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Thermal mass and slower, more efficient methods of heating/cooling can be efficient if you design it from the ground up to be so, and if you want a target temperature the whole time. Unfortunately for me, I like the temperature inside to be cool when it is hot out and warm when it is cold out.

M.2 drives of up to 2TB are still reasonably priced, and their heat output is only significant compared to their size (they still consume less than a HDD). Cost per TB is still certainly a thing.

One of the ASUS boards I was looking at has an optional 8x PCIe card with 4 M.2 slots to go with the one on-board. All with direct access to the CPU for bootable RAID-0 ;)

The bigger they get the slower they go. But the torque gets insane and breaks things. Mainly the gearbox.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vestas_V164 Rotor diameter 164m, total height 220m. Still not big enough.

<2. so I would ...as well.

Now that I have a single kid, I don't even want to add a goldfish or a plant. This is all the responsibility I want.

Once a week for 4 hours? After pushing for grandkids?

Yup. But Portland this time.

Had someone come visit me yesterday regarding some international consulting work. My parents are moving to a different state (they were our support network with the kid) on Monday, my father-in-law arrives from Moscow (just for a visit) Tuesday. Too much going on.

Once they drives are in they are a little heavy, but should not have caused injury. Also, don't chew on the NAS.

There are lots of options depending on the aesthetic and budget, but that is a good cheap option. I think the most important thing is to isolate the unit from the floor. Getting it off the ground a bit will also help prevent it from picking up dust particles. Link: http://a.co/5DoWEv0

In that configuration I'd just focus on making sure the unit is vibrationally isolated from the floor and then make sure the hard surfaces near it (back walls, floor, underside of table) have some sound absorbent stuff on them. That should leave it open enough to not restrict the airflow while...

I've looked into the same. I'm thinking that something external to the unit that prevents a direct noise path from the fans might be enough without having to dig into the device.

Finally a car that solidly beats a Tesla (only the P90D, but it would do the new one as well): https://youtu.be/eT7KKxoAvvk Although it is a bit more expensive and they only built 8 of them (now only 7 exist), they seem to be a handful at the limit: https://youtu.be/18oAkxwYQh0

It is Linux, but in practice it is as far as possible from a DIY Linux solution. You don't need to know anything about Linux, do any research into hardware or software, or bother with assembling the thing yourself.

Nope. I put 500GB SSDs in mine, their STR should be at least as good as the HDDs. And that is before two operations start happening at the same time.

Put SSDs in a pair of those bays as a RAID1 read/write cache. Really helpful.

All of my AV gear is on an exterior wall, so doing such things is more challenging.

I was thinking exactly that.

Good thing I built that absurdly-overkill WC loop. Might be time to implement the below-ambient elements to it. Still not time to buy, though.

I just have the one 12" in the living room and an 8" in the master bedroom. I don't think I need more.

I'm quite certain I never want to work for a company that large again, so I am more comfortable sharing ;)

Mine were CNet, Intel, HP, Dolby Labs. Those are the only big companies I've given notice from.

For me it is the letters in sequence. Only place I've heard it spoken is on a Linus Tech Tips video, and that is how they said it.

In the past I've given two weeks notice, but have always been asked to leave immediately. Typical security protocol at larger companies in sensitive positions.

I haven't installed the 10Gb NIC in my PC yet. Maybe later today I'll have some numbers for you.

My inital config won't include a switch at all. The 10GbE card in the computer and the NAS will each have two ports. One of each will to go the normal 1GbE switch. The other will connect the two directly. These will have IPs in a different range. You may need to change the interface metric to...

It is too slow in comparison to all-SSD solutions (the only alternative, IMO). I'm able to fully saturate the 10GbE connection for large periods of time, and the access time for all the data I've asked for so far is what I would expect from an SSD on a fast network.

I just bought some spinning platter HDDs (6x 10TB), but there is no way I'd run a program off of it or even access that data directly without some 3-tier SSD / RAM caching to make it usable. 43.64TB usable and wicked fast for <$5k. I'll do some performance testing once the array is calculated...

RAID arrays can be bigger, but once an array is greater than 16TB, online expansion is no longer possible. I refer you to the fine print here: https://www.qnap.com/en-us/product/model.php?II=237

I'm still waiting. Haven't even looked to check on availability yet. I'm thinking the boards released after the launch set will be worth waiting for (these certainly seemed rushed). Not necessarily second gen, but I won't be surprised if more boards from the majors show up in a month or two.

With PS/2 inputs for sure no. USB could in theory pass stuff through memory on one of the devices. A memory stick left in the keyboard? I know some mice have a USB storage portion for drivers/profiles...

Thanks for that Coug.

Indeed. This switch is loud (I have some already). For this application it doesn't matter. I'd love to have a 6-8 port fanless 10GbE switch.

Was it CPU limited somewhere?

Of course something interesting arrives 2 days after I place an order. Synology DS1817+ 16GB RAM Kit 4x X540-T2 10Gb NICs 6x 10TB ST10000VN0004 2x Samsung 850 Pro 1x Netgear 16-port 10Gb switch Won't even arrive until tomorrow.

I ended up getting 35% back though national/state/local subsidies and tax breaks. Even without them the payback is within the life of the panels.

AMD may have a better value proposition, but I don't think there is any chance of them having the absolute fastest solution. If they got within 30% of that I'd be impressed.

There isn't time of use, but there are usage tiers. The bottom level is <0.10 cents/kwh (even in the winter I never leave this tier anymore). The top level is >0.50 cents/kwh (previously 80%+ of my consumption was here). Yes, I use a lot of electricity.

I need to look into what a "maximum overkill" spec even looks like. First assumption is that the CPU will be the one with the highest frequency; if there is a tie for highest frequency, more cores will be preferred. On the motherboard side, I hear talk of 4x M.2 NVMe RAID0 native to the CPU...

My system is still working great. I did get the large tax rebate I was after, and the system is on track for an 8-year payoff.

Nope, I'm wrong. I wonder why a PCIe switch requires a cooling fan?

Doesn't even support NVMe :(

Tonight's awesome discovery. Explore the channel if you like, seriously talented. https://youtu.be/P_Npd2FyyLI

The client knows that if the on-site backup and the off-site backup (5 miles away) fail, the RTO is 1 week. This is acceptable for them.

I'm now trying a significant backup from a Synology box onto Backblaze using the client written by Synology. Only about 3TB, but tens of millions of files. All over a slow (6Mbps if I'm lucky) connection. Jury is still (way) out. I'll give it a month and see what it looks like.

Not really, but at this point I am familiar enough with Synology products that going that route will simplify the deployment process and allow me to get to testing more quickly. The TS-831X has more bays, but the feature set seems similar.

Yup, just 20TB. Mostly running the storage for the 3 VMs that will be on a pair of ESXi machines using all the redundancy options, some basic file server stuff, and storage for the security cameras and call recording package. Only 5 concurrent users at that location, but they make ~$11M/year so...

Not the fastest, but good for testing. The smallest unit that ticks all the feature boxes I was looking for. I went with 4x 10GB to fit a normal SATA SSD because the NIC and M.2 couldn't fit at the same time. Shame about that.