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Knifegrab posted:Kind of a weird question for this thread, but I am looking for a little standalone device that can erase HDD's and SSD's, ideally to the standard military standard. I am aware I can do this in most machines, but it is for a production line and it would be better to have a simple plug and play device to expedite the process. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wp8sFsriH4c
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My APC UPS batteries poo poo the bed. Any recommendations on what I should grab? Would generics from Amazon be fine for a UPS or should I spring for the real deal? We rarely get brown outs or black outs here.
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TSBX posted:Just fished an Intel Quad Core Duo out of a bad mobo, and was wondering if a generalized clone using something like Acronis would let me swap it out for the Core 2 Duo in another machine without having to re-install everything. If you're just swapping a CPU then what are you planning on cloning to/from? Just stick the CPU in and if it works it will boot up and that's it.
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WiFi is some amazing, voodoo magic analog data transfer service and that fling bits through the air with a million different interference channels trying to gently caress your poo poo up and it's a wonder anything ever works at all god drat.
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Nov 26, 2014 05:03
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dis astranagant posted:I'm looking at one right now that has the bend on both ends. It's stupid. We actually used a ton of those at work on those stupid motherboards that put the sata ports all the way on the edge of the edge of the motherboard pointing at a right angle. It's the only way to get them to work in the specific chassis we use.
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Dec 2, 2014 05:07
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TheParadigm posted:I need to migrate an older hard drive to a larger backup, but I haven't used disk imaging software, uh, ever. Both Seagate and Western Digital offer a banded version of Acronis True Image cloning software for free on their site. Just plug in both drives, run the software, tell it to copy to from the old drive to the new drive and you're done. It's a very easy step-by-step program and you don't need to do anything to the new disk before cloning.
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Feb 27, 2015 17:20
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You don't have any old sata spinning drives you could plug in to see if the cable/port is working?
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Fight Club Sandwich posted:I have an old targus laptop fan chillpad thing and the cable broke. I don't know what the cable is called - please help me so I can fry's/newegg the cable i'm looking for. On one end it's USB which plugs into my laptop and the other is a small power thingy that plugs into the fan with this symbol on it. I'm guessing it looks like this?  That's a very odd cable that may be hard to find. Reporting it may be your best bet.
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Mar 28, 2015 01:55
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Fight Club Sandwich posted:yes that's the one. good poo poo i couldn't even find the fan itself with the serial number (was looking for the fan so i could try to find the specs and see if they listed the cable) Sorry, I meant repairing it, spellcheck.
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Switch the PSU to 220v, plug it in and tell her to get hosed. How the hell did she get s "sentimental attachment" to a computer?
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My 8gb Windows NAS/Plex box is constantly in the state low ram. Free ram seems to constantly hover around 0-200mb free. Is it time to bite the bullet and upgrade to 16 GB? The two memory hogs that seems to be taking up most the ram are some terribly coded Java programs that back up and sync data around so I can't really quit those.
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glickeroo posted:I ordered a hard drive off Amazon and it came today with the least protection possible. Nope, that's ridiculous, return it immediately. Also, notify WD as well because they're responsible for RMAs so they need to know that Amazon or one of their vendors is loving up. Was this sold from Amazon or a 3rd party? Usually Amazon is solid and Newegg is crap when it comes to OEM drive shipments.
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Jun 2, 2015 02:34
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SplitSoul posted:I don't download random poo poo. SplitSoul posted:uTorrent 
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VirtualStranger posted:I've heard that the enclosures on WD external hard drives have hardware-based encryption that automatically encrypts data written to drive, making your data completely unreadable if the any of the electronics in the enclosure ever fails. You're probably thinking of Self-encrypting Drives (SED). It's an optional, hardware based encryption that's built into the hardware of the drive. SEDs are preferred over software encryption generally because it's much faster, there's no key management and since it's hardware based it works on all OSes. Downside is that since it's tightly integrated at the factory, you cannot separate the USB controller from the drive and maintain security. That's why you typically see SED drives with USB controller built into them so seperation isn't even an option. Note that not all WD drives have SED on them, and the entire HDD industry supports the standard so it's not just WD. Seagate and HGST are also making SED drives. http://www.computerweekly.com/feature/Self-encrypting-drives-SED-the-best-kept-secret-in-hard-drive-encryption-security http://www.storagereview.com/top_ten_reasons_to_buy_selfencrypting_drives_seds
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Gothmog1065 posted:VOIP phones? Is there any reason to go with anything much over MagicJack? I used to use Vonage and it was pretty good, but I'm looking for cheap too. I like the Obihai stuff. Box is $50 and you use a free Google Voice number with it. http://www.obitalk.com/obinet/
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Gothmog1065 posted:That poo poo looks amazing except for the fact it looks like I can't transfer my current number in. I WOULD like to keep my number, and it's considered a LandLine/VOIP number. You can, but you have to port to a cell line temporarily through something like a T-Mobile SIM card. http://www.obihai.com/porttutorial You can also use a 3rd party like PhonePower with the obihai and port whatever you want over as well. I ended up using PhonePower as the provider with the obihai because it offered e911 service and a few other features. Pricing is $35/year.
