been downloading in the background [and using me as a torrent mule] as it'll be the 4th machine I move to Win 10 [eventually].

Looks like I'm spending the next few days sorting out an OS that's been live [as my primary] since 2009 - 6 years of abuse at the hands of an 'expert' [at abuse].

Should be 'entertaining'.....define 'entertaining'....oh, god we're all gonna die? ...

 

Er... it doesn't start up on the first try?

Nope... Win 7 still has 'issues' with an OS being on a M.2 drive.

Mhh still no fix from ASUS?
I have read a lot of topics that this is MOBO related.
So i have to ask did you flash your Bios? 

Wasn't Comodo....but more likely background 'mess' with Win10.  It'd the only machine I even let the notification upgrade icon onto.  No surprise it's also the only machine having issues...

 

There may yet be a suitable bios update but I'm not fazed with the odd booting...I only shutdown the machine twice a year...sometimes thrice....

i know, still i believe deep down you have a grudge against the failure, same as i would´ve 

Same here, I hate it when things don't work as they're supposed to/intended.  Like the grudge I had against Fences yesterday.  There I was, happily moving things around a couple of open folders I had, when lo and behold, this 'thing' pops up on my screen.  It looks familiar.... like a fence/folder portal... but I didn't create it. Well not of my own volition anyway.

And do you think I could get rid of it - read mental blank here!  I tried left and right clicking without success, then I figured a reboot might get rid of it.  Nope, that didn't work, either.  Damned fechen thing, had no title and nothing in it.  AND I didn't fechen create it!  I was bewildered and dumbfounded!  How the fech was I gonna get rid of this fechen thing.... occupying a slice of real estate smack dab in the centre of my screen?

Ah!  Right click on the desktop, how much it revealed in a time of dilemma... hehe.  In clicking the 'View' tab I noticed 'Lock Fences' was ticked,   Ah, the light dawned on me and the dreaded empty fence was no more.... but what a kerfuffle trying to get rid of it.  Hmmm, the things a lack of sleep will do to a person!

Speaking of grudges, I have one against the world.  It owes me so much, yet I have received so little.  

With the recent BSODs and image restore via Acronis I'm pretty sure it was an external card reader as the 'cause' of the crashes was a USB3 driver.

It's all up and running smooth as...

...and has the latest 'BIOS' Flash... though no difference to the booting.

I am yet to try disabling fastboot...to see what happens...but all the other settings are as above...always were.

 

On a different note...Terry's machine was getting annoying [slow] - [it's the machine listed in the OP]...so is now running Win10.

That's the 4th machine here.

IE likes to crash ...and the logon screen doesn't draw correctly, and a lot of system images are not showing as they should.

Only proggy I needed to pull off was Deskscapes.

I'll need a few more days tinkering before I call it a 'success' ...

 

Posted this pic on another thread...thought I'd stick it here too ...to remind me what could be something to tinker with.

It's a cheapie ... about 1/8 the cost of the 'beast' - as cases go it's cheaper than the last 3 machines [the other 2 were Lian Li].

 

Open plan architecture....sort of the opposite of the Level 10, yet from the same manufacturer...

You used some very nice hardware. I was going to recommend you upgrade those hard drives because the 250 and 500 GB will be so slow compared to a modern 7200 rpm drive. But you already got some new but slow 5400 rpm drives .

In my Gaming pc use the following storage

1: 250 GB SSD for OS, program files and personal data

2: 2x 1 TB Seagate Desktop HDD in raid0 (reaches 400 MB/s+ sequentially, very useful while installing) for games

3: 1x 3 TB Seagate Desktop HDD for video recording and big data I need locally

All other drives I put in a self build NAS and I have not regretted it since. I can really recommend moving stuff like your gaming backups to another machine. I literally did just that: take out the drive and move it to a NAS. A basic Gbit connection is good for 130 MB/s so with those 5400 rpm WD Green drives you will hardly notice they are not local. You can even mount them and use them like a normal drive if you wish.

 

edit: Can't reply anymore so I will do an edit.

The M2 SSD is awesome.  But the PC still has these drives right?

3TB Western Digital Caviar Green Sata2 HD [G + D]  [hotswap]  $  128

2TB Western Digital Caviar Green Sata2 HD [I]   [hotswap]  $    99

2TB Western Digital Caviar Green Sata2 HD [J]   [hotswap] $    99

I recommended moving those to a separate NAS . I hated it when I went to "computer" and they all started spinning up. I went from 6 disks to 3. The Raid 0 I use to fit my 980 GB of installed games. Let's hope 1 TB NVME SSD's become affordable soon ^^.