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Upgrade To SSD Hard Drive And See Speed!
After reading several articles about the impressive performance gains you can get from SSD drives as well as the fact that they are completely silent and use a fraction of the power of normal drives, I got the itch and had to look into them. I started thinking I’d get an SSD to put into my […]
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How to add HP SFF SAS Drives to your desktop pc
I recently acquired some HP Small Form Factor (SFF) Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) hot swap hard drives from work. We use them for data storage on high end servers because they are lightening fast and the hot swap capability allows you to pull a bad drive and replace it without turning off the server. These […]
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Gigabit connection not working on Dell Dimension 9200 (XPS 410)
I’ve had my Dell Dimension 9200 (also known as the XPS 410) for a few years now and have been connected to a Netgear WGR614 router which has a maximum wired speed of 100mb. As I have been acquiring a lot of wireless N equipped devices, I decided to upgrade my router to the Netgear WNDR3700 […]
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SDHC Flash Card Reader Annoyances
I’m a techie… I’ve come to expect certain things when it comes to technology. Specifically, backwards compatibility. In the old days, you pretty much expected that when you got a new gadget or piece of software, that it would be painful, if not impossible to make it work with your old technology. Nowadays, it’s pretty […]