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Afraid so, but I'll likely be building another similar one soon. I strip the double-sided tape off and use 2-part thermal adhesive. Normally I have a larger selection of heatsink sizes, but for this one I was limited to black anodized for appearance purposes.

The other problem with riding a 55lb bike is the added injury potential in a crash. If you come down under that thing it will be a major issue. I crashed on an 8lb bike and it ended up on top of me without additional injury.

My grandmother didn't recognize me for the last 3 months or so. She was still nice so long as you presented yourself as a nice stranger and didn't try to remind her of anything or treat her as more than that.

When I mentioned this topic to my wife, she proceeded to go down the list of things that are totally capable of killing a mother during childbirth even if you are at a hospital with full services. So yeah, don't do that.

That picture also doesn't include all the custom black heatsinks stuck everywhere. Not just on chips that got hot (7 or 8 IIRC), but on any piece of cheap-looking chrome flashing that needed to be covered.

I did clean and polish out the very soft plastic window before delivery; it shipped with protective sheets on both sides that protected the dust and minor scratches below. I advised that swapping the plastic for a piece of tempered glass would be easy to do and provide a much better appearance...

That is most unfortunate. My wife used to be an OB/GYN and has delivered many babies. When she came to this country she was shocked at the number of prospective mothers that decided to have their children in a place that wasn't a hospital. During the birth of our own child there were enough...

The 1080 is considerably better at specific things than any other card. Specifically VR and games that don't support SLI. If money is not a significant hurdle, this is the way to go.

...unless you wanted the card ASAP. Founders edition cards shipped several weeks before the rest.

There is a type of road race called a criterium that is frequently held around a couple city blocks with 90-degree corners everywhere. Effectively it becomes a bunch of sprints with potentially huge breaking points. I don't do them, too many crashes, but they are popular because it is so easy to...

This one is for a customer, and they weren't willing to splash more cash. That means no custom water cooling and no overclocking from me. If a 1080 with an AIO water cooler was available, I'd have taken it.

They did remotely access the NAS, and did try to reach me to tell me what was up, but I still haven't been available. I suspect they closed the ticket.

I'm not worried about it threatening the future of competitive cycling; if doping didn't do that it can't be done. I'm more into it from the geek/detective, white/black hat side of things.

Hardware is finally together. Had to do a BIOS upgrade before the i7-6850K would work.

It is better (as it has been for at least 15 years) to not use any products by Norton/Symantec or McAfee. There are decent products still out there, but these haven't been them for a long, long time. I'm still confident in NOD32, though I don't bother on my own systems. Just the built-in...

Man, makes me wish I'd gotten the diesel. I'd take that buy back in a heartbeat, and use the settlement as a down-payment.

I'm pretty sure just a thermal camera is enough to identify it. Carbon Fiber doesn't conduct heat very well, so it should be an isolated spot where the motor/battery/electronics are.

Afraid not, been in the field for a week so far. That GTX 1080 is sitting on my desk at work too....

I'll try to get some numbers, but it will be tricky as the house has its own PG&E Vault on the grounds that splits to multiple main panels that then split to multiple sub panels.

Yeah, you won't have any issues getting the issue resolved.

Upgrading the grid strikes me as fairly inefficient. Local production and local storage are both seeing huge advances right now; using the grid just for balancing local storage seems like a far better idea.

I've had the wrong item arrive a few times. Filled out the form, got a return label, accepted, refunded. No problem. For the record, I've only had these errors when the purchase wasn't "fulfilled by Amazon". I feel it was a mistake on their part to not at least have the items they are selling...

I bought the 16GB version. Partly because I knew I'd be testing the limits of performance and wanted it to have the best chance, and partly for availability.

Those are both $60/TB, so not really a price difference at all. EDIT: In fact, once you factor in the cost per port of whatever you are plugging them into the 10TB drives are cheaper.

That place looks awesome.

Boss' place. Several TVs run off single receivers, so the job wasn't as bad as it could have been.

