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The controllers most definitely aren't that expensive. Yes, you're giving up performance, but the workloads that need 6+ GB/s I/O really aren't all that common and could be isolated to a single fast drive if need be. 8 PCIe lanes to have access to 8 drives instead of two just seems like a better...

The leaked pricing I saw from a European retailer looks a lot more likely to me. I'm also willing to put $700 toward a 9950X if I have to. I'll be overjoyed if it's actually less at launch. Does Best Buy sell CPUs now? I had no idea.

The mitigations from the issues are absolutely nightmarish, too. Boot in to Safe Mode on individual PCs and manually delete some dozens of files. Client PCs don't have management consoles and if they're enterprise systems they DO have Bitlocker turned on. It's entirely possible some poor bastard...

I try not to spend time around conservative people, but something that needs to be understood is that those people do not as a rule get news from any non-conservative source. All mainstream media is rejected as false, so reality is only what Fox News, OANN and the Daily Wire if not the Daily...

You can also get the 1DWpD SN840 in U.2 Ultrastar dress at around $100/TB and the extra added bonus of a nifty and quite substantial heat sink that doesn't cost an extra $50.

Apparently loss of access to Office 365 was a major issue. So I'd say that it impacts Office.

Microsoft had a massive Azure outage today that made international news for the amount of fucking over it caused governments and infrastructure services like airlines. Worldwide, outages like this happen multiple times per year.

I forgot to answer about the Micron 9300s: They have been fine for me. Basically I haven't had a U.2 drive fail yet. I don't have tons of them, only about two dozen all told, and only 4 and 8TB models.

Since LM hasn't shown up: The R5ii and R1 were announced today. The R5ii looks like it has had most of the nifty features of the R3 back-ported to it, like eye controlled autofocus, and it has a nifty AF mode to follow the ball for sports shooting. They've also added a face priority mode, so you...

I have a couple m.2 to u.2 adapters. They have SFF8643 ports on an m.2-shaped board and I want to say they cost me about $20. It's also possible to get them with a direct-attach u.2 cable on them. Mine are made by Startech.

I guess Brother Control Center? I haven't sent a fax in almost two decades.

I usually look at SSD capacity and endurance and don't worry to much about R/W performance. Moving around VMs is one of the very small number of use cases where you might actually see something like the rated performance of a PCIe 5 SSD, but in practice I can't tell the difference between a...

The write endurance on that Crucial drive looks pretty low to me (2400TB), but I don't know how static your VMs will be, and of course it is very fast in a way that you'll surely appreciate. Overall that looks like a solid deployment plan.

You're losing out on RAM channels and PCI e lanes and I feel like that's a bit regrettable, but if you're homelabbing and just need a VM host, that's a lot of host. I don't think you're going to get that many decent cores on anything else, You might be able to get more I/O from a threadripper...

I see $209 NIB, which is about as cheap as any Ironwolf branded drive gets.

My company has contracts with two multibillion dollar companies but we don't operate on a level where we deal with their corporate systems at all. The rest of our business involves not for profits and exactly zero of them do anything the same way ever. Almost all of them do things the way we...

Guessing I fat fingered something when I ran it through my calculator. To be completely clear, though, you'll get ~3 to 4 years of use for on-prem* licenses and possibly longer for Windows Server, versus a fairly large recurring cost from the Azure nonsense. * "on-prem" in my case generally...

There's another round of "high end Intel CPUs are melting" talk making the tech rounds today. 13th and 14th gen i9s are still dying from poor voltage regulation that can likely be attributed to poor communication of safe voltage limits on Intel's part, even though it is blaming motherboard OEMs...

An R5 and an R5ii won't cut it?

You're going to preorder the R5ii regardless. My partner made over $400 in cash/venmo/cashapp in a couple hours this afternoon by shooting with my 120 - 300, editing on her tablet and printing glossy 4x6s off a Canon Selphy at a dog park / playground today. As a middle aged man, there's no way...

Unless pricing is better than the last time I looked, the sales pitch is usually to tell people to just sign up for 365 Business Premium (which includes Sharepoint for file sharing and Intune for device management) for the low, low price of $22/user/month from now until the end of time, so about...

I don't have a single customer big enough to justify Azure federation. It's a non-issue for small organizations. That doesn't mean they don't need it deserve management features, but Microsoft sure as hell isn't treating them like they do.

I haven't even remotely thought about since about January, but Windows Server 2025 is probably going to be released in ~October. Supposedly, it'll have better security for SMB and drop a lot of legacy netlogin code, plus overall device management features that probably relate to client health...

Arrow Lake will be coming out of TSMC fabs and it'll be on a smaller process node than Zen 5 but absolutely no one is talking about its expected TDP. Die shrinks usually improve power efficiency, but Intel's last few (desktop) updates have eschewed that in the name of better (desktop)...

Intel's version of forward progress for about the last six years has been to boost the TDP enough to get 100MHz higher boost clocks, such that i7 and i9 desktop CPUs are more in line with Threadripper than desktop Ryzen right now. These aren't workstation products. Even seen with the "bragging...

