Right before black Friday, Newegg put the Seagate ST3000DM001 3TB hard drives on sale. I picked up 3. It’s been a few weeks now and I finally found time to install it in my server.
Well 1 of the 3 is DOA. This could be my first DOA hard drive. It failed the tests using Seatools so now I’m trying to see if it’s repairable. If not, I’ll be sending an RMA to Newegg.
Over the holidays, Microsoft discounted the HP Stream 7. I was curious about the device, so I picked one up. The hardware itself isn’t that powerful but it matches the budget price. Hardware 7-inch HD IPS touchscreen 800×1280 Intel Atom processor Z3735G 1GB DDR3L-RS 1333 MHz ram 32GB SSD for storage It doesn’t sound too…
My latest upgrade to my computer is a pair of OCZ Vertex Plus 60GB SSD. They are running on SATAII and have had many bad reviews but I wanted to give them a try, after all my motherboard has the Z68 chipset. I was running a RAID10 4x Seagate 500GB 7200RPM with 16MB cache as…
I was using an Apple Extreme Base Station for a few years now. It’s the model right before they added the gigabit ethernet support but it does have wireless N. There were several things I hated about this router. The one thing I just can’t stand is it has to reboot every time you make…
I borrowed a Canon DR-C130 to play around with. I’m looking for a way to scan receipts, documents, pretty much decrease my paper trail. So far I have mixed feelings about this device. Driver support is horrible. I’m used to seeing no Mac support but according to their website, it doesn’t even support Windows 8…
It’s been a couple of weeks since I’ve been putting together my new home server and it’s finally finished. Here are the parts I used. Some of them are from another computer that I took apart and repurposed. The links are just references to the parts and the price is before tax and after rebates…
Canon released a new lens back in June 2012. It’s the 40mm f/2.8 STM lens. It’s using the new STM (stepping motor).With this feature, it allows for a very quiet focusing during video capture. I was able to play with the lens at the store using a Canon T4i (at the moment, the only camera…