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    How to control my Facebook feed

    every 2 to 3 months i delete the app (ios) and reinstall this seems to stop adds and other crap.
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    Recommended external hard drives for permanent connection to mac mini

    USB 3.2 can be as quick as Thunderbolt which should ordinarily be a USB c port does a USB c lead not fit in the thunderbolt port ? it does appear to be slightly different in having 2 corners square ? But you should still get same or very similar results connecting vis USB 3 and your USB c port...
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    Recommended external hard drives for permanent connection to mac mini

    Last but not least here is an HDD external drive 1T USB 3 Sata typical of budget and medium priced laptops 10 years ago and as ive stated above if your plug in an external drive of todays specs NVME gen 4 it can only write at the maximum speed of the HDD its reading from so would be totally...
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    Recommended external hard drives for permanent connection to mac mini

    Here is my old crucial ssd sata 2.5 inch drive soon to be full end of year, and i thought this was stupid fast compared to HDD
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    Recommended external hard drives for permanent connection to mac mini

    Here is the 2T kingston Fury Renegade NVME M2 gen 4 drive in a NVME caddy
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    Recommended external hard drives for permanent connection to mac mini

    I prefure real world test like actually using my own folders and files but here are some figures from Cristal disk run on my laptop This is the 1T kingston Fury Renegade NVME M2 gen 4 installed in laptop
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    Recommended external hard drives for permanent connection to mac mini

    Sorry no im all Windows and PS5 although i do have iPhone But i should think on Mac speeds should be relatively the same as its the read and write of the drives that matter again to get really high speeds both drives IE the one your reading off has to have read specs similar the the drive your...
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    Recommended external hard drives for permanent connection to mac mini

    No idea im afraid but thats what im getting, Maybe ive got something wrong but i dont think so also i didn't mention i was using one pf these units from amazon and strangely enough i get these results from that but not from directly plugging external drives in pc Also i might add my Kingston 2T...
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    Recommended external hard drives for permanent connection to mac mini

    Thunderbolt 4 is the fastest way to transfer data unless you use Ethernet cables. Ive done many tests now on all the ports from USB 3, 3.2 Thunderbolt 3 and 4 and Ethernet via a hub. But as ive stated above all these speed specs are only relative when your transferring to a drive that can match...
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    BSOD

    Kingston is very good stuff usually carries lifetime warranty as well
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    A smartwatch for under 60

    May be slightly out your price range but I've an Honor smart watch, paid £69 and its very good and accurate here's the great thing Honor are part of HUEWEI and a lot cheaper shipped from just outside London my £69 watch turned out to be the Huewei Pro 2 watch my model Is Honor magic 2 watch it...
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    Building a NAS

    If its an HDD then external that will extend life if SSD as there are no moving parts then there is nothing to wear out so to speak but i would still use as external powering up when needed only
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    Recommended external hard drives for permanent connection to mac mini

    You are aware the transfer speeds of these advertised ssds very rarely achieve these speeds. If your pc has either hdd or ssd you can only transfer to one of the superfast ssds at the speed it can read your drive that has the data you want to copy/backup so if your running and old hdd 5400 type...
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    Spend my money!

    mine is 16 inch Oled 144htz screen i7 processor with Nvidia 4060 graphics card that has 8gb ram the motherboard has 16gn Ram built in with a spare slot it has a 1tb ssd 2 USB 3.2 ports and one USB-c Thunderbolt 4 port capable of 1050 gb transfer speeds. cost me £1190 plus i spent another £48 on...
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    Spend my money!

    Mine is an Asus, ive just looke at your link and specked the dell same as mine it came out £2549 extremely expensive as i paid only £1190 Do shop around Ebuyer, Scan even Amazon are far cheaper
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