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Posted on March 4, 2023March 4, 2023 Hardware L.A.M.P.

Use WD Blue SN570 for my Proxmox VE

When I order my 2.5Gbe PCIe adapter on Amazon, I ordered Westen Digital Blue SN570 1TB at the same time. It is US$57.99  plus tax when I purchased it. Now it is even cheaper, only $52.99. Please be noticed that... Read more

Crucial P2 SSD installed
Posted on September 15, 2022 Hardware

Crucial P2 NVMe M.2 SSD 500GB

I bought an SSD, or an NVMe SSD to upgrade the Dell laptop. I posted a few days ago about how to change the thermal paste on this Dell Inspiron 15 laptop. I replaced the original WD WD10SPZX 1TB 2.5″... Read more

Posted on August 31, 2019 Hardware

Samsung 970 EVO Plus NVMe M.2 V-NAND SSD

I bought an SSD from Taobao months ago. It was on sale at that time. I thought it is a good deal. I paid RMB399. Convert it to CAD $75. Compared the price on Amazon.ca, $102.94. I did get a... Read more

Posted on March 19, 2019March 19, 2019 Hardware

Desktop PC I am using for six years

The PC I am using right now is more than six years.  I checked my blog and found the post of flash the bios in Feb 2013. I did a search in my Gmail. Wow, I found the receipt which... Read more

Posted on October 11, 2016October 11, 2016 Hardware

DELL XPS 15 (L502X) Change HDD to SSD

I have a five years old DELL XPS 15, L502X model.  I have an SSD, Crucial BX200 240GB 2.5-inch SSD. I have a 2.5-inch HDD SSD External Enclosure. Now it is time to change HDD to SSD. I want to... Read more

Posted on October 11, 2016 Hardware

NexStar CX Super Speed 2.5-inch SATA to USB 3.0 External Enclosure

I need an external enclosure for my 2.5-inch SSD or HDD. Here I bought it from A-Power computer store. I paid about $31. Model number  NST-200S3-BK There are so many different models on market. It is hard to find which... Read more

Crucial BX200 240GB
Posted on October 11, 2016May 7, 2022 Hardware

Crucial BX200 240GB 2.5-inch SSD

I bought a Crucial BX 200 SSD, a 2.5-inch SSD, 240GB. I bought it from Amazon.ca in May 2016. I have not found time to post what I did on it. Now I would like to record it here for... Read more

Posted on September 6, 2016September 6, 2016 Hardware

Crucial MX300 275GB SSD

I posted the test on my blog, but I have not recorded the purchasing.  When I traveled to San Francisco, I will visit a computer store, Central Computers at downtown San Francisco. It is near my parents-in-law’s house. Compare with... Read more

Posted on September 6, 2016September 6, 2016 Hardware

AS SSD Benchmark Test on Crucial MX300 275GB

It is a quick test based on my Windows 10 Pro. It is just a new installation on my new desktop PC. The testing tool is AS SSD Benchmark 1.9.5986.35387. It is latest one when I download it from the... Read more

Posted on May 18, 2016June 10, 2016 Hardware

Upgrade Curcial BX100 SSD Firmware

It is almost two years old of my Crucial BX100 256GB SSD. Now, I upgraded its firmware from MU01 to MU02. Then I did the benchmark test. The result is very clear that new firmware improve the performance. The original... Read more

Posted on October 29, 2014October 29, 2014 Web & Network

A new VPS service provider – Vultr

I  just ordered a new VPS from Vultr.com. It has All SSD. Maybe the lowest price per memory. Pay $0.007/hr, you get 768MB RAM, 3GHz CPU and 15GB storage. It is about $5/month. And more datacenters than other VPS service... Read more

Posted on September 7, 2014September 8, 2014 Hardware

SATA II vs SATA III

My desktop PC motherboard just support up to SATA II. You know I have a SATA III SSD drive. I would like to see more improvement on speed. The specs of my PC: Mobo: MSI A55M-P33 CPU: AMD A8-3870K Memory:... Read more

Posted on August 29, 2014August 29, 2014 Hardware

Got a Crucial MX100 256GB SSD

I traveled to San Francisco last week. Crucial new SSD MX100, 256GB is a good deal, when I went into a computer store in downtown. The special price is $99.95 plus tax is $108.70. The original price on price tag... Read more

Posted on May 8, 2014May 8, 2014 Web & Network

Benchmark Report of 4GB Servermania VPS with SSD Cached

The VPS with SSD cached is much faster than normal HDD.  Servermania had a email to me last week. It said there is a upgrade of the hardware on the host of my VPS. From normal HDD storage to SSD... Read more

Posted on September 9, 2013March 19, 2019 Web & Network

SSD VPS? Linode SSD Beta.

Linode is the VPS service provider. I start to use it from May. The service it provides is so good. Let me summarize it. Linode 1024MB RAM 8 CPU 48 GB Storage 2 TB Transfer $20 / month I am... Read more

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