Fix the Xbox by upgrading the HDD to SSD
My Xbox One S game console is over five years. Since last winter, I sometimes get stuck when I play the game. The Xbox One S replaced the Xbox 360 which was 6 years old. So I am thinking about...
Tag: SSD
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...
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″...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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:...
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...
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...