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[Aal_]

The msi comes with two m.2 bays (which are tiny little ssd drives) and one 2.5 bay. Just upgraded it to two 256g m.2 SSD in raid 0 mode and changed the platter drive 1T 2.5 for storage to a 2.5 1T SSD. So quadrupled my OS and app drive and stayed the same on storage drive but switched to the cooler and faster SSD. Now I actually have reasonable room on the laptop to install games. Utterly amazing how small all that stuff is now as the laptop is still 1/2" and csn pick it up with two fingers.

But I can't migrate my OS from the clone over to the raid drive and get it recognized in the bios boot menu, even though in the drive info section it shows it as a bootable drive. It's maddening, which is why i hate doing computer work. Plus I had to disassemble the entire laptop, remove the MB just to install those damn m.2 drives. Everything works proper on the drives other than allowing it in the boot menu. So booting from the cloned drive.

Man beware of m.2 they might not be reliable as older technologies on the long run especially that problems are starting to appear with first generation ssd's. Especially with that raid 0 you will have 2 bricks if one bites the dust!

Make use of that 1 Tera and backup daily I say.

 

[ThreeDJ16]

Make sure your ports are tied down. When on hospital WiFi I finger the network and it's amazing how many guest ip's have wide open ports and theoretically (wink wink nod nod) I could have peeked around and downloaded files from them or worse yet RDP.

Hahahaha...you too huh? It's amazing how many of my neighbors have no clue what wireless security means....LoL. I am very wireless paranoid.

 

[ThreeDJ16]

Man beware of m.2 they might not be reliable as older technologies on the long run especially that problems are starting to appear with first generation ssd's. Especially with that raid 0 you will have 2 bricks if one bites the dust!

Make use of that 1 Tera and backup daily I say.

I have network backup in place. But I am not nearly as worried with an SSD drive like I used to be with my old platter drive raid setup years ago. Besides, I never use raid for anything other than OS, apps and games. The storage drive holds saves and anything of concern.

 

[McPuff]

how you feeling today brother?

 

[ThreeDJ16]

how you feeling today brother?

The rotten weather we are having takes it's toll hard. Never used to believe older people years ago talking about must be rain coming. LOL, I'm a believer now and we are going through a very rainy fall here....sux! The days it doesn't rain are cold, (ok, cold for us anyway...LoL), which also sux. But at least the doc is keeping me home from work which is a huge help. Just been really hard getting out of the recliner or off the couch lately to get everything accomplished. At least I still manage a few hours a day. I keep giving myself small projects I can do from the couch, like my computer just to keep me from going insane as I am the type who has to keep busy doing something. Unfortunately I need to tear my lathe back apart. Apparently when I did my repairs, I got a slight misalignment in it and can't get my holes bored on center, so that has been screwing me from finishing some work up. But still feel confident all of my current projects will be finished up soon, definitely before I go out for surgery. LOL, I already have a list forming for after surgery now though.

 

[B2L]

My next 'Pinch is coming up, go ahead and add me to that list

Hope the pain has been in check and your able to relax, at least a little

 

[ThreeDJ16]

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My next 'Pinch is coming up, go ahead and add me to that list

Hope the pain has been in check and your able to relax, at least a little

Thanks to some of the nicest friends ever, I can add myself to that list too. But I plan on an entire, humongous post for that when it happens. Funny part is this will be my first wood drip tip I actually make for myself and for my own matching wood mod to put it on! So I freakn can't wait.

Luckily the rain stopped for now, but instead the cold moves in. Long as I have hot, hot water for many nice long showers and my morphine & dilaudid (legally prescribed of course), I do OK staying at home. Also doing a little mod/tip work for a short time, break, rinse and repeat, I am getting things accomplished bit by bit. Just really glad I got my pre-surgery honey do list taken care of last week, I don't think I could have gotten it done.

 

[B2L]

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Thanks to some of the nicest friends ever, I can add myself to that list too. But I plan on an entire, humongous post for that when it happens. Funny part is this will be my first wood drip tip I actually make for myself and for my own matching wood mod to put it on! So I freakn can't wait.

We'll have liter mates

What kind of wood ya got picked out?

 

[ThreeDJ16]

We'll have liter mates

What kind of wood ya got picked out?

Rosewood burl. These pics just don't do it justice. But they are all I have....for now!

 

[Gigdujour]

Rosewood burl. These pics just don't do it justice. But they are all I have....for now!

Good choice J! That's what I got this round.

Just waiting on a tip...[emoji6]


Master of Bassets...and not much else

 

[ThreeDJ16]

I was eying that one really hard when I saw Peter's pics....LoL. Absolutely beautiful.

 

[Nautilusfan]

Rosewood burl. These pics just don't do it justice. But they are all I have....for now!

Oh wow.....that's one beautiful piece of Rosewood!! Can't wait to see what the Bee does with that

 

[B2L]

Rosewood burl. These pics just don't do it justice. But they are all I have....for now!

She's going to be a beaut

 

[inspects]

Gorgeous wood DJ, should make a fine Mod....!

 

[tiburonfirst]

 

[B2L]

G'mornin Tibs

 

[tiburonfirst]

no sign of dj today? better get some more coffee served!

 

[ThreeDJ16]

no sign of dj today? better get some more coffee served!

Been a long day. But that is definitely how I like my coffee, in bed and naked! LoL.

 

[inspects]

Crappy pictures, but nice drips tips DJ...!

Oh, and your mods work nicely too....

 

[penguiness]

D_J, I would really appreciate if you waited on mine until after your recovery. It is of concern to me that you are enduring so much pain and I don't want to be the cause for one minute of it.