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Thank you all for the suggestions. I'll see what I can get locally* and at what price. * More often than not, Amazon.com doesn't ship to Québec and selection from Amazon.ca is more limited than the U$ version. Prices on the Canayan site are also higher, even after figuring out currency...

It has fanless operation up to 40°C.

There's a thread about it at STH's forums. One of the members got one.

Microtik's 16xSFP+ fanless switch. Dual PSU, L3, 400U$ MSRP, but you can pre-order at ~300U$.

I might opt for their 3-channel model. Reading back the beginning of the thread, Mercutio wrote that a center speaker significantly improves the listening experience. I'd like to have the option. So it would be better to get a receiver, plug the receiver to the amp and then plug the speakers...

I need something that will receive the audio signal from a source (TV, computer, USB stick, whatever) and push it to a pair of Paradigm speakers. Ideally not too expensive but still capable of sending high-quality audio to the speaker towers. If I'm not clear enough, then I guess I just need...

Are Emotiva X Series a great value or overhyped? Need a good amplifier to feed a pair of Paradigm Prestige RF-85 tower speakers. Knowing that speakers makes a far greater difference than the amp in overall sound quality, I don't want to go mad on the amp. I probably could just opt for a...

Length of cables will also affect what's best for you. also, there're two kind of copper cables for +10Gbps connections: 10Gbase-T and DAC cables. 10Gbase-T is your standard NTP cable with an RJ45 connector. Depending on the wire standard, you can connect devices up to 37m to 100m with those...

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I'd rather not eat food cook in a plastic bag. Plastic particles tend to be transfered in the food when heated and are supposed to increase chances to dvelop cancer. Taste might be great, but I'll pass. I probably do a lot of other things that are bad for my health, but I avoid what I'm aware...

For home and most offices, unshielded networking cables are fine, since there isn't that much electrical interference in those environments. Shielded cables are more often used in industrial environment where cables pass thru zones with strong electrical fileds (motors, high-voltage cables...

I can no longer find the Köstritzer here. I've almost exclusively switched to local microbreweries, with the exception of a few Belgian Trappist beers. There are hundreds of local varieties and quite a few are excellent.

You can only get so far on bike in a day...

Here's one genius who didn't miss it : Apparently, he also thinks the blindness risk of looking directly at an eclipse is a chinese hoax.

I don't even know why I still try clicking on the links in your posts.

You Aussies give way too much money to your children.

Contrarily to early reports, AMD's Vega isn't such a great miner afterall. Disappointing.

Up until I've read the review on our former home, I did not realize that 2.4TB 10K SFF mechanical drives existed. They are available for sale too. About one third the price per GB compared to enterprise SSD. For mechanical drives, they perform well. Compared to SSD...not so much. Useful to...

It gets under my skin.

Don't know for the others, but personnally, I hate being boxed.

I cannot speak about the motherboards because I haven't read much about those yet, since they aren't available. The Threadripper CPU though, are at the very least better thermally connected to their heatspreader than their Core i9 opponents. AMD used solder to connect the cores to the...

In case you want more details on the upcoming Core i9 models. For what it's worth, I wouldn't buy anything Intel offers on the X299 platform. I have no confidence at all regarding the reliability of that platform. Most current motherboard designs seem to suffer from over-heating of the VRM...

I used to like watching "House of Cards" on Netflix. It's a very well made TV series. However, even though the latest season has been available for some weeks on Netflix, I haven't even been tempted to watch it yet. Cable news about the White House these days is so much more entertaining...

Just to be sure I'm not misunderstood, like it so easy happens with written communication, I do find your posts entertaining. Some of your typos are true gems.

The forum software probably trucnates your posts when it detects too many spelling snafus in order to spare you some embarassment. At least that's my theory.

Here's a tutorial video. I would have guessed that the orange plastic plate should be removed during installation if I hadn't watched the video.

For now, none. I had to modernize our servers two months ago and couldn't wait because we were quickly running out of resources. It would be surprising if we had to purchase new servers for our needs during the next three years. However, I'm also, on occasion, the design architect for...

You being a tourist in a foreign country reminds me a joke I heard yesterday : "How do you call someone who speaks two languages?" Answer : "A bilingual person" "How do you call someone who speaks only one language?" Answer : "An American" Please take the time to learn a few words or even...

Seen the comparative reviews yet? For small/medium business architectures, AMD wipes the floor. Epyc 7601 pretty much equals the Xeon 8176, which cost twice the price. Where Intel shines is on larger scale servers like quad-socket servers, but those servers are irrelevant to most...

I'd take 8-11°C all year long. Not sure I can learn Swede language though. I'd like to visit your country someday.

And another train goes by without stopping at the station...

Unless you're trying to cool off a volcano, that is some serious overkill.

Going back to Oregon?

A little over 1GBps, I've seen worse for a NAS. I hope this is finally adequate for your needs. Is it between your PC and the Synology DS3617?

Nothing much to say. There's little but work in my life these days. Trying to keep proper cabling tidiness and documentation up to date on a large building infrastructure is a tedious job, especially when the company's management is constantly moving people for no rational reason and...

Carry the team on your shoulders. Don't forget to enter your passkey.

Oh well, guest I saw something that wasn't.

How do you pronounce NVMe (Non-Volatile Memory Express)? I went to the HPE Storage Event at Quebec City today and Jason White, HPE's Storage CTO, called the interface N.V.M.e. I thought it was a marketing gimmick and was supposed to be pronounced "Envy Me". I may have over thought that. BTW...

I'll try disabling SSL next time. The entire job last ~20 hours. The bottleneck probably was the drives from the source SAN, although they shouldn't have been doing much else.

I bet you can click on the "Price" button below the two shown models and know exactly how unaffordable they are.

It's coming.

I doubt it. The source has 2x Xeon E5-2690v2 and the destination has 2x Xeon E5-2698v4. RAM also is not an issue (respectively 256GB and 512GB). It was after business hours, so the servers wheren't busy doing anything else.

The new QNAP TS-1277 1600-16G almost has Mooner's name printed on it. It has been designed to answer his needs. 2299$, so it's not that expensive for what it is.

It took about 9 hours to convert ~60% of the machines. It sometimes reaches transfert speed over 250MBps, but more often than not, it stays below 90MBps per server. I'll finish the remaining VMs this evening and during the night.

I'm converting VMs from an Hyper-V cluster to a VSphere cluster. All the nodes in both clusters are connected with 10Gbps or dual 10Gbps links, just like the switches connecting both environments. However, the VMWare converter tool installed on the Hyper-V nodes only send data at 1Gbps to the...

So, one and a half year later, does the system performs up to your expectations? I'm considering solar panels for our main building (even if we are up North) and I'd like some feedback from you.

Your RTO will suck.

I plan to see Logan too when it will be available on NetFlix. All the critics I've seen where positive.

2.5Km in about 4 minutes. 25 minutes on foot when I'm in no rush and there's no rain.

Go for helium-filled hard drives. Every report I've read underlines their superior reliability. HGST has exemplary failure numbers, but the Seagate helium-filled drives are supposed to be quite good too. I've read nothing so far regarding reliability about the WD Gold.