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The best SSD deal I’ve seen yet

Dave Farquhar Hardware March 21, 2012samsung

I apologize that there isn’t much time left, but for what’s left of March 21, you can snag a Samsung 830 SSD from Newegg for $140.

It’s the best deal I’ve seen on a highly regarded modern SSD. Read more

Dave Farquhar

David Farquhar is a computer security professional, entrepreneur, and author. He started his career as a part-time computer technician in 1994, worked his way up to system administrator by 1997, and has specialized in vulnerability management since 2013. He invests in real estate on the side and his hobbies include O gauge trains, baseball cards, and retro computers and video games. A University of Missouri graduate, he holds CISSP and Security+ certifications. He lives in St. Louis with his family.

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Egg on my face

Dave Farquhar Hardware February 12, 2012antec, corsair, debian, intel, kingston, Micro Center, ocz, samsung, tin

I dragged my computer back over to Micro Center this afternoon. It took three of us, but we got the computer working.

It’s a long story. It would have been a much shorter story if I’d remembered my rule #1. I won’t bore you with the details, except to say the second technician, upon hearing the only thing we hadn’t swapped out was the power supply, dragged a power supply out of the back. We plugged that power supply in, and heard the sweet gimme-some-memory scream from the motherboard failing to POST. Incredible. So we powered down, reinstalled the memory, and watched the system POST.

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And now Intel’s teamed up with Sandforce

Dave Farquhar Hardware February 7, 20121990s, anandtech, apple, intel, kingston, micron, ocz, samsung

Intel’s new SSD 520 uses a Sandforce controller. Very interesting. Both Tom’s Hardware and Anandtech have reviews posted.

So you’ll have Sandforce performance, hopefully coupled with Intel reliability. That’s the theory. They aren’t shipping yet, and you’ll pay a premium for the Intel name.
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Don’t write Android’s obit yet

Dave Farquhar Software December 1, 2011November 30, 2011android, apple, compaq, cyanogenmod, IBM, Ice Cream Sandwich, iphone, kindle, Kindle Fire, nexus, Packard Bell, pc magazine, samsung

PC Magazine’s Tim Bajarin seems ready to write the obituary for Android for tablets which, to me, seems extremely premature.
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The mainstream places a bet on SSDs

Dave Farquhar Hardware October 27, 2011intel, jmicron, marvell, ocz, samsung, toshiba

I just saw that LSI Corporation bought Sandforce, maker of high-performance SSD controllers, earlier this week for $400 million.

LSI makes a lot of things. I’ve owned a couple of SCSI controllers over the years with their chips on them. I’ve administered servers with their RAID controllers in them. They also make system-on-a-chip solutions.

Dave Farquhar

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Amazon’s new Kindles look like rising stars

Dave Farquhar Hardware October 1, 2011October 1, 2011apple, hp, ipad, kindle, Kindle Fire, New Year, playstation, samsung

I’m a couple of days late and for that I apologize (I’ve been on the road), but this week Amazon released its anticipated Kindle tablet and snuck out a couple of new e-readers.

The tablet–7 inches, a faster-than-rumored 1 GHz dual-core CPU, priced at $199, and dubbed the Kindle Fire–seems to be an immediate hit, with 95,000 pre-orders in its first day. Amazon is selling each tablet at about a $10 loss, which it should easily make up by selling digital content.

Dave Farquhar

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15 years ago, at the home of the blue shirts

Dave Farquhar Hardware September 20, 2011best buy, hp, Packard Bell, panasonic, pentium ii, RCA, samsung, VCR

Consumerist had some fun today at the expense of a Best Buy ad from September 15, 1996.

Here’s the kind of price deflation we’ve seen in 15 years.
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Maybe this is the sales tactic computer stores use these days

Dave Farquhar Uncategorized August 8, 2011August 8, 2011asus, dell, hp, intel, pentium ii, samsung, Western Digital

So, Dr. A’s computer is going to get the full Farquhar treatment. I told him I’m pretty confident I can get it running better than it ever has.

He said one of the salesmen told him it’s overdue for a crash, because it’s a Dell.

I really don’t like that kind of a generalization. I told him yes, all other things being equal, I think HP has better engineers than Dell. But would I discard an old machine just because it’s a Dell? Well, I ran this web site on an old Dell computer from about 2003 until October 2010. Actions speak louder than words. But there are a lot more problems with that argument. So I think it’s a sales tactic. I think if he’d come in and said he had an HP and he thinks it’s due, the salesman would have said, “Oh, it’s overdue for a crash because it’s an HP. Here, let me show you this Dell….”

Here’s why.

Dave Farquhar

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Analysis: Samsung “green” memory

Dave Farquhar Hardware, Saving money June 19, 2011June 19, 2011amd, Blade, intel, kingston, KWH, Micro Center, Missouri, samsung

I was at Micro Center today, picking up CD jewel cases and USB flash memory and a cheap USB game pad. And to buy a little extra time–I had one son with me and the other was home napping–I wandered around. In the memory aisle, I spotted some Samsung “green” memory. Manufactured with a 40nm process instead of the usual 60nm process, the modules are 2/3 the size of conventional modules, run cooler, and use up to 47% less power.

Is it worth paying extra for? As always, it depends.

Dave Farquhar

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Marketing or Engineering?

Dave Farquhar Uncategorized May 9, 2011July 14, 20171980s, apple, commodore, Digital Equipment Corporation, excel, panasonic, samsung, windows 7

The topic of marketing and engineering came up today. I won’t go into details. I’ll just share what I said about the two, by throwing out a few company names and just a little snippet about each company.

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