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YES. I have built a file server for my home use. It has a 4x 4TB HDD set as Windows 10 Pro Mirrored Storage Space (cheap software RAID but better than motherboard RAID). Th...
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| Why does Putin always keep his right arm still when he walks, only swinging the left one? |
| Asked in Extremely interesting facts • Answered by Alessandro13 • April 15 |
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Putin's way of walking comes from his training with the KGB ( 'Komitet gosudarstvennoj bezopasnosti' literally 'Committee for State Security'), the Soviet secret service.
So...
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| How long can you leave a PC running without turning it off before causing irreparable damage to its hardware components? |
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I once plugged my Raspberry Pi into the 5V USB port of my TV.
I forgot about it and went on with life. Four months later, I realized the Pi was still plugged in and running....
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| Why are some SD cards so expensive but others are so cheap? |
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There are a bunch of factors that influence SD card prices.
Fake cards tend to be much cheaper per byte than real cards… you know, because they’re fakes. So what’s a fake, f...
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| Why don't curved screen TVs exist anymore? |
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Curved screen TVs were all the rage for a brief period in the mid-2010s, but then quickly disappeared from the market. So what happened? Let me tell you some of the main re...
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| Why was Dreamcast a 128-bit system if 64-bit PC's alone can handle Exa level of RAM, ray tracing, super high 8k graphics, etc.? |
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Huh, I answered a similar question around a year ago. I will repost my previous answer here. Is someone using the Dreamcast as an example in some course material?
The origin
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| If 5400 RPM hard drives are slow even for copying files, why do people still buy them? What is the best use for 5400 RPM hard drives? |
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I currently use nine 2.5″ Seagate Barracuda 4TB disks, which are 5400rpm. I use one in my living-room HTPC, because it has a limited PSU, is passively cooled and must be si...
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| When will 16GB RAM be outdated for normal usage? |
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Depends what we call “normal usage”, for many people gaming comes under normal usage, and 16GB is becoming the minimum there.
32GB of RAM in a desktop is $50 USD these days,...
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| Why can cellphone processors operate without heatsinks while computer processors don't even though they have relatively the same speed? |
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Cellphones do have heat sinks- especially the higher performance ones.
That metal thing is a vapor chamber, a type of heat sink. A lot of higher end phones have one. Even mi...
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| Is a 1TB SSD actually worth it? |
| Thomas Rush, Added RAM by 16k DIPP chip to his first computer in 1986. Laptop user since 1995 • Answered July 16, 2019 |
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Here is Pat. Pat has a net worth of over $100,000,000. If an SSD helps Pat save a minute a month, she considers the expense “worth it” — even at $2,000.
Here is Jordan. Jord...
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| How many photos can 1 GB hold? |
| Stephanie Tyler, Get professional photos from home with AI try kahma.io free • Answered November 1 |
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Well, well, well, another person concerned about the storage limits of their precious photos.
Let me tell you, my friend, in this day and age, worrying about how many photos...
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| Why does a computer RAM have a certain limit (based on factors such as architecture and motherboard), but computer storage doesn't? I've never heard of a "max storage" that wasn't because of the storage unit capacity itself. |
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You may have also noticed something else:
Here’s a SATA data cable:
Here’s the pinout diagram:
A “differential pair” for receive, another for send, and that’s it! The rest is ...
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Why does a computer RAM have a certain limit (based on factors such as architecture and motherboard), but computer storage doesn't?
