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Come on, man HGST=WD Samsung=Seagate There are no "decent" brands any more. The market is highly commoditized and caters to the lowest common denominator.

LOL wot? I just picked up a 2TB 7200RPM drive for less than $60. The 1TB drives are ~$50. That's a 6x difference in cost, which is huge. Most consumers are going to balk at that price difference.

You're in the minority. More 7200RPM drives are being sold than 5400RPM ones. So, the money savings is in dropping the slower spindle speed. Your opinions about power, noise, and reliability may be true, but they're irrelevant. The market has spoken. End of story.

Wish I had your problems....

The correct answer here is that we don't need Tesla to make electric buses. Foreign companies already have a major head-start in that area, and we have been buying from them. BYD, a Chinese company, has an assembly plant in the United States and has been selling to transit agencies. I'm...

They're the same company, right? So, WD just releases the crappier version under their own label

I haven't read the comics, but I have been wondering what happened to the harlequin-inspired outfit. Now I know that it was just to show some skin. I guess the reshoots were just of Margot Robbie's rear.

I saw a video review of the fans where they placed the fans under water and ran them. It looked strange, but that is what they're designed to do.

Futzed around this evening and figured out how to remove the screen on the fan. So, I put in an order for a NF-S12A PWM. Once I have that installed, I can figure out whether I need to replace the 140mm front intake or a better heatsink to get the noise levels where I want them.

That honestly seems like a reason that AMD should also switch. The upcoming socket AM4 will also be PGA.

For the record, the card with the M.2 slots is a two-slot card. Not sure why they're blue and not red.

I may have a conclusion on this. After a 16 hour power outage yesterday, I was able to finish scrubbing the the back-up and wipe the old disks. Suddenly, happy days. I built the new RAIDZ2, and that works fine, as well. I will start the restore this evening. WTF happened here?

Is that single slot? Who is this aimed at?

Seagate made both. For the new lines, they're all 7200RPM. Turns out to be cheaper to only make one kind of drive...

Why did Intel switch to LGA and AMD stuck with PGA? Motherboard manufacturers are really far more likely to screw up pins that the processor manufacturer

I don't have any experience with them, so I can't say for sure. However, most NAS drives are 5400 or 5900 RPM. I only use 7200RPM drives.

1. Haven't reflashed the BIOS (not even sure how), but I have reset it using the jumper. 2. It's definitely the drives and not the ports, cables, or backplane. I've tried a number of combinations, including directly through a cable. 3. There's only one SATA controller, through the FCH 4...

What I'm doing for the moment is pushing them into the backplane after POST and before GRUB loads the OS. Everything runs perfectly after that. No problems from BSD.

The BIOS is hanging with the boot code A2, which is simply described as an IDE error.

In case anybody cares, received a message from Crashplan that the "first round" of maintenance has now completed after three weeks. A "second round" should take less time. So, I'll probably be down a full month before this is complete. Also downloaded the Arq demo. It seems to upload pretty...

This is an AMD board with a SATA3 controller. I tried waiting it out, but it never seemed to proceed. All of the drives appear to be negotiating at 6Gb/s except the drives on channels 5 and 6. That's probably to do with the SATA/IDE combined mode setting, which I probably toggled and some...

My choices are AHCI, RAID, and IDE. Tried IDE with the same results. If it makes any difference, the new machine has a UEFI BIOS, whereas the old one didn't.

The BIOS shouldn't be interacting with the data on the drives until hand-off, so I'm not sure why that should do anything. I'm booting from a USB stick. Once I redo the back-up that I accidentally deleted, I'm destroying the existing RAIDZ1 that the drives are in to create a RAIDZ2 along with...

I'm running into a strange situation with the new NAS that I'm building. When I attach any of the drives from the old NAS, the BIOS hangs with an "IDE" error code. If I turn on the AHCI BIOS, it IDs all of the drives, but the BIOS then hangs with an error concerning the option ROM. I have two...

