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Disks fail more often than one can imagine. Because my data is the most important part of my computer my main objective is data safety so I’ll go for RAID 1 – disk mirroring that guarantees data integrity even if one of the two disks fails. Heck, I wouldn’t even miss a working day in such case – I’d just work with one disk until the damaged one ...

Core i7 requires DDR3 memory. The more cheaper and slower DDR2 isn’t an option. But beware that not every DDR3 memory is good for Core i7. Oh no, they have to have a lower voltage than usual, that’s max 1.65V (1.5V recommended). Lookout for memory modules that are “build/optimized/etc. for Core i7”. Read this article to ...

If you think that power supply unit (PSU) seems like a non-important piece of the computer think again. It is the heart of the computer as it delivers the blood to the brains and other parts. The blood in this context is the electricity of course. The PSU aspects that are important to me: the quality of the components/build If you want ...

Somehow I’ve missed two important things to mention in the introduction: what will I use computer for and the budget. The computer is, of course, meant to be a development workstation that will replace my current aged Core 2 Duo E6600 based one. I’ll base my new computer on three pillars in this order of importance: Reliability Silence ...

The most valuable aspects for my computer are performance and silence. The later means as less possible noise producing components and as silent moving parts as possible. The Core i7 920 comes usually in a boxed SKU which means that is comes with a stock cooler. This cooler usually isn’t meant to be silent but rather an average noisy one. ...

I am starting to build a new computer for me and I’ll document the parts and decisions along the path. Parts required for a computer: CPU Motherboard Memory Hard disks Chassis Power supply unit (PSU) CPU cooler Graphic card Operating system Based on price/performance ration of new Intel Core i7 CPU line ...

I always wanted to do play with microcontrollers but I lacked hardware knowledge. Actually the last time I wanted to play with them was at the very early stages of the internet (during my university time that is). So I let it go for the time being because of lack of the available informations and other more important tasks (like going out with ...

I have an USB scanner I bought a while ago. It is attached to my computer and it is working fine. Occasionally my wife has to scan pictures for herself. She works on her computer but when she has to do some scanning I have to do the scanning for her even though she could scan the pictures by herself - if the scanner was attached to her computer. ...

Wednesday I attended the opening of e-hiša, the house of experiments, in Nova Gorica. Luka Manojlovič and a team of young volunteers have put up a nice place where quite a bunch of interesting experiments (robotics, optical, audio, physicall and other effects) can be seen and even toyed with. It is the place I should have visited when I were in ...

While I was browsing for OpenMoko (interesting concept btw) products I've came across this interesting e-shop page. Pay attention to the quantities. The Neo FreeRunner is quite an interesting gadget, specially for custom development I guess. I wish I had more time for playing with it...