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Does google have an option on their dashboard to sign you out of all accounts? Worth a shot.
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Skarsnik posted:I've had a WD drive fail the diagnostics, but then pass it fine after doing a zero pass wipe on the drive before sending it back WD can look at various logs on the drive and pull up much more detailed diagnostics that the customer can.
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Prorat posted:I remember reading "back in the day" that 2tb HDDs were slower than 1tb because of a second platter inside or something? I'm not up to speed on HDDs. The denser the platter, the faster the seek times because the head doesn't need to move as far to read the data. Density is around 1.25tb a platter now so a 2tb disk would have 2 platters minimum. It would be marginally slower but nothing I think you would ever notice in real world usage.
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Removal tools are helpful when a bad virus corrupts your AV install
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Smoking_Dragon posted:I'll check when I get home. Grab a copy of Wiztree, point it at the drive and it will tell you where your space went. http://antibody-software.com/web/software/software/wiztree-finds-the-files-and-folders-using-the-most-disk-space-on-your-hard-drive/
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Gzuz-Kriced posted:I did this for the hard drive, dvd drive, ram, video card. When I tried it again it didn't do the restart, but still had no video. I tried it again without the video card in at all and it went back to doing the 5 second restart. You don't need to reset the CPU itself, but check that the CPU is still tight and didnt get knocked loose in the move. Quick shutdown sometimes points to an overheating CPU.
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DACK FAYDEN posted:My girlfriend doesn't want to rent a router and modem from Comcast anymore. We're talking literally just Netflix and standard web surfing. What's cheap, easy to set up, and can be maintained by someone who is basically someone's grandma? I don't want to get stuck doing anything, although I could probably install firmware if I had to. Buy a Motorola Surfboard modem. If you want cheap, get a refurbished one, they should be just as good as new. http://www.amazon.com/b/ref=lp_1256...ode=12569837011 As far as a router, pick up a relatively inexpensive router that supports at least N speeds. Check the home networking thread. I like the TP-Link stuff personally.
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It's possible the drive got damaged in the fall. Try running TestDisk on the drive to repair the damaged partition and then get your data off. http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk
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Congrats, you're mining bitcoins for China
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Ambaire posted:I have a theorectical question regarding this 2TB WD drive. Suppose I buy one, put it through a few full write/full format cycles to verify that it's not DOA then backup everything I hold dear to it and put it in a bank safety deposit box. I wait say 5 years then come back and pull it out and hook it up to my computer. What's the chance of data corruption, drive failure and the like? Or would it most probably still work just fine? WD actually makes the Ae line of drives specifically for this purpose. http://www.storagereview.com/wd_ae_cold_data_storage_hdds_announced
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The Third Man posted:Looks like it might have done what I want, but it's HDMI only and doesn't do 1440p Does your monitor have dual inputs? Plug the extra computer into the secondary input and then switch inputs on the monitor.