Nope, just workstations.

Amazon. I'd hold off until I hear back from their tech. He wanted to talk to me yesterday, but I was busy spending 10.5 hours installing 15 DirecTV receivers in a large house.

General performance improvements, UI/etc. For a specific task? It may get closer to saturating a full 10GbE connection?

Any chance you can have the NAS replaced under warranty and put the drive into the new one? I'd also suggest that before you try too much, make a complete image of the drive just in case your recovery efforts break something.

Nearly. From what I've seen, they don't mix the mic back into an HDMI stream. Instead they just play both directly.

The easiest way to recover data from a NAS where you haven't lost your redundancy is to leave the drive in the NAS. Pull the bad drive, leave the good one. Either copy off the data you care about or (better) put in a replacement drive and let the system rebuild the array on its own. You may have...

While I'd love for the car to charge at >100A, I'm hoping they stop short of that for now; I only put 100A of power into the garage where the charger goes.

I'll wait 48 hours before ordering.

Based on what I've seen, it would be difficult to make an argument that it performs at least as well as a normal 1/2" ID flex system. Even if the gains were marginal I'd do it for the looks, but if hard piping requires a sacrifice in performance for looks, I can't bring myself to do it.

I would as well. I'll be testing that once they resolve the RAID-0 issues.

More computing power is always better, unless you care about power consumption or price. The thing about appliances like a NAS is that the use case is very specific, and the hardware should be able to be tuned to match it. For example, if you put a 10GbE interface on a NAS, it should be able...

QNAP tech support responded and want to remote into the machine using TeamViewer. We'll see what they have to say.

I've submitted a ticket, and we'll see what they say. Honestly, a quad-core @ 1.7Ghz should have no issue keeping up with 1GB/s in RAID-0, particularly if the NIC is hardware accelerated. RAID-5 or -6 I can understand bottle-necking of writes (due to parity calcs), but this isn't expected...

HGST HUH728080ALE600 A4GNT7J0 HGST He8 Ultrastar 8TB Should be quick enough.

I've had many random issues that were fixed when a USB storage device, even one that had been in the system a long time, were removed. I don't even keep card readers connected to my system anymore, as that was one of the first steps when troubleshooting anything.

Interesting that any of them are even talking about 7nm. Things I've heard indicated that no one has a clue how to do production-level chips below 10nm.

Running a copy to the NAS from the workstation ran two of the cores at 90-95% and the other two to 50%. It says these are hyper-threaded cores, so that is basically maxed out. Reading data from the NAS to the workstation kept the average CPU utilization around 50% on all the cores. This was...

Yup, thanks for that. This has been a challenge since they added so many HDMI inputs that I had to go to a receiver over the old mixing board. Sounds like using the receiver as an HDMI switch with audio breakout then going back to the mixing board is a winner. Shame I can't pipe it back into the...

It should work directly. Mine worked straightaway this afternoon, but my network was labeled as "work" instead of "public". You should be able to change it by clicking on the link that is the network type name. This video is very poor, but factually accurate if you need additional guidance...

Your link is busted, but I assume you meant to link to a switch that has many Gigabit ports and at least two SFP+ ports. This is the easiest way to implement 10GbE. You may have actually linked to one of these? http://www.netgear.com/business/products/switches/smart/S3300-28X.aspx#tab-techspecs

Another thing worth noting is that I suspect that this system will draw <300W at the wall even with full synthetic benchmarks running. Idle will be <100W. These are both way less than half of what my current home rig draws, and I expect the performance to he higher for its intended workload.

After I left I was reading the manual and found out how to check. I'll do that tomorrow.

Thanks for those links. I'm not really aiming for silent (this case has too many open sides for that), and I did set the radiator back from the front grill by 1cm or so allowing it to pull air from anywhere in the case if resistance is an issue. This is also helped by the awesome...

I'll probably do that tomorrow. I gave up for the night and came home.