Month: July 2012
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Western Digital Red Drive Performance Numbers: Sequential Read/Write
As a follow-up to our review (found here), we’ve finally finished testing the new Red drives and compared them to the equivalent Green drives.
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Can you mix processor models in Intel’s Socket 2011 dual-CPU motherboards?
Intel recommend using two identical CPUs in their socket-2011 dual-socket motherboards; it is theoretically possible to use non-identical CPUs, though, and Intel’s rules for that are that they must be: Of the same processor family Have the same number of cores Have the same cache size at each level of cache Able to…
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Asus P8Z77-V Deluxe not recognising IBM M1015
We had a customer who installed a M1015 into their workstation and it wouldn’t recognise the card at all during the boot process; the board was still on the shipping BIOS 0906, and the issue was resolved by updating to the most current BIOS (1401 at the time of writing). After updating the BIOS…
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Incorrect keyboard layout/map on a Raspberry Pi – no | or \
One thing that’s come up occasionally with our testing of the Pi so far has been that some distributions pick up on odd keyboard maps by default, particularly with Apple keyboards – to fix this on one of the Debian distros and get back your missing pipe (|) or backslash (\) characters run: # dpkg-reconfigure…
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Western Digital 2TB Red Drive review (WD20EFRX)
Up until now Western Digital have separated their hard drive lines into three; Blue for consumer drives, Green for low-power drives and Black for performance. This has now been expanded with a fourth colour added to the stable; the WD Red NAS hard drive range. Western Digital tout these as being designed specifically…
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Western Digital announce Red NAS drives
WD have announced a new line of drives specifically designed for 24/7 home and small business network-attached-storage use – dubbed the Red Series. Initial release information suggests improved power consumption across the board as well as improved performance and modifications to make them more suitable for constant use. The vibration compensation is quite…
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Is there any difference between a CPU assembled in Malay and one from Costa Rica?
On the top of any modern Intel CPU you will see the country of assembly printed, and it will be either Malay or Costa Rica. Back in the day this could mean the difference between a chip with excellent overclocking potential and a dud; how about now? In a nutshell, no more difference…
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New watercooled build coming…
We have a new mini-workstation/gaming build coming; here’s a couple of teaser pics from the first one: More to come! It’s a beautiful little thing 🙂
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Raspberry Pi & SD cards
After yesterday’s brief post about the Pi there were some questions about how the SD cards fit in – easiest answered with a photo or two: As you can see, the SD card slot is on the underside of the device and once inserted the card protrudes about half its length beyond…