Looks basically like that other Corsair I bought a month ago. I basically bought another one so I can set up my FreeBSD root as a mirror of two 16 GB USB drives that are relatively fast for USB (even in a USB 2.0 port). This is in a USB 3.0 port: ———————————————————————– CrystalDiskMark 3.0.1 [...]
I ran these on my (8GB RAM) Sandy Bridge Core i7-2600K (not overclocked) H67 machine. I compared a newly bought USB 3.0 16 GB drive to an internal Kingston SATA and a previously purchased 8GB USB 3.0. I also compare the USB 3.0 drives to their performance with USB 2.0 port speeds.
Testing these drives: Newegg.com – Kingston DataTraveler 101 Gen 2 4GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive (Cyan) Model DT101G2/4GBZ I got them free with some RAM. Here are the results: ———————————————————————– CrystalDiskMark 3.0.1 (C) 2007-2010 hiyohiyo Crystal Dew World : http://crystalmark.info/ ———————————————————————– * MB/s = 1,000,000 byte/s [SATA/300 = 300,000,000 byte/s] Sequential Read : 22.563 MB/s [...]
Tested some more USB flash drives. Running from my Lenovo work laptop, USB 2.0 only: Random 8G USB from a vendor ———————————————————————– CrystalDiskMark 3.0.1 x64 (C) 2007-2010 hiyohiyo Crystal Dew World : http://crystalmark.info/ ———————————————————————– * MB/s = 1,000,000 byte/s [SATA/300 = 300,000,000 byte/s] Sequential Read : 18.216 MB/s Sequential Write : 4.232 MB/s Random Read [...]
I’ve been reading up on using a USB flash drive as an L2ARC for ZFS. Some reason that since the bandwidth of USB is much lower than SATA. However, others reason that since the USB flash drive has no seek time, it will speed up non-sequential reads, which is what the L2ARC is there for. [...]
My portwell machine finally died. No idea what’s wrong with it. It was never super-reliable to begin with. It would shut down randomly (I presumed due to a flaky power connector—but now I ‘m not so sure). Anyway, I decided to go ahead and build my own Atom D510 PC. This would not normally make [...]
I’m trying out Windows Home Server preview (Vail). When I try to install the connector software (that allows my desktop PC’s to be consoles into Windows Home Server), I get the following: I tried many things (including diasbling OpenDNS). As it turns out, the problem was my antivirus. When I temporarily disabled the NOD32 antivirus, [...]
I’ve been thinking about building an ATOM-based dual-core PC for a while now. I have the portwell single-core, but I’ve been thinking it might be fun (sort of) to build an enclosed system with a dual-core ATOM, power supply, and a few USB hard drives (because I already have them, that’s why). I’d take a [...]
Update 2010-06-25 I got the Buffalo WHR-HP-GN. I have it sitting around 10 feet away from my HP PC and it’s connected to my router using 100 Mb/s Ethernet. I just ran a speed test using TTCP, and I get from 2674 KB/s to 3700 KB/s. So, I’m doing about 10x better. Of course, the [...]
I’ve been using KeePass 2 for a while now. It’s really cool and portable and safe etc. However, it doesn’t integrate with Firefox. Until now: A talented developer has a plugin for FireFox called KeeFox. It’s really cool. Here’s a screenshot: KeeFox essentially over-rides Firefox’s native password database. Instead, all passwords go to and from [...]