Hardware support: A Message From Our Ceo, Johnny, Regarding The H1 Safety Issue - NZXT

I recently got around to replacing the battery on my Dell XPS 13 laptop, which I first bought about 5 years ago brand new. I've always had it plugged in, with the occasional untethered trips to the couch or coffee shop for a few hours.

As of late, the practical battery life while browsing the web and typing spreadsheets has dropped to about 2 useful hours. Charging overnight, throwing into my bag, and working from the car dealership waiting room I started at 70% charge.

So i decided to do a quick amazon buy, $35 for a new battery (Dell wants $120), and just swapped out the batteries. Check out the bulge on the old battery pack!

https://imgur.com/a/kwZ9dDw

New battery just fully charged, and is reporting 6hr of use. Thought this might be interesting to others with an old laptop that doesn't hold a charge. A very happy upgrade for me, because I really like my laptop. Hoping to get another 5 years of use out of it.

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[VideoCardz] XFX preparing Radeon RX 6800 QICK 319 graphics card

Posted: 01 Feb 2021 11:22 PM PST

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Eaton Signs Agreement to Acquire Tripp Lite, Expanding Eaton’s Power Quality Business in the Americas

Posted: 01 Feb 2021 10:08 AM PST

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SSD reliability

Posted: 01 Feb 2021 05:18 AM PST

This is what I observed over a decade of dealing with both SSDs at work and at home. SATA drives tend to be very reliable. MSATA ones are still pretty alright. M2 SATA and NVME ones however tend to have much higher failure rates.

I can see much higher death rates on M2 drives...say 15 over the past 4-5 years. Probably just 1-2 MSATA and zero SATA ones since 2010. Unlike HDDs, when SSDs fail, they usually tend to just die without any SMART warnings.

These are some probable causes that I can think of:

1) Form factor

It's easier to accumulate ESD damage from improper handling (SATA drives are relatively well protected)

2) Type of flash

I haven't seen any MLC M2 NVME SSDs in the past 4-5 years on Latitudes and Thinkpads business notebooks... It's all 3D TLC. Whereas MLC is quite common on MSATA and SATA (not the newer models but the older ones before 2017)

3) Higher density of flash memory

4) Higher Operating temperatures

M2 NVME drives run much hotter due to smaller surface area and higher I/O speeds. This is aggrevated by slimmer notebooks with mediocre cooling. Anyone running one in a USB enclosure will know how hot it can get.

5) Poorer QA/QC due to SSDs being a commodity

More SSDs being produced leading to lower ASPs. With lower margins, companies skimp on QA/QC.

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GPU vs CPU at Image Processing. Performance comparison for GPU and CPU for imaging applications. Why GPU is much faster than CPU?

Posted: 01 Feb 2021 09:03 AM PST

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NZXT H1 | JayzTwoCents with the TLDW version of Steve's video plus temporary fix.