I've used it a couple of times, but since I started using the DC series of drives it's pointless. Only for their consumer class drives. It's great for firmware and secure erase if you have a compatible drive.

I put a regular 2.5" SSD in an USB3 enclosure years ago to get several hundreds MB/sec. Today maybe a portable SSD drive would a great thing to buy instead of inventing the wheel. Like Samsung T5 below.

I've been telling people this sort of thing is what to expect for the future of computing solutions for some years now. Not sure this is the device that will make it catch on but we are ever closer to it being a truly useful option.

@dafyre said in Samsung Calls Vulnerability a Feature: @Reid-Cooper said in Samsung Calls Vulnerability a Feature: You need a faraday cage for these things! Or just don't connect them to the internet, at least. My current TV has never been online, lol. Edit: This probably means that it has hacked my WiFi and is online without telling me by now. Time to check the DHCP leases.

@Tim_G said in Samsung Galaxy S8 Facial Recognition Already Defeated with Picture: @matteo-nunziati said in Samsung Galaxy S8 Facial Recognition Already Defeated with Picture: @Tim_G said in Samsung Galaxy S8 Facial Recognition Already Defeated with Picture: I don't understand why they didn't do it like the Lumia 950xl... iris scanner. Infrared to light up the eyes, another to take the pic. they also have it! fingerprint, face, iris, pin, sequence... they only miss the list of things in your fridge Then how can a regular picture fool it? Seems like a software issue and not hardware. I mean: you can either auth yourself via face or any other solution. Samsung AFAIK doesn't implement so named pure biometric 2 factor-auth. You have just to avoid face and fingerprint (as it is too close to camera). just use iris or sequence/pin... I own a xiaomi redmi 4 and to be honest rear-fingerprint scanners are a bit of a pain... I alternate fingerprint to sequences...

Samsung is definitely not the company that it used to be. I don't see it turning around for a long time yet.

@ChrisL said in Samsung is disabling Note 7's in the U.S through software updates: @Dashrender said in Samsung is disabling Note 7's in the U.S through software updates: We had a rather involved thread on friday about this, but I can't find it... the tags are weak old man. Yeah, I'm just seeing it now. Apparently I didn't scroll down far enough before deciding to post. It happens to us all @ChrisL

@DustinB3403 said in Samsumg to Brick Galaxy Note 7's starting on the 19th - Verizon refuses to participate.: @Dashrender said in Samsumg to Brick Galaxy Note 7's starting on the 19th - Verizon refuses to participate.: @DustinB3403 add some tags so we can find this post easier. Done and sorry ML, the tags field is so obscure (that I always overlook it) agreed. It would be nice if it was a required field.

Yeah but really it's likely not the device. It's USB-C quick Charing and people using Chinese cables and chargers. With USB-C the protection is built into the cable. These a much higher amp charging that normal.

I have my recalled Note 7. Verizon received them yesterday and shipped me one overnight. All things considered, despite the fact the flawed Note 7's should have never been released, I think Samsung has handled this fairly well. I even have a "green" battery indicator so make it easy to identify the fixed model over the bad ones.

Might have something to do with most Samsung computers still being incompatible with Windows 10. Also, beat you to it http://mangolassi.it/topic/5345/samsung-disabling-windows-updates

Ended up revising my approach to the whole configuration. I bought an SM951 128GB for the caching device and grabbed a pair of seagate 2TB drives and put them in an md raid 10. Random 4k inside one of the VMs averages between 12,000 and 20,000 write depending on queue depth. This seems low given that the SM951 is rated really high, can bcache be tuned to increase the dirty cache for random io? I did manage to find a setting for sequential which pushed it up to 1GB/s.

@ryan-from-xbyte said: In the interest of reliability and compatibility, we opted to only support enterprise level SSDs. We actually only recently supported non-Dell drives because of those same reasons. We started talking with Edge and found a partner who would co-developer firmware to limit the risk to our customers. If Dell makes a firmware change, we didn't want our customers to experience any issues with their drives. That what made me reaaaaaaaaaaaaaaally nervous about non-DELL drives. Not that anything would happen, but the last thing you need is some change form DELL and then your drives stop working, or booting. Total BS that they do that, but whatever. It's their company and there are other options.

That means that we have hit the tipping point. The world's largest SSD (at any cost) is now 60% larger than the world's largest spinning rust legacy style Winchester drive (at any cost.) So while SSDs remain more expensive per GB, they are no longer smaller in capacity!! We were told to expect that this year, but now it has happened.

@Dashrender said: @Reid-Cooper said: It's a local printer, so this issue is isolated to a single machine? Yep isolated to this machine and user... this particular one is very troubled! Isolated to the machine AND user? Have you tried from another User Profile on that machine?

@scottalanmiller said: @Dashrender said: Sigh, and I thought consumer wise at least Samnsung was as good as HP and Dell. First rule of buying computers, avoid consumer. Sure, I guess I was giving them to much credit because there are no business class phones or TVs, two places they make a pretty decent product in.

@IRJ said: @Dashrender said: @IRJ said: I contacted Samsung and they feel that its the cable or the charger. I dont feel that it is since I get same results with other chargers and cables, but they are telling me to bring my phone in to my local wireless store. huh? they aren't just going to send you a replacement? I was told they dont send out replacement chargers or cables. They only service phones. Wow, that would be like Dell telling me that they won't replace my power cord while I still have a valid warranty. Even the batteries are normally covered for the first year by the warranties. Sounds like another reason to bail on Samsung.

@Dashrender said: That's pretty much inevitable though, right? Look at any technology and you can pretty much apply this same logic to it. Though the time frame can fluctuate wildly. Yup, pretty much.

@scottalanmiller said: @Dashrender said: You've been on iPhone so long I wonder if this is really an issue? Just over a year. Not all that long. But does anyone actually provide support for a rooted phone? Do you get them replaced when things don't work? Like if I have a battery issue I expect a new phone. If I root the phone, will that still happen? Yes. Rooting a phone in no way voids manufacturer warranties or support from the carrier.

It makes sense as both have a lot of stack in the Chromebook game. Intel wants to move processors and AMD is currently weak in the Chromebook space (but for how long) and Samsung is very strong in the CB space while being weak in the traditional laptop space. So they both want to see Chromebooks succeeding for their own reasons.

@scottalanmiller said: I tried other things with high hopes but returned to the iPhone. I, too, am anxiously awaiting the return to iPhone. June is coming soon... I like Android, don't get me wrong. But I liked my iPhone better.