Posts Tagged ‘ssd’
October 2020
Puppy It wasn’t long after we lost Dougal that we decided the house just felt wrong without a dog. So… new puppy – Maximus: More photos on my daily #pupdate We’re all streamers now Returning to this theme, I’ve added a few more links to my streaming tag on Pinboard. Lighting On the recommendation of […]
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Tags: adapter, camera, Canon, ESXi, FD, LED, Neewer, puppy, Raspberry Pi, ssd, streaming
InfoQ – Intel Launch Optane SSD
Intel recently launched their 3D XPoint non-volatile memory (NVM) under the brand name of Optane. The SSD label in some of the branding might imply that it’s a different type of durable storage, but the technology is aimed at applications that would normally use RAM. This marks the beginning of the end for the compromise […]
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Tags: 3D XPoint, cache, Optane, RAM, ssd
Self Encrypting Drives
TL;DR Many SSDs are also Self Encrypting Drives (SEDs) they just need a few bits flipped to make them work. As the SSDs use encryption under the hood anyway there’s no performance overhead. Background This is something of an almanac post after a couple of days of prodding around the topic of PC device encryption. […]
Filed under: security | 3 Comments
Tags: BitLocker, eDrive, encryption, Opal, sed, ssd, TCG
Copying GPT SSDs
TL;DR Copying the contents of one SSD to a larger one (and making use of the extra space) should be simple, but there are a few gotchas. A combination of AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard and some command line tools got the job done though. Background SSDs have been reasonably cheap for some time, but now […]
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Tags: attributes, clone, copy, diskpart, GPT, migrate, partition, ssd, type, Windows
TL;DR Anybody wanting a high spec laptop that isn’t from Apple is probably getting a low end model with small RAM and HDD and upgrading themselves to big RAM and SSD. This skews the sales data, so the OEMs see a market where nobody buys big RAM and SSD, from which they incorrectly infer that nobody […]
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Tags: apple, Chromebook, data, Intel, laptop, lenovo, MacBook, OODA, RAM, ssd
I had some fun last year putting CohesiveFT’s VNS3 cloud networking solution onto Raspberry Pi. It gave us something to demo on at trade shows, and we could also give away Pis as part of promotions. The Pis were like geek catnip. I’ll be using Pis again for Cloud Expo Europe later this month, but […]
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Tags: Brix, GB-XM14-1037, Gigabyte, KVM, NUC, RAM, review, SFF, ssd, Ubuntu
Review – Intel NUC DC53427HYE
I’ve been using a Lenovo X201 Tablet in a docking station as my main machine for about 3 years now. 8GB RAM hasn’t been enough for a while, which is why I got 16GB for my X230 laptop, and I’ve been having issues with the CPU running out of steam when using Skype and Google […]
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Tags: benchmark, DC53427HYE, displayport, i5, i5-3427U, Intel, NUC, RAM, ssd
Review – Dell PowerEdge T110 II
It’s almost 3 years since I got my HP Microserver – time for a change. 8GB wasn’t enough RAM for all the VMs I want to run, and even with an unofficial upgrade to 16GB I was running out of room. The NL40 processor was starting to show some strain too. The time had come […]
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Tags: benchmark, build, Dell, E3-1220, E3-1220v2, performance, RAM, review, ssd, T110, T110 II, VMs
HP 650 Business Laptop – review
Since the screen failed on my wife’s Lenovo s10e netbook (and I turned it into a TV attached media player) she’s been using my old s10e, but that’s been on its last legs for a while too. The time had come for something new, with a full sized keyboard and screen. I’ve been looking around […]
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Tags: 650, business, EFI, HP, laptop, review, ssd, Start8, UEFI, WEI
Review – Lenovo X230
Shortly after starting my new job it became apparent that I’d need a new laptop. As most of the other CohesiveFT team use Macs (and iWork) I was very tempted by the 11″ Macbook Air, but its limited memory and need for dongles to connect to things like VGA and network dissuaded me. I may come to […]
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Tags: lenovo, review, ssd, X230
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