Recent content by Ultrarunner22

I have enabled "do not include drivers..." in the group policy editor. It's Wednesday morning, but so far I haven't been notified of updates. Maybe just so I can be sure I don't have any issues, I will turn off updates for a week or two.

I am running Windows 24H2 build 26100.7309 on a Lenovo X1 Carbon Gen 11 laptop. I use a GMMK 2 (short) keyboard plugged into a USB port. I had the keyboard configured how I like it, and all was fine. The keyboard was plugged into the USB port on the right side of the computer, while a Logitech...

I am impressed. I ran a full file backup last night. The backup amounted to abut 300GB. When I was backing up to the Elements USB HDD, it would take at least 2 hours to complete. Last night the same backup to the Samsung T7 SSD on USB 3.2 gen 2 took about 10 minutes!

Interesting observation: I ran Crystal Disk Benchmark on the new T7 drive, first as delivered, formatted as exFAT, then again after converting to NTFS, and once again after re-converting to eXFAT from within Windows 11 using Disk management too. Besides NTFS appearing a bit slower than exFAT, I...

Thanks. I did get rid of the software, but hadn't formatted the drive yet.

My Samsung T7 drive came formatted as exFAT. Should I leave it, or reformat to NTFS. I don't plan to use the drive with any OS other than Windows. As for speed, The T7 is fast enough for me. I use EaseUS Todo Backup and set it to run just before I go to bed, and shut down when it's done, so...

I assume that T9 is faster than T7? When I was searching for a USB SSD drive I found some that can read/write up to 2040 GB/s. I didn't want to pay the extra $$ for speed I really didn't need. I ordered the Samsung T7 4TB mainly for backup purposes.

Wow! Your NVME drives are much faster than mine, but then, my build is 5yrs old. It's an Asus Tuf Gaming X570 Plus WiFi with AMD Ryzen 7 3700 X @ 3.6 GHZ, and 32GB of RAM. I'm not convinced that upgrading the NVME drives would be worthwhile on a 5yr old mobo. I ordered the Samsung T7 4TB for...

I like the Samsung. I have a 500GB Samsung T5, so the T7 would be an upgrade, not only for capacity but for speed. I ran Crystal Disk Benchmark earlier. The results were astounding: The Elements drive was plugged into a USB 3.2 Gen 2 port and had Sequential read 40.89 MB/s Write 40.57 MB/s...

I have been backing up to a Western Digital 'Elements' 1.5TB USB HDD, but it is sooo slow compared to a much newer 500GB Samsung SSD on USB 3.2 gen 2. I want to replace the Elements hard drive with a large SSD. I need 2TB to hold all of my backups. Any recommendations for a fast SSD?

My worst fear is fire. That said, I am vigilent with electricity and gas, and no one in the household smokes. We have interconnected smoke alarms and CO alarms. Funny thing about data backups is that we never worried about paper documents so much as we worry about electronic docs. I guess one...

I haven't been doing any off-site backups. I guess I really should, in case the unthinkable disaster happens. I don't like OneDrive because Microsoft has too much control over how my files are synched. I was angry that OneDrive moved my documents folder without my knowledge. I'll check out MEGA...

Update: I did a clean reinstall of Windows 11 Pro. So far so good. I downloaded the latest setup using the Media Creation tool. Updates were successfully installed during Windows installation. Checking for updates now shows I am up to date. Several things that appeared to be broken with my...

Actually, I already have enough storage on the Linux box, including a 500GB SSD. I guess the next question would be which NAS software to use. There is a good thread here, or was it in Reddit? I have an old Rpi 3B+ running 24/7 that I use as a music player (from the OS, not a streaming device)...

That's a lot of money for my budget, especially when my need for file sharing is infrequent. I did find one alternative to using the USB thumb drive (sneaker net) though; I have an FTP server app on my Android phone which I use to transfer photos or documents between my desktop or laptop and the...