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RAID10 is like a Range Rover. It is never strictly necessary, but it makes you smile every time you get to test its abilities.

I was thinking of trying it out just to see some eye-candy on the crazy rig at home (none of the games I'm into at the moment would be called "pretty"). I was thinking of this or GTA V.

This is why I like RAID10, but Synology won't let you resize a RAID10 array.

So you are going to run 2x40Gbps between the two? That'll be epic. I was planning 2x10Gbps and thinking that would be cool.

Sweet. I will have 3 Intel X540T2 NICs and a Netgear Prosafe Plus XS708E on Monday. All for about 15x that much ;)

Not sure if anyone else here is running Veeam or some other real-time-ish backup solution? I'm grabbing snapshots of production VMs every 30 minutes or so without needing too much overhead (but the 10GbE would help). I don't bother with RAID1 on the SSDs that run the VMs, and the big-ish ones...

Recently discovered the YouTube channel LinusTechTips. He has done a bunch of things that I have (pretty much) done, like these: https://youtu.be/48A_Yqj965c https://youtu.be/b8bLtg9J1Oc And a bunch of things still on my list, like these: https://youtu.be/N0qtu5NXhuQ...

I didn't read in the article what environments they were testing in (the images weren't loading)?

I'm talking to the SolarCity people next week. If that goes ahead I'll probably start folding during the day.

Merc nailed it. Very fun, though some of the puzzles can be maddening if you don't see it the way they see it.

Unless I'm missing something, the switch I linked to supports both SFP+ and RJ-45 for each of the 10Gb links. A decade ago a wealthy friend of mine took a general conversation we'd had and ran with it. In their new $10M+ home they'd put in 3 runs of fiber to each room. No Coax, no TP, just...

Here is another to have a look at. Same lens and body. Also candid/handheld. https://www.dropbox.com/s/8dw5j70snlyjh5w/O15A3465.CR2?dl=0

IMHO, it is overexposed and pretty severely cropped. With those considerations, the quality is pretty average for that lens/body.

I'm old enough now that a number of my friends already served (some in combat) and are now solidly into a career in the private sector. Those that chose their station well while in the military have leveraged it much better than I'd expected, making their decision seem more informed than I'd...

Am I the only one here who sees value in keeping RJ-45 and GbE backwards-compatibility? Or are you guys anticipating a one-time massive expenditure/migration?

Even more literal than I was expecting. ;) I was bracing for some comment on the APS-C sized sensor not being able to offer an uncropped image.

...and for those wondering what the zoom capabilities of a 100-400 with a 2x on a 7DII was, this is uncropped.

Let's push our luck and see if this works: https://www.dropbox.com/s/jijhkth6a09tg38/O15A4063.CR2?dl=0

Does it work better this way? I've been Googling as to how to put in thumbnails, but honestly I can't figure it out.

Interesting. Loads for me. You can't just left-click it?

Still trying to figure out exactly how "Highlight Priority" behaves...

Since we're ranting vaguely, the autofocus for videos on the 7DII makes a noticeable noise even on external mics connected via the flash shoe. Not sure how to decouple that. Plan B is to switch to the lavalier hidden just off camera somewhere, but that is considerably less...

Actually thinking this switch might be perfect for getting the ESXi and NAS on at 10Gb while feeding all the other switches.

Not fooling with any of that. CAT7 cabling point to point with Intel X540T2 cards I don't feel the need to learn the older tech, just want the faster speed.

I probably have a moderately used (gamed but not folded or mined) 690 sitting around if he wants to go back to SLI.

Just bought my first 10Gb NIC (for a high-end Synology unit). Of course, it won't do much until I get at least one more. The plan is to put the other in an ESXi machine and use it to push backups.

Don't you have some 5Ds? Do you consider them old sensors?

I always thought that the smaller cameras were for those that couldn't swallow the larger bodies of real DSLRs. You are clearly not one of those people. What are you doing with an A7r anyway? Keeping up with both Canon and Nikon glass was too easy?

I don't host web pages anymore, but when I did I also ran a local DNS. This let me just put in a permanent record for that name pointing locally. A hack, I know, but it worked great.

Thanks!

Do you have a link to instructions on such?

15.2 is still the latest version of Hiren. I didn't run Rufus from Hiren, I made Hiren boot off a thumb drive using Rufus. Crazy fast on USB3. And if you haven't installed Win8 off a fast thumbdrive, you've wasted too much of your life.

That is pretty much how I felt about the MikroTik; a great opportunity to learn more about the guts of networking. Unfortunately, I procrastinated the swap until my existing router failed and had no choice but to jam the new one into place. I still have a "to do" list around here somewhere of...

Actually had two drives fail on me this morning, might be first of the year. Original OCZ Vertex 120GB - Fine to undetectable after a reboot. Brand new 6TB WD Green - DOA, packaging was terrible, click of death on first power-up.

Just used it last night on the latest Hiren BootCD.

Very cool. No wonder you needed the minivan, 4' tall and 115lbs? Does your receiver have XLR outputs?

This. Also interested in the speakers.

My first check would be that you haven't used all your DHCP pool. Next would be to assign an available IP from the pool to the device and see if it can ping the router. After that would be to take the wireless device and hard wire it (different MAC, different IP) and see if it still misbehaves...

Had a snake fly into my windshield a couple months ago. Of course it was being carried by a hawk that couldn't climb fast enough. They survived (didn't even hit the ground before the hawk recovered and flew off), but it was a very strange sight/sound.

I'll go with the spot heating, too. I'm sure that case has tons of fans but I'd consider zip-tieing another to the back grille of the PSU pulling heat out. The Corsair units I've been favoring lately ship with a warning sticker explaining that the fans don't even kick on until the unit is...

Does your UPS log incoming voltage? I'm with Coug on this one. If the UPS isn't an on-line model brownouts can sneak through. If you can, tighten up the UPS intervention level.

Nope. Just looking at goofy lenses.

That is the 10kWh. The 7kWh supports more and faster cycles.

I'd be more interested in the 65/0.75 when it comes to wacky huge lenses.

I've seen that a few times, but a SMART scan normally shows what it was complaining about.

For new drives I do the following: Nothing. Don't have data without backups. If you do have backups, don't bother with such effort to further reduce such a small risk. Just my $0.02.

I suspect the 300Mb is between wireless devices? I have a pair of UAP-PRO at my house, and a half-dozen at work. They are almost perfect considering how much cheaper they are than the alternatives. Only complaint would be the management software, though they've probably improved it since I last...

At work one of my guys has set up some Edgerouter Lite units without issue, but I have no firsthand experience. I'm still running the beast RouterBoard at home (RBAH1100x2, modded with a 120mm top-mount fan). Got it to try for work, and didn't find the interface friendly enough to deploy...

Coulda been. By the time I got there it had been hung for a while.

Today I've had a bunch of computers hang on a Windows Update. After leaving them for a long period of time (>45 minutes) I got bored and tried an Alt-Ctrl-Del and got the login screen. This normally doesn't work, but it seems the recent updates have a glitch.