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It's not about flow direction. Basically, air bubbles always find their way into the highest point of the system. Many of these systems, with manufacturing variation, can have up to 10% air in the closed loop - which may even slightly increase over long periods of time (under severe...

I'm not a fan of water cooling either but I was reading/researching to learn more about it and it was interesting to see that a lot of systems are installed wrong - allowing air bubbles into the pump area. Even the manufacturers show it installed wrong in some of their documentation.

Hey @Tea - This may interest you if you want to apply to get some hardware and improve it. https://arlotestportal.centercode.com/key/DouglasHP Happy New Year!

Here is an issue with solar I never really thought of. Thoughts? https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2018/05/23/if-solar-panels-are-so-clean-why-do-they-produce-so-much-toxic-waste/#9624443121cc

Howdy Doug. How long have you had it installed? Have you been able to estimate if you are on-track for at 5 year ROI? I know it will be hard to determine what winter will bring but just wondering what your overall impression is. If you don't have batteries, is the AC fed directly to your...

I am loving my 1TB Inland Premium NVMe drive for $107 in my new Ryzen 3700x build. More info here: https://hardforum.com/threads/hot-inland-1tb-nvme-premium-107-99-microcenter.1978390/page-32#post-1044327560

There is another T-Mobile RT-AC68U for sale at Hardforum if Piyono or anyone else is interested in using it in flashing it to Merlina and using it in a AIMesh setup. https://hardforum.com/threads/fs-t-mobile-asus-ac1900-wifi-hotspot-router-one-plus-3t-64gb-unlocked-gskill-8gb-ddr.1985727/

If I remember right, he hosted a server for a little while.

I know this is late, but in case anyone is interested in a fan, I looked at a ton of them before I settled on replacing my bathroom fan (that was a rattle trap and died) with this Panasonic model. I'm really happy with it. Much much better than the Broan fan that it replaced...

I just had a flashback to our CS days, Piyono...just pay for shipping and you can have it for free if you decide to try the AI Mesh route. I would like to know how well it works as I have never tried it. :cool:

Here is some good info: https://www.bayareatechpros.com/ac1900-to-ac68u/ and here: https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/asuswrt-merlin-on-converted-tm-ac1900-problems-upgrade-path-to-384-6.246293/ I even tried installing the latest Asus firmware and then installing the latest Merlin (a...

Actually...I just remembered, I still have one I am no longer using if you want to buy it. $50 + shipping from Sterling Heights, MI. :). The 2nd one is at my Mom & Dad's house.

Yes I did that w/o any issues to two of them and running the latest Merlin on them as well..

You can get a couple of RT-AC68U routers and run Merlin's latest firmware on them with AI Mesh enabled. I have not tried it but it seems like it would be a pretty low cost solution. I run Merlin on my RT-AC86U and have an Orbi system I got for free (from beta testing). Note: the 68U is a...

Howdy Doug- IIRC you live out East and get a fair amount of snow. I'm in Michigan and I have a couple large portions of my roof facing directly south. How much efficiency is lost to snow covering the panels? I am kind of interested in looking at solar but assumed it would not be cost...

Maybe this field trial firmware update I received is related to your issue?

Lol! I was thinking maybe there could be some connectivity issues between Oz and wherever the Arlo servers are, but you never know, the situation is shitty, so maybe the Corilois factor is in effect! It'd be interesting to see some stats on the connection (trace route, ping, stability)...

Bummer it's not working for you. Its working great for me. Something to do with your geographic location maybe?

I have an Arlo system with 5 cams and a doorbell. Most of the stuff I got free as a beta tester (3 of the cams and the doorbell). I have 2 Arlo Pro cams, 3 regular Arlo cams, and the doorbell. I am not having any of the issues you describe other than occasionally the app is a little slow to...

Looks good. Thanks for all your time and effort.

I was thinking about getting one to use with LastPass as a 2nd way to have 2FA. I use the authentication app right now but the YubiKey seems like a good backup if I don't have access to the app.

Awesome. Sad but probably true. :)

Clocker where it says BUY instead and it should take you to checkout.

I used paypal with credit card.

I buy my keys here (several times now). Never had a problem with them. Actually I take that back. One key would not activate with MS (Windows 10 Pro) one time. I talked to customer service via chat (about 3 months after I bought the key) and they gave an immediate refund to my PayPal...

Happy Holidays!

