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This actually was what I found in my research, but it seems that the OS versioning issue is only the case in 2012 Essentials, not the standard or datacenter versions. But, I guess I got it figured out. So for anyone who ends up here from Google once the crawlers hit this, it seemed it wasn't a...

Hey all. Hope you've all been well. Poking my head in to say hi while I see if any of you fine folks have some suggestions for my issues in the software thread. Did we ever merge with the other site?

Hey all. I'm hoping you might be able to help with this one. I'm reaching out to Reddit, as well, as I'm feeling as though this situation is growing dire. First off, let me give you a heads up by saying I've scoured the internet looking for a solution, and all I could continue to come up with...

Sounds like a power supply. Swap and test with a known good unit. Sent from my Nexus 5X using Computer Forums mobile app

On paper, your arguments hold up, I get that mathematically RAID5/6 are more "resilient" than RAID10 in terms of how many drives fail. But in the real world they do not; there's many other factors other than just drive failure probability. I'll be going RAID10, and we'll just leave it at that...

Did any of you watch the Super Bowl last night? Curious on your thoughts--halftime how, game in general, media reactions/overreactions, etc.

I appreciate you stopping by and giving your input. I'll try to address some of your question, but can't promise I'll keep them in order. ;) First off, with a 4-drive array, RAID6 makes zero sense for several reasons. First is the inherent risk with a drive failure, leading to long rebuild...

Yes, they did used to have build your owns. They were quite boxy, and I don't recall them being that spectacular for quality in terms of screen or battery life. It was also far and away more expensive to do so. I got excited, took one look, and then ran the other direction and never again...

Bumping to see if any of you have any expertise on the server side that could thumbs up or down this, at the very least. Thanks, all! :-) Sent from my Nexus 5X using Computer Forums mobile app

I leave my desktop on all the time. The only issues I've ever experienced were fan failures (more-so bearing failures, they never actually stopped moving). This had less to do with leaving it on all the time and more to do with the fact that I usually forgot to blow out the dust quarterly like I...

Thanks for all the "welcome back" messages, everybody. It's nice to see some of the "old folks" are still around (don't worry, I don't mean "old" as in your age :)), but it's equally as nice to see there are many new active members.

Honestly, dude, just go with the fresh installation of a new PC/SSD. Don't try to put in the SSD and fix drivers. You'll have all sorts of issues. You'll be amazed at how little you miss with a fresh installation. Don't use 3rd party software to move applications. You're going to run into...

Mods, can one of you trash this? Thanks!

Sorry, I meant to include this in my last post but was typing on my phone and by the time I got done, I had forgotten about it. It appears as though the SSD is pretty easy to get at, but...it looks like it's an M2 SSD device. So if you've got a 2.5", it's not going to work...

Super easy upgrade later on, though, to just grab another 8GB and throw it in. If he is pinching the budget at all, he'd be perfectly fine with 8GB to start with.