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Those adapters supply 5v power from the USB port, but SATA adapters capable of running hard drives usually have an external 12v power brick, as most full size hard drives need 12v for the drive motor.

Now, that said, I think a lot of 2.5inch hard drives do use 5 volt only and might boot up fine from an SSD SATA adapter. It's worth trying your existing adapter as is and seeing if it starts and recognizes the drive.

All spaceframes have a limited service life due to the extreme thermal and structural load cycling they experience in earth orbit. The ISS was only meant to last 15 years and its only by happenstance, new modules, and good engineering protocols that its been stretched to 2030.
The alloys of aluminum that make up most of their structure always have a limited load cycle service life. It is never a question of if it will crack, it is when. Reusing ANY part of it for a space station meant to be serviced past 2030 is just a ticking time bomb. Russia is gonna kill their cosmonauts for sure.

👏TRUMP👏NEVER👏PAYS👏HIS👏BILLS👏

(Unless it's the hush money bill, or the raping little girls bill, he's always got cash for those)

Immediately after a top researcher in fusion tech (for public purposes) was executed in his own home.

I hate to be a conspiracy theorist, but...

Barracuda is Seagate's basic value line so makes sense everything is SMR. Especially since you're shopping for 2.5" laptop drives.
The ironwolf drives are more enterprise focused so they're noisier, might be why it's cheaper. But they're a good option all around. (Frankly day to day hard drive prices are random anyway...)

No they don't typically come with any hardware to hook up, it's assumed you plug it into your computer. However you can get USB to SATA adapters, with an external 12v power brick for mechanical drives, fairly cheap on amazon et al. I have one from U-Green that works fine and is also a USB hub and SD card reader. They're great to have around just in case.

AMD has, as far as I understand, been outcompeting Nvidia on value for a good while.

And yet their market share doesn't increase. Because Nvidia holds a stranglehold on both the software (CUDA, RTX support, frame gen, etc) AND sheer brand recognition- gamers always complain about Nvidia and want better AMD cards, but continue to line up in droves to buy Nvidia cards no matter what.

Nvidia knows they can do whatever the fuck they want right now.

AMD is a puppydog that follows Nvidia around on the open market with 10% or less market share. If Nvidia constricts supply and causes a massive price jump and shortages, AMD will just follow the pricing curve and we will still get no GPU's.

AMD is also 100% reliant on TSMC and VRAM suppliers, the same exact supply pressures causing Nvidia to turn off the consumer tap will come for AMD too.

1. Mechanical hard drives are a one and done. When they fail that is it, do not pass go, do not collect $200. There is no repair. Replace the drive as fast as you can, because it may stop spinning up at any time with no warning. Once you have your data saved, bin it, don't use it for anything else.
   If you are waiting on a new drive try to make a backup of critical irreplacable data on literally any media, USB sticks, DVDs, Google drive. Game installs not so much, but documents, pictures, videos, etc. A failing drive WILL leave you stranded at the worst time.

2. Ensure you are buying a CMR style hard drive. Basically there are two different methods of recording data on a magnetic platter. CMR is the traditional method and is fast but less dense (more $). SMR allows denser data and normal read speeds (good for media) but is extremely, extremely slow to write to, and will have bad performance for installed programs or general OS use. HDD manufacturers have sneakily replaced most of their lineups with SMR drives to increase profit margins (drive costs never dropped, big surprise) so you have to be careful which you buy as a general use drive. Any drive by Seagate or WD are going to be fine in this day and age. See which models are safe here:
   https://www.seagate.com/products/cmr-smr-list/
   https://nascompares.com/answer/list-of-wd-cmr-and-smr-hard-drives-hdd/
   Buy more than you think, extra storage never hurt anyone. The price per gb drops precipitously between the 1tb to 6tb mark then levels off, so the best bang for buck drives typically are around 6-12tb these days.

3. Yes as long as your new drive is same or larger capacity you should be able to plug in both drives and directly clone from the old to the new. Any Linux distro or live boot environment should allow you to do this via the dd command- tons of tutorials on the Google.
   I do recommend doing this from outside your windows install as windows will often deny access to program files actively in use, and the only way to ensure theres no issues is boot from an external OS and copy the drive bit by bit.

Option two is not correct, option one is correct. This announcement is specifically for consumer gaming GPU's only, it does not affect institutional datacenter customers.

This is Nvidia saying "thanks small fry, you were useful, but we're leaving you behind now. Fight for the scraps." Complete cartel behavior.

Also some of us are stuck with necessary stupid software that has no Linux releases and doesn't run in proton/wine yet.

A Minecraft server is the classic.

Don't discount just putting together a basic webpage that can be accessed at home too- something he could put together in a basic HTML editor (drag and drop) and put his favorite things on or whatever he may be focusing on (cars, animals, space, you name it).

You are allowed to block communities without announcing it to the world you know

Also US conservatives getting their faces eaten is quite literally the only purpose of this sub's existence