|OT| The PC Hardware Thread -- Buy/Upgrade/Ask/Answer

[Pixieking]

I had 3 Seagates fail on me in quick succession about 8 years ago and haven't bought a Seagate since. Tbf that was their standard drives, not an Ironwolf or EXOS, but I swear by WDs for all my music, videos and comics nowadays. I just wouldn't chance Seagate with anything of value.

 

[Pommes]

I personally had no problem when I used Seagate drives (Ironwolf) inside a NAS.

But be aware that there where cases of old hard drives where the SMART values where reset and then sold as new drives (Seagate spins up a raid on a counterfeit hard drive workshop — authorities read criminals' writes while they spill the beans).
So if you see drives that are suspiciously cheap for a new drive compared to other shops or other drive models that might be the reason.

 

[d00d3n]

I got tired of waiting for Steam Machine, so I am repurposing my old gaming PC as a SteamOs machine to connect to my TV. Specs are Intel Core i9-12900K, 32 GB DDR4 RAM, and a Prime OC 9070 XT that I bought today. Hopefully, this thing will work without too much hassle.

It feels good to utilize the old RAM and several old ssd drives without paying the current prices!

This installation has hardly been a hassle free experience. The standard SteamOs repair image did not support the 9070 XT (but the latest version of the the actual operating system does), there were annoying network connectivity issues, even with ethernet, preventing me to do the initial login to Steam (solvable by forcing a reset of network settings by checking and unchecking the proxy server option), and I am currently working on adding all my storage (extra sata ssd now works, but not extra nvme ssd).