How fast is MD5?
I was having a conversation with some colleagues today on the topic of checksums. Someone was quoted as being able to hash a terabyte of data using MD5 in one minute. This is of course ludicrous for a single hard drive on a home computer, but I’m curious to see what it would take to […]
Solved my SSD freezing issue (Intel 330 + MCP55)
I recently bought an SSD to upgrade my aging HP DV6227CL laptop. A few weeks after installing Ubuntu, I started experiencing occasional disk freezes during use that would require a hard reset as well as lock-ups during the boot process. When either of these things happened, the disk activity LED would stay lit indefinitely. When […]
SSD: A worthwhile upgrade for an aging laptop?
I’m still using an HP DV6227CL from 2007 for my school work and otherwise mobile computing, and it goes without saying that there have been considerable improvements in technology since then. With its old 5400 RPM laptop hard drive and unimpressive hardware, some would become rather impatient waiting for programs and files to load. However, […]