Intro When building a NAS, many users prefer to have a compact unit, which usually means if you’re building your own, the use of a Mini ITX motherboard. This can typically limit expansion options, unless you’re willing to pay a significant fee for a higher end motherboard like the CWWK which is pretty full featured […]
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January 24, 2023 Intro When you think of SSD’s, Inland isn’t exactly a name brand that comes to mind, and unless you’ve shopped at Micro Center before you probably didn’t even know it existed. Inland is Micro Center’s in house name brand for a number of PC components. Micro Center, if you’re not aware, is
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Intro January 10, 2023 For the most part when it comes to technology you get what you pay for. But that doesn’t stop many from trying to find a great bargain. SSD prices have been dropping pretty aggressively over the last year. 2TB drives can frequently be found for under $100, but how good are
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Posted 25 Sep 2022 12:45AM ET I previously reviewed the 2TB and 128GB Leven 2.5″ SSD’s (without any DRAM cache – see here: https://htwingnut.com/2022/03/06/review-leven-2tb-2-5-sata-ssd/) and apparently they now offer SSD’s with DRAM cache. I only saw drives up to 512GB, however, but did pick up a 256GB drive to review. They call it JS-600 Pro
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2022 September 10 What is the best media for long term storage is a question that I read frequently from online forums. First and foremost, as far as I’m aware there is no real “set it and forget it” long term storage. In this digital age, data needs to be validated regularly and cycled to
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Introduction SSD’s have come down in price over the last decade substantially. So much so that they have pretty much displaced laptop hard drives as the de facto storage device. The 2.5″ 7mm thick form factor limited hard drive capacities to 2TB, and while newer hard drive technology could likely improve that capacity, the cost
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