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Corsair Vengeance LP Low Profile 16GB DDR3 Ram Kit Unboxing / First Look

Corsair Vengeance LP Low Profile 16GB DDR3 Ram Kit Model: CML16GX3M4A1600C9 If you’ve been following my posts you’ll know ...

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Western Digital My Book Essential 2TB – Removing The SATA Drive For My Unraid Server

By on December 4, 2011 in Computers

In this post I show you how I removed the 2TB Western Digital WD20EARX drive from it’s external USB 2/3 enclosure to be left with a bare 2TB SATA drive – ready for use in my Unraid server. ———- My 16TB Unraid server is filling up and I need more space (who doesn’t?)  Unfortunately, due [...]

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Western Digital 2TB My Book Essential External HD Unboxing

By on December 1, 2011 in Computers, Reviews

I thought I would do an unboxing of this Western Digital My Book Essential 2TB drive and it’s components for those of you are just after the internal drive goodness or those who just want to use the drive as intended – as an external USB drive.  Check out my upcoming posts for the removal [...]

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Intel Celeron G530 LGA1155 Sandy Bridge CPU Unboxing

By on November 29, 2011 in Computers, Reviews

In this video I take a look at the Intel Celeron G530 LGA1155 Sandy Bridge CPU. I plan on using this CPU in a rebuild of my bedroom HTPC using an Asus Sabertooth P67 motherboard left over from my desktop upgrade. These new Celerons from Intel should make for a great HTPC processor.  Based on [...]

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WD Elements 2TB External – Removing The SATA Drive For My Unraid Server

By on November 21, 2011 in Computers

In this video I show you how I removed the 2TB Western Digital WD20EARS drive from it’s external USB 2 enclosure to be left with a bare 2TB SATA drive – ready for use in my Unraid server. ———- My 16TB Unraid server is filling up and I need more space (who doesn’t?)  Unfortunately, due [...]

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Western Digital Elements 2TB External Hard Drive Unboxing and First Look

By on November 20, 2011 in Computers, Reviews

I purchased 6 x 2TB external drives (varying models – see my previous posts) with plans of removing the SATA drives from within the USB cases. My 16TB Unraid server is filling up and I need more space (who doesn’t?) Unfortunately, due to the Thailand flooding, the price of hard drives has sky rocketed over [...]

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Converting 2TB External to Internal Hard Drives – Upgrading My Unraid Server

By on November 19, 2011 in Computers

My 16TB Unraid server is filling up and I need more space (who doesn’t?)  Unfortunately, due to the Thailand flooding, the price of hard drives has sky rocketed over the last month or so.  2TB Western Digital Green drives that were going for around $70 are now priced at around triple that cost. Most of [...]

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Corsair Vengeance LP Low Profile 16GB DDR3 Ram Kit Unboxing / First Look

By on October 17, 2011 in Computers, Reviews

Corsair Vengeance LP Low Profile 16GB DDR3 Ram Kit Model: CML16GX3M4A1600C9 If you’ve been following my posts you’ll know that I just finished building a z68 based Core I5 2500K system on a Gigabyte Z68XP-UD4 motherboard. In that machine I used 16GB of G.Skill DDR3 Ram (2x8GB kits or 4x4GB sticks). I had previously used [...]

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Z68 Core I5 2500K Desktop Build All Videos Compilation

By on October 16, 2011 in Computers

Hey Guys – some of you have asked for all the videos from this build as one package – well here you go – over 30 minutes worth

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Z68 Core I5 2500K Desktop Build Part 5 – Wrap Up

By on October 15, 2011 in Computers

I’ve done a few days of breaking in and now my new system is in place on my desk.  I had to extend a few of the cables as the FT02 has the connections at the top rather than the back of the case.  I really like that set up (now that I’ve extended the [...]

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Z68 Core I5 2500K Desktop Build Part 4 – Build Comments and Summary

By on October 13, 2011 in Computers

In today’s video I do a wrap up with my thoughts and comments about the system build. Photos I used the following parts in this system: Silverstone FT02B Fortress Series Case Gigabyte GA-Z68XP-UD4 Intel Core I5 2500K CPU 16GB G.Skill DDR3 Ram 120GB OCZ Vertex SSD 2x 2TB WD20EARS Hard Drives Asus Direct CUII GTX [...]

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