For the past four years I had been running a Probox HD7-SU31C USB-C direct attached storage (DAS) enclosure connected to a NUC10 as a NAS solution. This JBOD only enclosure supported 10GBps and UASP and worked very well. But it wasn’t perfect, as a I found out after a power outage and after dealing with …
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Leopold FC700R Keyboard
Everyone is going crazy over mechanical keyboards these days and if everyone else thinks it is a good thing then surely it must be? As someone who spends a good part of everyday using the keyboard and mouse I consider these tools of my trade and having a keyboard you can use day in and …
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ASRock motherboard COM header
I recently found the need to have a serial cable connected to my server, but like most systems these days there was no serial port to be seen on the back panel. The motherboard in the server is an ASRock Z77 Extreme4 which includes a COM port header on the motherboard. Looking around the office …
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