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    AMD NUCs

    I just read this https://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-developing-barebones-PC-kit-to-take-on-Intel-NUC-platform.437533.0.html
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    ZFS on Linux now supports TRIM

    The patch to add TRIM was merged yesterday to the master branch. Not sure if it will be in 0.8 or not. 0.8 has been in the rc stage for a few months. https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/commit/1b939560be5c51deecf875af9dada9d094633bf7
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    Crucial NVMe

    I just got an email announcing a Crucial NVMe drive. http://www.crucial.com/usa/en/ct500p1ssd8
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    Micron QLC Enterprise SSD

    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/05/21/micron_is_first_to_strut_its_nand_stuff_in_the_enterprise_quad/
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    X470 ECC Support

    In less 2 weeks I am headed to MC to purchase a X470 / 2700 combo however I very much want ECC support for this (since it will be for a server application zfs linux / pvr). I have spent a little time looking into this and found very few options. Of the GigaByte boards only the...
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    Intel's Optane XPoint DIMMs pushed back

    Intel's Optane XPoint DIMMs pushed back – source
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    Host Protected Area.

    I installed a 1TB HGST drive in an 8+ year old dell inspiron laptop and it appears the bios has truncated the 1TB disk to ~80GB (same size as the original). It appears that the drive has HPA enabled but it will not disable it or let me change the size. Any ideas. root@sysresccd /root %...
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    DYN DNS no longer free in 30 days

    I just got an email saying that my dyndns free ddns hostname will no longer be free in 30 days. I have been using this for over a decade without any issue. Anyways what are the other free alternatives that are recommended? Also I believe I can get free ddns with my asus router.
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    FX 9590 Pricing

    On amazon.com I am seeing one of their external sellers having this for $416.86 now http://www.amazon.com/AMD-FX-9590-FX-Series-Eight-Core-ProcessorFD9590FHHKWOF/dp/B00DGGW3MI/ref=sr_1_2?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1373988774&sr=1-2&keywords=fx9590 I would have posted this in the Hot Deals...
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    FX6100 AMD OverDrive Question

    At work I have just purchased a HP system with a FX-6100 CPU. I am testing the system and I installed AMD overdrive to see if I could overclock an AMD HP system.. Anyways I am not very familiar with AMD OverDrive. I went into the Turbo Core Settings and upped the multiplier to 20.5 which is at...
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    Bulldozer ships next month.

    Anyone read this? http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/07/22/amd_q2_2011_numbers/ I also found this interesting:
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    New drive badblocks.

    I have a new 2TB F4 (have not tested the other 2 F4s) that I decided to do a 4 pass write badblocks on it (over 2 days of testing) and that resulted in 736 bad blocks however there were no errors recorded in SMART and no errors recorded in my dmesg. Here is the output: jmd0 ~ # badblocks...
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    Samsung F4 2TB benchmarks

    Compare that to the 1TB Hitachi system disk in my work HP i7 machine: Random Read: Again compared to the Hitachi system disk. And a write test: And finally (since I just formatted it) a Crystal Disk Mark:
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    SFF-8087 breakout cables to SATA drives

    Does anyone know if the following 3ware cable is compatible with other manufacturers cards. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816116099 I looked it up at one of the "approved" vendors and it says "Works ONLY with one of the following 3Ware RAID controllers: 9650SE (-4LPML...
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    Asus M3N78-EMH

    I have an ASUS M3N78-EMH HDMI at work that has a 2.6 GHz X2 5000. I would like to upgrade this to a Phenom2 however the motherboard compatibility list does not list any Phenom2 chips at all. Anyone have this board?
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    Benchmarking

    What are good tools to benchmark guest disk, memory and video performance? I am trying to determine what is the best performing virtulization that I can run a 64 bit XP guest with 3GB ram and 4 cores and 400GB disk allocated to the guest under 64 bit gentoo linux on a 3GHz i7 system. I have...
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    M2N support for X3 720

    I checked the compatibility listing and its not there. Does anyone use this combination?
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    FM radio for an office

    I am looking for options for an FM radio that will work in an office environment where reception is generally bad. I sit here trying to listen to my radio cause I have overplayed my mp3s. The problem here is the cheap radio I have in the office only picks up 2 to 4 FM stations and with that the...
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    Win7 firewall questions

    Is there an easy to disable all externally triggered incoming traffic on a particular NIC. The problem is even though the NIC is in the "public network" there are dozens of incoming exceptions installed by default. It appears that Symantec Endpoint protection and others allow incoming...
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    Corrupt downloads Windows 7

    I got a new HP 150f machine at work last week. It is a i7 860 system with 8GB of ram. I have run stability testing including IBT on maximum stress for hours and the system does not have any sign of problems however when I download a large binary file in IE, FF, chrome and some other applications...
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    Software overclocking an i7 860

    So for work for the first time in over 10 years I bought a full system (HP 150f) instead of building it myself (no time at the moment). Anyways the BIOS has no options at all for memory or CPU speed. Is there any software that will let me do a small overclock? I am going to downgrade the OS to...
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    Stability Testing

    So at work I arrive today to have one user complain about the machine I built her crashing. This is probably the 200th machine I have put together so I am no beginner. Anyways when I got to the machine it booted right into windows and as I went to Event Viewer to check the system it...
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