u/wtfa54

Hey folks, I've been running the 2280 adapter in my Claw 8 AI+ for about half a year now and my 4TB drive is likely failing. The device has become so slow it's basically unusable with the drive pinned at 100% usage but read and write rates in the hundreds of kb/s. I've always had a heat sink on it and aside from initial setup never really stressed it much. I've also never had it throttle before it just stopped working last night.

The adapter itself doesn't seem to be the issue since I swapped in a different 4TB drive (I know, I know. I got these when they were dirt cheap comparatively) and it seems to be working perfectly. I was always a little concerned about the adapter putting the drive directly over the heat pipes and I'm not sure if that's what caused this issue or if the drive itself was just faulty. It's a cheaper Silicon Power drive so probably not the most reliable thing. The odd thing is that the drive health is still reported at 100%.

Anyways, I just figured I'd make a post to see if:

1. Anyone else has had drive issues with the adapter

2. If anyone has any insight on things I could do to try to fix this. I've also run TRIM manually just in case that was the issue and nada. I've also benchmarked the drive again on different PCs to replicate the issue. In a more open space the write speed increased but was basically in single digit mb/s still at best.

If I can't fix the performance I'm likely paying an arm and a leg to a 2230 and forcing myself to stop hoarding games to boot 😅

First post here and hoping y'all with some insight can help me figure out if it's worth spending a good amount of money on some major repairs and restoration on this car.

It's a 2011 Subaru Impreza 2.5i that I own outright and was driven pretty lightly for the first 10 years of its life before seeing heavier use these past five years. But it still has just under 90,000 miles on it after all these years. It hasn't needed major repairs yet but I was told during my last inspection that I'm going to likely need the suspension bushings replaced soon, the power steering has started to sometimes provide a lot of resistance when turning the wheel, it screeches when the wheel is cut all the way to either side, and I'm sure other things are going to need replacing.

I'm considering taking it to a mechanic I trust and basically asking for an estimate to do as much as possible to get this thing as close to "as good as new" as possible since it's been a great and reliable car and the mileage is still pretty low for its age.

I can afford the payments for financing a new car if needed, but I don't really have any desire for newer features or a nicer looking car or really any upgrades from what I currently have and I'm hoping by investing some more money I can get a good few more years out of her. I'm also wary of locking myself into a contract and additional monthly costs in case things go belly up for me financially over the next few years but have enough to cover the up front costs for some major repairs.

What would y'all do in my situation? Does it make sense to invest something like $6000-$7000 into this car hoping to get another five years out of it? At what price point for repairs and restoration would you consider to "no longer be worth it?" Should I trade it in and get a newer used car? Is there any reason to go new instead?

P.S. there is also a minor degree of sentimental value since this was the first car me and my family were able to finance and it's served us well so part of me wants to keep it until it's well and truly unusable.

Thanks everyone for the insight and for reading this big wall of text