Tech geek. Life geek.
Recently I saw a tweet talking about the speed test tools powered by Cloudflare. It is so cool. The speed test checks the Internet Speed and every small segment. For example, my Internet is 100MB download /10MB upload with CIK...
My Proxmox VE is running on the old PC. Motherboard: Gigabyte B450M DS3H CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 2400G RAM: 2X8GB 2400Mhz DDR4 Storage: 1TB NVMe SSD, WD Blue SN570 Last week, I ordered a 2X8GB kit on Amazon.ca. Cost me...
I just upgrade my Proxmox VE to the latest v8.0.3. The release notes said the default CPU type of the new VM is X86-64-v2-AES. The x86-64-v2-AES model is the new default CPU type for VMs created via the web interface....
I saw the news of the release of Proxmox VE 8. It is a big version upgrade and a lot of changes to the system. I have the PVE running in my HomeLab. Today is a great day, Sunday, a...
My Xbox One S game console is over five years. Since last winter, I sometimes get stuck when I play the game. The Xbox One S replaced the Xbox 360 which was 6 years old. So I am thinking about...
Today, I leave the error scan running on my computer. The hard drive, 1TB Toshiba 2.5″, took from Xbox One S. It took over seven hours to finish. The report as below. HD Tune Pro: ExternalUSB3.0 Error Scan Scanned data...
In Jan. 2020, I bought a Toshiba External Hard Drive, 2TB as the external storage for Xbox One S. Because the games are bigger and bigger. I feel the internal 1TB storage will be full soon. You can still buy...
I did some tests of the HDD I took down from Xbox One S yesterday. Later, I get the software, HD Tune Pro 5.75 to do the surface check of it. The S.M.A.R.T Health information is as below. The C5...
I took down the HDD from my Xbox One S console today. it is a Toshiba HDD. Toshiba Disk Drive MQ01ABD100 Drive REV AGM AB01/AX102V DC +5V 1.0A Date: 10 May 2016 5400RPM Buffer Size: 8MB MTTF: 600000h Interface: SATA...
Recently, I did some trial use on the following VPS. Hetzner Google Cloud Contabo Vultr Oracle Cloud Oracle Cloud https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vQLu9_T0iljC3jhWmRIgOFA7rdiLM3s-FcKl-EMXgL_7Fh6htcqZRqcClwFBsBKmBQThYmhmU6zshjP/pubhtml?gid=0&single=true
I am going to make a review for a 2GB VPS on Hetzner. Last week, I tried to sign up on Hetzner. But it declined my request with the reason of security. Today, I tried it again and upload my...
It is a VM on Google Cloud. The basic information is as below: Machine type e2-standard-2 CPU platform Intel Broadwell Architecture x86/64 2vCPU, 8GB Memory US-West1 (Oregon) US-West1-C Zone 25GB SSD Persistent disk Ubuntu 22.04lts. One more test by Sysbench...
In the past week, I have been looking for a new solution for my Email services. I tried a lot of VMs from different providers, such as Google, Oracle, Vultr, etc. OK, let me tell the story one by one....
I FOUND THIS POST when I go through the Draft post in the backend of my blog. It was drafted last year when I moved some emails to the IONOS Email system. It is still helpful for the “Email Basic”...
I have a few TP-Link devices running in my home. One is the network switch, TL-SG3210XHP M2, and a pair of AP, Deco 6 X90. Today when I turn on my PC, there is no Internet connection. So I restarted...