PC Tech Thread

I don't care about threads but the rest of this I didn't know about and seems pretty useful.

Not mine but a good illustration

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As an unsophisticated home user it's the only reason I've found to 'upgrade' to Win 11.

Now they've dropped the 2TB internal drive I was looking at
Was £102, now w/ Prime £86.49

Someone should have warned you it was going on sale.

I decided to buy an external instead as it could be more useful with PC and laptop. If it's performance is too slow, then I'll get the internal and Prime Day is only a smaller saving over normal price so I decided not to buy it right now and see what the external drive is like.

Has this been resolved yet?

Shure SM58 clone, but doesn't require as much gain as the real thing.

Tell me about it. I have an SM58 and had to stick a FetHED inline amp on it to be heard through a PreSonus Studio 24C.

I decided to buy an external instead as it could be more useful with PC and laptop. If it's performance is too slow, then I'll get the internal and Prime Day is only a smaller saving over normal price so I decided not to buy it right now and see what the external drive is like.

It should be here (at friend's) Friday. I'm sure you're all excited to hear about it and I now look forward to letting you know every detail.

If you plan on using it a lot they get very hot quite quickly. I was hoping to store some media files on there and edit them via premiere pro but the playback was so choppy i had to abandon. Just used for one drive backups now

Yep, the off-the-shelf ones generally throttle after a while.

The best thing to do is build your own external SSD, using a metal finned chassis to house an M.2 NVME drive, ideally with a dual-role Thunderbolt/USB4 controller.

I have a couple of these with 2TB Samsung 980 Pro drives in them; they get hot but the heat sink chassis dissipates enough for them to never throttle all day long.

Gets 2.7GB/s read/write speeds via Thunderbolt as well.

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The same internal SSD is £96 now so Prime was only £10 cheaper.

Still no drive... because it's coming from fucking California. WTF?

Mate delivered the drive today.

It's copying from my sata SSD at about 11.5MB/s via a USB-C cable w/ USBC3.1 port

Sounds like the data is copying from California as well.

‘USB-C cable’ can mean pretty much anything. Make sure it’s a known good 3.1 supporting cable.

It's the one that came with the drive.

Ok, grabbed the USBC cable from the Pixel 6a and it's doing more like 41MB/s

Ok, now it's just stopped. Not sure wtf is going on with it. Windows being a dickhead probably.

That's still very slow. Which exact drive is it? I hope you didn't get a spinning rust one...

Samsung T7

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Samsung-T7-Portable-SSD-MU-PC2T0T/dp/B087DFFJRD/

I think Windows Exploder has crashed 3 times now.

I get same speed using the USBA-USBC as the Pixel 6a cable. Think mobo is only USB3.1 I tink though so it won't be flat out.

These are large files too, so should copy pretty fast.

Mobo: "Intel® USB 3.1 with USB Type-C™ - The World's Next Universal Connector"

Looks like the USBC port in the back is 3.1 whereas the USBA ports are 3.0

Yeah, it's just dropped down to 1mb/s. This thing is shit.

Explorer keeps crashing. Time for a reboot. Fuck external drives.

Could it be a fake product?

You should be getting 400-500MB/s with a T7, reading from an internal SATA3 drive, over USB3.1.

There is something very funky happening; the T7 is a decent drive.