Recent content by hurnii

In addition to MS Windows 11 registration, it would seem the obvious benefit of having WiFi on the BIOS/UEFI EPROM would be flashing said BIOS chip. How many years ago were USB drives added as a ROM image source for flashing BIOS? Aren't we about due for an additional source? With WiFi...

Yes, it is. Is actually a Dell "branded" P5800X SSDPF21Q400GB01 with U.2 interface. Got it soon after the discontinuation notice, and, occasionally check to see how much they're going for, now. (Price keeps going up, faster than inflation.) Bought a separate PCIe v4 x4 card to mount it on...

Am not going to advertise for a drive that's apparently no longer available. (If I could still buy a couple more, I'd say who they are.) Re: Optane: I had no idea! Looked around and found: Ouch! Guess I'd better power up that P5000X drive I have lying around, and see how bad it is. Does...

Went hunting for the specs for the enterprise drive, these are worded slightly differently from what I remember: • 2.5” standard form factor with SATA standard interface connector. • Compliant with SATA revision 3.1 standard with 6.0 Gb/s transfer rate. • Compliant with ATA/ATAPI-8 standard...

The article is actually milder / less scary than it should be. My wife had a laptop (used IBM/Lenovo Thinkpad) which originally had an HDD, which I upgraded to an SSD (Plextor PX-512S2C), back in 2017. Windows 7 OS install, some applications, and then light usage (roughly 2 TB written, total...

Two things I would have liked to have seen in this article: ECC - the much needed, but for some reason, often ignored, expensive, redheaded stepchild of memory (" I want my ECC" - parody sung to the tune of "I want my MTV") (DDR5 has 2x forms of ECC - get the "real" ECC) Rank the DDR-5...

The big question: how hot do they get? As an owner of a few Aquantia based 10GE cards (and at least 2 motherboards with them, too), the largest problem with the card/chipset is heat. Like some CNA cards, these things really needed active cooling, or at least large, hulking heat sinks and...

Avast claims 4 Malware items within NiceHash Miner.

Re: "Semi-passive" cooling mode not working: My Red Devil's BIOS switch has 3 positions: Max OC (fairly useless) Middle Position ("Normal ?") Semi-Passive Mode When switching BIOS, the Computer needs to be turned off, the switch set to the desired position, then Computer PSU turned back...

While the article says no bootable NVMe M.2 arrays, it neither says yea nor nay to whether non-bootable NMVe M.2 arrays are possible. I don't mean "soft" raid, like a Windows striped array, which should work with anything, I mean the OS sees the two devices as a single device. And TRIM should...

It's not just a reviewer at NewEgg, it's AMD. Ryzen CPU Memory Support MHz Dual-Channel/Dual-Rank/Four-DIMM1866 Dual-Channel/Single-Rank/Four-DIMM2133 Dual-Channel/Dual-Rank/Two-DIMM2400 Dual-Channel/Single-Rank/Two-DIMM2667 Unfortunately, many RAM providers do not publish which Rank...

Likely reason for only 1 M2 Slot: Given 2 slots, we'd expect bootable, chipset based RAID (at least 0/1). If the chipset doesn't have the bandwidth for 2x 4 lane PCI 3.0 NVMe M.2 SSDs, or if the BIOS/UEFI NVMe RAID boot support isn't ready, then a single M.2 slot would be preferable to...

Any idea which flavor(s) of WiFi are supported? (802.11g, n, ac ?) And, are you sure it's really WiFi? The "10meter range" sounds more like Bluetooth.

Samsung Magician 5.0 has been out for two weeks now. Was hoping it might enable RAPID mode for more than one Sammy SSD at the same time. Instead, it disables RAPID mode, entirely, for AMD chipsets! pdf documentation has not been updated fully for 5.0 - it still shows a driver limitation (use...

The first hint of snake oil was the fact that they did testing at Abbey Road studios. Was this really necessary? Are they competitive with industrial anechoic chambers either financially or performance-wise? Next snake oil alert was jumping from interfacing with HTC Vive for positional data...