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Partner's dad married someone who was already a member of the CoS. They live in Clearwater now. Becoming an OT3 costs a low seven figure amount of money, but apparently, like being a Mason in Victorian England, members help each other a lot once they get to that level. Back on Topic: someone...

I'm thinking it's a good size for a boot drive. I have to assume there's still some reason why WD maintains the distinct labeling.

I think the Noctua products are more of a "I bought an expensive PC and I'm not screwing around with the cooling, either" deal. I reuse the fans between my personal builds and I don't care what color they are. Keep them oiled and they last and last and they'll stay quiet the whole time. I'm sure...

I actually got a single UltraStar SN840 out of the pile of nonsense my data center had set aside. New (sealed) drive, and I wouldn't have bought it if it doesn't have HGST style dress vs. Western Digital. It's just 2TB, too small to put in a production server, I'll find something to do with it.

Ok but do you have weirdly aligned front teeth and scientology super powers? (My partner's dad is an OT 3 and has apparently met Tom Cruise a couple times)

Howso? You just don't give up your drives. The Windows licenses are tied to the motherboard, so the only thing you might be out is some small cost for a new place to put Windows.

It can be disabled, but not really removed.. Edge can be removed now, but not this computer herpes. That being said, you can turn it off and nobody is forcing you to interact with it. I don't know if you have a version of Windows that does group policies and I know you are resistant to modifying...

Intel also says it has a microcode patch to fix motherboard overvolting coming in August.

On my big Windows file server, what I do is create an entry point called c:\mnt\(drive label), and a second directory location called c:\share. In C:\share, I add symbolic links to whatever directories I want from the drives found under c:\mnt so they appear contiguous for purposes of browsing...

I'm a big fan of the Thermalright Peerless Assassin for midrange builds. It's about 85% of what a NH-D15 is at about 1/3 the cost. My five year old high end build will almost always get gifted to someone else. Probably not my Threadripper, but for example my ~10 year old X99 system is still...

They are distinct volumes. They're just mounted to an empty folder instead of a root drive letter. Although technically you can do both if you want.

Something to keep in mind about air coolers is that they work forever. Maybe you have to swap a fan, but pumps flat out die after a while. This is one of those things that keeps me away from AIOs: I can buy a $300 top end liquid cooler and at best, maybe I get four or five years out of it...

Democrats non stop fail at messaging. Unfortunately, it doesn't help that they're the party that tries to communicate ideas more complicated than will fit on a bumper sticker. The good news is that Trump hasn't seen any increase in support. It's just a question of whether or not more people turn...

He won't do that because the Senate is tied at the moment and hate monkey Joe Manchin is technically an independent but functionally a Republican in everything but name. No one else would get approved to replace her and that would cloud the matter of presidential succession.

They already started. Her parents were not born in the USA but Harris was born in the blasted hellscape of Oakland, California. They're also going to challenge her name on state ballots even though no candidate has been nominated yet.

I'm not a fan of cops or cop-affiliated people, but I do kind of like running a former prosecutor, a person of color, and a woman against the personification of the seven deadly sins, a convicted felon, well known racist, misogynist and rapist. On the other hand. I fully expect he'll break out...

I suspect your laptop is fine so long as its cooling is maintained. The TDP is vastly different and I think the firmware is definitely crafted to keep temperatures in line now closely with Intel expectations than what nonsense Asus and MSI come up with for desktops.

There are people saying that high-end AMD will ultimately see some of the same issue even if they are taking longer to manifest. It boils down to the behavior of letting specific powers draw extra power for burst clocks. AMD will suggest that OEMs not go over some particular voltage, but just...

Large portions of Azure are impacted, and that means hosted database systems that have nothing to do with clients. With VMs, you can mount the virtual disks and remove the impacted files at least, but who knows what level of automation they can provide for that?

The controllers most definitely aren't that expensive. Yes, you're giving up performance, but the workloads that need 6+ GB/s I/O really aren't all that common and could be isolated to a single fast drive if need be. 8 PCIe lanes to have access to 8 drives instead of two just seems like a better...

The leaked pricing I saw from a European retailer looks a lot more likely to me. I'm also willing to put $700 toward a 9950X if I have to. I'll be overjoyed if it's actually less at launch. Does Best Buy sell CPUs now? I had no idea.

The mitigations from the issues are absolutely nightmarish, too. Boot in to Safe Mode on individual PCs and manually delete some dozens of files. Client PCs don't have management consoles and if they're enterprise systems they DO have Bitlocker turned on. It's entirely possible some poor bastard...

I try not to spend time around conservative people, but something that needs to be understood is that those people do not as a rule get news from any non-conservative source. All mainstream media is rejected as false, so reality is only what Fox News, OANN and the Daily Wire if not the Daily...

You can also get the 1DWpD SN840 in U.2 Ultrastar dress at around $100/TB and the extra added bonus of a nifty and quite substantial heat sink that doesn't cost an extra $50.

Apparently loss of access to Office 365 was a major issue. So I'd say that it impacts Office.

