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Forum: Storage (alternative) August 13th 17, 01:53 PM Posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Replies: 5
Views: 986
Posted By Mike Tomlinson
new WD Blue SSD 500 GB drive for $150

En el artículo , VanguardLH
escribió:

I'd still hunt around for benchmarks to see how the M.2 drives perform.

NVMe M.2 drives will way, way outperform...
Forum: General June 12th 17, 09:40 AM Posted to uk.comp.homebuilt,uk.comp.home-networking,alt.comp.hardware
Replies: 10
Views: 1,835
Posted By Mike Tomlinson
Networx Connectix Switch

En el artículo , Theo theom+news
@chiark.greenend.org.uk escribió:

I'm familiar with the TP-Link 'Easy Smart' which are so cheap they don't
even have a web...
Forum: General June 12th 17, 08:29 AM Posted to uk.comp.homebuilt,uk.comp.home-networking,alt.comp.hardware
Replies: 10
Views: 1,835
Posted By Mike Tomlinson
Networx Connectix Switch

En el artículo , Theo theom+news
@chiark.greenend.org.uk escribió:

However I suspect this particular example is a rebadge of somebody else

I agree. I...
Forum: Storage (alternative) December 1st 16, 11:32 AM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.windows7.general,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Replies: 31
Views: 2,002
Posted By Mike Tomlinson
Can't format 64 GB USB flash drives as FAT32?

En el artículo , Paul
escribió:

By going in there, I knew the dangers, but my assumption
was, that any sort of read-access would be "safe". I...
Forum: Storage (alternative) September 12th 16, 07:29 AM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage,alt.os.windows-vista
Replies: 11
Views: 1,009
Posted By Mike Tomlinson
I fouled up both the clone and the original!

En el artículo , Bill
escribió:

Which leads to an ftp site that either doesn't exist or needs a
password?

It's...
Forum: Intel June 21st 16, 02:24 PM Posted to alt.privacy.anon-server,comp.sys.intel,comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 2
Views: 2,713
Posted By Mike Tomlinson
Intel x86s hide another CPU that can take over your machine

En el artículo ,
Jack Ryan escribió:

You really need
two machines. One never connected to the internet that is...
Forum: Storage (alternative) January 16th 16, 10:04 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware,general,alt.windows7.general,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Replies: 46
Views: 3,562
Posted By Mike Tomlinson
What wears out in an HDD?

En el artículo , Mr. Man-wai Chang
escribió:

Outside air shouldn't be able to reach inside the hard disk

It does, actually. The inside of the...
Forum: General January 16th 16, 10:04 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware,general,alt.windows7.general,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Replies: 46
Views: 3,833
Posted By Mike Tomlinson
What wears out in an HDD?

En el artículo , Mr. Man-wai Chang
escribió:

Outside air shouldn't be able to reach inside the hard disk

It does, actually. The inside of the...
Forum: Storage (alternative) September 11th 15, 09:22 PM Posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage,uk.comp.homebuilt
Replies: 26
Views: 1,271
Posted By Mike Tomlinson
Cannot access new Seagate external HD

En el artículo , Mark
Perkins escribió:

You have to also take into account the entire length of the path. If this 33
character...
Forum: Storage (alternative) September 11th 15, 12:22 AM Posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage,uk.comp.homebuilt
Replies: 26
Views: 1,271
Posted By Mike Tomlinson
Cannot access new Seagate external HD

En el artículo , Terry
Pinnell escribió:

SUCCESS! Happy to report that after a reboot I was able to format and
am now...
Forum: Storage (alternative) September 11th 15, 12:16 AM Posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage,uk.comp.homebuilt
Replies: 26
Views: 1,271
Posted By Mike Tomlinson
Cannot access new Seagate external HD

En el artículo , Terry
Pinnell escribió:

Spent a
couple of hours on it so far, but reckon I'll parcel it up ;-(

Don't do that...
Forum: Storage (alternative) August 8th 15, 05:17 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Replies: 6
Views: 374
Posted By Mike Tomlinson
How to setup a caching SSD?

