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The problem with the HC4 is that it's not going to have fast LAN access. You can get a USB to 2.5GbE NIC and that's a start, or sacrifice an m.2 port for 10GbE by an adapter that costs 150% of the board cost. I'm also under the impression that LM wouldn't be terribly comfortable setting up a...

They just had to have the prestige hardware out for the Olympics and now they're not worried about the rest.

I charge people so doing favors where I can isn't a burden.

Depending on what I'm doing, maybe I am and maybe I'm not.

45drives is offering an 8 3.5" Bay SAS chassis for $600. It supports an ITX motherboard and FlexATX PSU. https://store.45homelab.com/presale/hl8 I have a line on another Lenovo SR630v1. Dual 500W platinum PSUs, 4xu.2, 8xSAS, 2x10GbE + 4xGbE and 80(!) 2GHz threads for $400, and I can use the...

In the Windows 11 thread, I mentioned that I create a folder on windows computers called c:\bin, which is where I stow primarily stand-alone or portable tools that don't really go anywhere else. There are a few exceptions to this; some things get can get copied elsewhere, but here's a quick...

I'm 99% sure it's the same guy as last time. I won't have him belittling my Yazidi faith!

Well now I am sad that I don't get to argue with the evangelical Hindu any more.

I just noticed that Amazon has a new thing called Rufus (which means "Red-Haired" as in "beat him like a red-headed stepchild"), which for some reason is its answer to Gemini or Grok or Copilot. I'm not sure WHY Amazon needs an AI assistant, but it officially has one, and it's different from...

LM, does your goofy NAS have a free m.2 slot?

There's a company called GeekWorm that makes a KVM over IP, which apparently does support remote power control. Only problem is that it's kind of expensive for a device that doesn't even come with the Raspberry Pi it needs to operate.

OK, here's my quick guide to making Windows 11 suck less. I worked this out during a class session with some guys who just wanted a functionally better generic installer. 1. Use the Schneegans.de Autounattend.xml generator. The link is to the setup I used. This sets the classic context menu...

Isn't previous state functionally the same thing for you?

Does it not obey its firmware configuration? Is this a major concern? Surely it's on a UPS, right?

That is a very weird problem to not catch prior to release. I still haven't pulled the trigger on my upgrade yet. I know the X3D products won't do anything for me but there have already been slight price cuts on 9000 series Ryzen in a few places.

78. LUXURY!

Check out the Youtube channels NASCompares and ServeTheHome; they both have a large number of reviews for modest systems that can handle 10Gb connectivity + a good number of SATA ports. 15W should be attainable even with an Intel CPU, albeit probably not with 10GbE running.

One of my students put me on to WindHawk, a customization interface for Windows 11. This tool has many modules for things like restoring the Windows 7 Explorer View or the Windows Vista taskbar, and in some cases can apply different visual styles to third party applications as well. I tried it...

That explains Florida and Arizona. Some day soon those people will be longing for the livable winter warmth of Michigan and Minnesota, though.

I got used to high temperatures years and years ago. My partner has as well, though it took her every bit of four years to get there. That may just be one of the special powers we subatomic particles have.

I probably won't see indoor temperatures under 80F until mid-October but that has less to do with the computers (My workstation, two other desktops and the file server) and more to do with being on the top floor of a very well insulated building with unfortunately poor airflow due to window...

I don't use 2.5GbE anywhere. I have a 1GbE switch and three systems with 40Gb NICs

The first thing that comes to mind are the approximately one zillion no-name AliExpress ITX boards using a Celeron N300 or N5105 + 4x 2.5GbE and 6 or 8xSATA and MAYBE a 1xPCIe4 slot. These guys mostly have two m.2s and can probably be tuned for extremely low power operation running on Linux that...

I think there are a few low power systems that could be purposefully assembled to operate in very low power idle states but doing so requires a ton of research since something as completely stupid as the wrong USB controller can prevent some OSes from transitioning to lower hybrid states.

The application is either Phone Link or Your Phone depending on the Windows version. It can display your phone's screen on your PC, show you files, photos and notifications and can in some cases can also allow you to take calls and display your SMSes, but it's something that doesn't work on...

LM, why not consider a Windows Server with Desktop Experience install? You'll lose some Microsoft Store applications like Your Phone, but that also removes a lot of the nonsense of Windows 11.

Windows 10 hasn't seen a major update since 2022, LM. It's not exactly the future of computing.

https://community.amd.com/t5/gaming/ryzen-9000-series-community-update-gaming-performance/ba-p/704054

I think you could cut that price down by about 15% just by taking 22TB drives instead of 24 and you'd still get 132TB. Run TrueNAS core or UnRAID on a cheap SAS HBA with an old desktop you pull out of storage and I'll bet you can save another $1000 and still keep the weight to 30lbs, too.

