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I believe you can get a driver for a decent chunk of USB NICs if you really want to play with it. re: SMBv1, you might consider setting up NFS as an alternative. Free clients exist for even DOS-based versions of Windows.

I use a pair of QDR Infiniband adapters between my two big systems. At the time I bought them, the 7m twinax cable was the most expensive part, but these days even that is genuinely reasonable. Even an Infiniband switch is reasonable compared to 10GbE hardware.

LTO numbers are always WILDLY optimistic, like every file type we use now doesn't already have compression applied. The claim for LTO9 us 45TB but the actual capacity is 18TB. In my experience, you might as well not bother to compress anything getting sent to tape.

Cinebench is a pure CPU benchmark that offers an apples to apples comparison across platforms. Most anything else you'd care to name will be impacted by architectural differences like memory bandwidth. AMD 7000 vs 13th gen Intel is kind of the same broad story. Intel can usually claim it has...

There's about $1000 in budgetary slack involved. Will the desktop Ryzen with a desktop GPU by THAT small? Nope, but an mITX build is within the realm of reason and it'll STILL be $500 cheaper, even in a premium chassis like a Cooler Master NR200P (which will also work with at least some uATX...

Apparently, the $2000 12 core Mac Mini Pro with an M2 Pro and 32GB RAM is in some ways superior to the Mac Studio, but it also tops out at 32GB, which isn't exactly a ton of RAM these days. I looked into it a bit and it's core-for-core about as powerful as a Ryzen 5900 (Apple is a little faster)...

I'm 99% sure SLC is just used for high speed NAND cache now.

Are you snapshotting in addition to running dual parity or just relying on dual parity? I'm assuming you are, but that eats into the capacity of a pool depending on how much your data changes. Plain old RAID6 or RAID6-like arrays run in to the same statistical certainty of a read error at...

If you REALLY don't care, they made little 1x to 4x Physical adapters that just put your slot on the end of a ribbon cable. You can also get USB 3 to 4 1xPCIe slots, which sounds weird but found a lot of use among the mining community. Remember that PCIe will operate fine with fewer lanes so...

They're supposed to be TLC NAND but it wouldn't surprise me of they are actually QLC with a TLC or MLC cache. They're also only good for .3 DWPD, which is half what the truly MLC 860 Pro supported, even in the same capacity, or against the .75 DWPD TLC in Intel P4500s. That suggests there is...

Not always. There are vendors willing to warranty them for five years from date of purchase, if that's a concern. I've noticed that a couple resellers are offering variable length warranties for the same model of drive, which suggest that they're aware of that issue as well. I get datacenter...

I mean don't go hastily buying WD drives. But you should be able to find HGST He8s with a 5 year warranty for under $100. Datacenter used second hand drives can be an absolute bargain though.

One of my friends developed what might be a life-long heart condition after having long covid. I've also heard of otherwise healthy people becoming Type 2 diabetics. If only we hadn't had the most spiteful and incompetent people in charge of public health at the start of the pandemic. As it is...

Yes. That's a Jmicron Bridge chip, but it'll work.

You can also find 5xSATA to M-key m.2 if you don't particularly need nvme for anything.

Maybe we can get Scythe to make a finned aluminum means of egress. Stick a couple box fans on both sides to pull air out and a water block at the bottom? :)

nVidia seems intent on adding $200 to the price of every GPU at this point. I'm really looking forward to the $325 4050 they're going to inflict on us once enough 4060s have hit retail. 225W is just a touch more than a 3060ti or a 2080 and seems reasonable for that desirable level of performance.

This is dumb but I think I like it: An A+E (m.2 wifi) key dual SATA bridge board. Got a desktop board with a useless wifi connector on it? Now you have another place to stick some drives!

It's sounding like the 4060Ti is going to be a $500 8GB card with roughly 3070 (no Ti) performance and a 160W TDP. The Arc A770 16GB @225W for $300ish and 3060 - 3060Ti performance doesn't seem THAT crazy right now for midrange gamers, especially since it's not easy to pick up a new 3060TI any...

I live on the third story of a building that, because of the area, has a rather large number of security cameras. I have one of my own out there, mostly to keep an eye on parking spaces for my roommates. My PC would be in some sort of enclosure that would look like it belongs outside, in a place...

Back on topic, I'm not a huge fan of watercooling. I understand that it can make components cooler and that's OK. But in my experience it's almost never worth the effort; parts are usually rated for temperatures well higher than they reach on air cooling, and most importantly, I've never...

I don't mind anything up to about 100F. It's fine. Just something to get used to. My office is hot. My home is hot and my bedroom is hottest of all. I've had plenty of time to learn to deal with it.

The -T variants of whatever Intel chip usually give about 90% of the performance for a fraction of the TDP. I used to use i5 Ts for HTPCs. DD would have to give up a little frequency peak and a lower idle but there's a lot of return on it. As far as moving air out, a big slow fan is just what...

There's a switch in mentality toward wanting to take the photos that create personal personal satisfaction and the commitment to having something on hand to take those photos vs. using the object of convenience. So many people are just going to take that path of least resistance. I have a...

