OCZ released the 1.3 Firmware of the Vertex

The official post in the OCZ can be found here. Links to the Firmware for the different size of SSD: 30 Gig 60 Gig 120 Gig 250 Gig You can

How to quickly flash your Vertex SSD from USB

You can flash your Vertex’s firmware only from the DOS (under Windows or WinPE won’t work). Here is the fastest way to create a bootable USB Key containing the DOS

How to know the remaining life of your Vertex SSD

MLC SSD have a limited life time, the vertex announced a MTBF (Mean Time Before Failure) of 1.5 million of hours. This number is only based on a statistic of

My eSata port doesn’t work! Another noob issue solved…

I was very excited today because I got my new eSata external drive with a Vertex 120 GB, so I plugged it and…. nothing happened! No way I could put

When a network newbie plays with Hyper-V

I use Hyper-V since a while now, but somehow I always managed to get the network part working without doing anything special, until I met System Center Virtual Machine Manager

Roaming with Hyper-V: solving network issues

I installed Windows 2008 Server x64 with Hyper-V since a while on my laptop. Hyper-V was a great way for me to build up prototypes of several servers in a