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the USB cable coming with this cost effective unit is VERY SHORT and NOT WELL SHIELDED had an older adapter of the same brand without any problems doing backups on FRONT USB copy oeprations would stall and even keyboard and […]

UNTESTED! 😀 these drives are called: “U.2 PCIe NVMe” no kidding, search for em on ebay. “Micron has been developing some of the world’s most advanced memory technologies for more than 40 years, including DRAM (Dynamic Random Access Memory) and […]

TLC last longer and are faster but also more expensive Which is better SLC MLC TLC QLC? lifespan + performance-wise: SLC MLC TLC QLC For comparison: SLCs are able to last up to 100,000 write cycles while QLCs even with […]

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WARNING! always use the default supplied usb cable using other usb-c cable (even high quality ones) might overheat the USB-NVMe adapter (happened while copying 50GBytes of data over left USB port of lenovo t14 gen3 it worked again after a […]

IDE, SCSI, SATA, SAS now U.2 M.2… these drives are called: “U.2 PCIe NVMe” no kidding, search for em on ebay. that reminds of… “the usb cable chaos” has arrived with “Slim SAS” for another round of mass cable connector confusion […]

because Win 10 compared to Win 7 is incredibly slow, a way to upgrade an older ASUS Mainboard was found RAM was increased from 8 GB to 32 GB it actually had an M.2 slot for the MZ-V8P500BW NVMe SSD […]

update 2025: very basic cross os distribution monitor harddisk speeds bash script by counting sector read write UPDATE: 2022 may have to appoligize to HighPoint and ALTERNATE, as other RAID systems such as the AMD RAIDXpert2 based systems (same concept) […]

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/benchmarking update 2025: very basic cross os distribution monitor harddisk speeds bash script by counting sector read write update 2022: next to the good old (non-destructive if used correctly) “dd” is still the way to go for benchmarking harddisks under […]

smart and ssds? and: is smart really that smart? to do regular smart, is better than doing no smart, but as confirmed here, it can be only minutes of time from reporting an error-problem to complete harddisk failure, so smart […]

THE POWER OF THE GNU PENGUIN: https://youtu.be/0MI2k_Ml5_0 HUMANS SHOULD NEVER EVER WAIT FOR MACHINES! 🙂 MACHINES LIVE FOREVER – HUMANS DO NOT (YET) GNU LINUX Debian 8 “Jessie” with MATE Gnome2 Desktop GUI) on DELL E4310 with Samsung SSD 830 […]

Yes, they have it, and yes, it’s useful. Super Talent drives do have SMART, they use the smart tools to calculate life expectancy for the drive. Flash drives do develop errors over time, usually in the form of bad flash […]

… in theory it should not be THAT hard to swap the interal harddisk for an SSD and give the laptop some boost. TO BE HONEST: IT CAN BE DONE – BUT YOU GONNA WASTE A LOT OF TIME if […]

IT’S A MOFO BULLSHIT! http://superuser.com/questions/848692/cannot-boot-windows-8-1-after-migrating-to-samsung-ssd-using-supplied-software Remove the hard drive before booting into the SSD for the first time The problem you experienced is caused by the Windows installation on the SSD continuing to reference the old hard drive. As a […]

search for it on ebay it has a nice blue glow to it the assembly is a bit confusing X-D search for SKC3000D2048G on ebay similar card might different name? what else is there NVMe 2TB wise? # get info […]

mongodb WARNING! [+] it is 100% open source 😀 [?] currently Server Side Public License (SSPL) licenced (wiki) [?] 3-letter-agencies might have been involved in the initial funding mongodb (which might or might not be a problem) (Wiki) [-] documentation […]

why fiddle with multiple external usb cables and power supplies when simply switch icybox hd dockingstation off swap harddisks switch icybox hd dockingstation on works ok (short rsync based test ext4 filesystem) thick usb cable. fun fact it’s the same […]

Server Model: G292-Z20-rev-100 search em on ebay another search always the POSITIVE first: overall it’s an excellent machine but the user needs to know the details it has 1x BMC (LAN) and 2x slots for SPF fiber modules for example […]

tape: is it worth the hazzle? what is better (+ cheaper +faster +easier): 1PetaByte of tape or 1PetaByte of harddisk storage server? the race is on! that’s what it might look from the inside: a lot of dirt and dust […]

Year 2000 has passed, no flying cars yet but at least more faster (SSD and NVMe) disk space 😀 All sorts of resources also digital resources and bandwidth, RAM and DiskSpace space are STILL precious and should be treated as […]

2023 Update: first scandal with SandDisk SSDs: cheap solder. WD helps ruining latest bought up brandname SandDisk it’s name for quality, by building maximal cheap crap and selling it for premium prices: “Suspected cause of SSD death raises eyebrows | […]

why? because it would be a shame to put all those intel Macs to the trash not particularly big fan of the aluminum bodies (uses loads of energy to make also not healthy to be touched daily) but they surely […]

proceed with caution:  only recommend it to be applied to filesystems that are for backup purpose (of which another copy exist). “ntfsfix tool is very limited compared to M$s chkdsk” using a NVMe as backup “USB STICK” and rsynced a […]

currently testing the AMD workstation with the KINGSTON SKC3000D2048G NVMe, directly attached to one of the 2x NVMe slots (no RAID), as this NVMe drive seems to offer excellent price-to-disk-size-and-performance-value, if it is a kingston-quality drive, then there should be […]

consider using tails https://freedom.press/digisec/blog/sharing-sensitive-leaks-press/ https://ssd.eff.org/module/attending-protest consider using sunglases an FFP mask https://ssd.eff.org/module/how-to-use-signal https://ssd.eff.org/playlist/want-security-starter-pack centralized messengers allow the company running the service to basically control all communication this allows censorship + manipulation wich is (of course) bad unfortunately signal + whatsapp […]

mekotronicsplz note: “the-best-technology-does-nothing-without-a-good-human-culture” Yes! Read that correctly, modern SmartPhones are actually full blown computers, so why not use them as such? Now that they have enough (RISC) based computational power that they can replace Desktop and Notebooks, problem: they can […]

this has to do with Caja calculating thumbnails for EVERY (!!!) picture ever found in a folder that matches the “below this and that file size” settings. having a picture “preview” possibility in a file manager is neat but if […]

about giada are small, power efficient but powerfull embedded PCs (x86 and ARM, tested the F300, 5 years later: 30x boxes still working perfectly fine, not even a power supply failed!) 😀 benchmark results: https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/9718004 quasi same CPU speed as […]

update: 2024-04: system running well fastest AMD with integrated GPU would be: Ryzen 7 8700G (search bundle on ebay) the Ryzen 7 has more cores, so single core wise the CPUs are close to each other, multicore the 7 should […]

So Tuxedo has no direct cooperation with System76 but maybe with this company: as the “TUXEDO InfinityBook S 14 Gen6” = “System76 Lemur Pro” = “CLEVO L141MU” = HYPERBOOK L14 ULTRA” Clevo sub company in Germany, main company in Poland […]