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It looks like we need to add ddreuding to the missing member list. He hasn't been on in 2019.

I hadn't heard of them until I read your post. Had to google it. I guess you want a small flashlight that has a laser-like beam with less than stellar battery life it's a good solution.

Yes, that's one. This is the other retrofit version.

Low voltage wiring doesn't require a box to comply with the building code. You'll never see them used. If you have access to the wall before the drywall goes up they use a boxless ring that attaches to the stud. They make old work boxless rings you can use to hold the wallplate, but I've always...

All done: My drywall repair sanded down the roller texture in the paint above the plate, but next time the wall gets painted it'll blend in fine. I glued and screwed a piece of plywood to the back of the drywall so that a longer wood screw in the top hole of the wallplate would fasten into...

Drives without the shingles or buying nothing. You make it sound like you are being forced to buy drives.

So don't buy them. This all seems pretty simple.

How did you know where to drive is the GPS was confused? Or did you just randomly drive in circles for an hour to the amusement of the participants?

I was close to having this finished when the drywall anchor holding the wall plate tore out while I tried to tighten it down. Now I have to come up with something else for the wall plate's screw to fasten into which is delaying the wrap-up. However, I have it plugged in and working in the mean...

Enjoy your substandard presentation that you don't own and will pay for in perpetuity or as long as the studios deem to allow you to.

I replaced a 3m DAC cable with a 2m OM4 cable + two of the -SR transceivers from Fiberstore. It all works. I have a 10g link over it. The Fiberstore module shows up in the Mikrotik like this: (I edited out the Serial Numbers)

I checked, and SURPRISE1 does take off 20% from the cable so you'd save almost $31.

Can you use today's Monoprice 20% off coupon on it to get for less than the Amazon price? I've found some stuff to be cheaper via eBay than direct from Monoprice. So your finding isn't totally out of line.

It sounds like you need a more intelligent backup algorithm.

All the stuff arrived today. Apparently the shipping time from China and Delaware is the same. I don't know how they made any money shipping a $5.60 fiber optic cable from China using FedEx International Economy. I have the LC keystones already. Hopefully I can get it installed before the...

Nonsense, it's exactly where you made it.

I only get concerned if efficiency drops below 80% so you're still good.

How much new data are you generating a day? I think we went over this before and you got all cagey. If you're writing that much data to the drives and are worried about the lifetime of the flash you should use enterprise drives with much higher rated endurance or using something other than...

Just the fact that you think 4TB is small and that you have so much data you have to juggle the drives around.

Who said I was making fun of the EVO? I'm pretty sure I'm teasing you, not the drive.

Your life sounds pretty tough there.

FWIW, I did find that when doing mass FLAC to AAC (or MP3) conversion on my dual processor Xeon E5 v2 system that the 1gbE link was saturating and "starving" the processors, but I very rarely do that, and that's not the computer getting the 10gig NIC. I ordered generic coded -SR transcievers...

That's news to me also.

Well, in retrospect I'd say my fears were incorrect. However, I now have hardware BD players, and even a UHD BD player. Additionally there is no open source player that properly plays Blu-ray discs and can use madVR. I'm not trying to rip all my discs to my server, so I've been okay not being...

Wait, you called them to ask?

Thanks for joining to share this invaluable tidbit!

It's the Canon way. They don't know how to do anything else. They don't believe in even slightly cannibalizing their own products. Even if one of them is 4 years old and will be discontinued in 3 months. Cause, I mean really, why would you expect to be able to shoot 1080p24 video with a 2019...

I'm impatient when copying data to and from the server.

I don't rip UHD discs. I haven't gotten a newer version of AnyDVD from when it changed to Redfox. I was skeptical that they wouldn't be shut down again and was not happy about them screwing all the owners and breaking their promises.

I found this list: https://www.deuhd.ru/supported.html My understanding is that most "friendly" drives have been patched to stop them from reading the discs with firmware updates so if you buy one now you'll most likely have to roll back the firmware...

I didn't hear that ripping was much of an issue. I was under the impression that the latest AnyDVD + a UHD "friendly" drive would let you rip them without issue. Proper playback seemed to be more of the issue, or really getting proper HDR out of your PC. Admittedly, I haven't looked into very...

It looks like a 7m OM4 cable will make the run I need in the basement from the switches into the wall. I think 6m would work, but they don't sell pre-made cables in 6m lengths, so 7m it is. 5m of OM4 should cover the in room portion. I reviewed my pre-drywall pictures of the wall and...

FWIW, the hose isn't steel. The steel braid is supposed to prevent bursting of the underlying material (though they can still develop leaks). Clearly it didn't quite work as intended. They sell them as burst proof hoses. I have one for the water line to my fridge. Maybe on my washer also...

UHD discs are much better in that regard. I haven't found one yet that has any trailers or advertising. They go straight to the menu.

Windows can mount ISO files natively. I has been able to for many years.

I got to do some emergency plumbing on Sunday afternoon evening. I went into the basement to turn off a circuit breaker to replace a bad light switch and found puddles of water on the floor. So that suddenly took priority. The dielectric union on the inlet side of the hot water heater had...

I'm not entirely certain what the issue is. I think some of the discs are poorly made and they're right on the edge of the tolerances. I received a UHD disc that appeared to have some sort of defect in it that was much larger than the spec of debris that caused me issues and yet that disc...

Well, your expectations could be out of whack, maybe you're playing the wrong UHD content, or maybe you didn't buy a good "4k" TV with a wide enough color gamut and a large color volume.

What sort of lockups? I've had my X700 freeze playing back a movie (the player wasn't locked up though), but there turned out to be a small spec of debris on the disc that once removed the player was able to play through the same scene with no issue. He can't rip the discs with the optical...

My Nissan Maxima had one. It was nice. I don't miss it that much in my Audi, but I wouldn't complain if it had one.

Well, they're not the only place to buy things. I sure didn't buy my Sony X700 from Costco. However, the current deals on UHD BD players are not as good as they were around Thanksgiving.

No they're not. They've been easily purchased for under $100. My Sony with Dolby Vision was just under $120 when I bought it. But it sounds like you already bought all the parts and are using it, so what's the purpose of this thread other than indirect bragging?

Oh really? The rental car place removed the heater core and the blower motor? :unsure: That's a new one to me... :confused:

I don't know why he wants to play back UHD BD's from a PC. A standalone player is cheaper than the optical drive + software and will near certainly have less issues. Plus it's a 43" TV... Good luck seeing "4k" resolution on that from any reasonable seating distance.

Necessary for what? If you want to play UHD BD discs from a PC, yes. If you want to play back other UHD content that's not AACS 2.0 protected, no.

Don't be such a cheap bastard. Why don't you buy it if you want it?

Which is about a few hours of TV and 5 minutes of webs too much.

You're WAY too wrapped up in that.

OCE is usually quite a bit slower than a rebuild. Personally, I wouldn't even bother with OCE. It's just too slow. I could trash the array, build a new array with the new drive set and restore from a backup in way less time.

Well, it can't be any shorter than the time for the drive to write all 10TB. As far as calculating how long it will take, you need to find out if your NAS is drive limited or processing limited. If drive limited it's however long it take to write 10TB to the drive. If it's processing limited...