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  • CrayonRosary@lemmy.worldtoBuildapc@lemmy.worldm.2 SATA SSD advice
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    2 months ago

    Are you sure that drive is even supported? That slot looks like an NVMe slot. Notice how there’s no plastic bump in the socket on the left of the drive. And there are pins in that slot area that are not touching any contacts on your drive.

    I imagine some motherboards will support both SSD and NVMe, but if it supports NVMe, you want an NVMe drive. They are much faster. And since you said you can’t see the drive in BIOS, your motherboard very likely only supports NVMe.







  • Fusion 360 is fantastic. It’s free for non-commercisl use. I’ve been using it for years and have zero complaints. It’s polished and powerful.

    People complaining about it for ideological reasons have a point, but I disagree that it’s in some sort of “enshitification spiral”. It’s exactly as usable as it was 5 years ago. There are very few features locked behind a paywall, and they aren’t important to the average maker.

    You can even use Fusion to run a CNC router. For free! With all the polish of commercial software.

    Everyone I know at my local makerspace uses Fusion. I don’t know a single person who uses FreeCAD. A couple people use TinkerCAD. There’s a very large community of Fusion users and getting help is easy.

    I am 100% in favor of FOSS. Give FreeCAD a try. I used it years ago because it had a plugin to make convolute gears with a couple of clicks. But don’t shy away from Fusion just because of all of the haters on here. Give it a try yourself. I think you’ll be impressed by what you get for free.