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Harminoff posted:So I just got a new 2tb hdd, upgrading from a 1tb. I'd like to use the 1tb in a different pc so is there a recommended program to move the data from the 1tb to the 2tb? Is this your boot drive? If so, the 2 main manufacturers both offer their own versions of Acronis you can use to clone the drive. http://support.wdc.com/downloads.aspx?p=119&lang=en https://www.seagate.com/support/downloads/discwizard/ If this is just a data disk you can either clone it or use something like teracopy to do a straight file copy http://www.codesector.com/teracopy
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Turds in magma posted:Comcast just sent me an email, saying that I need to upgrade to a DOCSIS 3.0 modem to "take advantage of higher speeds" (sure......) The 6141 is pretty much the only game in town. http://www.amazon.com/ARRIS-SURFboard-SB6141-DOCSIS-Cable/dp/B00AJHDZSI/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1449432159&sr=8-1&keywords=motorola+surfboard
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Geoj posted:To pound another nail in the 6141's coffin - I replaced a failed 6121 with one and TWC has a head end problem in my market that they refuse to address, and it causes channels to randomly drop. The 6141 doesn't handle dropped channels gracefully, instead of resetting the dropped channel it just resets the whole modem. This resulted in my connection frequently going down and back up again, often several times per hour. Hmm, I'm having a similar problem with my 6141. Maybe I should swap it out and try another one.
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Schiavona posted:My sister wants an external HDD for Christmas. I have an extra SSD sitting around, and I was thinking of just getting an enclosure and giving it to her instead of getting a 5400rpm external HDD, but then I remembered that it might be connected over USB 2.0. I think she has a 2012 MacBook but I'm not 100% sure. USB 2.0 theoretical maximum transfer rate is 480mbs so yeah, there will still be a difference. It's worth it just to have an external with no moving parts.
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Err, they sell thermal adhesives for exactly this purpose Buy this stuff, it's a thermal compound that's also a glue: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA9VM3K38007&cm_re=thermal_adhesive-_-35-100-013-_-Product And attach whatever chipset heatsink fan to it http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835226019&cm_re=chipset_heatsink-_-35-226-019-_-Product Or just use the existing heating and replace the 40mm fan with a new one.
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My mistake then, I thought you were replacing the heat sink too. Back in my of repair days we made liberal use of that stuff to replace the heat sinks falling off all the HP systems with nvidia chipsets.
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Party Plane Jones posted:CoolerMaster Hyper TX3, so it shouldn't be a problem to unhook it and switch it around. I need to reapply thermal paste in a different manner anyways. Shouldn't even need to remove the heats ink. The fan pops off and you can flip it to the other side. Unless you need to rotate the whole thing 90 degrees.
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DeaconBlues posted:So what about police forensics being able to pick up child porn or terrorism information from mechanical hard drives then? Is that just a myth or do they have access to more sophisticated techniques than the average data recovery specialist? Putting something in the trash removes it from being accessible to the file system. It can be recovered as long as the sector wasn't overwritten. Doing a single pass and writing over deleted data makes everything unrecoverable.
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Weavered posted:So I've got a 2010 MacBook and I'm started to get a lot of slowdown when using the newer MS Office apps that work has upgraded to. My hard drive is also almost full, about 80gig of the 250 is music and photos, if I transfer these to an external hard drive will I notice any improvement in the general running of the computer or should I just bite the bullet and buy a new one? I'm asking here because theres plenty of guides about how to do it but nothing on actually why I should bother with all this. Moving contents off your hard drive will have zero impact on the performance of the machine. If you have a mechanical drive, replacing it with a new SSD will make a world of difference however.
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RBX posted:Ok thanks for that I was about to buy a 2Tb black thinking it was better for games and stuff. I'll buy a blue then. Is there any easy way of transferring everything from my current 1TB drive to the new one or will I have to buy something? http://supportdownloads.wdc.com/downloads.aspx?p=119&lang=en Use that to clone from one drive to another. Also don't get the Red drives unless they're going into a NAS. They are identical hardware wise, the only difference is firmware changes.
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I can install ECC RAM into an non-ECC board, but not the other way around, correct?
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Rexxed posted:That's going to depend entirely on the specific hardware you're using. My HP Microserver can run with ECC or without. An old dual opteron board I had only took ECC. Some motherboards (or the CPU depending where the memory controller is) don't support ECC so you can't use it at all. That's what I figured. I put some leftover ECC ram in my Asrock H81m-ITX board and it booted up fine which was a surprise for me.
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Rexxed posted:It sounds like it's detected by windows but the partition is corrupt so it's not a known data type and can't be accessed. I've had good luck with Recuva free version, but the paid version is worth it if you value your files as well. I've also used TestDisk many times to rebuild corrupted partitions, could give that a try as well. http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk
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