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I suppose this thread deserves a 20th birthday. 🎉🥳 Next year it could drink. :LOL:

What are your thoughts about the Meelanox cards that are faster than 10GB/s? Is it feasible to use them, e.g., in my NAses?

Do you really have problems with good drives like the Ultrastar DC or is it just the history of the old single digit TB drives from years ago?

Buy a used one or take apart the one you have to see if it is repairable, starting with the power supply. The drives should be fine, but be careful about accessing them with a computer that might write data.

Public buses are just horrible in many areas of the States. I'd never suggest that as the last 10+mile leg from the train station.

https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/toshiba-x300-14tb-hdd-review I would be buying at least their NAS drives if I bought Toshiba, but it depends on the usage. I might use X300s for archives or something. When I want cheap drives I get the WD Elements/Easystore 14-18TB on sale and remove the...

After reading up on the chipsets I surmise that the 1x lane cards use PCIe 2.x controllers and the PCIe 3.0 controllers use 2x lanes, so they are packaged as 4x cards. The video card will take the first two slots. The other two are 16x and 1x occupied by 10GbE and 1GbE NICs. Before assing the...

Sorry, I'm somehow moving with the threads. ??? I swear I hate the stupid micro ATX form factor. :(

Thanks, but where are you seeing PCIe 3.0. In the specs it is 2.0 Product ID: PEXUSB3S7 Extend your system capabilities by adding 7 USB 3.2 Gen 1 ports – 6 external and 1 internal – to any PCIe compatible computer Unique dual-profile design fits...

Isn't it only half of that, 500MB/sec.? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCI_Express#History_and_revisions PCI 3.0 would be ~1GB/sec. per lane. I don't need more than the basic USB 3.0 per port, but If the total is only worth one port then I couldn't put much on it without a real slowdown. The only...

Why is everyone using the Fresco Logic FL1100EX chips? Whatever happened to VIA and Reneses, etc.?

Can you point out a specific PCIe 3.x card for W10? Every one I search that has a known chipset is PCIe 2.x or other issues.

Are there any USB 3.x PCIe 1x cards that are PCIe 3.0 or 4.0? It seems most cards use only archaic PCIe 2.0 chips which operate at the speed of a single USB 3.0 port (<500 MB/sec.) even if there are a bunch of ports. The faster cards are all using PCIe 4x, but I don't have a free 4/8/16 slot...

My P4510 died in a few weeks after first use. It's in the pile of stuff to be destroyed. IIRC the price was about $900 back in the day.

I'd be using the X710 series if you want Intel.

Then I would be better off buying a MAC that's not upgradable from the start. :( Even Intel allows one CPU upgrade sometimes. If the AM5 is a dead-end, then I'll probably just get a 15th gen Intel if the performance is improved. I'll probably have to use Windows 11 by then anyway.

I use the SFP+ Direct Attach 10GbE copper cables. If you want RJ45, get an network card that supports it directly or use a switch with both kinds of ports.

Hard drives have been few and far between and of course that's what I was looking for this year. 😟 I could build a really reasonable new system for the CPU/RAM/SSD, but the uncertainty over future upgrades creates a pause. When do we know if AM5 has a future? I would not want to buy Ryzen 4th...

The first question I would have is how many riders would be needed to make that practical. For example, the corpoprate travel site wanted me to take a train between two cities on a business trip. The problem is that the places I needed to meet the train at both ends were not near my departure...

It looks like about $550 for the 4070 now.

It is not an NVMe drive.

It may sound strange but that ssd was over $600 in 2018. According to the a crystal's dicmark it is still worth 98%.

Some hijinks with the forum as usual. I was able to get good contact with an intermediate pad and some Thermaltaco compound. I filled about half if the ssd and it is warmly cementing the heat. The crystal indicated 47C at peak.

