Recent content by ochadd

Yeah, don't do it. In the earlier days of Windows 10 I was missing key imaging functions that were in WIndows 7. Artificial limitation that M$ decided to incorporate into Windows 10 Enterprise instead of Pro. Also I believe the Windows store itself and garbage apps were a problem. My team and I...

Consider a NAS as initial storage for your backups. An occasional manual copy to external storage from the NAS. I use Easeus Home Backup (lifetime license was $93 for three computers.) Run scheduled disk image backups for each workstation that backs up to a shared drive. A full + incremental...

I'm pretty sure the Ryzen 9000 will be my next upgrade. Gaming is the only stressful thing I do on my home PC and doubting there'll be an 8 core X3D part at launch. I bought more cores than I needed last upgrade cycle and haven't regretted it though. Next upgrade will probably be an everything...

Warhammer 40,000: Gladius – Relics of War. Single player only. Slowest game I've ever played. I was probably 3+ hours into my very first game using Space Marines before realizing that I had only been fighting the wildlife. I thought they were the other team. Finally discovered the other...

Wonder if these monsters will create a glut of second hand 7-15TB drives from datacenters in the near future. That is an incredible amount of data on a single device. Coming from SME size companies it's humbling what the big datacenters can consume yet want for more. 20-25 years ago I was buying...

I'd wait for 15th gen if you're not willing to go AMD. The cooling and power needs are nuts for Intel. Maybe 15th will bring them down to more realistic levels. 250+ watt CPUs are bonkers for machines that sit a few feet away from your ears. If you have a hell of a water cooling setup maybe that...

Check that the 12v rails provide enough amps for the GPU. If the performance is good enough, I'd use it. I run power supplies until they become insufficient, die, or no longer have the connectors I need.

I use a 2.5gbps Trendnet TEG-25GECTX as the LAN connection of my PFsense. Hosted as a VM in Hyper-V. Works fine. I occasionally use the iperf package on it for testing network performance on the network.

I find it more interesting now than I did at launch due to the price. For the same price as a 7800X3D and being sub $400, those extra four cores are enticing. My personal use computers will be solely full power, full feature cores, until I'm not able to buy them anymore. I'm going to look hard...

I've been running Hyper-V in production and at home since shortly after Server 2008 R2 came out. Probably upwards of 20 physical boxes in play including some small HA clusters. I've had problems with it along the way. * Just this weekend, cluster aware updating crashed two VMs and left a cluster...

Neither would be a bad choice. These days storage is a minor consideration for client workloads to me. Buy a reputable brand from someone who makes NAND. TLC and not QLC. DRAM not DRAMless. Price per GB. Have some kind of drive utility software for easy firmware upgrades and health monitoring...

Can you throttle the network connections of the VMs to less than 40gbit? Perhaps balancing it so you aren't fully maxing out the switch but still gain significantly from your 10gbit. I have the option in Hyper-V.

It's not that surprising to me as DAC cables seem to be a bonus, a perk, rather than the intended purpose of the SFPs. I've been using SFPs optical transceivers for about 19 years and only had a use case for DACs for a couple. Didn't discover they were an option until then.

Your single thread performance seems impressive to me. It's higher than I remember seeing on 25gbps connections however I always had a pair of switches in the middle. Will be interesting to see how yours performs with a switch in the mix. The best results I ever got was from: iperf3.exe -c...

Once you get them all setup I'd like to see what your transfer speeds are. Maybe some iperf tests if you're willing. Never used 40gbps stuff. I've read things that it's really 4x10 gbps bonded in some way, other things said it should work like a single 40 gbps link. The 25 gbps stuff I've worked...