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I think that it's removable. Might make more sense in a dense rack mount case.

Isn't that up to the motherboard? My understanding is that the only chip on the board is a PCIe switch to split the lanes from x16 slot into four x4 M.2 connectors.

PCI Express Gen 3 x16 Carrier Board for 4 M.2 SSD modules Found it for a mere $640.

Amazon Drive bans rclone storage client Apparently, acd_cli was previously banned.

Maybe you also missed the increase in RAM prices. I'd say that AMD finally pushing out processors using DDR4 was the reason, but a few months ago I sold some used DDR3 sticks for more than I paid for them.

I'm afraid that SSDs will run into the semiconductor fab crunch. They just don't have the capacity to put out all of this flash, RAM, and processors.

Code42 has made me an offer to buy out the rest of my current subscription, but I'll lose all of my previously backed-up data. One thing that I'm liking about using ACD is that it feels like my data belongs to me, and I can access it however I want. CrashPlan just puts things in my way.

The AMD Threadrippers aren't going to be enough?

I'm clearly the odd-man out in getting more spindles of consumer-grade drives, and just expecting them to fail on the regular....

What did she download? As I recall, you have to go through extra steps to end up with an ISO, if that's what you were after.

As long as no one ever uses it, it's perfectly safe....

No. It just stops receiving security updates. It's the same risk as running any other unsupported OS version.

This is beyond my pay grade, but Debian's work around for the licensing issue is to not include ZFS on precompiled kernels and to only distribute ZoL as contributed source code. http://blog.halon.org.uk/2016/01/on-zfs-in-debian/ If this approach is legitimate, I'm surprised that none of the...

I'm not a lawyer, and I don't play one on TV... But, as I understand it, anyone can compile whatever they want into their own Linux kernel, but you can't modify the code (without contributing it back under the GPL) and you can't distribute it.

I don't have disks; just a key. And, better yet, I still get updates from Microsoft, delivered right through Windows Update.

After furthur research, it appears that Cannonical is simply violating the license for Linux. It seems like the GPL folks are up in arms about it because this could make it possible to to combine GPL and non-GPL code, i.e. proprietary code that's not open. It totally defeats the point of the...

Still using Office 2007. For a single user, there have been no major improvements since then.

I don't question the stability of ZFS. Everybody but Oracle is working from the same code. On the other hand, ZFS does not run natively on Linux because you can't include it in the kernel. As I understand it, Ubuntu implements ZFS using FUSE. So, it runs in user space, which is generally...

Why not just use multiple inputs on the same monitor? Not quite as convenient, but considerably cheaper. You can hot plug keyboard and mouse if you feel the need to share.

Perhaps the question should be, why do you have so many machines that are sharing one monitor, keyboard, and mouse?

I guess that you've sat on the same ISP for a *very* long time. I quit using ISP e-mail over ten years ago. Too much hassle when switching. Have you considered rolling your own server? You'll never be dependent on someone else to provide you with the service, ever.

That's because they're software. Unless you need direct access, I wouldn't suggest futzing with a hardware-dependent solution.

Sorry about the size. I don't control the thumbnail.... I waited, just to see if this was their sick joke. Turns out it was another of their server issues. After the connection was down for several hours, it came back and everything is back to normal, minus almost four days of no back-ups...

This is actually happening...

As I read it, they would also have to introduce a new socket type, which I don't like. The larger chips are apparently going to all be LGA. I am excited by the possibility have being able to build a SFF server with a Zen APU and ECC memory.

As I understand it, BTRFS is the red-headed step-child at Oracle. It was what they were working on to compete with ZFS until they bought Sun. The only reason that BTRFS is moving forward is because Oracle won't release ZFS with a license compatible with the Linux GPL. There's probably a...

This is a nonsense question. You're basically asking, "Which is more reliable compared to {software A}: {hardware A} or {software B on hardware B}." If you want to compare benchmarks, we need to know both the software and the hardware setup that it's running on. Also, I hope that you're...

With those requirements, you're going to pay for that privilege.

It seems to me that they're all crap. I've used USB drives for years as the boot drive on my NAS. Since upgrading from the old 4GB, I've not found one that doesn't eventually pop errors on even the light duty of system logs. I'll say that name brands do much better than cheapies. I've had...

Back in the day, I even had to sign an NDA to visit the employee cafe at Adobe, even though it's outside of their secure area. Guess the menu was a trade secret.

Now that I've sung the praises of Arq, it's spent the last full day verifying backups. Keep in mind, this is no worse than Crashplan spending days synchornizing and whatever else not-backing-up tasks it does. But it is annoying. The good news is that it appears that the Arq developers are...

Crap. I thought that saving my tabs was a feature....

It seems like this app is losing features as the Android version increments. How do you use it?

The number of unsolicited calls to my cell phone has finally reached annoying levels. I'm looking for an app that blocks known bad numbers and would otherwise stop these kinds of calls. I haven't done much research, although I've seen a number of positive mentions of Truecaller. I'm hoping...

When I was in Silicon Valley, I had NDAs with practically every company I worked with. In fact, when I didn't have one, that was unusual.

It's not how you treat someone who someone finds a security flaw in your software and discretely informs you. In other news, Arq completed it's backup of my files to ACD and everything looks hunky dory. The latest version rescans much faster than older ones did, meaning that it actually picks...

After seeing this posted by this Twitter account, I went ahead and laid down money on Arq. The last line of the article pretty much wrapped it up for me. If CrashPlan isn't interested in protecting their corporate customers....

Thanks for the input. I don't need dimming, so I will probably go with the ones that I mentioned.

Suggestions on a drop-in replacement with a candelabra base? Prefer 60W equivalent in daylight. I'm not planning to be in the place for more than two years, so don't want to spend too much. Looked at CFLs, but at this size, there's not a lot of price difference. Found these on Amazon...

False. Seasonic active PFC PSUs will operate fine on approximated sine wave UPSes, which is why I have all Seasonic or Seasonic OEM PSUs in my systems. It's much cheaper to buy a Seasonic PSU and cheap UPSes than pure sine wave UPSes.

It looks interesting. Let us know how it goes.

Arq is definitely clunky, but it seems like they're making improvements with every version. I don't see the point of sticking with Crashplan when I can't even always retrieve the data. And their support is obviously trash. I'm going to have quite a bit of overlap time, so I will be able to...

If they'd just come straight out and say that their product does not work as described, apologize, and that they aren't going to be able to fix it soon, I'd feel so much better. They're just giving doublespeak instead. The funny part is that they keep extending my subscription to make up for...

The fact of the matter is that today's corner case is tomorrow's normal user. People only gather more and more data.

From a recent support message from a manager at CrashPlan:

Keep in mind that 2016 is perpetually licensed to the machine, not you. I haven't upgraded since 2007 and had no problems....

Yes, really.

Or you could replace it with a 256GB drive and stop keeping so much crap on your laptop.

Based on Clocker's post, I'm trying out a trail version of GoodSync. It seems to be much better than any combination with ACD.dokan, but, then again, it costs money. While only $15, I don't consider it back-up software, and am still pinning my hopes on Arq for that job.

Translation: You're far more likely to get abandoned by Epson. No one is stepping up to compete on this technology because it's not a sustainable business. In fact, HP is moving to a subscription-based system for its ink, swapping steady income for some of the profit. For black and white...