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When it is 40GB of raw storage ;) My current 8-drive array at home has less capacity, even after redundancy is subtracted out.

If it works as I expect it to the production environment will probably use vSAN.

Paid $406 each for 4x ST10000NM0016 - still waiting on one. Will be going into a Synology DS1517+ along with 16GB of RAM, X540T2, and a 1.2TB S3500. This will be to play with iSCSI hosting of ESXi VMs for vMotion and possibly HA along with normal fileserver duties.

Just ordered a stack of the 10TB Seagate Enterprise drives. We'll see how they do.

7.68TB looks very interesting. Hopefully that'll start getting the $/GB down.

Agreed, more cores than needed for our kind of workflow, but it seems that the one with the most cores also has the highest clock. I'm still focused (as most users should be) on single-core performance, but that means the high-end chip anyway (unlike previous generations).

Looks like the CPU you're waiting for is the i9-7920X, maybe late next month.

Reseating everything is a good call. My other guess would be temp related. Does the machine usually run all the time? It seems that every time it has been off for a while (to have service done) it works well for a while before acting up.

https://youtu.be/3t1PQJmM8P4 Cured of wanting RED gear.

A7SII is a good idea as well. More research.

It would be quite the thing. Still thinking it through, but if it happens I'll link a google spreadsheet or something. I think I've had my 100-400II on the camera less than a dozen times.

I don't need more than one body, and 20MP+ is enough. Full-frame would be nice for DoF, shutterless would make the multi-hour time-lapse sessions less guilt-ridden, silent photos create more options for the family shots. From what I've seen, the A9 is better low-light?

Seriously considering going to the a9 Lunar mentioned above from the 7DII. Smaller, quieter, and I like the feature set. Of course, that would mean a firesale of barely used Canon gear... https://youtu.be/T-AorqKXkHM

Yup. Processors simply aren't a thing that is moving significantly at the moment. Hopefully AMD will put up enough of a fight for Intel to step it up a notch. In general you are interested in the high-end desktop CPUs that are based on the server CPUs, rather than the mid-range desktop CPUs...

Indeed. Your current machine is close to current top-of-the-line machines. There is little for you to gain by upgrading your CPU. It might be best to focus on improving the storage subsystem, graphics card, or memory.

That is interesting. I'll see if I can change the audio output of both to a bitstreamed format. That seems like it would do the job.

Thanks for all the information. Handruin, really appreciate the research. The feedback I received from the customer is that the AppleTV volume is consistently lower by quite a ways. This may be purely based on the apps that they use, but this means it is good enough. Stereodude, it is in fact...

Thanks for the quick response. There are no buttons on the unit, and the volume rocker on the remote just brings up a dialog that wants to set up to control the TV volume.

Putting together a simple system for a client. The two inputs are AppleTV and Comcast. Comcast is 20dB louder than the AppleTV. I need a receiver that I can program this into, such that the two sources sound to be the same level when switching between them. I'd like the receiver to be <$500, but...

I have Pandora, Amazon Music, and Soundcloud for streaming. Audible for books on tape, and DoggCatcher for podcasts. Amazon is the one I use most, and have a nice collection of songs there. When I want to find something new I use Pandora. Some of the niche stuff is only on SoundCloud.

Thanks for the offer, but I'm pretty happy with the domain registrar I have now. It seems dyndns is good enough compared to the competition that I shouldn't bother changing all the names/clients I already have set up with them. Thanks all for your advice!

Yeah, just renewed my account with them.

Preferably free, but if I have to pay I'd rather use one with the best value (number of names, update rate, etc). I've had a free dyndns.org account before, but it it seems they really don't want me to use that anymore.

Nothing yet, but I'm adding devices slowly. So far my wife and I's main computers, the Amazon Fire, both Sonos, 3 Echos, 1 Nest, and the WiFi (new SSID/password) with just 2 cell phones. Base level of traffic is 15kbps up and 22kbps down. Entirely reasonable.

Tore the whole network down, replaced MicroTIK with EdgeRouter running full deep packet inspection and adding one device to the network at a time.

You're implying that the point of living together is to watch the same video content?

I'm interested in Storage Space Direct, but haven't played with it at all.

Yup, I don't understand it either. Really don't want to call Comcast to deal with it. Grr.

Just home stuff. Mostly video streaming. Since everything is HD (much 4k), it doesn't go as far as it used to. And there are three of us that watch separate things simultaneously.

This is the first month my ISP has enabled a data cap. I've exceeded my 1TB allocation on day 8 of the billing cycle and already accrued another $30 of overage charges by day 11. For another $50/mo I can go unlimited. Seem prudent.

Howell might have it, other things to check would be any static routes on the workstation. If you can change the local IP/subnet on your router (and DHCP), I'd give that a go.

Thanks DB, that would do what I need if I could get the licencing sorted out. The software is installed on my computer, but it tells me that my station is not authorized. We'll see how much they want for it when my vendor calls me back.

I spend most of my working hours listening to music on headphones connected to my computer. I also have a good mic connected to my computer. I currently have an ESI 60 ABP IP desk phone connected to a Plantronics CS540/HL10 headset. The interface is pretty simple; an arm lifts the handset when...

A buddy is having his hip replaced this week. Scheduled to spend 4-6 weeks horizontal?

My guess would be run interference between Coug's more abrasive personality and the C-Suite. That might be a full-time position.

For larger installations the spider is great. But I still support small companies with 1 or 2 headless servers in a closet. At the moment they have crappy old LCDs on them that hardly ever work and ball mice that never work.

Ever want to use a laptop to control a desktop via KVM emulation? I've wanted something like this for a long time.... https://www.epiphan.com/products/kvm2usb/

I use TunnelBear. Probably not the best at anything, but does the job and cheap enough that I haven't bothered shopping around.

The original looked like a coffin. Version 3 not so much. Yup, still in the living room. I have a place in the garage for it, but cable length restrictions are preventing that. Now that the computers are near silent, heat-neutral, and one-sided, I'm considering a new desk design that...

http://imgur.com/a/PkZ5l Any reason the file attachment size has gotten so small?

This is a public test, they are losing huge amounts on each car and the fuel.

Wife and kid are off to the Aquarium and museums for the day. I am back in my office keeping an eye on things and making sure the generator is behaving itself. I was just out at the country club, they seem to have lost about 10% of their trees (50? can't get out to most of it). Once the wind...

This one isn't wired or fired up yet, but the first one ("Home1" in my sig) never goes more than 2C above ambient, even with the most absurd synthetic benchmarks going. I did put two additional 80mm fans inside running at fairly high speed; they are not audible from outside the chassis.

Yup, and it is a cool car, too. Just no fuel around me here...

Machine #2

Winds were gusting to 72MPH (115km/h) earlier today, we've taken about 8" (20cm) of rain, flooding and trees down everywhere. House has been without power for 12 hours already. I don't want to go home from the office (yay generators and T-1 SLAs), but can't leave the wife and kid alone in a dark...

It is faster to throw some drives in a NAS and share them. It is also faster to enable features that the NAS supports. Of course, once you exceed the capabilities of a NAS, you are SOL. A PC-based solution can scale significantly. https://youtu.be/uykMPICGeqw

Probably fine. Haven't gone to see anyone yet. Wife is figuring something out. Didn't mean to raise an alarm or anything, just a random comment in the random thread.

Grr. Time to go get a doctor. Wife said something something lymph node draining something something. Not feeling awesome.

My father-in-law is ex-politburo, and even he warns not to trust anyone who is friends with Putin.