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vivster said:

JEMC said:

AMD Ryzen 7 have a Temperature 20 Degree C Reporting Offset

http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/amd-ryzen-7-have-a-temperature-20-degree-c-reporting-offset.html
Alright, in the same blog post as mentioned in the previous item AMD also talks about a Temperature Reporting Offset. This one was new to us, but basically what they claim is the following. To keep a "consistent fan policy," AMD is forcing 20C offset on the Ryzen 1700X and 1800X processors. This makes them report temperature a good 20C above what the sensor reads.
In the short term, users of the AMD Ryzen™ 1700X and 1800X can simply subtract 20°C to determine the true junction temperature of their processor. No arithmetic is required for the Ryzen 7 1700.

>>WTF? So not only do their 8-core chips use less power than Intels, but they're also a whole lot cooler? Very impressive.

Did we read the same report?

Well, I read the article where they say that the 1700X and 1800X CPUs report, on purpose, a temperature 20º higher than they really are. Given that most reviews claim that those CPUs hover around 70º at load, that's means they're really 50º, which is a great result for those 8-core chips.

TomaTito said:

vivster said:

Don't worry. I have a backup made up of 4 Seagate HDDs. I think I'm safe.

Are Seagates that bad? I don't remember that back in the days.
I bought a 5TB usb HDD (they call it Expansion Desktop) to do some backups at work... should I have gone WD My Book instead?

I decided to skip Seagate altogether after seeing bars like these:

2013-2014: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/blog-drive-failure-by-manufacturer1.jpg

2014-2015-2016: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/drive-stats-2016-q1-failure-by-mfg.jpg