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Seagate and Phison Partnership to Solid State Drives Optimized to Lower Data Center TCO
Seagate® Technology, a world leader in mass-data storage infrastructure solutions, and Phison Electronics Corp, a global leader in NAND flash controller and storage solutions, announced today plans to expand their SSD portfolio of next-gen high-performance, high-density enterprise NVMe SSDs. The new SSDs will help enterprises lower total cost ownership (TCO) through increased storage density, lower…
Partitioning – What’s the point of hard drives reporting their physical sector size?
I have an SSD that can be configured to report its physical sector size to an OS in two different ways: Option 1: Logical = 512 Bytes, Physical = 512 Bytes Option 2: Logical = 512 Bytes, Physical = 4096 Bytes (4K) What benefit does an OS gain by being aware of the 4K physical…
Pass command line arguments to Windows “Open With”
I have a program that opens with a specific shortcut, but the shortcut seems to send parameters to the application. If I go directly to the target directory and double-click, it does not work. However, if I use the command line and pass in a certain argument, the application opens correctly. I want to open…
Passwords – How to enable autologon in Windows 7
I have tried typing the following: control userpasswords2 however it only brings up the control panel. Solution: How To Automatically Log On To a User Account in Windows 7 Click on Start and then enter the following command in the search box: netplwiz Press the ENTER key. This command will load the Advanced User…
Pci express – Will a PCI-E V2.0 Graphics Card work with a PCI-E V1.0 Motherboard?
If I buy a PCI-E v2.0 graphics card (Nvidia Geforce GTX 275) will it work correctly and to the full potential with my PCI-E v1.0 motherboard (Asus P5B-Deluxe) ? Solution: Yes. PCIe is backwards-compatible, so you can use 1.0 cards in 2.0 motherboards and 2.0 cards in 1.0 motherboards. As to reaching the full potential…
Performance – Does installing many programs really slow down Windows?
I have always heard that it’s a bad idea to install lots of software on a Windows machine, and new software should always be tested in a virtual machine so as to not permanently affect the operating system. But does the actual act of installing a piece of software really slow down the Windows OS?…
Performance – Google Chrome is slow to localhost
For some reason Google Chrome is slow when I’m working against localhost. I had the same problem in Firefox 3.5 but I changed some IPv6 setting in about:config which fixed the issue. I think the same problem occurs in Google Chrome, but I can’t find out how to fix it. Any ideas? Solution: Just an…
Performance – How do I troubleshoot a Windows freeze or slowness?
A machine is described as being “really slow” or “freezing”. How can I troubleshoot/resolve this issue? What should be the first steps to take? Solution: Assuming you are using a Windows OS… Things to check: PC has 10% at least of free disk space PC has at least 1 GB of RAM for Windows XP and 2 GB…
Performance – Quickest way to merge all snapshots in virtualbox?
I have vdi with quite a number of snapshots taken from it – say, 50 or 70 snapshots.I want to have one plain vdi with a current state. These snapshots take way too much disk space and are not needed as snapshots. I know that if I call VBoxManage clonehd thedisk.vdi thedisk-full.vdi(50-70 times) VBoxManage clonehd…