Depending on your age, maybe the children or nieces and nephiwes

The shipment is missing in the Amazons, so it may be a while before I can test it. :(

The pads are like 1mm or so. If there is <1mm of goop is that better or worse than 1mm of pad? I know that anything will be better than AIR that is there now. :LOL:

The 2TB M.2 is working, but the heatpad thing disintegrated. I tried one of those blue pads, but it is not the right size. Can I put compound on it to fill the gap or is that not stable?

The key fob set is a lot more expensive than a 2TB SSD, so I would be avoiding any regular washing. 😂

Why would you wash it with regularity, some kind of superstition? I would be concerned about how the proximity is affected if it is wet. Does the door unlock and lights come on at the normal distance? I mostly only have an SSD in my pants south of the equator. After 28 hours and masking I was...

The WD 24TB CMR are shipping.

This is an 860 EVO 2TB M.2 drive in a USB-C enclosure that is no longer available. 😡 I put the SSD and circuit board into the desiccator with Co indicating silica gel. I don't have molecular sieves or P2O5 handy.

I washed my favorite SSD in the pants. 😢 Is there any hope for it?

I saw the Guardians of Galaxies Phase III and it was by far worse than the others. It's more of a kid's movie than the first one which was decent for adults. The second version was weaker, but palatable. The third had such a disgustingly mawking ending I wish the other teams had won the...

One of the issues with a camera is the versatility and the S*ny 1st gen GS is not giving that with its low resolution, higher noise and 250 base ISO. I just don't see Canon doing with the R1 since it is reportedly coming out early next year. Maybe they will have an R3 II targeted for the...

I saw a few analog controls in the 20th century that used half degree increments. It's just a matter of the mechanical design and scale, but you don't lose any accuracy or precision. OTOH, I've seen some cheap °C/°F thermometers that calculate internally in 0.1 °C increments and map the values...

I've only drabbled in EMount, but 10K in it's not solving some basic issues of humanity. S*NY has a bunch of weird stuff and no teles to speak of. They never had much of a flash system. Nikon was best for that decades ago, but have completely lost interest. Nissin has a deal for all their...

It is good for certain action purposes, but ES is always a little bit noisier than a mechanical shuttered body and this GS seems worse. I'd like to see Claff's analysis when the camera is released. Extra noise is not going to fly so well at higher than 24 MP. A ~3ms scan time has been fine...

I recall starting with °C in the 1970s. I'm kind of surprised you were an engineer and using the archaic systems until recently?

There is room for charging stations somewhere. If there are not many, that means they are not practically needed or economical.

You are joking, but the issue is that about 1.8kw is the most that will be charged from 120V, so maybe 12-20KWh a night with losses. That's assuming you don't go out partying or on a road trip. Level 1 charging is more practical with the pluggable hybirds.

You could rent a house. It seems to me that there are plenty of old gas stations that could be converted to electric. Self-service with CC only would satisfy most user needs. Are there statutes in your state that prohibit chargers?

I think that must be just the super-fast L3 chargers. There are plenty of the slower ones of varying speeds. IL is a relatively low population state state outside of the Chicago area.

EV batteries are usually warranted for 8 years or 100K miles, though they will have reduced range near the end. It is a legitimate issue but not the end of the EV world. Billions are being spend on improving rechargeable battery life and capacity. I'm inclined to get a pluggable hybrid next...

This forum never works right for me and worse after the edits. :( It boggles the minds.

https://www.storageforum.net/forum/threads/something-random.3070/page-472#post-213513

It looks like the latest of the Marvells has bombed. I'm curious how you compared that to the others.

The canoo is vorpware at this point. It weighs about half as much and has about half of the payload. It depends on the needs I suppose, but Amazon surely is getting a discount on the 100K units. Maybe they will buy some of the Canoos also.

I don't know about NY, but have had no issues in Boston or Nashville with lighting. Was a P/S or some tiny sensor used that created excessive noise? What is meant by the Quickpath? The website indicates it is a platform for AI something or other, but nothing in particular for photography...

The cost is practically irrelevant for individual systems. I suppose it matters for major manufacturers or those small builders making a few dozen at a time. If the next gen arrives in 2024 and is much better then it's a moot point.