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Please report the details. Chris is very attentive to the product and an overall great technician. I'm sure they'll be more than happy to correct any validated issues.

Check_BootMedia.ps1 Works well for me. Thanks for the script @garlin

Understood. Very true that everyone does things differently. I've been doing computer support now for about 40 years now and in that time I've had several mechanical hard drives fail on me. I've had 2 SSD hard drives at a business I supported fail. But knock on wood (or plastic and metal today)...

Perhaps true a decade ago or so, but today the SSD real life expectancy before failure shows it's highly unlikely you're going to kill the drive by writing too much to it for the average home user. The Tech Report Endurance Test Ends Just After 2.4PB Posted by Scott Michaud | Mar 16, 2015 |...

Take a look at the following script @jpullam Modify to your needs or keep what you have. Just sharing ideas that work for me.

The Synology DS223 supports both Btrfs and ext4 for its internal storage volumes. During normal DSM setup, Btrfs is the recommended and typically selected file system, but it is not an immutable factory default; the file system is chosen when the volume is created Unless you changed it to mount...

This backup fully runs from PowerShell and using 7-zip as the archiving tool. I don't use a NAS device but I don't see an obvious reason why it wouldn't work as long as share permissions are setup properly. I just ran the script again today PS C:\Scripts> .\Invoke-Rolling7ZipBackup.ps1...

What is the NAS brand and model number? @jpullam Approximately how much data are you backing up total? What is the largest single file in your backups?

Why? It can be run with no one logged into the computer. Change values to what works for you. Once edited to what you want, the entire block can be copied and pasted to an Admin leval command prompt This will prompt you for your password. schtasks.exe /Create ^ /TN "\Backups\Zip Backup" ^...

Kind of like Car or Home insurance. One rarely ever needs it but if something catastrophic does hit and you don't have insurance then you're in trouble. The same with a computer. In most cases it will easily out live 3 years, but if something does happen, you have the support contact to get it...

I have a PowerShell script that consumes RAM usage to prove that Windows 11 has no upper limit preventing use of ALL of your RAM. The fact is that Windows 11 is much better at resource usage than Windows 10 was, so comparing them is not the same. thing. There are tools to help. You can use...

I love the idea of using PoweShell for a backup task. I have one a lot more sophisticated I can share if wanted. I also use RoboCopy (Robust File Copy for Windows) for some local secondary backup aside from the real backups. But, Hasleo Backup Suite Free v5.9 is a professional backup utility...

About how much data in size are we talking about creating a zip of each week?

Running the task as SYSTEM is likely the real problem. SYSTEM does not normally authenticate to a NAS using the logged-on user's NAS credentials. On a domain, it may present the computer account. On a typical home workgroup and NAS arrangement, the NAS is unlikely to recognize or authorize that...

Have used most major brands in large Corporate environments with tens of thousands of laptops and desktops. Every vendor has issues of one kind or another bar none. As far as having a lot of BIOS updates being bad, I'd rather have that than an abandoned laptop or desktop that is a cheap...