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 great deal. I installed it on my desktop yesterday. LookContinue Reading
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 I made the order on NCIX. NCIX has closed forContinue Reading
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 keep the system, data, everything on the HDD. The originalContinue Reading
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 one is the best. I just pick up it basedContinue Reading
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 future reference. My elder daughter, Grace use a laptop whichContinue Reading
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 the price in Canada, it is cheaper and less tax.Continue Reading
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 official site. The result is not as good as IContinue Reading
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 test I did in 2014 shown as below: AS SSDContinue Reading
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 providers. There are 14 locations worldwide, right now. I didContinue Reading
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: 8GB DDR3 SSD: Crucial MX100 256GB SSD Windows 7 64bitContinue Reading
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 is $109.95 in US dollar. In Canadian Computer Store, sayContinue Reading