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I just discovered this interesting utility to manage all your USB connections https://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbtreeview_e.html Here is a partial map that this utility produces. My question: how can I (easily) map these hub and port names to the physical USB ports on my motherboard? In my case...

I'm wondering if a 4 TB drive will work in my Lenovo T14s laptop. I seem to recall that the Intel SoC Chipset for that machine was limited to 2 TB. Is that a built-in limitation, or simply the max NMVe drive size that was available for testing when the spec was developed? My Lenovo laptop has...

If I select only 4-star and better for PCIE-4 4TB NVMe SSDs on Newegg, there is a big difference in price between various brands, from $223 to $799. https://www.newegg.com/p/pl?N=100011693%20601193224%20600545605%204204%20601342076%20601305582&Order=1&PageSize=60 Why would anyone buy one of...

My Norton everything-security application packages includes auto-VPN, so I turned it on recently. But I have to wonder. Back in the 90s and '00s, VPNs for corporate networks very popular, because they provided end-to-end privacy between a user's system and a corporate server. But what is the...

Does this exist? Anyone have one of these? Figure I could use my laptop 65W charger to charge 3-4 devices. Or so I hope. I wish that USB C came out years earlier, after all the different output connectors for USB 3

I hope this is a good fortum for this queston. I'm still amazed, after reading this forum for years now, that people reply to a thread with a link to some product on Amazon that I never imagined existed. Here is good example...

Hope this is a good forum for this question. Some of the USB devices on the left side of my desk do not have cables long enough to reach my system unit, which is a tower to the right of my desk. So I need to use a USB extension cable to reach the USB ports on the back of my system unit...

Am considering the Be Quiet as a quiet case that can last for multiple builds for a long time. Not happy with my Phanteks Enthoo Pro Case. Not well made, so the case sides are hard to screw back into place. Was very hard to assemble the top cover with a radiator underneath. USB front panel...

So we are doing a family visit for a few days in KY. Hotel free WiFi a bit slow but works fine with all websites, etc. However, I get repeat prompts from Outlook to enter my password, but only in the morning, two days now. Weird thing is that Outlook downloads messages just fine on my iPhone...

I just got an 18 TB WD drive, and when I plugged it in to my PSU, of course it didn't spin up. So I know I can cut one of the SATA power connector wires, and that will fix the problem for this drive. https://forums.serverbuilds.net/t/guide-3-3v-sata-power-cable-mod-3-3v-wire-removal/9806 But...

https://www.techspot.com/article/2799-ssd-pricing-q1-24/

Does anyone have any ideas about when Intel and AMD will release motherboards with NPU support? I assume that the NPU will require a new socket, rather than being mounted on a PCIE card? Yes? No? If you took a current gen motherboard from ASUS, say, what is the cost delta for that NPU...

When AMD does bring out NPUs, how likely is AMD to issue firmware updates to 7xxx series CPUs? 5xxx series CPUs? I have to assume that we will need a new motherboard.

I know that this thread is slightly OT, but there are lots of very smart, experienced people in this forum, so I'm hoping no one objects to this post and someone knows the answers. We are probably going to Europe later this year. On a bunch of business trips in the past 10 years to London, I...

For all the usual reasons, I have these old SSD drives. I have several 128 GB NVMe drives that came with new laptops, but got replaced with 1 or 2 TB drives. So do i just chuck these?

https://www.techtarget.com/searchstorage/news/252509448/Seagate-debuts-NVMe-HDD-technology-at-OCP

I just got this new drive with the 3.3 V issue, so I used Capton tape to cover Pin 3. But the drive still won't spin up. Do I also need to cover Pins 1 and 2, or is there something wrong with the way I covered Pin 3?

I want to start selling a lot of unneeded computer and related hardware. I know that I can't get what I paid for it. But I need to adjust selling price so that the buyer has a good deal with shipping included. Here is my problem. I can't understand how many people sell stuff that clearly...

We have a Comcast bundle which includes home security. Two sensors, CO2 and motion, started to throw various errors. These were installed in 2013, so I called support, expected that as in the past they would send me replacements for DIY install. Typical Comcast. No CO2 sensors in inventory...

