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Aug 21	comment	Free Partition Table Editor? @Mehrdad no, that wasn't part of your question.
Aug 21	answered	Free Partition Table Editor?
Aug 21	answered	Batch Text Replacement
Aug 21	comment	Is waiting for hard drive activity to stop a good practice? @Breaktrough SSDs are rated to have a limited number of write cycles, HDDs are not. Theoretically the more seeking the more mechanical wear on the drive, but the degree is so small that manufacturers do not specify it and in practice, nobody has ever been able to measure it. The slight difference in this discussion is not going to have any effect.
Aug 17	comment	Difference between a PC1-10600 and a PC3-10600 if both are marked as DDR3? I've never seen ram labeled that way before. It is just PC-speed. You tell whether it is DDR2 or DDR3 by the speed, not a number before the dash.
Aug 17	answered	Is waiting for hard drive activity to stop a good practice?
Aug 17	comment	Is waiting for hard drive activity to stop a good practice? Practically speaking, seeking does not decrease a drive's lifetime, it is meant to be able to do a lot of random seeking. Even under worst case load, the drive is still going to last years. Also background tasks might cause less thrashing due to IO priority scheduling algorithms, but they certainly do still cause some; you are, after all, still doing two things at once.
Aug 17	comment	How can I put my computer's USB into device mode? @Dani, got a link to this goofy device? Just out of curiosity... the USB standard requires devices to use type B, so it's breaking the standard if it is using type A, though this doesn't really matter for the purpose of your question; the PC controller is designed to only be the host. It is curious that a manufacturer would make the device wrong so users can't plug it in with a standard usb cable though.
Aug 15	comment	How can I put my computer's USB into device mode? @Dani, what is a "hard disk reader"? If the device had an A type connector then you couldn't plug it in because the cables have one end that is A and one end that is B and the PC is always type A.
Aug 15	comment	How can I put my computer's USB into device mode? umm... yea.. that's why I said you should switch to gigabit ethernet. Also note the difference between Mbps ( megabits per second ) and MB/s ( megabytes per second ).
Aug 15	answered	How to install software RAID using Mint Live CD
Aug 15	comment	How can I put my computer's USB into device mode? @Dani there is zero chance that a desktop PC usb controller supports it. It also requires a different socket since the host and device use different sockets.
Aug 15	comment	How can I put my computer's USB into device mode? Use gigabit ethernet. If you insist on using the slower USB3, then you will need one of those special cables ( that's why they make them ).
Aug 10	comment	Cleaning and housekeeping Linux computer hard disk @user90548 you don't need to worry about those even on windows as browsers limit the size of the cache and automatically throw out old junk to keep the size reasonable.
Aug 8	answered	Partitioning a raid array (RAID 5)
Aug 8	comment	Single Application Linux You realize that even with a desktop environment loaded, but sitting there idle, it isn't using any cpu time right? And the ram it is using is subject to being swapped out if other applications demand it.
Aug 3	comment	Zero-byte files on degraded RAID 5 There is not true at all. The whole point of raid-5 is that the system can remain online and fully functional, including writing to the disk, throughout a disk failure, replacement, and rebuild.
Aug 3	comment	Zero-byte files on degraded RAID 5 @Taeram ext3/4 also can be resized. I'm not sure, but it sounds like XFS defaults to not using barriers unless you specify the barrier mount option. In the future, I suggest either switching to ext4, or enabling the barrier mount option to prevent this from happening again.
Aug 3	comment	Onboard RAID vs Software RAID @Satanicpuppy eh? Last I saw, you can't install Windows on a software raid at all. You have to install it on a stand alone drive, then set up a software raid for data storage only. So it is a matter of the entire system drive isn't mirrored, not just the boot sector. Of course I quit using Windows after XP, so that might have changed...
Aug 3	comment	Using a higher current charger on a laptop which requires a lower current These days power supplies/chargers have protection circuits so if you try to overload them, they will just shut down.