by Aaron Crabtree | Mar 21, 2016 | PC Hardware, Windows 10
SSD’s are a very popular upgrade and offer a huge performance improvement. But even though their prices have come down, they are still fairly expensive. Many laptops and desktops come with a 1 TB mechanical drive, but the user may feel that a 500 GB SSD would...
by Aaron Crabtree | Dec 23, 2014 | PC Hardware
I have used the HDHomeRun dual tuner for ATSC (digital-over-the-air) TV for years. But recently my Dad decided to get digital cable from Time Warner, so we decided to try the Silicon Dust HDHomeRun Prime HDHR3-CC. This tuner uses a CableCard along with a “tuning...
by Aaron Crabtree | Jan 26, 2013 | Blog, PC Hardware
EDIT: I wrote this almost one year ago and have since upgraded the 8.1 and put decent effort into learning it. I am actually enjoying using the operating system. If you need something that looks like Windows XP, then stick with Windows 7. But 8.1 isn’t bad if...
by Aaron Crabtree | May 7, 2012 | Blog, Data backup, PC Hardware
Hitachi has a line of external USB hard drives that are appearing now. They are fairly cheap, come in 1 and 2 TB versions, and they are large. (The size is not really a positive…) Anyway, they come with very nice drives inside (The 2TB version has a 7K3000 6Gbps...
by Aaron Crabtree | May 7, 2012 | Blog, PC Hardware, Projectors, Technology, Video
Toshiba doesn’t include instructions in the projector manual to reset the lamp timer. Instead, they include the instructions with the lamp. That’s fine, unless you buy a generic lamp. And until you reset the lamp timer you will be shown a message every...
by Aaron Crabtree | Mar 9, 2012 | Apple, Blog, Data backup, MacOS, PC Hardware
If you want to connect a hard drive to your Apple Airport Extreme router, you need to format it using the the GUID Partition Table (GPT) and format the partition as Apple Filing System (AFS) journeled. The problem is that Disk Utility formats external drives as Master...
