*OFFICIAL* Alienware Area-51M R1 Owner's Lounge

Ah okay. Do you have you put the backups on their own partition or a seperate drive?

I'm a noob when it comes to backing up windows, as I usually just reinstall.

 

Anyone notice the fans randomly spinning up real quickly on the latest bios? Happens during dead idle moments, just a quick rpm jump and back down to silent. Temps don’t jump either.


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Hi guys, I am new here, but ordered today two 51m (Delidded 9900K/2080) from HID. Read here, that some machines having issues with gpu failure, but I hope mine will be ok. Will do post about my impressions once I get the laptops.

 

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Congrats on your purchase and welcome to the club! GPU dying have been pretty random, some people here used it since launch and haven't had a single issue.
Keep us posted.

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You will want to place it on a seperate drive, You can get a TB3 or USBC External drive. Or just get a decent 2.5 SSD and place in your 2.5 slot this is what I did I placed a Samsung PM883 7.6 TB for backups. I would suggest getting at least the size of your main drive or raid size?

 

Okay, thanks.

I replaced the 1TB SSHD with my 1TB MX500 2.5" for storage/games.

Would it be okay to create a partition on that drive for a backup?

I also have a 1TB external HDD I could use. Would creating a backup on either erase the contents of the drive?

 

You can backup to either of those as long as you have space available and yes create a folder like a51backup and make sure to select that folder when you chose location to backup to. Note that the external HDD will take much longer to backup to and also slower to reload when/if needed?

 

You have a Samsung PM883 7.6TB?!? Dang man that is one expensive drive haha. I mean I have lots of SSD's between my laptops and desktops that add up to that high and more but in one drive dang. How long have you had that beast ssd?

 

Alright thanks, and excuse my ignorance. It's about time I start backing things up and not just clean install every time.

I'll probably set it up on my 1TB MX500 then. Do I need to create a new partition on it, or just make a folder? The whole drive is just a single partition at the moment.