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  1. LunarMist

    NAS Drive

    Is that actually a RED drive or a white label drive without the NASware firmware?
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    Home NAS

    I wonder how noisy that switch is. I could not find any that were not 1U and unusable for the home environment.
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    Home NAS

    It might be a good choice, but the 8+4 configuration is not ideal for larger NAS. The 6+2 bay is far too small for the price. I suppose there is a trend toward the SSD cache, but does both read and write use RAID 1 (4 SSD)? I question the reliability of that.
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    Something Random

    Doesn't the Amazon own a bunch of the clouds? :lol:
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    Something Random

    Yeah, like this.
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    Something Random

    WTF is up with the Amazon? Every link I click says "something is wrong on our end" and there is an image of different dog. Is it just me?
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    Something Random

    On no, was [url=https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/06/09/drone_hits_wire_kills_silicon_valley_power/]this{/} David? :D
  8. LunarMist

    Intel X299: What is it good for?

    The lack of PCIe lanes on the lesser i9 CPUs is a bit ridiculous. The 4x M.2 board alone is a big lanesuck. If the AMD is so good there should be reduced Intel prices eventually.
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    SSDs - State of the Product?

    The sky is not falling. Perhaps the options for SSDs such as 2.5" will dwindle, but technology at various price/performance/durability will always exist. It wasn't that long ago that everyone was against the MLC. Maybe we will have 12 levels and people will be complaining that it is no good...
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    Something Random

    Why would someone have the same first and last names? It's bizarre.
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    Home Solar

    The key would be whatever tax benefits tgete ar
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    Intel X299: What is it good for?

    One AMD board destroyed a $3K scanner and another had a hardware issue due to a crappy chipset. Of course that was years ago, but it is not to be forgotten. At the very least I think it is best to wait 3-6 months for the bugs to be worked out.
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    Intel X299: What is it good for?

    I've almost entirely bad experiences with AMD. $5000 down the toilet in a matter of days. The only reason I'd even consider it would be if drivers were available for older OS. Per core performance is more important than number of cores after a point. If nothing else all these cores may press...
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    Intel X299: What is it good for?

    I can hardly find anything useful on the interwebs anymore. I suppose in a few months there will enough user experience to figure out what to buy. I would start with assuming that 10 cores is about right and the mainboard drivers would eventually mature.
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    Intel X299: What is it good for?

    I will check it in the US. Androids suck for the webs.
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    Intel X299: What is it good for?

    Are the prices announced? I was thinking about 10 cores.
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    Intel X299: What is it good for?

    It seems like an advert for the AMD. Is there a reason to believe that the new Intel products are defective?
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    Something Random

    There is no plague or rabbies in TN?
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    Something Random

    There is no plague or rabbies in TN?
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    Something Random

    I thought you were above that grade.
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    Something Random

    France was more difficult.
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    Something Random

    Did the Chinese make you an offer?
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    Something Random

    I always save installers where possible. Many old ones are no longer available.
  24. LunarMist

    dSLR thread

    I'd like to see an updated 80-400 with improved optics more like the similar Canon or Sony lenses.
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    Best movie you've seen

    What is the feeling on the Wonderful Woman movie? I hope Merc is watching it somewhere.
  26. LunarMist

    NAS Drive

    The other place has a review. The transfer rates for RAID 5 don't look too bad even with WD Reds. http://www.storagereview.com/images/synology_ds1517plus_main_128k_throughput.png
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    SSDs - State of the Product?

    Are they for servers? Why not just use a single, high-performance PCIe card flash storage device?
  28. LunarMist

    dSLR thread

    Meh. PJ is not my thing. Without VR a Sony would be more versatile.
  29. LunarMist

    dSLR thread

    I don't know but Nikon card switching after one is removed is different so I would make no assumptions. I've never deleted a file in any camera even when a $600 2GB card held only 200 11MP RAW images.
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    dSLR thread

    I thought each always had to be deleted separately. At least that is the way with RAW files in other ID series bodies.
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    I'll probably have to write this myself ....

    I don't remember it either. I'm still using Breeze Downloader Pro to download three simultaneous copies to a laptop and an external 2.5" drive (SSD lately). I usually pull the drive from the enclosure, mainline it into a drive bay, and use the usual filesync programs to put a copy on the...
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    Something Random

    Of course, but I meant that the company is not very diligent, just checking off some boxes. I don't enjoy the personality inventory but I hear the poly is worse lately. Fortunately I am grandfathers, so I don't get tested for anything nowadays.
  33. LunarMist

    Cloud Backup

    Is this from your new NADS?
  34. LunarMist

    NAS Drive

    Do you expect the DS1517+ to be much better than the QNAP TS-831X?
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    Something Random

    Oops, I thought you were not happy with the car. At some point you have to figure out repair costs vs. new car payments and TCO. Years ago I made the mistake of keeping a car too long because I liked certain aspects of it. Every time there was a $2000+ bill I tried to keep driving it another 6...
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    Something Random

    Was that exam at a certified testing center or accessed at home and easy to cheat?
  37. LunarMist

    NAS Drive

    I'll be interested in your experience with the drives in the DS1517+. IIRC two SSDs are needed for read/write caching, so you would only be caching reads with the one SSD. I'm curious if it helps much considering the CPU used. The M.2 adapter and X540T2 cannot be both used since the DS1517+...
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    Something Random

    Now that the vehicle is repaired, perhaps you can achieve another 6-8 months of use from it?
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    question New Computer

    I thought it was a nickname. :lol: I suppose all the CPU technology is targeting the parallel performance universe. It's too bad that there has only been limited speed and single-thread increases in recent years, but the market is probably too small.
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    NAS Drive

    Mine are still fine after nearly a year. I would think the current production would have worked out any bugs if there were any. Are they for work or your personal NAS?
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    SSDs - State of the Product?

    Oh I found this article.
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    Something Random

    Wow, that is living close to work. I once was housed within a manufacturing site for months at a time. Every morning I could see the workers in another building across a courtyard. I remember when they all scurried around after a small explosion. I was so glad to leave that country after the...
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    SSDs - State of the Product?

    Even with the Chinese robots? Are they working like the diamondo producers to create artificially high prices?
  44. LunarMist

    SSDs - State of the Product?

    There are some signs of higher density e.g., https://toshiba.semicon-storage.com/eu/company/news/2017/05/storage-20170509-1.htmlToshibia so that should help.
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    SSDs - State of the Product?

    The HGST SS300 looks interesting.
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    NAS Drive

    That would be the Barracuda Pro. All the 10TB Seagate drives from the basic NAS model (cheapest of all) to the Enterprise are within a fairly small price range. I really don't understand the pricing structure, but the drives probably have many common parts.
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    question New Computer

    I have no idea what that is but I'm using older programs and OS that can't take advantage. Even the cloud PS cannot do most things in parallel.
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    question New Computer

    It looks like the 12-core frequency is TBD. I guess we will see.
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    NAS Drive

    The 3 last year were 1700. I'm only buying two 8TB to fill the NAS now. I'm going to buy a good new NAS and put the 4 10TB and a couple more in it next year. That will be $3K for the Synolog y without drives.
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    NAS Drive

    A year ago the Reds were the only reasonable helium 8TB drives for my NADS (6 drives in RAID 6). At the time the HGST He8 did not seem like a good option as the 10TB Enterprise Seagates were newer technology, but those four are being used as primary drives at least until January. From what I...
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