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A concern is that they use two sided boards so I'm not sure about the heat on the bottom. I think the old motherborads don't have two sided cooling, but maybe the new ones do.

ORD is one of the worst airports for delays, cancellations, and missed connections. It's horrible, and I will avoid Chicago at all costs. Even if you are CLEAR international connections are painful and more time is needed than necessary. I was last in the Delta lounge in Atlanta this...

Unfortunately nothing will fix the problem now although it can help later. I can't help but think the new CEO has something to do with it. SWA was my second favorite US airline before the Pande, especially when having to fly economy. (Nobody had many of their flights in the Western US and...

SWA is FUBARS, I'm over 2000km out of position, and I have to work next week. 😟

Did you get the R6 II yet or are undecided?

Are the 4TB WD SN850x still considered a good level of drive for data (mostly WIP)? Maybe I could RAID 0 a couple of those and then add a third drive later. If I just add 2TB that will be the end of the line and 6TB is a weird amount to back up.

I will keep parts of the old setup as a second system. I have legit Win 7 Pro disks. Don't they still work for 10?

I'm glad to see you come out of your shell over the past decade, but cruise ships are rather revolting to me. ;) It's like being in a hotel resort on the ocean. Even if you spend a decent amount, maybe $500 room and closer to $1000/day all in you are still floating in a cess pool of air...

Yes, I notice that everything online is about games. :mad: The heavy lifting for photo work is done by MACs since the post Intel era, but I still need to use older programs. In Windows 10 can I use the same boot drive without a reinstall, update it and then add a new license code afterwards...

The main reason for AMD is that I'd really like to stay with Windows 10 for another 2.5 years and Intel uses more power. I'm not going to use liquid cooling, ever. If I have to do a clean installation of 11, then we are looking at 2024 when the 14th gen Intel arrives which supposedly is more...

Are there any more recent thoughts on the Ryzens 4? Is there anything that should make me reconsider? The plan would be this, utilizing as much as I can from the current system. X670E Motherboard w/3x long PCIe slots and 4x M.2 slots 7950X and Nocturnal D15 2x32GB RAM (Crucial or ?) 3060Ti...

Got it. That idea is nixed. So the options are the M.2 8TB or SATA 7.68TB, neither of which are great. I have a Sarbent NVmE enclosure for my M.2 drives, but it is slow and inconsistent despite not overheating. I read many negative reviews about USB-C enclosures and some are burning up the...

I've been on more than a few ships, from around the Antarctic circle to more than 80° North, crossing the equator many times and being in other places at sea. I have photographed many subjects from a cruise ship to expedition vessel to a Zodiac to a mokoro, but never would I photograph anything...

I'm not sure what you meant by when not using it. The drive must stay in the case/enclosure to connect to the wires and USB port. For example I'm using a 2.5" USB-C to SATA enclosure for the 4TB drives. If I get the 7.68TB U.3 or SAS 2.5" drive, is there one for that? I'm not seeing any TLC...

Is there an USB enclosure for that? It must be powered from the natural laptop ports.

I exceeded the capacity of the 4TB drives and that created a data management nightmare in the field (ocean really). However, I'm not seeing 8TB SATA III drives (except the old, slow-writing QVO) or 8TB external USB drives either. It's 2022 so why not already? :(

This would be awesome for Xmas. Garner Degauss Destroy Package with TS-4XT, PD-5, Scan-1X, IRONCLAD Degausser https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1675364-REG/garner_edc_4xt5_ironclad_ironclad_enclosed_destruction_cart.html

I remember the orange LP back in the 1960s. I couldn't understand the song or what it meant, but my father was very interested in Jazz and had all Stan Getz albums. I much preferred the Beatles.

I used the 5DsR for most everything back in the day, other than the really low light where 1DX series was needed. 5Ds output was about the same as the 5DsR after a bit more sharpening was applied. At the time high ISO was better on 5DsR due to lower luminance noise after sharpening, but that...

Us mere mortals have to buy online and find a sale once in a while. Data center drives have probably been treated properly, heavily RAIDed, and probably wiped already.

Used drives are just gross. Who knows what files have been on them?

One of the lenses has VR that is totally out of whack and unable to be controlled. I found that exact lens in great condition online, but wow they are becoming hard to find and service is limited. For some of the lenses it's better to buy used for now (if you can find them) rather than try to...

I've been using software to download up to three simultaneous copies since 2005 and was curious about the possibility of the data integrity check as part of the process as mentioned above. The main issue with the software is that if there is a copy error (such as a dismounted drive) every file...

The 1st gen R bodies were not very good. I think they were rushed prematurely from marketing pressures and priced cheaply enough that the most severe of the limitations (AF and FPS) could be overlooked. Considering that your subjects are mainly humans or humanoid forms the R6 II seems a...

What I mean by parallel is that there is one source folder and three targets. The program should read each file once, write it to three targets, read the next one, etc. The three targets should be able to use Windows to buffer the writes so the overall performance is similar to a single copy...