Long story short, my case and a drive bay add-in panel both have USB-C ports. The case has a cable that plugs into the right motherboard connector, but I have no way to support the USB-C port on the add-in panel. I have looked for a splitter, but with no luck. Does it exist? Any "creative...

So I'm thinking that when I upgrade to the AMD 9000 CPU, I will do a general systems upgrade. Right now I'm running an AMD 7900x but I'm unhappy with my motherboard. RAM, maybe a new GPU card, almost definitely a new motherboard. I need to plan ahead so that my Chief Financial Officer is on...

Just wondering. A lot of people here seem to build PCs for others.

I'm a regular on this website but not this forum. In any case, I needed another cable for my Seasonic 850 W PSU. I wrote to Seasonic, and they sent me to this website, which I thought I should share with everyone. https://btosinte.com/ols/categories/seasonic-modular-cable

Have they actually improved their service? I'm sure that "mediocre" has been aspirational for them. For a long time, I had a problem with the email server for IMAP accounts. That has been corrected, only a year since I wrote to them to complain about it.

I have 4 active WD drives plus older WD and HGST drives that I would like to format to 4Kn for capacity and operational improvements. I have seen a lot of links that describe how to change the drive sector size. I have also read posts where they say that the sector size is fixed in the drive's...

Never ordered from them. They have a much better price on Newegg than the (apparently) same drive from WD.

Newegg has 2 different items for apparently the same 18TB Enterprise drive. Only the model numbers differ. I do I figure out these differences? Why the big difference in price? https://www.newegg.com/western-digital-hc550-wuh721818aln604-18tb/p/1Z4-0002-01NK8?Item=9SIA994K5B5431 @ $239...

I was just thinking. Would be nice if some of the top tier motherboard makers sold models with a socket for the GPU chip and slots for the VRAM. Maybe it would need an EATX form factor. But it would make GPU upgrades simpler, since you could keep your old VRAM. Or you could get a less...

When everything is on sale for Black Friday, I will get an 18 or 20 TB drive, but can't decide which brand or series. Many years ago I used Seagate but after some real problems I was a happy camper HGST customer. Since then I've bought a few WD external drives, some of which I've shucked. I...

From 2021. https://www.theregister.com/2021/11/17/seagate_nvme_drive/ Anyone know if Seagate has actually done more than this prototype? Anything from WD? Toshiba? I still miss HGST. :(

Last year, I did my own version of "structured wiring" in the area around the desk in my second floor home office. I had this rat's maze of USB and power cable all along the floor behind the desk. So I got these "baskets" that hang off the edge of the desk and I ran all my cables through these...

What are practical options for adding card slots to a motherboard? My ASUS ROG X670E Strix-E motherboard has only 3 card slots: 2 x16 and 1 x 1 The x16 slots are used for the GPU card and a SATA port extender card. That leaves just 1 X1 slot, which I use for more USB A and USB C ports, which...

OK, I don't really know squat about Linux, just ancient versions of UNIX. https://hardforum.com/threads/program-doesnt-run-is-wsl-2-the-issue-or-my-lack-of-linux-knowlege.2027730/ And by extension, I don't even know half a squat about WSL 2. I just heard about Linux Mint, which has a built...

We have been watching the Great British Baking Show using our Roku stick. (It's a free program.) Lately we get 1-2 ads an hour for Roku TV. The ads are pretty stupid, really. "Just trust us," seems to be the underlying message. No real reasons to actually buy a Roku TV instead of the latest...

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How do I get the SMB address of my Windows G: drive, so I can use the Ubuntu backup utility? Drive G: is my "Backup 2023" drive, which I use for all my Windows backups. Sorry foir the really noob question, but I'm just now getting started with Ubuntu Linux.

https://www.techspot.com/news/99333-fake-samsung-ssds-unbelievably-slow-speeds-exposed.html

Is there a benefit to doing this? Which tools or utilities?

How do you guys do cable management? Including a slot card, I must have 12 USB cables plugged into the back of my Asus Strix 670E motherboard, plus Ethernet, speaker, and HDMI. My system is in a space just to the right of my desk. The cables all run along the floor behnd the desk, then bend...

How, without spending a ton of money?