Apricorn EZ Gig Cloning Upgrade kit

This product has surprised me since I have proado with different sizes of disks, being the largest in 4T and it only took about two hours to clone it.

The software is very intuitive and easy to use, is designed by steps that let you configure a number of options.

The program recognizes the hard drive you want to use, even when not formatted.

It is compatibre with HDD and SSD plus USB 2.0 and 3.0

I leave some images

SSD vs HDD

Today I will tell my experience with SSDs, I hope you like it.
Since this report is made independently and without any payment of advertising, I could only try 2 disk SSD Sandisk by obvious economic reasons (I do not have the means to test all SSD on the market sorry) this does not mean that I believe that Sandisk are the best.
I tested the SSD of 240 GB in size

Operating systems and computers where I tested:


-Intel Core 2 Duo T8100 2.10GHz CPU OS Windows XP Professional SP3, yes I still have XP and I really like. Which from now on I will refer to as test 1

-Intel Core i7-3610QM CPU 2.30GHz OS Windows 7 Home Premium SP1, which from now on I will refer as test 2

-Intel CPU core i5-2400 3.1GHz OS Windows 10 Pro which from now on I will refer to as test 3

-Intel Core 2 Duo T8100 2.10GHz CPU OS GNU/Linux Ubuntu 15.10 which from now on I will refer to as test 4

This blog entry is directed to all of you that wonder:


Are they really the fastest?
Yes they are, now this answer has to be more elaborate.

Is it worth changing my HDD for an SSD drive?
It all depends on your computer, keep reading.

Will my computers turned on faster?
It all depends on your computer, keep reading.

Are truly the videos in YouTube?
Yes and no, it all depends on your point of view and features of your computer.

Is it worth the time and effort to transfer or clone my drive HDD to an SSD?
In fact, the effort and time is very short in less than two hours I have cloned and made the change, I used EZ Gig Cloning, is fantastic I will let you know more, one of these days.

They are lighter?
Yes totally, here are a few pictures so you can see the difference in weight, it is amazing.

This is a picture of a hard drive for laptops

This is a picture of a hard drive for desktop

This is a picture of a SSD

¿They consume less energy?
Yes, HDD Watts 6/7, and Watts 2/4 SSD

Is it going to last longer my laptop battery?
The discs have no major impact on the battery life of a laptop is generally about 10%. The power of the processor and LCD display are those who kill you battery.

The SSD are colder?
Yes, because having no moving parts no fiction or a motor to move, the temperature does not rise, temperature 34-44 Cº HDD, 26-30 Cº SSD

Are they safe?
It all depends on the situation, and you have to keep making backups.

-Magnetic-fields? Yes they are safer.

-Coups or falls? No discussion are much safer, since no moving parts are not broken, is now likely to stop working if the strips from 10th floor. (I have not done this test)

-The New generations have corrected many errors, but I would not use more than 5 years.

- To have your computer running and writing data continuously 24 hours a day: Do not use SSD as it will exhaust its quota writing per cell, very quickly.

- Delete files profoundly.
First you have to find a program that really do it, because the whole system is designed to prevent over enter the same cell, the system will always choose a free cell or a cell that has been used less for longer the life of the disk. Therefore, the only way is to fill the disk several times with random data to erase what we want
Second, this process shortens the life of the hard drive.


Results of the speed test:

-If you have a CPU or Motherboard: they are slow or have over 3 years.
Not much difference, it shows something special mind when opening files or processing video, antivirus scanners are somewhat faster, games are not going faster, but it does not freeze, the flow is well placed for the game (I've been playing more than two hours in a row) also it depends on your GPU.

-If you have a minimum RAM:
Micro suffer frostbite, do not last more than a couple of seconds, the flow of programs or operations still feels forced.

-If you have 2 hard drives you OS on SSD and your files on HDD
The OS is fast but when you try to access your files on HDD notes a brake, if this is not at least 7,200 RPM.

-If you have 2 hard drives your OS on HDD and your files on SSD
The SO will go ok, now that try to access your files there is no delay simply open files without wait time.

Test of computers or hardware:

Test 1
Turning On the Computer: **
Video edition: **
Video game: **
Full virus scanner: **
Programs or music downloads: ***
Running multiple programs at once: ***
Turning Off the Computer: **
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Test 2
Turning On the Computer: ***
Video edition: ****
Video game: ***
Full virus scanner: **
Programs or music downloads: ****
Running multiple programs at once: ****
Turning Off the Computer: **


Test 3
Turning On the Computer: *****
Video edition: ****
Video game: ****
Full virus scanner: *****
Software downloads or music: *****
Running multiple programs at once: *****
Turning Off the Computer: ****


Test 4
Turning On the Computer: ****
Video edition: ****
Video game: ****
Full virus scanner: ****
Programs or music downloads: ****
Running multiple programs at once: ****
Turning Off the Computer: ****