Is there some way to have it make multiple copies in parallel?

Well outdoors you should be able to use lower ISOs. I would be using the R6 at high ISOs. The more I use the R7, the less I like it. Mathematically I need about 20 useful images before the Ground Hog's Day to meet break even.

Haha. >1TB/week in the middle of nowhere. We can use phones (mine won't work though), but no radios as the area is under a foreign control. Wi-Fi is very slow, maybe satellite or something like that. This is personal, so no company assets are available. I'm still operating under the...

All three USB-C enclosures disconnected sometimes and corrupted my data! At first I thought it was only the file being copied at the moment and deleted each before the next cycle, but back in the states it was observed there are a whole bunch of files with adreaded red X on them. (File size and...

USPS/UPS/FeDex, they all deliver like crap sincethe pandemic. Somehow leaving a high value (>$5K) package in a pubicly vbsible area is fine with them if the driver takes a picture of it. However, they did not leave my relatively cheap R7 which I WFHed for all day and I did not hear any bells or...

1600 is as high as I will go with an R7 (~4000 equivalent on R5), but I'm not getting paid. The R6 or R6 II will be much better in low light. The video reviews indicate that the R7's oversampled 4K is pretty good, but the line-skipping 4K modes kinda suck. The cropped 4K is really quite tele...

The R7s buffer really sucks once I use the higher framing rates. :( The designers really cheaped out by using the stupid SDXC cards instead of CFe. Otherwise they should have given it more RAM. ISO 1250 S/N is about the same as 3200 on the R5 though the image is 32MP rather than 45MP, so per...

Federex Proof of delivery. Really?

Is that your first one? I'm struggling a bit with the gloves on my second R7. Even with the thumb/index finger flipped back and the glover liners I tend to rotate the control when using the AF toggle. I'm trying to decide if it is feasible to get away with half-speed UHS-II cards or Tier 2...

Are the AMD GPUs supported by all the image processing software now? My understanding is that they were better accelerated by NVidia. I care not one iota for the slaughter video games, money laundering cryptotics, etc.

Most of my storage is on several giant NAS. ;) In order to minimize the effort and costs, I may just add another 2TB M.2 and run 3x2 TB in RIAD 0 as WIP storage since the X670E boards have four M.2 slots.

It looks like 4070Ti https://www.tomshardware.com/news/nvidias-geforce-rtx-4070-ti-may-arrive-on-january-5

I'm not seeing any 32GB actually qualified very high. It seems most are 4000 or 4800 SPD and OC to 5600 with Intel XMP. With four modules they are slower. Very few support the EXPO, which apparently is needed (AMD doesn't like XMP?). The X670E mainboards indicate 128GB max (4x slow modules)...

Are 32GB modules always of 2nd rank design? I was hoping to have 128GB sometime in my life, but this latest performance failure by the AMD is not conducive. OTOH, Intel sucks too much power for airy coolers. I cannot find anything on the AMD site for which RAM is the baseline frequency...

I'm thinking of building a system with the 7950x if possible, but the RAMs are confusing. I can live with 64GB for now. Is it correct that four modules are worse than two in speed due to some BS with the chipset? Which RAMs will work with the AMD and be best in 32x2GB configuration?

I did buy a lottery ticket (and lost) and I really like meat and onions and garlic. Oh well. If you do everything to live a heathy lifestyle you remove many of the things that make it worthwhile.

Resistors like that are not polarized. In olden times 10K was brown black orange. I learned the code at 8 years old. It seemed important at the time. That was before the thin film/thick film and metal oxide were used in consumer products.

The D500 performed great and was great to use. I forgot how lame the Z50 or the few other croppers are nowadays. I'm really hoping that the R7 sells well enough that Nikon develops a good Z mount cropper of the same type.

The R7 shipments are in most stores this week. I should have a couple in soon. Unfortunately there is no way to save the R7 custom settings since the camera is so cheap. It's a half hour project to configure every time. :(

I'm right handed, but anyway I need to constantly zoom and that is a fair ways away from the body with the longer RF or adapted EF lenses.

Unless you have 3 hands, I don't know what supports the lens and zooms, while the right thumb and right index finger control the camera.

I hope they keep the ergonomics of the R6 II more similar to the R6 or R5 than R7. The R7 is just stupidly designed, not good for the human hnads and not good for R5/R6 users. The power switch is right where the control dial is on the R5. The video is a third position on the On/Off switch so...

I captured less than 10K with the R7, but it worked quite well in EFCS at 8FPS without shutter shock. I only have practical use for the cropper with a 500/4 or 600/4. The effective angle of view on the 500/4 IS II w/1.4x III is the same as 1130mm FF and 32.3 MP is quite good providing there is...

I doubt it will fit.

What is the GPU encoding, crypto stuff? I thought it was playing video games or something.