Author: Jeffrey Hein

Actual, real world, interface speeds and ranges: Wifi, USB, Ethernet, SATA, Bluetooth [CHART]

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This chart can be very useful if you’re trying to figure out where a speed bottleneck is. The actual speed of actual data is usually quite different then the protocol limits for many reasons, on many levels. For instance, although USB 3.0 and SATA III have fairly similar speeds at 5Gbps and 6Gpbs respectively USB Read more about Actual, real world, interface speeds and ranges: Wifi, USB, Ethernet, SATA, Bluetooth [CHART][…]

The best 240GB SATA 3 6GB/s SSD (Solid State Drive) (Adata)

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How to mount an additional persistant storage disk to a Google Cloud compute engine running Ubuntu 15.10 wily

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From: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/disks/persistent-disks#create_disk sudo mkfs.ext4 -F -E lazy_itable_init=0,lazy_journal_init=0,discard /dev/disk/by-id/google-example-disk echo ‘/dev/disk/by-id/google-example-disk /mnt/example-disk ext4 discard,defaults 1 1’ | sudo tee -a /etc/fstab

How to fix the “device or resource busy’ error when trying to mount your Google Drive on your headless google cloud compute engine server running Ubuntu 15.10 wily [SOLVED]

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I wanted to mount my Google drive onto my Google Cloud compute engine running Ubuntu 15.10 wily.  I also have my Google Cloud storage bucket mounted using gcsfuse. I tried all sorts of manual ways to validate the API keys the below is the only way that worked. The solution was to install lxdm, x2go, Read more about How to fix the “device or resource busy’ error when trying to mount your Google Drive on your headless google cloud compute engine server running Ubuntu 15.10 wily [SOLVED][…]