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Fatwah on Western Digital
Did you not get sufficiently buff and hairy from the last course of stereo ids?
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I have hair everywhere I don't want it.
Appararently I passed out briefly yesterday in the afternoon. :doh:
Stereodude
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Did Dirty Jenny tell you that? :bglaugh:
time
Storage? I am Storage!
I've read satirical fiction about this, but here's the reality:
Girl's lemonade stand closed by council
Girl's lemonade stand closed by council
No I haven't done mining in a while. I think ASICs have taken over now but I also haven't been paying enough attention to really know how true that is. I upgraded my mining machine's CPU to an AMD 8 core (or quad with their version of hyper threading), double the memory, put it into a Fractal Design define R4 case, added some new fans, and turned it into a windows 8.1 setup. It has been running folding @ home ever since then. What about you? Thinking about getting back into it?
Mining was fun when it was profitable but I stopped back in March (I think) when I parted out my mining rig. I still have the wood frame I made, some risers, and an old AMD cpu with a couple gb of ram leading around. I doubt it'll ever be profitable like it was early this year, so not worth the effort. I think it's right about a year to the day when you got me started on litecoin and then dogecoin. Still have that one 270 I bought from your buddy but have not gotten around to doing any gaming. To the moon! Lol.
Stereodude
Not really a
But she can live on in your VHS, DVD, and Blu-Ray collections forever!
Stereodude
Not really a
I think I found someone with a crazier PC than DD. From their signature on another forum.
"4.5ghz 5960x, Rampage Extreme V, 512GB XP951, 6x 1TB Samsung 850 pro. 32GB DDR4 Ripsaws 4, 3x 980 Classifieds, Caselabs STH10 Gun Metal, Asus ROG Swift"
"4.5ghz 5960x, Rampage Extreme V, 512GB XP951, 6x 1TB Samsung 850 pro. 32GB DDR4 Ripsaws 4, 3x 980 Classifieds, Caselabs STH10 Gun Metal, Asus ROG Swift"
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Fatwah on Western Digital
"Check out my awesome Minecraft Battle Station!"
Stereodude
Not really a
The "6x 1TB Samsung 850 pro" is the strangest part to me. I can understand the rest of it if you were a hardcore gamer going for UHD (3840x2160) resolution. But to buy 6 of what's arguably the fastest SATA-III SSD's for storage?!?!? :scratch:
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Fatwah on Western Digital
Maybe he's doing a crap-ton of work in a content creation app that can take advantage of CUDA?
Honestly, when I see a gamer with a ridiculous monster system now, I mostly just question why the hell they spent the money. MAYBE he's gaming in 4k and just has stupid amounts of money but hopefully it's because he's doing dev or modeling work or the like.
Anyway, I very seldom agree with words that are posted on The Verge but here's this fairly interesting comparison between the state of tech business in the 90s vs. now. Basically, Facebook is the new AOL, Apple is the new Sony.
I thought SSDs were not recommended for the RIAD? I can't figure out why they would be used independently either.
Stereodude
Not really a
Oh, it's definitely a gaming rig. That much was clear from the rest of the signature.
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Fatwah on Western Digital
Intel controllers can do RAID0 with SSDs. Who knows what that guy is doing? There's no explicit mention of RAID there. Maybe he just owns every single game and needs a place to put them all.
Only real application for getting an Asus ROG swift monitor would be for gaming but it's not at 4K (It's 2560 x 1440). Using 3 x GTX 980 classifieds might be needed to get a constant 144 FPS to make use of that monitor's advantages at that resolution and frequency. It does support gsync but if you're a serious CS:go player, you might want the higher refresh abilities.
To play devil's advocate regarding your comment on spending money like that on the graphic cards, you might have equally if not significantly more money tied up into storing pr0n on your storage servers with all those hard drives. My point being, everyone has an area they enjoy spending stupid money on regardless if it makes sense to other people.
ddrueding
Fixture
A friend wanted that many SSDs in his rig not because he needed the storage, but because of the looks. He ended up fabricating a rig that had them fanned out like playing cards. Kind of the computer equivalent of this:
[video=youtube_share;AtSwNICHyXc]http://youtu.be/AtSwNICHyXc[/video]
[video=youtube_share;AtSwNICHyXc]http://youtu.be/AtSwNICHyXc[/video]
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Fatwah on Western Digital
I have a huge amount of storage space. It's used for storing everything I want to store. Some of it is porn. Most of it is not. It's also used and enjoyed by anyone who has access to it (predominantly through Plex), not just for myself.
