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My issue with Toshiba drives in general is that its warranty service is trash. Kind of the opposite of WD, where the drives are born trash and die trash, but at least they make it easy to replace their garbage-hardware. Toshiba drives are a black hole where you send something out and never get...

Buffalo NASes run Linux and it's REALLY likely that it's just using LVM. You have two big challenges. The first is that you have to figure out the interleave order of your drives. Once that's been determined, it's mostly just a matter of patience as whatever software package you use to attempt...

I have 18 tabs open looking at different products right now, LM. I am looking. Do you have a 4x or larger slot you aren't using?

Here is a PCIe 3.0 x1 card to supply 7 USB 3.0 ports and here is one that supports 5Gbps USB 3.2. If you're dead set on getting external access to a high speed interface, you might need to look at a thunderbolt adapter + dock instead.

At a guess, Via and Renasas didn't care to build a reference board or offer a newer chipset? For USB 3.x, I think ASmedia is the most common chipset.

Do you have a 10Gbps USB 3.x device that you're worried about? PCIe 2.0 will give you 8Gbps, which is plenty for everything but a new SSD or card reader. Here's this guy. He's in Belgium, but that's 1x 10Gbps type A port on a PCIe 3.0 1x card with an ASMedia 3142 controller. My experience is...

My partner convinced the Event Management people she works for to hire her to do art design work. They bought her a prebuilt at her request, although in all likelihood she's going to do everything on her M1 Macbook. She just wants a gaming PC and this is an excuse to get her hands on one...

If you bought it in 2019, it's almost certainly still under warranty. I'm sure you could get it replaced.

I'm just not enough of a fan of the P-core E-core nonsense to look at Intel. I understand why it makes sense for gamers. I am not that.

There ARE such cards. Startech and Inateck are brands I've known to make them for years, with many less expensive cards from weirdo Chinese brands promising much better specs and features for around half the price. USB hubs are fine for a lot of things. The places where they fall down are...

Rail works great on the east coast of the US because there's a major city every 40 miles or so from Boston to Washington DC. In that corridor, there's already plenty of good and useful rail service. Having rail service from Ontario to Vancouver likewise makes sense because some crazy huge...

Yeah. I'll probably wash an NVMe drive sooner or later regardless. I'm going to start pulling my oldest 4TB S4510s. I remember paying $1200 apiece for those guys and I'm just replacing them with new (unused) ones. The new ones are under $300 apiece. I'm thankful for how much prices have come...

This is actually good to know, when on some future day I wash an NVMe drive instead of just a crappy USB one.

Laundry and dishes are the absolute worst and they're both never-ending. I do believe my fob is actually waterproof though.

As an aside, I also wash the lock fob for my car with regularity and it ALSO seems to hold up to that level of contact with water without issue.

Cloud makes more sense than rolling out a private datacenter for companies that have scores or hundreds of employees. I agree at that scale. I can't remotely justify those costs when a shop is small enough that hosting costs could pay salaries that would meaningfully impact the head count of the...

Maybe start with cleaning contacts and see what happens?

Fingers crossed for an R6v3 when I get around to updating, although I suppose a feature like that will probably be reserved for the more expensive SKUs for at least the next couple generations. The 1DXmk3 is also a low-MP sports shooter and was fairly recently Canon's flagship, so there is...

Given how frequently I was the wad of USB drives I keep in my right front pocket, it's actually possible that it's fine if the drive is commercially produced as an external drive in the first place. I keep them all on lanyards but there's a good reason to have each of them and I had enough of a...

I have a TrueNAS back-end for the primary storage I have at my datacenter. It's easier to apportion file services for that than try to resize virtual drives. Since my native systems are all on the same 10Gbps switch, it's really hard to complain about performance with the TrueNAS VM mostly...

Not having to worry about banding on electronic shutter under cheap lights would make me a lot happier given my shooting needs, but I'm not buying a $6000 Sony just to get it. Maybe the R6 mk 3 or a Canon R1 will have it.

Toyota seems to be testing a hydrogen powered van that needs minimal changes to the rest of the vehicle's components, which might be of interest to some. I don't have a family and I don't feel the need to occupy any more space or use any more energy than I already do. I have a decent landlord...

Of course I can't charge a vehicle where I live. I rent. You can more or less assume that flyover states with ubiquitous single-party rule by the party of racism and incest are probably not going to do very much to help out anyone what ain't rollin' coal. Unfortunately, unless there's a vast...

Pretty much every time Tesla's real numbers of any subject are called into question, it's found that they're lying in a way that very obviously benefits the company, like VW's hype about its Diesel Engines levels of untruth. There is no world where I would trust its numbers about anything. It...

I suppose that it doesn't matter in commercial vehicles, but is anyone else bothered by the idea of buying any sort of car that will have its life limited to the charging capacity of its battery? I understand that a lot of electric cars are functionally boat anchors after five years simply...