Microsoft had a massive Azure outage today that made international news for the amount of fucking over it caused governments and infrastructure services like airlines. Worldwide, outages like this happen multiple times per year.

I forgot to answer about the Micron 9300s: They have been fine for me. Basically I haven't had a U.2 drive fail yet. I don't have tons of them, only about two dozen all told, and only 4 and 8TB models.

Since LM hasn't shown up: The R5ii and R1 were announced today. The R5ii looks like it has had most of the nifty features of the R3 back-ported to it, like eye controlled autofocus, and it has a nifty AF mode to follow the ball for sports shooting. They've also added a face priority mode, so you...

I have a couple m.2 to u.2 adapters. They have SFF8643 ports on an m.2-shaped board and I want to say they cost me about $20. It's also possible to get them with a direct-attach u.2 cable on them. Mine are made by Startech.

I guess Brother Control Center? I haven't sent a fax in almost two decades.

I usually look at SSD capacity and endurance and don't worry to much about R/W performance. Moving around VMs is one of the very small number of use cases where you might actually see something like the rated performance of a PCIe 5 SSD, but in practice I can't tell the difference between a...

The write endurance on that Crucial drive looks pretty low to me (2400TB), but I don't know how static your VMs will be, and of course it is very fast in a way that you'll surely appreciate. Overall that looks like a solid deployment plan.

You're losing out on RAM channels and PCI e lanes and I feel like that's a bit regrettable, but if you're homelabbing and just need a VM host, that's a lot of host. I don't think you're going to get that many decent cores on anything else, You might be able to get more I/O from a threadripper...

I see $209 NIB, which is about as cheap as any Ironwolf branded drive gets.

My company has contracts with two multibillion dollar companies but we don't operate on a level where we deal with their corporate systems at all. The rest of our business involves not for profits and exactly zero of them do anything the same way ever. Almost all of them do things the way we...

Guessing I fat fingered something when I ran it through my calculator. To be completely clear, though, you'll get ~3 to 4 years of use for on-prem* licenses and possibly longer for Windows Server, versus a fairly large recurring cost from the Azure nonsense. * "on-prem" in my case generally...

There's another round of "high end Intel CPUs are melting" talk making the tech rounds today. 13th and 14th gen i9s are still dying from poor voltage regulation that can likely be attributed to poor communication of safe voltage limits on Intel's part, even though it is blaming motherboard OEMs...

An R5 and an R5ii won't cut it?

You're going to preorder the R5ii regardless. My partner made over $400 in cash/venmo/cashapp in a couple hours this afternoon by shooting with my 120 - 300, editing on her tablet and printing glossy 4x6s off a Canon Selphy at a dog park / playground today. As a middle aged man, there's no way...

Unless pricing is better than the last time I looked, the sales pitch is usually to tell people to just sign up for 365 Business Premium (which includes Sharepoint for file sharing and Intune for device management) for the low, low price of $22/user/month from now until the end of time, so about...

I don't have a single customer big enough to justify Azure federation. It's a non-issue for small organizations. That doesn't mean they don't need it deserve management features, but Microsoft sure as hell isn't treating them like they do.

I haven't even remotely thought about since about January, but Windows Server 2025 is probably going to be released in ~October. Supposedly, it'll have better security for SMB and drop a lot of legacy netlogin code, plus overall device management features that probably relate to client health...

Arrow Lake will be coming out of TSMC fabs and it'll be on a smaller process node than Zen 5 but absolutely no one is talking about its expected TDP. Die shrinks usually improve power efficiency, but Intel's last few (desktop) updates have eschewed that in the name of better (desktop)...

Intel's version of forward progress for about the last six years has been to boost the TDP enough to get 100MHz higher boost clocks, such that i7 and i9 desktop CPUs are more in line with Threadripper than desktop Ryzen right now. These aren't workstation products. Even seen with the "bragging...

I hear about people screwing up USB-C connectors on their phones. I'm not sure how people do that, but I'd expect a phone's power cord to be damaged a lot more often than anything plugged in to a desktop computer. What are you doing to USB-C cables, man?

I haven't run across damaged connectors on USB-C cabled used for displays, but I do notice that monitors connected by USB-C seem to lose their connection and blink off more often than those connected via HDMI/DP. That might just be a Windows thing, but I see it a lot on NUC-size devices where...

Intel also has a frame-generation trick, called XeSS. It's only supported in about 200 games total, and I've never heard of 80% of them, but it does work on AMD and nVidia GPUs, just like AMD's FSR. The Spider-Man games from Sony ARE supported, though, and from what I can tell, frame rates are...

I'm still not a lawyer but it looks like, if the drive Seagate sends you for an RMA unit dies after 90 days, you're just SOL. The weird thing about that is that some of the Ironwolf Drives apparently include data recovery with the warranty, so maybe they DO actually work on the individual...

I'm planning on buying sometime in August. I hope to see some testing from the nice people at Puget Systems before I get anything.