If data can be lost, it will Murphy was right. If something can go wrong, it will... eventually. Earlier this week, the water main connected to our house burst, submerging... |
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A tribute to my under-appreciated home file servers I spend an almost embarrassing amount of time in front of my desktop PC. It's my workhorse, and the system that I endeavor to... |
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Getting to grips with thumb drive encryption Join us in welcoming Matt Trinca, the newest addition to TR's roster of bloggers. I recently found myself in the market for a new thumb drive.... |
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The great upgrade: Tales from the ancient past Our current contest challenges readers to relate their first PC upgrade experiences for a chance to win a copy... Type: Blog post Tags: CPUs Graphics Motherboards Storage |
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New Intel RST drivers hit performance scaling ceiling I was quite excited when Intel released its latest storage controller drivers last week. We knew these drivers were coming, and I'd been... |
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What do you want to see in our new storage test suite? The number of new hard drives, SSDs, and other interesting storage devices due out this year is staggering. Heck, even what's coming in just... |
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A compact, fast, and quiet PC for the kitchen If you've read our summer system guide, you might enjoy hearing the story of how our very cool Pocket Swiss Army Knife config came... Type: Blog post Tags: Motherboards Cases Systems |
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RAID 1 for the time-challenged It happens to the best of us. We spend hours putting together a new PC, mounting a nice aftermarket heatsink, making sure all the cables... |
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How do you back up your gigs of goodies? In the wake of my post about data recovery services, an old buddy of mine from college, Dave Kirby, wrote me with a question about... |
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Seeking a good hard drive recovery service A friend of mine emailed me recently with a question that I can't answer. He has a friend whose hard drive has croaked, possibly... |
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Epilogue on three 75GXP failures Years ago I sought advice from a trusted and knowledgeable friend about what components to use in my first home-built PC. Everything worked... Type: Blog post Tags: Storage Miscellaneous |
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A correction on the ThinkPad X300: SSD only!? In our recent first podcast episode, we were engaging in a bit of techno-lust over the ThinkPad X300, which we've dubbed the MacBook Air... Type: Blog post Tags: Storage Mobile computing |
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Behold Thumper: Sun's SunFire X4500 storage server In July of 2006, Sun added an interesting new machine to their lineup of Opteron-based x86 servers. It was codenamed 'Thumper' during... Type: Blog post Tags: Storage Systems Linux-Unix Servers |
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Have fun, win prizes While at Newegg's LANFest 2K7 a couple weeks ago, I took note of several contests and promotions targeting gamers and PC geeks. I don't... Type: Blog post Tags: Cases Miscellaneous Gaming |
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Corsair's Survivor GT: The HiLux of thumb drives You don't see us reviewing USB flash drives here at TR because, well, they tend to be pretty boring. There is little doubt that so-called... |
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Windows 10 update has Spectre fixes for Haswell, Broadwell and Skylake | 14 |
Our storage bench has not been patched for either vulnerability, so it's not that. Like we noted, we're working with Samsung to explore what's going o... | +21 |