Recent content by M0rafic

Indeed it does and I have since moved the usb stick inside out of the way :-)

After a little more tweaking and having rebuilt the raid 5 ay to incorporate a replacement disk as well as turning on cachecade with a cheap £17 ssd. Its cachecade v1 so only on reads. The spinning rust is on the left and the nvme is onthe right :-)

I give you the Next Cube, commercially a complete flop, but without it we may well not be communicating :-) For it was on such a beast at Cern that Tim Berners-Lee developed and hosted the world's first web server, called WorldWideWeb. Hence web addresses that start www :-) It also led to...

So long as you got where you wanted to be, the how is far less important :-) The thing with Dell kit is it rarely does exactly what it seems to say in the blurb :-)

I did have a quick go at getting over 3.4GHz and it did go over 3.5, but would only hold it for 10s or thereabouts before dropping down. So I nudged up the voltage to 1.5v and after about 15secs BSOD :-( Which screwed up thottlestop as this particular laptop won't overclock properly if the...

I feel I have a handicap using a laptop that was notorious for cooking itself and has had two motherboards replaced by Dell. It died at 3 months old and again about 12 months later..... :-) So I very much doubt if I can get to close 4Ghz :-) Anyway If you hadn't guessed it's an XPS m1330 and it...

I know this isn't a proper test, but since I'm sitting watching TV with my old dell m1330 sat on my lap and too close too bits I'd rather not cook, it will have to do. Besides its not as if I can cram a 150mm noctua fan in it to disperse the heat :-) But a whisker shy of 3.4GHz isn't too...

I thought it might be interesting to post the results for my 12 year old laptop :-) Not too shabby for an old clunker.... Mike Over the weekend I posted the results for my Precision T7500 taken whilst the raid array was still initialising. Now that it's finally finished I the tests again...

I suspect that your problem is that the perc310 recognises supported enterprise level ssd's. Have you checked that the bios and firmware on the perc are up to date? If not this may well solve your problem even though you will probably get warnings about the ssd being unsupported. I was...

Buying used has its benefits quite apart from the obvious cost/performance ones. From decades looking after tech ranging from IBM 360 series mainframes to the present day, I have learnt two things. The first is that "mature" kit can often provide performance beyond that which might be expected...

The first computer I bought cost me about £250 in 1979, I can't remember what it was called, It had an led display, a rom with BASIC on it and you had to plug it into a tape recorder to save/load programs. There was an option for an external hard drive (or as they were then winchester disks and...

Hi, as I'm feeling nostalgic, and as for the 70's well a few years ago I retired through ill health and became a hippy again, though the hair is rather more sparse than it was back then. However in this early morning fit of computing nostalgia I decided to post a picture of the first computer I...

Maybe I should take a look on Aliexpress, the price I quoted earlier is around half of the next cheapest I've seen in the last month on ebay and after that that its several hundred a pair, which is just ridiculous :) My T7500 is booting from an nMVe ssd with a little jiggery pokerey and the...

I used a kryoM.2 card (a decent bit of kit if a little pricey) an old scabby usb stick I found down the side of the sofa and a combination of Duet & Refind which together form a sort of cut down version of the Clover UEFI used for creating a Hacintosh. I did contemplate dual booting the T7500...

Precision T7500, booting off a WD black 250 Gb NVMe SSD (on the left) with 3 (should be 4) 3Tb Hitachi 7.2k SAS2 drives dating from 2012 hooked up to a perc H710 in raid5 which is still initialising and has another day or so to go (on the right) Mike