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    Seagate non hybrid drives. However if you are needing a drive for reliable long term backup a 2.5" mechanical drive is not really the best choice.
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    Unless raid has significantly changed from the last time I used it (well over 10 years ago). You never use raid 0 on two different drives. (It is possible and always has been, just highly highly recommend against it.) So if that is your plan buy two of the ssds you are looking at. Preferably you want two drives exact same model and same batch to minimize risk in raid 0.
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    You are quite literally contradicting yourself. You are going out of your way to buy a headache. If you do buy it, consider it as a pile of parts. If you can fix it great, if not you won't be disappointed. However not a good idea to buy if you need a functioning machine. It may be an easy fix, but liquid damage is super common and can present with weird problems.
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    I honestly haven't touched the helios. Specs are slightly better, I've heard it runs on the hot side. To be fair the nitro 5 is supposed to run hot too, but that has not been my experience.
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    With a nonconductive paste most likely not. With liquid metal definitely. Honestly I consider it the manufacturers problem. If I get one that thermal throttles I will return it until I get one that doesnt. After warrantee that's a different story. Quality control in laptops currently is poor at best.
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    Honestly he's got a fairly nice laptop that's got relatively decent specs. If it is working and he is happy with it leave it alone. They aren't exactly the easiest thing to work on, and you are going against a company that does everything in its path to keep you out of the device. If it is broke then by all means fix it.
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    Out of the models you listed that pavilion is very meh. runs a tad hot, keyboard backlight is 1 color either white or green depending on the series. Screen was very tolerable. Build quality very average. Relatively clunky. Ssd upgrade is relatively easy. The 5570 I personally didn't like. The screen was horrible. Everything else about it was okay. If you can get acer the nitro 5 would be an option that is usually around that same budget. If you go with the nitro make sure you get the ssd you want from the factory. The 2.5 bay is super easy to get to. The m.2 not nearly as easy.
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    400 is not enough for a new laptop even for pretty basic use. Itll get you a decent chromebook or used laptop. If you can stretch that to 550 or so you have several acceptable options.
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    Honestly practice. Go to a local pawn, gaming, or electronics repair shop and see if you can buy some non repairable consoles. They make for great practice and they will usually give them or sell them for a couple bucks. That iron is super hard to learn on. Just go to microcenter and get a budget 40-60 watt iron that feels comfortable. Honestly your not going to be doing anything small enough to warrant a super nice iron or stand at first anyway.
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    I got it working. I was way overthinking this. Also the new firmware for my bridge was unstable
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    I don't believe so. I actually need about 10 addresses excluded for random projects anyway. The router I am using for my home network is nothing special. It's a tenda ac1900. Reliable as heck for a home router. I also have a linksys router running dd-wrt and another running lede if I need them. I mostly have these because the process was fun.
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    I get a pretty solid 4-5 hours of typing on my nitro 5 in class, but I have to bring that heavy power adapter every day. My typical use case involves having 2-4 tabs in firefox open, 2-5 instances of notepad, and 1or 2 instances of teraterm open at once. I always use it with at least 1 additional monitor. I actually quite like the laptop. The minute the dgpu kicks in I have maybe 1.5 hours of total use time. So yeah.
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    The only things you can afford new are celeron or atom based and they aren't much of an upgrade. Maybe upgrade ram and install a lightweight linux distro on your existing laptop.
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    So, I do not have a comfortable area to set up my home networking lab. I am trying to think of a way to remote access the stack from the comfort of my office on my home network. I am using an ESP-16 mi console server via telnet to access my rack. I just run a long ethernet cable to my laptop and work on the sofa, which is not ideal. I do have a netgear wifi bridge. If I were to connect the wifi bridge to the network, exclude the term server's address from the dhcp pool on my home router and static assign the address would I be able to access my rack anywhere in the house? Should this work?
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    To do what you're asking a nuc or some of the zotac machines would be capable. There are many manufacturers those two come to mind. You will need something more powerful than the atom that is found in the majority of them. Nothing crazy, an i3 or it machine should do fine.
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    Is it an older dell? If so the same issue can be caused by a worn power plug, if the center data pin does not have good contact the laptop will power on but not charge. The use of an aftermarket battery and/or charger did the same thing. Any way you look at it unless you need the experience if the laptop is more than a few years old it's not worth fixing.
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    The problem with this is going to be that it is very dependent on ssd model, hdd model, and laptop model.
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    Have you considered just reinstalling windows? I don't find it worth it to try and repair. If it's the hard drive only model it is possible the hdd got damaged by impact. Btw love my nitro 5 disliked the 5577 I used for a couple days. The 5577 monitor panel was unusable. The first Nitro I got had a column of dead pixels. Second one has been my school laptop for over a year and actually has enough power to run my external monitors and 5-6 other pieces of software. Edit: My g580 still works great. I use it as a client in my home lab. One of the best laptops I have ever owned.
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    The 920 is built very well, and the 4k panel is pretty decent. The keyboard is hard to get used to, although it is the same layout as the 720 and flex series so if you have used one of those it will be easy to get used to. Deceptively heavy for its size, but it holds up darn well.
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    You said a ball hit the screen and damaged the hinge. The antenna is built into the frame of the screen and the coax wire travels through the hinge. My guess is that the wire snapped or stretched or pinched. The usb tethering I've never had great luck with. If you have a scrap top rip its antenna out and snap it to the network card and see if that helps.
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    Sounds like your router like said above.
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    That's actually pretty normal for a newer laptop. 100 degrees celcius is thermal junction on most newer Intel chips. Most newer laptops are inadequately cooled due to weight and size constraints. Good luck finding anything newer that stays under 70 degrees.
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    I think buying a cheap off brand laptop is going to be a bad decision. You're more likely to find something used that would actually last you through school. If you are absolutely opposed, then maybe save your money.
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    So, this is working now. There is very little info on these on the web. Only telnet server can be enabled. The web ui and command line configuration conflict with each other. The command line works better. Putty and this terminal server do not get along. Teraterm and windows command line work fine.
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    Forgive me if I am wrong, but trunking is simply changing the port type to communicate with another switch or router and allows it to carry vlan data. Bundling links using lacp would be port aggregation or etherchannel. Trunking has to be enabled to aggregate. My understanding is that with the load balancing that lacp uses it does not split a single process across multiple routes. It does enable you to have more processes and does allow for som redundancy. If one link in a aggregated link goes down the link still stays up, you just lose the bandwidth from that link. Again please correct me if I am wrong. I am studying this at the moment.
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