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Interesting. I see they also offer hardened versions of Chrome and Firefox. All up, might be a simpler solution for some people than Merc's grab bag?

I'm more concerned with Mercutio's travails with Samsung. Samsung has quickly become the 800lb gorilla in the SSD market. Let me be clear, I'm not infected with blind faith in Samsung products. Across the board, I've found their consumer products to be distinctly average in terms of...

You're confusing reliability with write endurance. The 1TB 840 EVO TLC is apparently still good for 250GB per day, every day for 5 years, which translates to 450TB over the life of the drive. That's writes, not reads, so the endurance is still good enough for >99.99% of desktops. I said that...

Assuming you're using Chrome, have you tried a third browser? Had something like this recently but eventually figured out how to nuke the browser memory - sorry, I can't remember either ... Must have been MIB.

Utter tosh? Hard to take the content seriously when it includes gems like this: "The file systems metadata keeps track of fragments and can only keep track of so many. Defragmentation in cases like this is not only useful, but absolutely needed." Really?

As explained on Anandtech, Samsung doesn't want customers selecting the 850 Pro instead of a 845DC variant for data center use, so will not warrant the drive beyond 150TB of host writes. Samsung makes pretty big endurance claims for the DC Pro line - 14,600TB for the 800GB model, but they also...

No, the TLC model in the test is a straight 840 - the EVO is a more recent version of that with slightly less reserve blocks (diverted for use as a cache). I'm well aware of which model is which and was referring explicitly to the 840 with TLC. The non-Pro 840 made it past 900TB, which means...

Does that make it 3 years old or 1 year old?

I've seen that movie.

The Samsung 840 drive in the endurance test is a TLC drive and I was under the impression that all TLC was only rated for 1,000 PE cycles. It did ridiculously well and has made me seriously consider the new 1TB TLC drives from Samsung.

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Trying to convert an ancient Win2k system to VMWare VM (workstation). The VMWare 5.5.3 Converter tool says: "Fatal error occurred. The most common reason for this is loss of network connection." I've tried specifying the target as both a local USB drive and a shared drive on another PC, to no...

Just as a footnote, I built a PC from recycled parts for my youngest daughter to play SkyRim etc (at her urging - her laptop doesn't cut it). I tried an old ATI HD4770, but it only has 512MB of RAM and seems to struggle with SkyRim. So inspired by Chewy, I decided to try an Nvidia GTX750 (not...

I cannot begin to imagine how a startup would need 12 cores in a development server. You need servers for version control (Sharepoint in this case), to run a couple of database servers, some middleware servers and maybe some web servers. The thing is, one Sharepoint server is enough for the...

Nothing wrong with the CPUs, I suspect it's just that many of the motherboards were designed as "value" solutions and proved to be less reliable. Good AMD systems are just as stable as Intel systems; it's just that some AMD systems weren't that great. For example, I have two old AM2+ systems...

With a graphics card that only needs PCIe power, a 300W PSU is perfectly fine, even technically overkill with most default-clocked CPUs. An ATI 5770 was measured at an absolute maximum here of 108W, although it only needed a *peak* of 77W playing an actual game. A 300W PSU is entirely adequate...

* They don't usually sell the 2.8mm variant (I can't find any so far). * Delivery times can be exceptionally slow. * You may get a malfunctional device.

Circumstances have changed and I now need a couple of cameras ASAP. The nature of the circumstances mean I'm definitely after short range, wide field of view cameras, so I would like to stick with the 3 megapixel Hikvision DS-2CD2532F with a 2.8mm lens if at all possible. Unfortunately, retail...

After 4 months of treatment for my "very severe" sleep apnea (my oxygen saturation was dropping to 68%; on average, I stopped breathing for significant periods 65 times an hour), I was finally turning the corner and getting some energy back. For the last two months, I've been restricted by a...

The Nitecore Intellicharger 4 has 4 separate channels and an integrated power supply.

Apologies, I believe I was thinking of the BitFenix Phenom regarding marginal cooling. The Prodigy-M is fine. I still stand by the other comments though; check out this AnandTech review of the earlier Mini_ITX Prodigy for the notes on building, particularly the warning on using 160mm depth PSUs...

1. AFAIK, the K suffix CPUs have always had VT-x/VT-d disabled - it's not unique to Haswell. 2. Many years ago, Realtek LAN controllers were inferior to Intel, but I'm pretty sure performance tests since show similar results. Is there some problem that we should know about? 3. How does your...

I was going to get a much bigger dome camera, but this 3MP 1080p one does pretty much everything I need and is remarkably small: Day videos - check out the second one in particular. Unfortunately, I can't seem to find a US shop that will ship to Oz, so I'm forced to consider an AliExpress...

He still has a warranty to worry about ...

It appears that Seagate released a 14 platter full-height 5 1/4" monster called the Elite as recently as 1998, so only 16 years then. Here's a video of the behemoth with all 23 heads. I read elsewhere that you couldn't handle them after sustained operation without being burned. They used 63W...

"Picasso had a saying - 'good artists copy, great artists steal' - and we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas." (Steve Jobs 1996) Fish: meet Barrel.