I hear about people screwing up USB-C connectors on their phones. I'm not sure how people do that, but I'd expect a phone's power cord to be damaged a lot more often than anything plugged in to a desktop computer. What are you doing to USB-C cables, man?

I haven't run across damaged connectors on USB-C cabled used for displays, but I do notice that monitors connected by USB-C seem to lose their connection and blink off more often than those connected via HDMI/DP. That might just be a Windows thing, but I see it a lot on NUC-size devices where...

Intel also has a frame-generation trick, called XeSS. It's only supported in about 200 games total, and I've never heard of 80% of them, but it does work on AMD and nVidia GPUs, just like AMD's FSR. The Spider-Man games from Sony ARE supported, though, and from what I can tell, frame rates are...

I'm still not a lawyer but it looks like, if the drive Seagate sends you for an RMA unit dies after 90 days, you're just SOL. The weird thing about that is that some of the Ironwolf Drives apparently include data recovery with the warranty, so maybe they DO actually work on the individual...

I'm planning on buying sometime in August. I hope to see some testing from the nice people at Puget Systems before I get anything.

Interesting but not meaningful news: 9900X sample came out ahead of the i9 14900KS on Geekbench 6 by about 6% in single threaded tests. It's about 10% slower in multicore, but that's an 8p/16e core CPU vs 12 cores of AMD. Geekbench is a synthetic benchmark, so I don't know how much I really...

Typically, Displayport supports newer and fancier stuff without needing anything goofy and extra, but I don't think we're going to get affordable 8k displays with extreme color accuracy any time in the really near future. Maybe try to make sure you're getting something that supports HDMI 2.1b...

Based on my reading of the warranty (and I am not a lawyer), Seagate's warranty only covers the drive at time of initial purchase, and for the sorts of drives we buy, that's probably five years. It looks like replacements are only covered for 90 days unless a local statute is in place, with the...

I haven't had to do an Ironwolf but I did advance replacement on a 16TB Exos last fall. The drive I had wasn't provably bad according to Seatools, but it also disconnected from its HBA every few days. The drive I got from Seagate was recertified and had a zero power on hours count, which I...

Even pros can't normally afford to invest in full lens collections on multiple mounts.

We have different photography priorities, I think.

This is big city thinking. The miles and miles of corn are very real, but it's too early in the year for it to be scary corn. Any adult can see clear to the horizon. Corn isn't scary until it's seven feet tall and the only thing you can navigate by is the direction of the sun. My dad used to...

My partner's birthday is July 4th and this is the first year I get to spend her actual day-of birthday with her. It borders on incomprehensible how much this particular birthday sucks. Indiana doesn't allow alcohol sales on holidays. Most bars and venues for adults will likewise be closed just...

I told my partner that Canon is likely to release an R6iii sometime in the next six-ish months and I'd probably trade in what I have to upgrade. I am not trade in, sell or diminish her access to the R6. Many threats and promises were made regarding this matter and so I guess that I am paying...

The R6ii is discounted pretty massively this week for some reason. I love my R6 and I'd be all over an R6ii if I didn't already have one. $2000 to get one is almost a no-brainer.

I'm more interested in knowing expected MSRP. The launch prices on Zen 5 are generally lower than Zen 5. I'm pretty happy about that.

I got distracted replying to LM but a Slovenian retailer seems to slipped launched prices for Zen 5: €650 for the 9950X, €500 for the 9900X and down to €310 for the 9600X. I'm guessing the prices in USD will probably be pretty similar.

I truly do not know. It's my first experience with Windows 11 on a desktop at home, and I don't think I ever saw an RDP session last longer than five minutes. At first, I thought it might be a CPU or GPU load issue, or maybe a problem with the wired NIC, but none of the mitigations I've used in...

"Only." I don't make so much money that I can comfortably spend $5k on a PC for what amounts to hobby use and feel like I'm being anything like responsible. I definitely had more contracting income when I was younger, but the trade off is that I'm not as busy with work stuff and I take weekend...

That's true if you're gaming, but I'm using a 3rd generation Threadripper as my daily driver system. I spend kind of a lot of time working in a video editor and with VMs, so having scads of PCIe lanes and four dozen threads has been a better overall deal for me than whatever desktop platforms...

Sorry to hear about your health of late, Greg. The 7600X and the 5900X are very close in performance terms, and actually so are the 1080Ti and the A770. I haven't had a chance to finalize the setup on the new PC well enough to run any normalized tests, but it looks like games are mostly around...

I tried Windows 11 on my AM5 PC over the weekend and I had non-stop issues with RDP (Remote Desktop). Remote Desktop had some changes around the time Windows Server 2016 was released, and I know a half dozen registry settings to run on the client and server side to improve connection stability...

There's quite a bit of evidence to suggest that when the power budget is equal, the 12c AMDs can ramp up a bit higher on all cores than the 16c versions, which was my reason for buying a 5900X instead of a 5950X for my second desktop. Purportedly, they're launching Zen 5 X3D much earlier this...

IIRC the all core speeds on the 12-core SKUs are supposed to be generally higher for faster single threaded capability, but I did just look and the TDP on the 9900X only has a 120W TDP instead of 170W like the 7900X, so no, there's no reason to look at the less expensive one in this generation.

Higher all core clock.