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I figure M.2 NVMe SSD temperatures will ease as foundries retool for BiCS improvements. Give the sector some time as consumer needs differ from corporate ones. I have seen some water cooled servers as the NVMe was too warm for air. PCIe 5.0 is migrating to PCIe 6.0 and now PCIe 7.0 is emerging...

USB sticks vary somewhat but partitions are usually one and only one. Some attempts to use GPT failed for god knows why.

I found temperatures are all over the dial. I have a USB M.2 NVMe adapter and it is eye opening.

My laptop is 13th gen but the RTX A500 only has 4GB VRAM but the machine works fine with modern games at 1920x1080. More expensive recent machines have 8GB VRAM with blackwell so I figure the machine I have now will have to do for a while to come. The expensive machine is more of a power pig by...

My Dell has RTX A500 with 4GB VRAM and the machine has DDR5. Way I see it most games run fine with no real problem. The IOMMU, CPU and GPU all work together to handle games and UE5 games run as good as UE4 and UE3 games. I can play all modern games at 1080p which is what my Dell has. A RTX...

I saw a dual LTO-9 with thunderbolt suggesting that might find a buyer

M-DISK have been scarce or a couple of years now. Now I use USB-C enclosures with hard disks for backups. Disks can last a few years at least before bitrot gets to them. SSD are much more prone to bitrot.

There are also 128GB BD media but hard disks and SSD are cheaper. 128GB 10 for $129 last I saw

Turboboost is a more recent move to get more performance from processors. My Dell is 20W but the boost can take it much higher towards 55W which is about what my CPU propeller can handle. The GPU is another heat source. So I need to be wary about heat.

Most SSD in the consumer market is TLC with a few QLC models out there. Depending on the machine I have PCIe 3.0 and PCIe 4.0 slots on my laptops. My 13th gen machines use 2230 SSD but my bigger older machines use 2280

One take away I see is that the 870 EVO seems to not have much of any spare blocks to swap out to the good pool. This suggests the need to use CHKDSK /R occasionally to sweep the nblocks ands remove bad ones manually,

Might want to look at a new SSD as this one is definitely dodgy

I found extreme levels of detail are impossible without extreme levels of analysis. That is because the device stack in Windows is complex in the extreme to handle the plethora of USB storage chips and misc other logic. ASM2362, JMS583 , RTL9210, JMS567, JMS580 are some logic noticed, thanks...

Blueendless BS-MR35T is the model so if anyone comes here at least the model is known. I have no idea as to what chip is on the logic board.