QuickPath is the tech analogous to AMD Hypertransport. In my defense, I'm pretty sure it's also the interconnect for Intel Iris XE APUs.

It's a fun movie that leans heavily on the Pakistani-American Ms. Marvel character and her family . Ms. Marvel had a TV mini-series explaining the character and it was clearly intended for younger viewers; the actress playing the character actually writes the comics about her as well, but as the...

My partner worked an actual high society event and in mid-size music venues. Lighting in nightclubs and 300 seat theaters is never going to be good, even with f/1.8 lenses and bodies that manage 12k ISO in an acceptable fashion. She seems to love the RF 24mm on her R7. ~35mm is definitely a...

I swapped the 6650XT in my Ryzen 5900 system for an Intel A770. My partner brought home just under 700GB of photos from her five weeks in New York, Nashville and Boston and I'm really looking forward to seeing how much of a difference Quickpath makes for Lightroom AI Denoise. Most of them are...

The 7950X has faster cores and it's cheaper. It's the one I'd buy too. The two CPUs are a push on content creation benchmarks so IMO the deciding factors are the $100 lower price vs the 50W lower power draw.

... as long as your external I/O ambitions can be satisfied with a Thunderbolt port and you don't care about internal storage even a tiny bit.

Good to see you over here again Coug. I would've bet you'd go in for something a bit more medieval. Something hammer-y.

Intel seems to have dropped HEDT as a concept. My understanding is that too many users were buying Enthusiast CPUs and running them on workstation boards with big-boy I/O, so now you either get bragging rights CPU cores or lots of modest cores + decent I/O. And then there's the power draw. Intel...

I remember dark grey Mac portable in the early 90s but never actual black. I saw the drop in bandwidth but increased RAM. I figured they did that more to provide some extra capacity for a video framebuffer moreso than hedging against the bandwidth drop. It's probably both. Both Xeon and...

Neither of my AMD desktops has an ASMedia Controller listed in Device Manager nor any unknown devices.

The sales started in the middle of October. I've noticed that RAM, consumer SSDs and Zen 4 CPUs are exceptionally cheap right now. I'd like to see a current-gen GPU go on sale for a reasonable amount of money but I suspect there's a whole world of people who want nothing more than a $500 RTX 4070.

I don't have anything other that keyboard and trackball running through USB on anything. Sometimes I plug in a card reader, but only for as long as I need to read a card. This is also not anything I've noticed on either my workstation (Gigabyte TRX40) or spare PC (Some or other Gigabyte X570)...

It's not. I just saw three tech articles on the different sites that put the color front and center over anything else.

Finally and at last, computers are available in a new computer, which has apparently only recently been discovered. Prior to today, Apple laptops have been available in silver, white and briefly in grey and translucent candy colors. Today, after decades of research, Apple has finally developed a...

In what sense?

At this point, it is an examination of how people choose to buy computers, Ryzens included.

I think my Gimbal is rated for 2kg, which I know means I'm not running anything longer than a 24-70 on it with the bodies that I have. Actually, my partner is better than I am at running the Gimbal anyway. She can actually kind of run in the steadycam gait and I am NOT that coordinated. I've...

For those who were wondering, CougTek did get back to me today by e-mail. Hopefully, he'll pop in and give everyone a status update but if he doesn't, at least we can know he's OK up in the great frozen north.

Most people don't have any idea what they have. Home users usually buy for a price point, but even that can be a bad idea because home users will do idiotic things like buy computers from the Home Shopping Network or go out of their way to find the one and only 17" notebook that still has an...

Home users mostly use them as web/Facebook/word processing terminals at this point. This is a big reason why I don't have a problem advocating for ChromeOS devices. Even people who say things like "I use it for pictures" really mean that they're looking through photos they already have, rather...

I have a Surui ball head. x40something. My gimbal also works for that but not with a lens that big. Height adjustment is a common need in many places where I shoot. In an auditorium or stage setting, I may be up too high to want a camera another 60" higher, or I may just prefer to shoot up at...

I live in an apartment. I'm not that worried what happens to the blacktop. 😉 Coug shares his real name with a well known Quebecois musician but I think I see him on LinkedIn, something I'm not going to actually look at. As I recall, he joined some sort of IT firm after trying to get by on tech...

The Steam Hardware survey suggests that AMD is running on about 1/3 of gaming PCs as of September. Since Steam is practically the monoculture of PC gaming, it's a highly representative sample.

This is the Sigma but I was glad to find a place to try it out, given the rain and moisture we've had. I knew it was heavy (with my camera, about 8lbs) but I was thankful to have ledges and rails to shoot from after about my 10th shot. What I'm doing in that circumstance is close to sports...

300mm@2.8 is fucking perfect for getting gorgeous portraits of dancers on stage from 70 feet away, if nothing else.