Good point. For recording video, it's not a big deal if a few pixels here and there aren't written correctly. It'd be a big deal for writing general data though.
How are SSDs reliability compared to USB thumb drives? Don't they both typically use TLC nowadays?
What about those SanDisk "Industrial" or "High Endurance" or "Max Endurance" SD cards - are those any more reliable? Maybe I'll use one with an SD-to-USB reader.
The Industrial cards seem more expensive and go up to 128 GB, but I don't see any being sold at any reputable retailers. The High...
I've gotten a couple BSODs on my Windows 10 laptop recently, and I'm not sure if it's hardware or software related. Windows 10 did not generate any dump files or event logs for some reason.
So I've been running some benchmark programs just to make sure my system is stable. I ran Prime95 for a...
How often do SSDs fail compared to smartphones? I have never heard of anyone's iPhone dying because the flash storage failed. Don't SSDs and smartphones both use flash storage?
I'm running Memtest86+ right now on a new laptop I just got. By the time I get home, it'll have run for about 20 hours. It's running in whatever the default mode is if you don't select anything when it boots up, which I believe is a single core mode.
I've read that you can tell it to use...
I just got a laptop with a 4910MQ CPU (a Haswell CPU), and I want to do some benchmarking/stress testing on it. I found some old posts saying that Prime95 and IntelBurnTest might damage Haswell CPUs. So what is a suitable program to use to stress test my CPU?
I was running CrystalDiskMark on a couple of SSD drives. Both the exact same drive, but one seemed a little slower than the other for some reason. I probably ran the CDM benchmark about 30 times on each SSD.
Now I've seen some posts where people say you shouldn't run a lot of SSD benchmarks...
I saw some people on various forums say that this CRC Electronic Cleaner (http://crcindustries.com/ei/product_detail.aspx?id=05103&S=Y) can be used to clean computer components.
Anyone used it before? Can I just spray my laptop's motherboard and let it dry? Or do I need to wipe it off? I...
Thank you everyone. I was thinking of opening up the laptop and using compressed air to blow on everything to try to get any potential bits out, but it sounds like it won't be a problem if there are a few bits lying around in there.
I had a HP repair tech come over to replace a part on my laptop. I am a bit OCD when it comes to computers, so before he opened up the laptop, I asked him to wash his hands in the bathroom. I heard him grab a bunch of toilet paper to dry his hands. When he opened up the laptop, I noticed there...
I have a desktop PC and a laptop. I got a KVM so that I can share my PS/2 mouse and keyboard between those 2 computers. My desktop PC and my laptop's docking station have PS/2 ports for the mouse and keyboard.
After connecting everything to the KVM, I noticed the mouse pointer movement is...
Not necessarily, since the thumb drive works in all the other USB ports on the docking station.
EDIT: Now the problem is happening randomly with all the USB ports on the docking station. Sometimes they detect the USB drive, sometimes they don't.
It looks like one of the USB ports on the docking station is defective, possibly from that static shock. When I plug a USB drive into that port, I can hear the Windows "do dun" sound effect, but the drive doesn't show up in Windows Explorer. The drive shows up when I plug it into the other USB...
I got a brand new docking station today. I took it out of the box, and then I took it out of the plastic bag covering it. As I was holding it after taking it out of the plastic bag, I heard a static shock as my finger touched part of the docking station. Is there any chance this may have...
I remember a long time ago I was reading some computer forum, and a guy posted that it's not safe to have a PC in the same room as a humidifier. He said that a humidifier will spread water vapor all over the room, and the water vapor has calcium and other minerals in it that will leave a thin...
I know what you are talking about, but I can't find that plug anywhere online. All of the anti-static wrist straps I've seen have the alligator clip.
Do you have to turn the PSU power switch off?
I was wondering if I was working on a laptop, could I attach the anti-static wristband to...
I've looked at various web pages and forums and there seem to be a lot of opinions on how you are supposed to make repairs to a computer while avoiding damage from static electricity.
First of all, there seems to be a difference between a desktop computer and a laptop computer. For a desktop...
I just got an 8.0 GB flash drive (A-Data PD30, supports USB 2.0).
I just copied 1.9 GB worth of photos from my hard drive to the flash drive, and it took 25 minutes. That comes out to 1.3 MB/sec.
Then I copied all of the photos on the flash drive back to my hard drive, and it took 150...
I checked the firmware on Asus website, and my drive has a later firmware than the website does! I guess they haven't updated the website yet. Also, I just tried the CD that came with the drive (it has Asus DVD software on it) and the drive can't even read that (but my other drive can). So...
I just got a new Asus E616A DVD-ROM drive, and it can't read a commercial CD-ROM disc (BlackIce firewall software) that I have. When I put in the disc, the green light flashes for around 10 seconds and then turns off, and Windows says "please insert a disc" when I click on the drive. But I know...
I just got this Athlon Tbird (bought on ebay):
http://home.comcast.net/~voidnospam/cpu.jpg
I was disappointed when I saw that the lower right corner was chipped.
Would you be comfortable running it in your system? I've read reports
from people who have used chipped CPUs that...
I actually do have an ISA slot on my KT7-RAID, and there's a USRobotics Courier V.everything modem in there. If I get a PSU that can deliver 0.3A on the -5V rail, would that be enough? I've tried to find specs on that modem, but can't find out how much current it needs.
I have an old Socket A board (KT7-RAID), and all of the PSUs from that time had a -5v rail. But all of the new PSUs seem to comply with the ATX12V 1.3 standard which doesn't have the -5V rail. Will one of these new PSUs work properly with my board?
I want to upgrade to a 400W PSU, but I'm running a Abit KT7-RAID with Athlon Tbird CPU, and that draws power from the 3.3v and 5v rails. All of the PSUs available today seem to assume that the mobo and CPU will draw power from the 12v rail, because they have low (like 130w or 150w) output on...
Not good... looks like Fortron suffers from the bad cap problem:
http://www.badcaps.net/forum/showthread.php?t=1129&highlight=fortron
Hmm, Antec also has problems:
http://www.badcaps.net/forum/showthread.php?t=1165&highlight=antec
Is there any decent power supply??
I notice that the Fortron Source power supplies are highly recommended on this board, so I'm planning on getting a AX450 model (450 watts). Now I know that power supplies have a lot of capacitors in them, and within the last few years there was that whole bad capacitor problem that plagued many...
Hmm, I've seen some people say that the chipset determines the PCI version. And I did find out that some old Gigabyte motherboards that used the VIA KT133 chipset (the same chipset used by the KT7-RAID) had PCI 2.2 slots. So is it true that the chipset is what determines the PCI version? If...
I've got an Abit KT7-RAID board (ancient, I know), and I've heard that its RAID-1 functionality isn't that great (apparently the HPT370 doesn't do a good job detecting or handling bad sectors), so I'm interested in getting a 3ware 7006-2 RAID controller. The manual for that controller says it...
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