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.
I’ve decided to do some consolidating of machines. I wanted to combine my main desktop and home server into 1. So i dismantled my server and took my RAID card and hard drives and added onto my desktop. I also got alarger SSD for the OS drive. Here’s what I ended up with. Here is…
In just three months of using Android from iOS, I couldn’t wait to go back to iOS. I’ve been getting a lot of “I told you so” from friends because I went back to Android a few months ago and now I’m back to iOS. Like I said, I am a curious person and from…
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…
I recently got a new Late 2013 Mac Pro. So far it has been a great upgrade from my Dell T3600 at work. I took a few pics of the external and some internal. Good amount of ports. 6x Thunderbolt 2 4x USB3.0 2x Gigabit Ethernet 1x HDMI The outline of the ports light…
My 320GB hard drive is starting to fill up on my iMac so I decided to get a 1TB hard drive. I knew opening the iMac is going to be a pain. I’ve seen videos from YouTube on how to open the previous plastic models and it looked hard. Nevertheless, I needed to upgrade my…
At first we thought we got a good deal from this laptop. We bought the Acer Extensa 5420 from Best Buy back in December 2007. Abby has been complaining about frequent restarts and freezing. At first, I just told her it was Windows and to get used to it. Right after the manufacturer warrant expired…