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Re: SMR drives

Posted on 2025-04-11, 11:31

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I have numerous 2.5-inch bus-powered HDDs. I have some older Toshiba ones (circa XP era) and some newer WD Mypassport ones. The former run circles around the latter. I threw our a couple of the passports for simply being too slow to even be usable. Knowing what I know now, I suspect the passports …

Re: I miss physical media ;)

Posted on 2025-04-10, 22:19

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The problem is, at least in here the US, you don't own the software you buy in most cases, you never have. You bought the privilege to use it, but really have no rights to it at all. Prior to the internet, there really was no way to effectively enforce that. Today, it's completely different, and …

Re: I miss physical media ;)

Posted on 2025-04-10, 11:49

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I was mostly talking about burned CD and DVD However (big surprise) I have a pretty large collection of movies and TV on DVD I have read quite a few discussions forums about people unhappy with streaming services

Re: microsoft and passowrds

Posted on 2025-04-10, 00:26

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The next step will be that you will have to enter your credit card number when you setup your micro$oft account so that you can be billed monthly for using your own computer. Think I am joking? Wait and see.

I miss physical media ;)

Posted on 2025-04-10, 00:14

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I miss physical media 😉 Those were the good old days, reading CDFreaks or Afterdawn, reports on where the sales are, or which brands are currently made by made by Taiyo-Yuden (look for made in Japan or the hexagonal spacer on top 🤣) Not being sarcastic!

microsoft and passowrds

Posted on 2025-04-03, 23:23

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Lately I read an article where micro$oft is encouraging users to change windows passwords and promoting USB keys. hen a more recent article (today) saying that loopholes are closed so you HAVE to create and account with Windwos 11. Maybe I'm just old-fashioned, us old guys don't really know anything …

SMR drives

Posted on 2025-03-25, 00:12

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I have been doing a lot of reading about storage lately. It seems like you can no longer get any bus-powered external HDDs without getting into SMR (shingled magnetic recording) I have read multiple things abut this - some say not that much difference, others say it makes the drive unusable. It …

Hardware you are glad you never bought

Posted on 2025-03-21, 23:34

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Okay, we had a thread on things you wish you'd never bought. How about this - hardware you are glad you never bought I think for me that would be zip drives. A short-lived format that was expensive and not that great

question about NAS storage

Posted on 2025-03-21, 22:27

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So in a previous discussion I had started about storage NAS storage was mentioned. I will have to confess, I was I did not even know what that stands for. So I looked it up. From what I see, looks almost like a computer in itself. So how do these interface with your desktop? Over a network? If so …

SSD question

Posted on 2025-03-19, 16:16

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I have a general question about SSDs. I have read that if you don't plug them in periodically then they become unreadable in just a few months. - not good for offline storage. Yet I have also read that plugging them in does not refresh the charges. BOTH statements can't be true. If plugging them in …

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