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I ran all the SeaTools tests on the disks. The Fix all (long) test found some errors on the disk that kept going to a "REMOVED" state in ZFS but fixed them, thus it passed. The same test found errors on the other disk too but could not fix them, so it failed. So it looks like I have one damaged...

Running "badblocks -b 4096 -nsv <disk>" on each disk at the same time went over a day with no errors. As soon as I started a ZFS send/receive, one of the disks got removed again in a similar fashion to before. None of the several hour-long scrubs I've performed have ever thrown up an issue...

Hi, I have put together a backup NAS using old parts. It contains a "backups" ZFS pool and I am using ZFS send/receive to backup my main data pool (on my primary NAS) to this backup pool. However, every now and then, the ZFS send/receive operation hangs and if I run "zpool status" on the backup...

I don't care too much about power consumption per se but higher power consumption = higher heat output, which I don't want. My study gets hot enough in the summer already.

If Vega 10 is going to be $499 in the US, that's about £465 in the UK including VAT. The cheapest GTX 1080s right now are ~£500. I really don't think that's good enough if it's only offering GTX 1080 performance whilst producing a lot more heat, especially given all GPU prices are currently...

You totally misunderstand. FreeSync and G-Sync are to avoid screen tearing when you're not running at your monitor's refresh rate, e.g. 144 Hz monitor but only getting 100 FPS. Nothing to do with what happens when running at the monitor's refresh rate, in fact normal V-Sync or a configured FPS...

RX Vega is 8 GiB.

I'd have bought an nVidia card long ago if they supported FreeSync. Right now my RX 480 is fine but if Vega is significantly better I'll grab that and sell the RX 480 if the market stays like it is now.

My RX 480 has factory max clock of 1290 MHz @ 1150 mV; I run it at 1300 MHz @ 1060 mV. Stock memory speed is 2000 MHz @ 1000 mV; I run at 2100 MHz @ 940 mV. It uses ~100 W whilst playing Overwatch at 1440p with 99+% usage most of the time (a couple of specific spots in some maps look to be CPU...

FYI, Das Keyboard 3 worked.

I'm looking to get a basic mechanical keyboard for work (with "quiet" switches like Cherry MX Browns). I have a Ducky DK2108 at home which I love but unfortunately I can't use the same model at work - we use PS/2 KVMs, which do not work with USB keyboards (even with USB-to-PS/2 adapters)...

An update 6 months on... :) I've migrated to StableBit DrivePool for my storage pooling solution, with FlexRAID running on top. For some reason the re-calculating of parity only took ~12 hours, whereas last time I had to do that it took at least 24 hours. Performance when copying over the...

Does anyone here use a TP-Link router? I recently bought a TP-Link Archer VR900, which is working great with my VDSL2 connection and it's nice to finally have a decent WiFi connection. I am trying to use the Bandwidth Control feature to basically ensure no single device saturates the connection...

Could you explain that in more detail please? FlexRAID's RAID-F and drive pooling are entirely separate and disabling the drive pooling won't upset my snapshot RAID configuration in any way.

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