Well I transferred my games to a new drive, since the old Games (G:\) drive has a bad sector, and now the stalled file transfer problem has popped up again. It will be transferring fine..and then just stop before it's finished. The progress bar keeps scanning like a mad cylon, and the transfer rate seems to be slowing, but the transfer window refuses to close. I also tried running a game off the drive, and the progress circle next to the mouse cursor just spins and spins.

Well it has been a strange couple of days. I managed to keep Balthazar up for over 3 and 1/2 days,. but had to restart to kill a program. or should I say, do a forced shutdown. Well after that there have been some hiccups, had to re-install the APC UPS agent, winamp, etc. I've had to do a few more force shutdowns, and re-installs of the APC UPS, but everything seems good now. Also, the boot raid array seems stable again. I wonder if those transparent blue sata cables are faulty, seeing as how I think they were the same ones on my old 2TB anime drive and that had to be recovered due to corruption.

I also finally got Homeworld 2 working with a second hand .exe, hopefully it still works.

Strange Intel 250 series SSD Behavior

I checked Drive 0 of my raid 1 (mirror) boot array on the bathroom computer, doing quick/full scans, and optimizing it, and everything came back good. So I put it back in...and it drops about a minute after the rebuild completes. I switched it to a differant slot in my 4 bay hot swap cage, and rebuild. It works fine for ten hours, but then drops in the middle of a backup job with Acronis, along with high CPU usage which causes huge red spikes in my DPC latency checker program. Videos on youtube keeps pausing/freezing as well.

Well now I have it in it's third differant slot, right below drive 1, which seems to be the good drive right now. I'm probably going to get another one, just in case, a bit sooner than I'd planned on. I'd just like to know what the underlying problem is? is it the cable, which I'm going to replace with brand new latched ones, or the fact that I am running them in hardware raid 1 mode and can't run TRIM or the SSD toolbox to optimize them. A bit more hassle than a HDD, but then again, you should defrag those, and I guess TRIM would be an equivalent drawback.

Uptime as of this post is 1 day, 5 hours, and 41 minutes.

Bringing Balthasar back to life..again...

Well I just recovered Balthazar using the bathroom computer (HPPavillion103) and installed a trial ofEaseus Todo Workstation, since the AcronisTrue Image 2013 rescue CD won't booth on Balthazar. I messed with the UEFI settings and made sure secure boot was off and all that, in the BIOS. I recovered from a full sector backup I was lucky enough to do on Monday, so I didn't lose too much data, and I am going to copy over my Skyrim saves. That should leave me up to date. Oh, and I have to update Avast, since apparently I did that AFTER the full sector backup, just in case anything went wrong.