My Tech Notes

This is a totally unscientific comparison of two drives, one is a Solid State Drive which works both as internal or external USB/SATA, and a traditional "keychain" flash drive, both have the same capacity of 32GB and formatted as FAT32.

Read/Write speed is given in MB/s. 1 MB = 1048576 bytes.

Conclusion:

• SSD is roughly 75% faster;
• In both instances, reading speed is about 33% faster than writing speed.

Labels: hardware

# posted by Kostya @ 1:12 PM 0 comments

DVD players are cheap these days, but not all of them are born equal. The best player is my humble opinion is DVP3960, which can play virtually all known types of video files, and nearly all DVD writable media.

The only think which is worth to know (and this is the reason I am publishing it here) is so-called "region-free" hack. Copying from http://forum.videohelp.com/topic331294.html,

Power Up the unit with NO Disc in the tray.
Open the tray
Press the SETUP Button on the remote control
Navigate to the PREFERENCES page using the Right Arrow Key
Press the DOWN ARROW one time to select
Press the 1 button on your remote control
Press the 3 button on your remote control
Press the 8 button on your remote control
Press the 9 button on your remote control
Press the 3 button on your remote control
Press the 1 button on your remote control
The current Region Code Setting will display
Use the UP/DOWN Arrow Keys to select the region required or '0' for All Regions
Press the PLAY Button on the remote control

Labels: hardware, video

# posted by Kostya @ 2:57 PM 0 comments