Tag: workstation
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Hard Lockup CPU1
Friday morning was the first time I’ve ever seen one of my linux machines issue a hard lockup. I wonder if there was a power surge in the evening and it woke up and slept again, so when I booted it, it didn’t know what power state it was at. Luckily, this system seems fine…
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You Want a Vertex Turbo
Unless you want to go all spendy on an Intel X25-M or X25-E…However, after reading Anand’s SSD Anthology, the best value SSD is the OCZ Vertex Turbo. Some of my lingering questions have been answered! TRIM commands provide a modest performance enhancement if the drive is not near capacity. However as drives approach capacity, TRIM…
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Are Two SSDs Worth It?
I was just pricing out components for a Windows 7 system for a Photoshop user. My idea was to have two SSD drives, one for the boot drive, a second for ssd for photoshop scratch, and a 1TB drive for finished work. A Core i5 system with 8GB ram seems to price out at $2000,…
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