En el artículo ,
Jason escribió:

I tried that. ReadyBoost will not let you designate a second (third...)
flash memory...
Forum: Storage (alternative) August 8th 15, 11:08 AM Posted to alt.windows7.general,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Replies: 6
Views: 374
Posted By Mike Tomlinson
How to setup a caching SSD?

En el artículo , Yousuf
Khan escribió:

as
wondering if it's possible to repurpose the old 60GB SSD as a caching
SSD,...
Forum: Storage (alternative) March 14th 15, 01:49 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Replies: 26
Views: 3,116
Posted By Mike Tomlinson
10TB Hard Drive, can't even be accessed by modern OS's yet!

En el artículo , Yousuf
Khan escribió:

but at the cost of more complicated software
on the OS to properly read, write,...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's August 11th 14, 01:04 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Replies: 5
Views: 810
Posted By Mike Tomlinson
Corsair TX650 PSUs aren't that good or bad luck?

In article , Ant
writes

snip

Over long .sig and crossposted to 5 groups, one of which doesn't even
exist. Moron.

Newsgroups:...
Forum: Storage (alternative) July 1st 14, 10:41 AM Posted to alt.comp.periphs.hdd,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage,comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Replies: 46
Views: 1,670
Posted By Mike Tomlinson
Is it true that it is a bad idea to put a swap/pagefile on a SSD?

In article , nospam
writes

there are a *lot* of systems with ssd that are 5 years old (or more)
and running just fine, with no...
Forum: Storage (alternative) July 1st 14, 10:37 AM Posted to alt.comp.periphs.hdd,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage,comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Replies: 46
Views: 1,670
Posted By Mike Tomlinson
Is it true that it is a bad idea to put a swap/pagefile on a SSD?

In article , Ant
writes

Also, VirtualBox was exited since yesterday afternoon PDT. Its swap has
grown overnight.

Modern OSes...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's June 25th 14, 04:00 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Replies: 4
Views: 483
Posted By Mike Tomlinson
slow PATA disk in Centos

In article ,
writes

hdparm shows the drive is running in UDMA5, which is ATA100 instead of
maximum ATA133, but is way...
Forum: Storage (alternative) June 20th 14, 10:52 AM Posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage,uk.comp.homebuilt
Replies: 14
Views: 1,213
Posted By Mike Tomlinson
"Consumer-grade SSDs actually last a hell of a long time"

In article , Mark F
writes

Another factor to consider it how long the data is retained;
consider both the case of un referenced...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's June 4th 14, 12:40 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Replies: 10
Views: 593
Posted By Mike Tomlinson
SSD travails

In article , Cyborg-HAF
writes

My Windows 7 disk apparently neglected to do this on
the SSD; there is just one partition with...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's March 27th 14, 05:13 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,alt.windows7.general
Replies: 24
Views: 649
Posted By Mike Tomlinson
First Terabyte-class SSD's released!

In article , s|b
writes

So it will only last 10 years instead of 20? I'm sorry if I'm not going
to loose any sleep over that.

It'll last a...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's March 27th 14, 04:13 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,alt.windows7.general
Replies: 24
Views: 649
Posted By Mike Tomlinson
First Terabyte-class SSD's released!

In article , Ken Blake
writes

Also true, but essentially irrelevant. That has nothing to do with
whether the page file is on a HD or...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's March 27th 14, 03:11 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,alt.windows7.general
Replies: 24
Views: 649
Posted By Mike Tomlinson
First Terabyte-class SSD's released!

In article , s|b
writes

So what harm can the page file really do?

1) If the pagefile gets busy, it'll decrease the lifetime of your...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's March 27th 14, 12:20 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,alt.windows7.general
Replies: 24
Views: 649
Posted By Mike Tomlinson
First Terabyte-class SSD's released!

In article , Mike Barnes
writes

As an experiment I tried moving the pagefile
to C: and that made no difference.

Did you manually...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's March 15th 14, 04:48 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,uk.comp.homebuilt
Replies: 34
Views: 1,206
Posted By Mike Tomlinson
New build won't start up.

En el artículo , Mark
escribió:

Yes. I get a continuous tone. Does this tell us anything?

Yes, it means the BIOS and...
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