I wasn't judging you for your vast amount of storage, I was just saying you have that interest and others want supreme gaming performance.
Stereodude
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So before Christmas my employer announced they're basically going to set up a cloud based man in the middle attack from zscaler on any internet access from their computers.
Notes to self: 1) Don't use the work computer for anything non-work related on the Internet because any personal information will be insecure. 2) Upgrade my personal phone to a Phablet with a data plan.
Notes to self: 1) Don't use the work computer for anything non-work related on the Internet because any personal information will be insecure. 2) Upgrade my personal phone to a Phablet with a data plan.
ddrueding
Fixture
I was just having this discussion with my boss the other week. IMO, there are two definitions to the phrase "protect our data".
1. We will always have access to our data, and will not lose access to anything.
2. No one else will gain access to our data, corporate secrets are safe.
1 is easy, 2 is impossible. We've agreed that 1 is good enough for us. I pity the security teams that are trying to maintain 2 for a larger corporation. I suspect that businesses that are entirely dependent on IP will be fundamentally threatened going forward.
1. We will always have access to our data, and will not lose access to anything.
2. No one else will gain access to our data, corporate secrets are safe.
1 is easy, 2 is impossible. We've agreed that 1 is good enough for us. I pity the security teams that are trying to maintain 2 for a larger corporation. I suspect that businesses that are entirely dependent on IP will be fundamentally threatened going forward.
I feel like there is more to it than that. There are situations like HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley, etc that have special needs which don't allow for alteration of data or place requirements and restrictions on length of archival. This fits in with point #1 but complicates things a little more. Your two points are still valid but they probably need the triangle introduced with a third option.
1: Data availability
2: Data Security
3: Data affordability
Pick two.
Item number two could have a complete series of books written about it in concept, but I agree it's hugely difficult to manage. For items 1 and 3, it all comes down to calculating your downtime cost and loss of data scenarios (partial and complete). The greater either of those are for the likely success and continuation of the business, the more you invest in data protection and availability. Architecting that can be fun. The company I work for now helps with 1 and 3 with respect to reduced consumption of storage required for backup management and allows for fast backup protection and recovery with deduplication.
1: Data availability
2: Data Security
3: Data affordability
Pick two.
Item number two could have a complete series of books written about it in concept, but I agree it's hugely difficult to manage. For items 1 and 3, it all comes down to calculating your downtime cost and loss of data scenarios (partial and complete). The greater either of those are for the likely success and continuation of the business, the more you invest in data protection and availability. Architecting that can be fun. The company I work for now helps with 1 and 3 with respect to reduced consumption of storage required for backup management and allows for fast backup protection and recovery with deduplication.
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I just had a user try to describe their computer issue to me. They managed to use the word "Download" as four different parts of speech and in place of at least three different nouns in a single sentence. As near as I can tell, "download" is both the name of the device that they look at and/or type on, the normal process of operating that device and also the task that they're trying to perform.
ddrueding
Fixture
The other one I hear all the time is that download is the word for the file they are downloading and the destination on the device where the downloads go.
Stereodude
Not really a
This article won't give you a warm fuzzy feeling about the prospects of a typical computer user avoiding malware and the like.
Buck
Storage? I am Storage!
Excellent! Thanks for sharing the article Stereodude. I have plenty of customers like this, and they help pay for my house. One customer received a break, and to cleanup the mess, I charged $65.00. No viruses detected, but ~4,500 instances of malware were detected. The second time, the charge was $80.00. They listened to me after the second time. I also mentioned that the next time would be $120.00. If there is a boot sector trojan, the cost is typically $250.00.
ddrueding
Fixture
Thanks for the article, sharing elsewhere...
sedrosken
Florida Man
The saddest thing of all? CNet's been like this for at least the last 5 years.
ddrueding
Fixture
I'd say 7 years. I worked for them 8 years ago
Edit: Make that 14 and 15 years, respectively. Damn I'm old.
Edit: Make that 14 and 15 years, respectively. Damn I'm old.
It will probably make other drives blind and cause some accidents.
I'd say 7 years. I worked for them 8 years ago
Edit: Make that 14 and 15 years, respectively. Damn I'm old.
No, you're not. You don't even have grandkids yet.
time
Storage? I am Storage!
Actually, I'm not at all happy about any increase in headlight brightness, especially when it's presumably so directional ("laser"). I get really tired of being blinded by cars with HID headlamps because they're wallowing around while following bumps in the road.
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Storage is cool
I think laser headlights looks great in the video. Especially that it highlights wildlife and pedestrians.