On my PC I am running Win 11 Pro OS on a Samsung NVMe 980.
For storage I currently use 2, 6TB HDDs running 'Mirrored' using Win 11 Pro Disk Management.
This array has 6 partitions (Data, Photos, Video, Music, Archive, Backup)
I just ordered 2, 16TB HDDs to replace the 6TB HDDs as they are nearly...
Nope, it's what anyone in my area (Sonoma County CA) can get it for.
I actually referred 2 of my neighbors so I am paying only $39.99 for unlimited 10G service.
https://www.sonic.com/residential/internet
My fastest download test to date (run on the UDM Pro) was just under 7Gbps, I've never hit 10.
Keeping this ancient thread alive...
My recently revised home network rack.
Unifi UDM-Pro
Unifi USW-Pro-24-PoE
Unifi US-XG-6PoE
2 Unifi U6-Pro WAPs + 1 U6 Mesh (out in the garage)
Primary broadband: Sonic 10G Fiber (only $50/month!)
Failover broadband: Comcast 1G
Both of my PCs have Intel...
The network card I ordered was just delivered, a supposedly "100% genuine" Intel X550-T2 PCIE 10G card.
It has a YottaMark decal so I assumed it was 100% legit, but when I checked the YottaMark QR the MAC address it showed for the card is different from the MAC listed on the card decal. I would...
Hey guys, had a long day of work, etc., finally sat down at the computer.
I have no time to work on this tonight, will do more troubleshooting tomorrow.
DonTC - I will Google how to bulk adopt
peanuthead - I did look at them, but they are long and I really don't understand a great deal of the...
First some background...
My home network is fairly complex (I'll include an equipment list below) because in addition to my house I have 2 other buildings; a workshop/storage building, and also an almost finished guest cottage (I plan to create a guest network for it soon, but have not had the...
I also just got a USG Pro 4,
I also just bought the USG Pro 4, it's stock fans are even louder than the switch, a high pitched whine. I ordered Noctuas for it.
No, the other 2 ports and fan headers were already there. I had to ream out the 4 fan mounting holes a little, the Noctua fan screws are a little larger than stock ones.
I just recently added a Unifi US-24-250W POE switch to my home network. It is an excellent piece of kit, but the stock cooling fans are quite noisy and the sound really bothered me. So I purchased 4 Noctua NF-A4x20 FLX 12V fans and swapped them into my switch.
Before and after dB readings are...
I chose to install high quality 10G certified cable and terminations because I want to wire my house once and be done with it. I don't have any 10G gear yet, but I expect to in the future. The cable cost slightly more than non-shielded, but I want to do it once and never think about it again...
Thanks DonTC, but I think I have the cabling covered.
I'm replacing the very poor quality Cat5 that the previous owner had installed with new shielded 6A.
The cable terminations are a PITA compared to Cat5, but worth the effort.
My first couple failed, but now I have the hang of it.
My cable...
At least the final time this PC ran it had a normal shutdown, fairly certain my data will be intact. Fingers crossed, now I need to order some new PC parts.
With my overly busy schedule this is about the last thing I have time for right now...
OK, did this exact thing. Jumpered from the backside of the connector while not plugged into MOBO, PSU and fans start. Shut off PSU, plugged into MOBO, powered PSU on, hit power switch, nothing. Pretty certain the MOBO is dead at this point.
Also, I performed this test with nothing but the MOBO...
ASUS P8Z68 Deluxe/Gen3
Yesterday morning I used this PC for a couple of hours then shut it down using Start>Shutdown as I always do, it was working perfectly. About 2 weeks ago I installed a new CR2032 MOBO battery. This PC has been totally reliable since I built it years ago. Intel i2600K...
Nope.
2 different HDMI cables, a DVI cable and then just using the internal tuner with an antenna attached via coax. Definitely the TV.
The dots usually don't appear right when it is turned on, but slowly develop and then reach a state where they don't get any worse but are extremely annoying...
After being out of town for a few days I turned on my PC to discover the display not looking so great. I run an EVGA 560Ti via HDMI to a Sharp 32" LCD 1080P HDTV as my monitor. The image below shows the issue with my display; rows of flickering black dots and other garbage covering the entire...
I also use only the highest quality chewing gum, and sometimes the 'limited edition' Elmers Glue.
It's just difficult for me to not try to eat the glue, it's so delicious. ;)
I'm in Shanghai now.
ExpressVPN is working fine, just not super-fast. I can watch videos, some take a bit of time to load, but I am used to very fast internet service at my home in CO.
ExpressVPN does enable viewing FB, YouTube, etc which are normally blocked here.
So far so good, using a server...
I travel to China (Beijing and Shanghai) often for work and I utilize VPN software on my laptop while I am there to maintain access to the various sites that the Chinese government blocks. Up until yesterday I had been using PureVPN but cancelled my account with them after growing weary of their...
OK that worked, but I didn't get the results that I was after.
I was able to boot into Safe Mode, perfect, but...
The reason I wanted to is even though Win 7 shows me as the Administrator, and I am the only user of this PC, for some reason Win 7 will not allow me to update or change certain...
I need to boot my Windows 7 64 bit PC into safe mode but cannot using the F8 key because that just brings up my RAID menu. I currently am running a RAID1 array off of 2 SSDs for the OS.
How can I boot into safe mode with this configuration?
Thanks.
Someone asked me to update as to the reliability of these WD20EFRX drives.
After ~5 months of use, no issues at all.
Of course this server is not getting thrashed like an enterprise installation would be, but for my home NAS they've been completely reliable thus far.
Only possible issue is the...