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This is an eSATA dual hdd docking station.
Purchased so my Raspberry Pi and then CubieTruck could have good storage.
Has both a USB and an EIDE connector. I bought it for the latter.
Using two hard drives simultaneously requires a USB port which has “port duplication”, a feature which, sadly, my motherboard didn’t have.
Computers > Data, Files > Storage >
update 2 – this is basically pointless with contemporary hardware and software. Just use the defaults for something like cgdisk or GParted:
https://gparted.org/display-doc.php?name=help-manual#gparted-specify-partition-alignment
Use MiB alignment for modern operating systems.
…The Cylinder/Head/Sector values reported by modern disk devices no longer have a direct physical relationship to the data stored on the disk device. Hence it is no longer valid to use this alignment setting to achieve enhanced performance.
update: cgdisk, when beginning with a new partition table, when creating the first partition, automatically creates a small empty partition before it, and thus is said to align everything properly. I haven’t double-checked this.
 OCZ Agility SSD
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An SSD is a spectacular speed improvement.
2015-10 – I didn’t mention this, but I believe the problem was due to a half-inserted power cable. The hard drive was sortof dangling around, stuffed into a corner of my case because I was too cheap to buy a bracket for it. My bad. =( Also, it appears that Toshiba has bought OCZ.
Storage / Computers+Entertainment >
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How do you get a hard drive’s serial number? Is it different for SCSI vs IDE vs SATA vs SSD? What if it’s connected over USB or Firewire? What about memory sticks?
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Hardware >
https://www.asus.com/ca-en/supportonly/a9600%20series/helpdesk/?SearchKey=a9600%2F
A fair graphics card, but with poor 2D acceleration compared to my Matrox Mystique 220.
Notes and a software dump
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