Because I didn't want to deal with 300GB of PSTs. To put this in perspective, I have an IMAP server at home where all of my non-spam email ends up. When I say all, I mean All. For all time. Since 1990. The total size of my mail spool on there is 28GB. All in the same inbox.

Hopefully they save the battery obnoxiousness for the $3000+ body crowd.

I have all my customers on Google Workspace in part because I hate Outlook so fucking much. Being able to ditch Exchange for the people who wanted it was a game changer for me, and I'm never going back and I won't let anyone I support go back either. Because many people want the Outlook-like...

Speaking of batteries, I wound up needing to buy an LP-E6NH while I was in NOLA because one of my OEM Canon ones wasn't charging and appears to have crapped out. I couldn't get a real one overnighted and none the local shops had them in stock, but the knock off I could get overnight has a USB-C...

Discord is a way of burying information, full stop. Things go in the black hole of Discord and they don't come out. It's one thing if it's a social group sharing memes, but even then, that's something that could be done through a more open platform like Signal or a private Teamspeak server, if...

Outlook is a poster child for deeply shitty software and that's a hill I will die on with a steely glint in my eye. It sucked in 1997 and it sucks today. Your corporate PC probably has shit tons of monitoring agents, group policies and access control lists you aren't going to see on a home...

Yup. I noticed ages ago that drives reserved for Windows Backup have a GUID but no other assignment and I've done it a couple other times to hide things from end users in the habit of messing up their PCs.

There are two beautiful things that Windows has been able to do for a very long time that most users do not know: Windows can use Directory Symbolic Links (filesystem-level shortcuts) and also Volume Mount Points (mount an entire drive or array as a directory) to lessen the need for drive...

This is mostly for voice communications. Games may or may not be cross platform. Communication services might be cross platform but only in a single game, platform wide but only for a specific console, or rely on a central service. The most common central service these days is just the one that...

Is it to exceed Zen 5, though? AMD's has been bringing the heat for multicore or all-core workloads on its mainstream desktop CPUs basically since Zen 2 and Intel has voluntarily dropped hyperthreading on its P-cores for Arrow Lake. Intel's bragging rights since Skylake was released have been...

One of the problems I have with multiplayer electronic gaming is that every related to communication wants to be in a walled garden. The consoles all have some kind of chat service and so do many baseline multiplayer titles like Fortnite, Call of Duty or Overwatch. On Windows, you have comms...

There's probably a way to save the result and upload from another PC. The Ultra 9 285k has a TDP of 125W with 8P/16E and no Hyperthreading. Curious how it will stack up.

LM, even boomers might've bought a Pong console in 1975, when they were already fully adults and on their way to the disco, cocaine and herpes -exposure parties they were undoubtedly having before that generation pulled the ladder of fun up for all time. The most active gamer I know is a retired...

Where are you getting 40? Standard AM5 tops out at 3x m.2s and m.2 tops out at 8TB/drive. Sure, you can get a 4x4xPCIe to m.2 HBA if your board happens to support lane bifurcation but that's not as widely implemented as anyone would like and when it is, different OEMs are picky about which...

Yes, and I don't think that's unreasonable for storage at that density. The port is more valuable the bigger the connected drive happens to be and 16TB is an absurd amount of data even for 4k video editing needs.

This is in "favor for a retiree" territory. No one is getting paid. It's also exactly the reason I keep ~12 year old CPUs around. I'm actually surprised that it was an easy upgrade. I was a little worried that the shitty 180W PSU would handle a 95W part but it seems to be OK. I probably have a...

I'm reading sed's very helpful reply here and ironically I have an i7-2600k I'm about to stick in someone's POS-but-still-in-use Inspiron 660. It's replacing a Celeron G470 and the only reason I'm bothering to do it is that I have a small box of CPUs I've salvaged from PCs I've tossed. Ask me...

Remember that NAND cell endurance drops by a power of 10 with every generation. QLC drives have whole-drive write endurances in the four digits as it is. I realize that there aren't tons of people writing 16TB per day of anything but at PCIe 5 transfer rates, it's within the realm of possibility...

Probably a Samsung PM1733. PCIe 4.0, 1 DWPD @ 16TB or 3DWPD at 12TB and it's a TLC drive. The Intel P4510s I've been swearing by only go up to 8TB and the successor P5316 is QLC-based. They aren't cheap yet but I suspect they will be before too long.

It's a ~$300 Host Bus Adapter. No RAID functions at all. It treats all the drives connected to it as independent disks. And that's perfectly fine if you have some other way to set up your storage arrays such as ZFS or Windows Storage Spaces (ZFS also works on Windows, by the way. Not WELL, but...

AMD's hardware is valid and works well under Linux. This suggests to me that Windows is the place to put blame for not understanding something fundamental about how AMD's architecture works, or possibly a limitation of what the PPM drivers can do within Windows to keep performance on track...