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Pemalite said:

JEMC said:

Guys, I've only noticed that Battlestar Galactica Deadlock is free at Steam... but only until today's refresh . So, if you read this in the next hour and a half or so hours, you may still be able to claim it: https://store.steampowered.com/app/544610/Battlestar_Galactica_Deadlock/

On another note, my PC is acting all weird. A couple weeks ago one of my drives died. It sucked major a**, but now I no longer need a motherboard with more than 4 SATA ports. Yay! (You have to keep a positive attitude, right?), but now the system acts weird. It takes a bit more time than usual to boot than before, Firefox stops working from time to time for no reason, and I have anotehr drive that keeps getting used at 100% capacity all the time which, after what happeend with the other drive, worries me.

The question is, I can't simply unplug that drive because I use frequently, but I have a "docking station" that I barely use. Is it dangerous to use a drive in one of those for long periods? I don't want to "save it" from the weirdest state my PC is only to kill it for using it the wrong way.

If it helps, the drives are vertical and the station looks like this:

The only issue it may introduce is extra vibrations as it's not actually secured, which is pretty much a non-issue in the modern era... It's not like we are running with Quantum Fireballs anymore in a massive RAID array.

For a period, drives used to come with rubber grommets to reduce vibrations even in desktop cases.

I do use one of these frequently when grabbing an old spinning rust drive and sourcing data from it... But to be honest, the best thing I ever did was buy an 18TB HDD on sale for $500 AUD a month ago, you get a better sense of data security as the drive has low operating hours.

Thanks for your comment.

At one point, I thought about buying a 14-16TB drive because they're better value (a 16TB drive costs roughly 3 times more than a 4TB one) and put everything in it to reduce the amount of drives inside my system. But then I remembered that just because it's bigger, that doesn't mean it will last more hours before failing compared to other mechanical drive, and the idea of losing virtually everything if one drive goes bad is kind of terrifying. And yes, I know the answer to that fear is to buy two drives and use the second one as backup, but that makes the whole change a lot more expensive.