Tuesday, December 28, 2021

My daughter bought me a 1 TB WD Black SN750 SE NVMe SSD for Christmas. 

Wasn't able to install it until today. It took maybe an hour of investigating/researching, maybe 20 min of cloning the drive, then another 30-40 min of troubleshooting when Windows' Disk Management wouldn't extend the C: to use the rest of the unallocated drive space (I had to install a 3rd party disk manager tool).

Also, when I copied the partitions from the old M.2 to the new M.2, it broke Bitlocker on my data drive, but that was easily fixed by copying the drive's BL key from my Microsoft account and using it to re-establish access to the data drive. 

It feels nice to have 2 TB of space in a laptop!  The data drive is a mechanical drive - it'll suffice for now but I do have a spare 500 GB SSD that I can use in it's place (I actually have two of them but only one will fit in the laptop).

Sunday, December 26, 2021

Post-Christmas post - December 2021

 I received the following as Christmas presents:

Thrustmaster TWCS Throttle

M.2 2280 1 TB Solid State Drive

Cargo Area Weather Mat for my 2018 Jeep Wrangler

I got a few other things as well, but the top two are things I'll definitely be using as soon as I can.

That SSD will be replacing what's currently in my Dell G7 laptop (it came with a 128 GB M.2 SSD).

The Thrustmaster throttle system will be replacing my Saitek X-52 Pro throttle.  The Saitek throttle works, but I've been having issues with it's matching stick, which has a loose PS/2 port (connector keeps falling out during gaming, so I switched to a 1st Gen Thrustmaster T.16000M stick.  I didn't want the HOTAS combo since I already have a T.16000M stick; plus, I prefer my CH Pro rudder pedals over the Thrustmaster TWCS pedals, which are too close together for my preference.

The Jeep's cargo mat isn't a tech item but it's pretty cool.  I already have Mopar weather mats for the seating area.  This particular mat is from Quadratec (cheaper product)...looks every bit as nice as the Mopar mats, though.

I hope you all had a very Merry Christmas!