excel24@feddit.org to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 12 hours agoDon't throw away your old PC—it makes a better NAS than anything you can buywww.howtogeek.comexternal-linkmessage-square81fedilinkarrow-up1284arrow-down17
arrow-up1277arrow-down1external-linkDon't throw away your old PC—it makes a better NAS than anything you can buywww.howtogeek.comexcel24@feddit.org to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 12 hours agomessage-square81fedilink
minus-squareRivalarrival@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down2·11 hours agoMy old PC locks up every 4 to 48 hours. It would make a terrible NAS.
minus-squareScoopMcPoops@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·10 hours agoMy pc did that when my almost 10 year old SSD with my OS started to die. Switched it out and haven’t had an issue since.
minus-squareGnuLinuxDude@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 hour agoHow did you determine it was the SSD failing and not another component?
minus-squareScoopMcPoops@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·39 minutes agoI used CrystalDiskInfo and it gave me a bunch of warnings when I ran it and said the overall drive health was “Bad”.
My old PC locks up every 4 to 48 hours. It would make a terrible NAS.
My pc did that when my almost 10 year old SSD with my OS started to die. Switched it out and haven’t had an issue since.
How did you determine it was the SSD failing and not another component?
I used CrystalDiskInfo and it gave me a bunch of warnings when I ran it and said the overall drive health was “Bad”.