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# Short answer: Don't bother, it's too expensive and complicated. Either use an adaptor from a PCIe slot on the motherboard, or failing…

I've used rclone in the past for this sort of thing. It supports lots of different cloud hosts and has pretty extensive options available.…

Here's a link to the PDF of the [ST1000LM048 Product…

Honestly the kids will cause more mischief with a pack of textas or whatever else is in their pencil case. BT - low risk: Bluetooth…

They were back in 2020 when I bought a couple. Exos labeled SATA drives with a USB-SATA board screwed onto them, drive held by some little…

The Lenovo T480s has 1 SODIMM slot and either 4GB or 8GB of soldered RAM. Could you please specify which variant such machines are? A T480s…

It looks like it's soldered based on this teardown: [Inside MSI Modern 14 (C12M) – disassembly and upgrade…

My understanding is that the maximum size listed in those spec sheets tends to be referring to what sizes they offer for sale in it, rather…

This is one of those places where it really helps to have your own domain name. You don't even need a static IP, (even though it is nice to…

Cloud services have different threat profiles to your data than a home NAS. Sure, they have staff who are better at making sure things…

I've used USB flash drives in a bunch of esoteric/experimental projects. For example, flash drives like this are large enough to fit a…

It looks like it'll be able to do that if you configure the UEFI BIOS option for it. Based on [BIOS Setup…

7th row `DRAM cache YES`, I did not see anything on the Scorptec page saying how big it would be. Meaning it would be technically accurate…

Is Scorptec still required (by Australian Consumer Law or similar) to provide a product that meets the specs listed on the page? e.g. [this…

I care about it because I've got machines that sit there writing upwards ten of megs a second to their SSD, all day every day. If you want…

I believe there is no option in the BIOS to enable/disable the touchscreen functionality, however there are several ways to do it in…

Generally no, you won't be able to replace a WLAN (wifi) card with a SSD. There are multiple "keyings" of M.2 device used to differnetiate…

The linked product claims to only support NVME, so no. Based on the manual to your laptop and looking at what can be put into it, it is…

I use external enclosures when I build and repair computers. Having a way to access the data on the drives conveniently without having to…

The PSU and motherboard are vendor-specific in these. Proprietary power pinouts and board mounting all over the things. Front panel ports…

When you're hooking up power to one of these drives the part that the tape impacts is whether a particular pin carrying a 3 volt…

When you have a machine without a spare M.2 or PCIe slot to put a NVME SSD into but do have a SATA port available, you go with what you can…

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