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Dec/13

SATA3 v.s SATA3 Speeds

Filed Under Hardware at 23rd December 2013 0:01 by

I’ve recently switched Asus Sabertooth X58 to an Asus Maximus VI Hero X87. Both had SATA 3.0 ports but I found they were not both equal. I used Samsung Magician which came with my SSD to perform for a simple … Continue reading →

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Jun/13

Raspberry Pi Replace Home Server

Filed Under Hardware at 3rd June 2013 0:01 by

Overview With the popularity of Raspberry Pi I wanted to investigate if it was possible to replace my 24×7 Linux server running at home. Whilst one Raspberry Pi will not replace a desktop computer, it may be possible to use … Continue reading →

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Apr/13

Samsung 830 SSD (512GB)

Filed Under Hardware at 22nd April 2013 0:01 by

Overview My Windows system stopped booting up for some odd reason but luckily it only affect my OS drive. As I had to reinstall Windows I thought now would be a good time to get an SSD to save cloning … Continue reading →

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Feb/13

SATA And SATA 3 Speed Difference

Filed Under Hardware at 25th February 2013 0:01 by

A very quick test on a new SATA 3 labelled cable and a generic SATA labelled cable revealed interesting results. I used the same drive on the same SATA 3 port on the flawed Marvell powered X58 Intel chipset. The … Continue reading →

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Dec/11

Migration Plan From Ubuntu 10.04 LTS To 12.04 LTS

Filed Under Linux at 28th December 2011 0:01 by

Overview I’m preparing myself to move from 10.04 to 12.04. With 12.04 as the next Long Term Release (LTS) coming in the next release I thought it was time to prepare for the inevitable move from old to new. Setup … Continue reading →

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Nov/11

Resizing VirtualBox Disk

Filed Under Linux, Software at 18th November 2011 10:29 by

I ran out of disk space on my virtual machine and needed more space. I did not want to create a new disk and install from scratch but VirtualBox does not have any GUI tools which would resize a disk … Continue reading →

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Feb/11

Waking Windows 7 Controller Error

Filed Under Windows at 17th February 2011 14:19 by

It seems there’s an issue with my preferred method of separating home and windows partition on Windows 7. I use the Sleep function a lot rather than shutting it down over night. Most of the time it works but I … Continue reading →

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Feb/10

Separate User & Windows Directory On Different Drives

Filed Under Windows at 22nd February 2010 0:01 by

Overview I wanted to have the Windows partition and the user partition on separate drives. I have done this in the past on a Linux computer and it was very painless. The advantage to this setup is that most of … Continue reading →