Wireless lavs when possible and getting a little boom to keep the mic away from whatever noises your lens is making go a long way to fixing that.

I have an 1100W Threadripper for a desktop and no AC. Wear less clothes and keep hydrated. Just to be slightly more reasonable about it, the heat is still present. You can keep your parts cool with a water loop and radiator, but the either way, you're still radiating that heat somewhere, and in...

My mental health is much, much better when someone is around, so I choose to let people live with me. This isn't difficult. I have more space than I need and I don't need help keeping bills paid, so there are usually one or two others who are to some degree staying with me. My place stays...

I don't think Cooler Master cases are appropriate for people who like mechanical disk drives. Most of those N400/N600 chassis will only have two or four places they can mount a 3.5" drive, plus 2 - 3 places to hang a 2.5" drive on the back side of the case. They're fantastic as general purpose...

re: Travel. I'm really big on just heading out to O'Hare on a Wednesday (cheap flight day) afternoon and using my phone to find either a cheap flight on Spirit/Frontier or standby on a major carrier; I have friends in Denver, Phoenix, Atlanta and Tampa, so transit is less an issue in those...

Canon's C-series RF bodies do the same thing with video. It's also true for Sony's video-specific cameras and even GoPros. It's all 10 bit 422. This is standard for everything less than studio-grade cinema cameras like Arri, where 12-bit 444 is the standard. The problem is that GPU manufacturers...

Holy shit dd is here. When did that happen? LM, did you take a look at the Cooler Master NR600P? It has hotswap bays as part of its default config.

In other mildly Ryzen-related topics, I just bought a dozen Ryzen 2400Gs for $30/each. I was just planning to buy a few to cover the B350 and B450 boards I have spare, but a 2400G is a pretty respectable client PC. Considering that it's still possible to find AM4 Athlon CPUs that cost more than...

I got used to not having AC a long time ago.

I don't have usable AC anyway. Were I by myself, my wintertime thermostat would probably be set as low as possible, but that doesn't work for my roommates. I am RIGHT on the tip of Lake Michigan, and when the lake is cold, everything here is cold. My file server takes 5 - 10 minutes to become...

I view leaving my PCs on as a built in cost of owning them. I suspect the three PCs that stay on are probably 40% of my power bill, but in my case that is A LOT of computer.

I took my cat Sugar to the vet this morning. I thought I was going to have a wart removed. The vet looked at her, told me she needed an X-ray and more or less came back to tell me she had every kind of cancer. The last of my cats is the anxious three-year-old. He's been looking and calling...

Wait. You guys don't just leave your PCs on all the time?

If you don't care about video acceleration at all, the RDNA2 cores on 7000 series hardware are plenty; RDNA2 supports decoding both h.265 and AV1, so it's good for the foreseeable future.

New Year's day in the US is the day every store starts putting out Valentine's day stuff.

AMD soft-launched some power-limited and less expensive 7000-series Ryzen CPUs this week. They run at most more reasonable TDPs, under 100W, and can still be manually tweaked with increased power to get similar levels of performance. A 12c/24t 65W CPU looks pretty sweet to me.

You might want to check WD's diagnostic software to see what's up with it. It's not impossible that Device Manager could see it as a generic drive or drive name, if the driver or firmware ID matches something else it knows about.

I use PCIe cards to add support for extra addressable nvme drives. I just dedicate them to different I/O tasks with the idea of spreading out disk writes to improve drive longevity. I do have a 4TB RAID0 of nvme drives but that's honestly just to get a single large volume rather than any...

Youtube definitely wants to put some of those channels in front me me, no matter how many times I tell it "Not Interested."

I don't see anything for Gigabyte X670 motherboards that is from Gigabyte itself, but Crucial lists the modules it has qualified itself.

Goddammitsomuch. nVidia is also dropping support for Gameslink. One of the nifty things you can do with an nVidia Shield set top box is stream any supported game from a PC already in your home. Importantly, that meant that it worked with games acquired from GoG or Epic or good old-fashioned...

He's talking about Linus Sebastian of Linus Tech Tips, a PC Gaming focused Youtube channel that seems to perpetually have infinite money and a staff that includes full on machinists and engineers and workshops dedicated to their craft. ddrueding was a big fan as well. I have watched his...

Only 16 more shopping days until Tet! My social circle includes someone who celebrates Tet AND someone who celebrates Diwali AND All Souls Day (Mexican day of the dead) for reasons related to her ancestry and she is the same person. Which I think is really damned cool.

Every single thing in my chassis is pretty hot and nvme drives are among the hotter elements on a motherboard anyway. I suspect you're going to have to do some amount of trial and error to figure out what works best. Last time I was running a video encoding session, I think my on-board drives...

Canon, Sony and Panasonic all use 422 Luminance and Chrominance in their video raw and standard output formats in their mirrorless cameras. It's not a resolution issue but a color space issue Keeping 422 rather than switching to 420 means that I'm better able to do color grading, which is...

The most recent update I got for my Galaxy S20 finally gave me back a control to set which audio device plays notifications. I had that control up to Android 8 or 9, then lost the ability afterward. Samsung put it back in Android 13. I'd been simulating it with increasingly complicated Tasker...