Author: ProHoster

PlayStation 5 may get Samsung 980 QVO SSD with PCIe 4.0 and QLC memory

One of the key features of the new generation consoles Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5 will be the presence of solid-state drives, which will provide them with a significant increase in operating speed. And now the LetsGoDigital resource has analyzed what kind of SSD can be used in the future PlayStation 5. Yes, these are nothing more than assumptions, but reasonable ones. As it became known some time ago, [...]

Notepad app will become optional in Windows 10 20H1

The upcoming build of Windows 10 20H1 will receive many new features. Not long ago it became known that the Paint and WordPad applications will be relegated to the category of optional, but available optionally. Now, online sources say that a similar fate awaits the simple text editor Notepad. All three applications that have been mandatory for operating systems for many years […]

New article: Review and testing of the ID-Cooling SE-224-XT Basic CPU cooler: a new level

At the end of last year, ID-Cooling, a company well known to our regular readers for testing liquid and air cooling systems, announced a new processor cooler SE-224-XT Basic. It belongs to the mid-budget price segment, since the recommended cost of the cooling system is stated at around 30 US dollars. This is a very competitive price range, because it is in the middle segment that there are dozens of very strong […]

Cloud gaming service GeForce Now is now available to everyone

Three years after its announcement at CES 2017 and two years of beta testing on PC, NVIDIA's GeForce Now cloud gaming service has debuted. The GeForce Now offer looks significantly more attractive compared to what the Google Stadia streaming game service is ready to give its users. At least on paper. Interact with GeForce Now […]

Intel Core i9-10900K will indeed be able to automatically overclock above 5 GHz

Intel is now preparing to release a new generation of desktop processors codenamed Comet Lake-S, the flagship of which will be the 10-core Core i9-10900K. And now a record of testing a system with this processor has been found in the 3DMark benchmark database, thanks to which its frequency characteristics have been confirmed. To begin with, let us remind you that Comet Lake-S processors will be built on the same […]

The inevitability of FPGA penetration into data centers

You don't need to be a chip designer to program for FPGAs, just like you don't need to be a C++ programmer to write code in Java. However, in both cases it will probably be useful. The goal of commercializing both technologies, Java and FPGA, is to disprove the latter claim. Good news for FPGAs - using appropriate abstraction layers and a set of […]

Drones are used to disinfect Chinese villages from coronavirus

Drones are being used across China to combat the outbreak. In Chinese villages, drones are being used to combat coronavirus, spraying disinfectant throughout the village. A villager in Heze, Shandong province, uses his agricultural drones to spray disinfectant over a village covering an area of ​​about 16 square meters. The man behind it, Mr. Liu, notes that […]

SSD for Gamers and Storage of the Future: Seagate at CES 2020

CES is always the most anticipated exhibition of the beginning of the year, the largest event in the technology world. It is there that gadgets and concepts first appear, which from the future immediately step into the real world and change it. Exhibitions of this magnitude have only one drawback: whether it is CES, IFA or MWC, the information flow during such events is so large that it can […]

PostgreSQL monitoring basics. Alexey Lesovsky

I suggest you read the transcript of the report by Alexey Lesovsky from Data Egret “Basics of PostgreSQL monitoring.” In this report, Alexey Lesovsky will talk about the key points of postgreSQL statistics, what they mean, and why they should be present in monitoring; about what graphs should be in the monitoring, how to add them and how to interpret them. The report will be useful to database administrators, system […]

The flagship smartphone Meizu 17 appeared in the render

As we have already reported, the top-level Meizu 17 smartphone is being prepared for release. Now online sources have published a render of this device. As you can see in the image, the device comes with a display with narrow bezels. There is a small hole in the upper right corner of the screen: the front camera is installed here. The back of the smartphone, unfortunately, is not shown. But we can say with confidence that the new product will receive [...]

Backup data using a bunch of FreeFileSync and 7-zip

Anamnesis, so to speak: Fujitsu rx300 s6 server, RAID6 of 6 1TB disks, XenServer 6.2 is up, several servers are spinning, among them Ubuntu with several balls, 3,5 million files, 1,5 TB of data, all this is gradually growing and swelling. Task: set up data backup from the file server, partly daily, partly weekly. We have a Windows backup machine with RAID5 […]