I'm doing some casual mining with a 4x1070 setup (using the same frame I was using back in the days we were doing it, Doug) but I decided to play the Bitcoin video game by just buying a bunch on Gemini 2 months ago. It seems like a much better setup than Coinbase - (very few complaints) and...

You can exceed the limit 2x per year without any overage charges. I took advantage of this month. :)

I must say I have been very happy with the performance of Backblaze. On my Xfinity connection (~12mbps peak upload)I was able to upload about 3.4TB of data to them in the month of October. Much better than Crashplan!

Bonus..the system with the new PSU is about 13% more efficient at idle than the old (68 watts at idle instead of 78 ). Not like it will ever pay for itself but it's something

I like the hardware and all the data in my file server right now and for the cheap price on the new Seasonic I thought it to be a decent investment (especially if the new one lasts 10 years -the length of the warranty on the new one). Everything is backed up but I would rather invest in a new...

I have had one of these re-badged Seasonics for over 10 years. It has been in use constantly...first in my SLI gaming machine, then a mining rig or two and now in my Plex/file server. http://www.jonnyguru.com/modules.php?name=NDReviews&op=Story&reid=18 I'm replacing it with one of these...

I gave him a 24" monitor. He is really happy and everything is working fine so I didn't do anything other than put new thermal paste on and upgrade the BIOS to the latest. System is running great considering it is mostly 8 years old! Kevin

I just finished 'tuning up' my Father-in-laws PC that I built for him in 2009. AMD 2.9Ghz Rana Athlon II X3 with 4GB RAM & integraged graphics (785G). https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128397 He got a Sandisk 240GB SSD for like $50 that I swapped in for his old HDD...

So true, Tannin. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/electric-cars-are-not-necessarily-clean/ The whole article is interesting read but here is a good snippit

I use Goodsynch for my local backups to my file server and it is great. If I had a second copy of the software I might try this: https://www.goodsync.com/goodsync-connect But, I'm lazy and just put my Dad on Backblaze instead. For me, I think I will just leave Crashplan and load...

At under $4 per month prepaid, I'm going to just move my parents over to Backblaze . I have my data consolidated to one machine and only about 1TB of data on Crashplan so I'll transition over to their small business platform and then revist my options when the 75% discount expires.

My parents have about 60GB of data. Any suggestions on how I could securely automate their computer backing up their pictures to mine via the internet? I don't need versioning or anything, just a sync. Both machines run Windows 10.

https://www.crashplan.com/en-us/consumer/nextsteps/ For me, Backblaze will work. I was using Crashplan to backup my parent's computer to mine for free so not sure what to do for them. Here is what it will cost me if I stick with Crashplan Business. Not a bad deal at all but only last a year.

Just got my Mom on a great deal with Xfinity Mobile. My Mom got a new LG Charge for $7.50 per month for two years. Comes with 100MB free per month. After the initial 100MB, the cost is $12 per gigabyte of data. No other fees. She is a super light user but wants to have a smart phone...

Well I found the utility. It seems like a POS and it crashes frequently. Nonethess, here's the SMART report. Thank you sechs.

! The disk is a crucial M4. I can't seem to find any software for their SSDs. Here is the data from HD Tune. Thanks for your feedback

It is the boot SSD from my home server. Attached image. Data provided by StableBit Scanner. https://stablebit.com/Scanner

They have free 2-day delivery to the house for orders over $35.

The WD 8TB drives are back on sale. This time for $160. Supposed to be a RED inside. The two I bought previously were indeed REDs inside. http://www.bestbuy.com/site/wd-easystore-8tb-external-usb-3-0-hard-drive-black/5792401.p?skuId=5792401

I feel your pain. I just had a switch fail - Netgear GS105 - after only a few years of use. Didn't figure it out until after doing an OS reinstall to try to figure it the terrible network performance I was getting. It was a cheap item but never expected it to fail. In retrospect, it was a...

If you have a 10 GbE swtich, connected to a gigabit router directing traffic, will the computers that area connected to the switch be able to talk to each other at 10 GbE speeds as long as they have 10 GbE adapter cards and are connected with Cat-6 cabling?

I bought two and they are working great. The instructions for removing the drives from the enclosures make it super easy. Done in just a couple minutes.

I use no-ip. It's free and is supported by the C7100V EMTA/cable/router I'm beta testing on Comcast for Netgear. It is also supported by Asus routers.

You could sell Crashplan subscriptions out of your house lol. What is most of that data?