The core definition of humans

One who abandons thought and decision-making, deviate from the core definition of humans

NGC 2237 Rosette nebula

Galileo's Dream-Kim Stanley Robinson

Title of work: Galileo's Dream

Original title: Galileo's Dream

Author's name: Kim Stanley Robinson

ISBN: 978-0-00-726031-7

Original language: English

Narrative form: Science fiction novel

Editorial: HarperVoyager

Years editions: 2006

Year of Reading: 2016

Additional Information:

-I like how the writer tries to focus that science is the best tool for humans to find solutions to our problems.
-the Approach that gives war between religion and science.
-I do not like the idea of the beings of Jupiter's moon, it does not allow us to see the true Galileo and problems of their time, I understand why it has been since it allows you to explore the seventeenth century with modern thoughts.


Summary of the book:

The story begins in Venice in 1609, just before Galileo begins his research on how to improve the telescope. A man from the Netherlands, told Galileo; that in his country have discovered how to use lenses to thank the small view objects. Galileo discovered the potential of the telescope to the military in the defense because it allows you to see by boat or enemy troops advance. But as a good science continues to seek new applications to your telescope.
The mysterious character who will be over the life of Galileo, turns out to be from the future specifically the year 3020, also is not from the planet Earth, but one of the moons of Jupiter. Who you are suffering a major crisis and want the opinion of Galileo in her case.
The book, is also about the biography of Galileo (that does not mean to be reliable, it's an inspiration in his life and the trial by the Inquisition.)
The book tends to divide the life of Galileo in two, during the day he have to deal with archaic minds of the seventeenth century. And at night he have to deal with people who are unable to resolve their differences when they have more advanced technology.

Thought of the day by Epictetus

No great thing is created suddenly

by Epictetus

The Martian - Andy Weir

I really liked this book, talk about complex things in a easily way, has good moments, funny and sarcastic conversations.

The novel is about the first human exploration of Mars, and tells the adventures and misfortunes of one of the astronauts of Ares 3 Mission, Mark Watney, a botanist and mechanical engineer for NASA. They have been installed in the region of Acidalia Planitia. The story begins when he is presumed dead, during a storm plaguing the colony, with winds of Category 1 on the scale of hurricane. This storm, threatening the lives of all six astronauts of the mission, so for safe guard the life of the crew, the commander, ordered the abort and return to Earth.

It is during the return to the ship that will take them out of the planet Mars, when a satellite dish, hit Mark, leaving him unconscious, his personal terminal breaks and stop reporting his vital signs.

Once he regains consciousness and manages to heal the wound, began to organize to survive on Mars for a long time, he does not have to worry about oxygen, water, or filters, only food and that's a big problem. Throughout the entire novel.

Mark tell how he adapted the Martian soil to germinate potatoes, which will be the only food source for an entire year.

Mark also tell us, how he modified 2 robotic vehicles, that he will use to reach the landing site of the next mission Ares 4, which is only 3,200 kilometers, which will be in Schiaparelli Crater. However, before that, he makes as a test ride to Aris Valley, which is where the Pathfinder landed is, a failed mission to Mars exploration, to see if he can use parts to enable hem to establish a communication system, with the Earth.

Returned to the colony manages to establish contact with the NASA, which tell hem, that they are sending a rocket with supplies, radios and a large etc.

Shortly after he has an accident and loses his planting of potatoes and the soil that he fertilized. But no panic as supplies will soon leave Earth toward Mars.

But this rocket is destroyed in the take off, so is necessary to use another rocket but this time is all already done by the China, but this new roket will arrive in time to Mars. So it was decided to use as a supply rocket, to the Ares 3 rocket Hermers, which is returning to the Earth, and because it have enough speed to reach Mars again in time to rescue Mark.

Meanwhile Mark is making more changes to come to Schiaparelli crater in time to be rescue. During these modifications overload the electrical system and breaks the radio that can not be repaired. But he still continues with his plans to go.

Once he have everything ready, it starts. During all this time he has been using the satellite Phobos for determine east, west, and the star Deneb in the constellation Cygnus, which indicates north on Mars would be like our North Star.

During his trip discover by chance that there is a sandstorm approaching, which would leave he without electricity, as this is generated by solar panels, after adventures by predicting the size and direction of the storm he avoiding it.

Once he have reached Schiaparelli crater, it is there the MAV rocket, with which can can restore contact with Earth. NASA tells him that need to make drastic changes to the MAV, to allow him to leave Mars and reach Hermes during its flyby of Mars.

Hermes manages to reach Mark, after serious problems in their rocket and voluntary detonated of a bomb in the Hermes ship, to achieve correct meeting point between Hermes and MAV.

I have attached a map, generated by DLR, so you can see what was the route that Mark use on Mars