I already read that, but they don't have any reviews of Noctua fans, so I can't compare.

I'm sure that each of the different models has a different firmware, but I'm not clear how many differences they can have. I've been using Seagate surveillance drives in my NAS. Can't see any difference in performance versus consumer desktop drives. They do seem to be considerably more reliable

Build number? That seems to be how they're marking the updates.

Bots don't know or care how small a site is. All eyeballs are good eyeballs.

Two-thirds if we're talking about 2.5" drives. Only a fifth on the 3.5" front. Samsung announced a 16GB SSD, but I can't imagine how ungodly the price is. It'll be a good while before the cost premium for solid state is worth it.

Unfortunately, the fan has to push the air through a screen. I'm not sure whether more static pressure is better in this situation. I guess Noctua is the way to go.

Now all versions are Windows 10....

I'm doing an SFF build to replace my current NAS, and the Lian Li case that I've chosen comes with three-pin fans that the motherboard can't control because it only does PWM. Folks have brands/models that they suggest?

There may never be a Windows 11....

As far as I can tell, the 1060 is generally 5 to 10% better and 10 to 20% more expensive than the RX 480. Seems like it may be worth it for some people, but not for others. I feel like Nvidia blew it on pricing. They could have easily buried AMD with a better card at the same price point.

Any update on how Arq is working? Have you tested the versioning? I just read your report, but I also currently have unlimited Amazon Cloud Drive on both my personal and business accounts. Certainly worth looking into.

No company of any kind of size ever did back-ups to optical disks or USB thumb drives. There doesn't seem to be a lot of penetration of SSDs into big storage. While I'm sure that the spinning disk is well on its way out on desktops, when you're deploying petabytes, a small price delta gets...

I don't know about you guys, but I've been scratching my head at all of the lines. How thin can they dice this an have a meaningful difference between models?

FYI, I made every settings change that Crashplan support suggested, and it still didn't fix the problem. So, they had me deauthorize my client so that they could off-line "maintain" my archive on their servers. I figured that it'd take a couple days. One week in, they told me that it'll take...

More billable hours?

You know, considering that we still use magnetic tape, I'm guessing a pretty long time. As long as they are cheap, there will be space for them in near-line storage and low-end network-attached storage.

I've had no problem logging in to the Chase website I use NoScript, but not AdBlock

What works for you kind of has a lot to do with the shape of your face. My spare sunglasses have Oakley frames, but I can't use them in bright sunlight, as I cannot get them to sit close enough to my face to sufficiently block light. My regular sunglasses use relatively cheap RayBan frames...

If you need dark glasses for bright light, then photochromic lenses are generally a bad choice. As they darken as the the light increases, it makes your eyes more sensitive. You're better off making the jump-change from regular to sunglasses. In any case, the different options that one can put...

I can't see the big E at the top of the Snellen chart, so it's pretty useless when trying to check out my distance vision. My vision is out past 20/400 somewhere

I don't suggest Canon system (separate drum) printers for anybody who isn't doing high volume. Drums aren't cheap, and they can be a pain to replace. The run isn't long enough for most low-volume users to make that up. The page-yield rating of consumables is always at a 5% page coverage...

I'm surprised that they asked you to send it back. Did you actually contact them about the mistake, or just do a return?

The process will exist. Whether there will be a product in volume is a different question.

I've had a ticket open with them for about a month, and all they tell me to do is change settings. It's clear that I've simply gotten to the point that the client and server can't keep track of all of the files and versions that I backed-up over the years. I was recently told to remove some...

I was looking at Backblaze, and it does seem like they have their stuff together. That they don't keep versions indefinitely is a negative but, in my experience, I rarely need more than a few months back. I have tiers of back-up that covers everything but serious user error and catastrophic...

I have plenty of memory and processing power, but their dedup doesn't seem to work right. About a month ago, there was an upgrade, and the system suddenly decided that it couldn't match any of my files with their existing back-ups and started over. It'll take about six months for it to catch...