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Server and Network Maintenance Update – February 11, 2023

February 11, 2023 Moises Cardona Comments 0 Comment

Hi everyone, This post is a status update regarding the planned network and server upgrade that was going to be performed during this week. As of today, I have successfully installed a dedicated router machine. This also serves as a firewall appliance. I have performed all testing and configuration and so far, everything looks good. The only downtime the website suffered was yesterday’s afternoon until almost 12AM while the router machine was being installed. The next step is to do…

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500GB Samsung SSD 980 Benchmark in the ASUS E210MA laptop using Linux

February 9, 2023 Moises Cardona Comments 0 Comment

Hi everyone, Today, we will see a benchmark for the 500GB version of the Samsung SSD 980 NVMe drive in the ASUS E210MA laptop. This SSD is marketed with having a read speed of up to 3,500MB/s and write speeds of up to 3,000MB/s. For this benchmark, we will be using KDiskMark, since this laptop is running Ubuntu Linux. 500GB Samsung SSD 980 Benchmark First, we must select the proper drive in the drive dropdown. Then, we will click on…

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ASUS E210MA Micron G1J38E 64GB eMMC Benchmark in Linux

February 8, 2023 Moises Cardona Comments 0 Comment

Hi everyone, Today, we will see a benchmark for the Micron G1J38E 64GB eMMC drive that can be found in the ASUS E210MA laptop. eMMC drives are normally embedded in budget laptops, paired with a general purpose CPU. However, that does not necessarily mean that the eMMC is slow. While it will not have the same speed as an NVMe SSD, we still benefit from it being a Solid State Disk. For this benchmark, we will be using KDiskMark, as…

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Movies added and coming soon at Redbox – February 7, 2023

February 7, 2023 Moises Cardona Comments 0 Comment

Hi everyone, Today is the first Tuesday of February 2023. Today, we have 4 movies on DVD. Let’s see them below: Movies added DVD Movies Coming Soon This list may be incomplete, and titles may be added or removed at any time. February 14, 2023 February 21, 2023 February 28, 2023 Coming later What will you be watching this week? Post Views: 8

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Installing KDiskMark in Ubuntu 23.04 Lunar Lobster Development Branch

February 6, 2023 Moises Cardona Comments 0 Comment

Hi everyone, Today, we will learn to install KDiskMark in the Development Branch of Ubuntu 23.04 Lunar Lobster. KDiskMark is a Hard Disk Drive and Solid State Disk Benchmarking Utility for Linux. It is a graphically-identical version of CrystalDiskMark for Windows and is an essential piece to test read and write speeds of storage devices. Adding the KDiskMark PPA repository KDiskMark can be installed easily by the use of a PPA repository. We will open a terminal and use the…

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250GB Samsung 860 EVO SSD Benchmark on a Dell Inspiron 15 3565 laptop

February 5, 2023 Moises Cardona Comments 0 Comment

Hi everyone, Today, we will see another SSD benchmark. This time, we are benchmarking the 250GB version of the Samsung 860 EVO SSD. This SSD is installed on a Dell Inspiron 15 3565 laptop in an attempt to speedup Windows. The Dell Inspiron 15 3565 laptop uses an AMD A6-9200 clocked at 2.00Gh. It came with a 500GB Hard Disk Drive. However, the choice of using a 250GB SSD was due to this laptop mostly being used for basic tasks…

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Scheduled Maintenance starting this Sunday, February 5

February 4, 2023 Moises Cardona Comments 0 Comment

UPDATE FRIDAY FEBRUARY 17 2023 The server migration has concluded and was successful. Click here to read the status update. UPDATE SATURDAY FEBRUARY 11 2023 The router and firewall machine has been installed successfully. Click here to read the status update. UPDATE MONDAY FEBRUARY 6 2023 The scheduled maintenance has been extended to be performed during this week. I will keep you updated if anything changes. Original message below: Hi everyone, Starting tomorrow, February 5, this site will be offline…

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Updating the Dell Inspiron 15 3565 BIOS to install the latest Windows 10 releases

February 4, 2023 Moises Cardona Comments 0 Comment

Hi everyone, Today, we will see how to update the Dell Inspiron 15 3565 BIOS to version 1.11.0 or later to be able to install the latest Windows 10 releases. This laptop came with Windows 10 preinstalled, but there was an issue in the BIOS that came with it that caused the Windows update setup to fail and revert back. For this reason, we must update the machine BIOS to at least version 1.11.0 or later. This process is quick…

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Benchmarking the Samsung 870 EVO SSD on Windows in the HP 2000-2c20NR laptop

February 3, 2023 Moises Cardona Comments 0 Comment

Hi everyone, Today, we will be benchmarking the Samsung 870 EVO SSD on Windows in the HP 2000-2c20NR laptop. This laptop uses an Ivy Bridge Intel Pentium 2020M clocked at 2.40Ghz. We will be using CrystalDiskMark to perform the benchmark. If you need to download and install this tool, click here for the download and install instructions. Benchmarking the drive We will open CrystalDiskMark, where you should see the following software interface: Because our SSD is the drive C:, we…

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Downloading and Installing CrystalDiskMark

February 2, 2023 Moises Cardona Comments 0 Comment

Hi everyone, Now that we installed the Samsung 870 EVO SSD to our HP 2000-2c20NR laptop, it’s time to power it up and benchmark the drive to see if realistically we can reach the drive’s mentioned read/write speeds. Before we can do the benchmark, we must download and install a benchmark tool. In this case, we will use the popular benchmark tool CrystalDiskMark. This is a free utility widely used to benchmark hard disk drives and solid state disks. This…

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