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Installing KDiskMark in Ubuntu 23.04 Lunar Lobster Development Branch

Installing KDiskMark in Ubuntu 23.04 Lunar Lobster Development Branch

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

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

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

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

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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Side-by-Side Comparison of the Samsung 860 EVO and Samsung 870 EVO SSDs

Side-by-Side Comparison of the Samsung 860 EVO and Samsung 870 EVO SSDs

Hi everyone, This post will be a short one, as I wanted to show the Samsung 860 EVO and Samsung 870 EVO SSDs side by side. This post is not a technical one, rather than just showing the front and back of the products and see if something, if any, has changed in the product design. Product Front The front of both SSDs are exactly the same. Same color, same text and same symbol. Product Back Similarly, the back of…

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Unboxing the 500GB Samsung 870 EVO SSD

Unboxing the 500GB Samsung 870 EVO SSD

Hi everyone, Today, we will be seeing another SSD. This time, it is the 500GB Samsung 870 EVO SSD. This is a 2.5″ SATA Solid State Disk that can hold up to 500GB. It is marketed as having a write speed of up to 530MB/s and read speeds of up to 560MB/s. While new computers makes use of the newer NVMe slots to install a Solid State Disk, it is also common to install SATA SSDs on older hardware, or…

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The CERRXIAN Micro USB OTG to Mini USB Cable

The CERRXIAN Micro USB OTG to Mini USB Cable

Hi everyone, Today, we will be seeing the CERRXIAN Micro USB OTG to Mini USB Cable cable. This is an On-The-Go (OTG) cable that converts from Micro USB to Mini USB. Useful applications of it includes being able to use a USB Hub with a Mini USB connector with a Micro USB phone or tablet. Before USB-C became standard, older phones and tablets used a Micro USB port. These devices usually only had a single Micro USB port that besides…

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Installing an SSD to the ASUS E210MA laptop – 500GB Samsung SSD 980

Installing an SSD to the ASUS E210MA laptop – 500GB Samsung SSD 980

Hi everyone, In this post, we will see how to install an SSD to the ASUS E210MA laptop: This laptop features an M.2 2280 slot to install a separate NVMe drive, expanding the storage from the internal 64GB eMMC drive: We will be installing a 500GB Samsung SSD 980 NVMe drive in this slot, which will be used as a separate drive to hold the machine’s data, while keeping the 64GB eMMC drive for the Ubuntu operating system. The 500GB…

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Early Christmas Gift – ASUS E210 laptop

Early Christmas Gift – ASUS E210 laptop

Remember the Netbook days? We can still find out some small laptops in the market, particularly laptops in the 11.6-inch range. This is the case of the ASUS E210 laptop. Small, lightweight, with a basic processor that allow us to do basic tasks on the go. This laptop is currently on Sale at Best Buy locations in the United States. Its sale price is just $100 dollars. You read that right, just $100. At that price, you get the following:…

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Is your Lenovo Y720 laptop CPU stuck at 0.78Ghz? Here’s how to fix it

Is your Lenovo Y720 laptop CPU stuck at 0.78Ghz? Here’s how to fix it

Hi everyone, Recently, I came into this issue where my Lenovo Y720 laptop, with an Intel Core i7-7700HQ CPU seems to be stuck at running at 0.78Ghz even when the power options are set to High Performance. This issue would persist even when the machine is shut down and powered on again, for some reason. The task manager looks like this in this case: Laptops, especially those with dedicated graphics, would throttle down the CPU sometimes if the temperature gets…

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The Lenovo Y510p Replacement Fan from Rangale

The Lenovo Y510p Replacement Fan from Rangale

Hi everyone, Today, we will be seeing a replacement fan from Rangale for the Lenovo Y510p laptop. This is my 3nd replacement fan as 2 has already failed previously: The last replacement fan actually lasted a whole year, which at least was something. I’m not sure how long the new one will last, but we’ll see since it’s a different brand than the last 2. This fan also comes in a nice branded box, unlike the generic past one. The…

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