Isn't it more than 20 years since anyone has used 7 platters in an HDD? (I really don't know and invite anyone who does to contribute.) I sort of assumed that drives ran at atmospheric pressure for a reason? They could have been sealed many, many moons ago. Overlapping perpendicular recording...

And then the engine goes "BOOM!" ... Seriously, that is an amazing boost without an engine rebuild. Apparently the A3 made 200BHP, the S3 came with 265BHP, and yours must be developing around 370BHP! Did they give you a copy of the dynamometer chart showing torque vs rpm?

No problem, I wondered if you were bringing a retired industrial chemist's knowledge to the table when you hypothesized that the increased capacity was due to increased volume! Thinning of the container walls may well have occurred, although I suspect it would have been more of a...

The separator thickness is measured in micrometres, but I believe tunneling doesn't occur until you are measuring in nanometres.

Can you substantiate your assertions that the increased capacity is achieved through thinner canister walls? And that that has some identifiable negative consequence? A thinner separator makes sense, but I hadn't realized it would necessarily lead to increased self-discharge. Care to share your...

It's a *live* vaccine with a 50% success rate (although symptoms are reduced for some who still develop it), so I don't know if people who haven't already experienced the horror of shingles will sign up for it (and locally, it's estimated to cost $250 per shot). I know older people who have...

Sanyo actually bought the battery manufacturing entity from Toshiba in 2001 and named it Sanyo Energy Twicell. When Panasonic asborbed Sanyo, it was sold to FDK, a satellite company of Fujitsu, who renamed it to FDK Twicell (FDK has now been reabsorbed into Fujitsu as a division). It was sold...

The vast majority of people never really 'get' this, so the best of luck with your hypothetical 3rd graders. Actually, I think psychologists would say that no-one really gets this; it's just a question of understanding the limitation within oneself - simple really ...

I'm mostly concerned that Doug has had to commit vast amounts of time and energy. He didn't sign up to support clueless software, yet he's been giving his all trying to make it work anyway while we throw rocks. Hat's off, Doug. You're a truly generous soul and we need more like you.

Maximum capacity is only 4-6 times different, but cost is still an order of magnitude. As an analogy, if a gasoline car costs $20,000, are you prepared to pay $200,000 for an electric car?

Groltz, I thought you were dead. You've now proved that such speculations were greatly exaggerated. Good to hear from you - you are far from forgotten, my friend. Please drop in before another 8 years is up, because Eric and I probably won't last that long. ;)

Duplicate post. I'm absolutely 100% positive I clicked once - this version of the forum software is very poor.

I've been considering a G3 to replace my own S3 for maybe two months now. The LG Flex also got a look in, although it's really a competitor to the Note phablet. Based on their recent offerings, LG's next generation after this seems likely to be completely dominant. The technology in the Flex...

Use a cable tie mount on the back of each monitor with a cable tie looped around the cable. Probably stop 90% of opportunistic theft?

Sounds great, Coug. A big-pot 4 should be a perfect match for a CVT, with less need to rev noisily under even mild acceleration and less 'rubber band' effect. I noticed the difference even between the (local) 1.8L Pulsar and 2.0L Corolla; the Corolla was far more relaxed. I wonder if it shares...

I'd like to walk both sides of the street here. I think Sechs has some valid points. I do worry about breaking the 'free' internet content model. It's important to remember that just because Merc is prepared to donate or subscribe, that may not apply for the next 99 people. For starters, if...

I must have missed it, but what did you say your new car was? 5.8L/100km is very good for any car. Given the imputation of a 70L tank, I deduce your new vehicle is some kind of 6-cyclinder car, but obviously not an SUV.

Pierre Ferrand Abel is 45 years old and $400 a bottle. It's not cheap anywhere, although it's a little more affordable in its home country. Rum and whiskey makes for an interesting cocktail. If you're CougTek. Good to see you again Bartender, and good to see your tastes haven't deteriorated...

P.S. Check out his heart rate and breathing rate as the drive progresses. And BTW, that's supposedly a stock STI with beefier suspension and bigger tires. :o

Mark Higgins' record run around the Isle of Man. (with driver commentary, runs for more than 20 minutes) Top Gear's take I linked this because frankly, while watching it, I had a stark realization that I could never have been a professional racing driver. I thought F1 was tough enough, but...

I know Tannin won't see this, but I'm in the mood to impart some wisdom, so who cares? Simply making outdoor lighting brighter tends to be a mistake - you actually end up creating deeper shadows, which is very much counter-productive from a security standpoint. Anyone with a variable output...

Hopefully not needed, but I meant to post this handy rule-of-thumb duct sizing reference.

Coug, you know an awful lot about many things, but given your location, possibly not much about central air conditioning systems. :p Although the house is small, the heat load is considerable (compared to say, California). I wonder if Arizona homes even use reflective foil laminate under the...

From the blurb for the linked 84UB9800: One of the secrets behind LG TVs outstanding high-definition performance is the specially designed TV panel. The quality of the panel helps determine the quality of the picture, and our IPS (In-Plane Switching) panel makes any seat the best in the house...