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If that's a photo of the actual drives for sale, I think you're badly underestimating the warranty expirations for two of them. They were manufactured May 8, 2018. I looked up one of them and the warranty doesn't expire until August 2021. Serial Number Status Model Number...

What would be a fairly inexpensive video card to drive a single ultrawide or 4k monitor? Usage would be mostly software development, occasional full-screen video. System is running a 3570K on a Z77 motherboard. Edit: Fanless would be plus.

Yep. No complaints there.

That wasn't it. I swapped the ports of the two monitors and went out for a while. Came back and the same monitor refused to come back. So it's definitely the monitor.

No, but that would certainly be easy enough. I'll give it a try tomorrow. I need to try swapping the ports between the monitors also (which would also swap the cables),.

I have a business system built in 2012 with the following components, using the integrated Intel graphics to drive two identical monitors. The monitors are much older, probably 13-14 years old. ASUS P8Z77-M PRO motherboard Intel i5-3570K CPU Samsung 910T 1280x1024 (x2) monitors Display #1 is...

I don't see the advantage to that at all. It only makes me think that several 4:3 aspect ratio monitors may be the ideal. I imagine, though, that these days the choices among such monitors are slim. Thanks for the ideas, all. Now I just need to figure out how many monitors I'd want, what size...

Like you say, too big and you're just looking at neck strain in a three monitor setup. Honestly, I don't know what's too big or too small in that setup. I just figured someone would have a similar setup for a similar use case and could recommend monitors that work well.

I won't miss Amazon one bit, so long as I can order some of the same goods through some other online seller. If they disappeared tomorrow, nobody would lament their passage in ten years time.

I didn't see the "torture" part, but it was somewhat humorous. I'm sure he'll get 50 million YT views and make a lot of money from the video.

Maybe my thinking is a little behind the times. I've always coveted a bigass multi-monitor setup. Seems nobody can get past the general setup, which isn't unexpected. I was looking for actual model recommendations, but maybe I need to rethink the setup.

$900 budget is an issue? Doesn't take two ultrawide monitors to display an IDE and a browser unless you're 85 years old or 3/4 blind.

I have two ancient Samsung 19" 1280x1024 monitors that are in need of updating. My primary use is software development. I'd like to move to a three monitor setup, so I don't want either huge nor ultrawide monitors. Somehow, I don't think a display setup that's something like 8 or 9 feet wide...

If I had an older Galant desk that was beat up (not hard to imagine, given the cheap particle board and veneer tops) I'd have someone craft a new solid wood top for it. In fact, I recently began looking for a rough looking Galant just to salvage the legs and hardware.

Are we supposed to know the make and model of that desk? And does it really cost more than $10,000? You could have had five custom desks built by now for less than $10,000, so I'd assume you've found your desk.

Here in the U.S., no special power cables are needed.The power outlets on the UPS are the same as our wall outlets.

Not always necessary. FWIW: About six years ago, I bought a new UPS for my desktop computer. My home's network infrastructure is also located in my home office near my desk, so it was all on the same UPS - cable modem, router/firewall, ethernet switch and wireless access point. About two or...

APC and Dell both make nice 24U cabinets. A little pricey, but it's not unusual to find these racks on Craigslist. See the example below. A 24U will be at least 42" tall, which isn't exactly desk height. That would be more like 18U, plus there will be the couple of inches for the legs or...

What are the pros and cons of enabling drive encryption on a Windows file server? My home server run Windows Server 2008 R2 Std SP1, with JBOD drives. I'm the only user on the network, but encrypting all of the data on the server wouldn't be a bad idea.

I've had exactly one incident in the past 10 years or so where I wanted to do a system restore from an image. That was to recover from a botched software update that couldn't be undone. To my total amazement, restoring from Windows 7's built in backup image worked. One of the most remarkable...

I mis-spoke. That one is actually sitting 15 feet away from me in the next room doing duty as my file server right now. But I've been meaning to replace it with another case that I have. Maybe I'll do that this week. I also have an Antec SX-630 (a couple inches shorter) and an Antec SX-830...

I think I have one of those sitting in my garage. Might even have the original box for it.

Why does it need to be "smallest" and not just "small"? If it will reside anywhere near human beings, a 1U case is a bad choice because of the screaming little fans. I've always liked the old Antec NSK3480 for a smaller microATX tower case. Much smaller than my Fractal Design Define Mini...

I just received a deal alert about Best Buy having the WD Red 4TB for $119.99. It's the best deal on this drive that I've seen in a long time, as HDD prices have stagnated badly since the emergence of SSD. I've never bought a drive from Best Buy, though. How are they in dealing with returns if...

Ok, thanks for the response. The thread doesn't disappear entirely. It would be good to somehow display the fact that the thread has been moved to the soapbox instead of nothing more than a permission error, which I've always assumed meant the thread had been deleted. And again... give the...

I don't see what you're talking about.

There was a discussion in GenMay about the call for taxing sugary sodas. Participated in by a couple of moderators, if I recall. Then *poof* it's gone. Why? Any chance that if you're going to disappear a thread, you might at least leave a reason?

And similarly: Let's say I get a new network-connected device and it has an http based management interface and a default network address of something like 192.168.0.1. Typically, I've always had to (or thought I had to) temporarily change the IP address of my PC to be on that subnet to...

Well, not really how. More like: how is it possible? How is that with my LAN set up with a subnet of 192.168.3/24, that I'm able to pull up the web interface of my Arris cable modem at 192.168.100.1, which would seem to be on a separate network?

From what I read, the 9201 doesn't do hardware RAID, so you must be using it JBOD. Are you also looking for 16 ports, or just 8? This PDF has a comparison chart: https://docs.broadcom.com/docs/AV00-0315EN The 9207-8i is similar (only does JBOD), but PCIe 3.0 (which is backward compatible), 8...

File/storage server. Looks like there's room for a minimum of nine hard drives, but you could get a few 5-in-3 drive cages and have as many as 15 hot-swap hard drives with three of the drive cages. You could use the Supermicro cages at $100 each, or the Icy Dock cages, $80 each. there may be...

Or: https://www.amazon.ca/CableDeconn-SFF-8087-Female-Forward-Breakout/dp/B00S7KTWPE/

Ok. I'll take that as a 'no' and post it (again).

Had a long conversation about this in another forum, but there's a bit of a way around the data limit. Or a way to augment it, at least: If you can connect to any of Comcasts 'xfinitywifi' wireless home hotspots, although you have to login with your account credentials, none of the traffic over...

Maybe I forgot to post it, or are links to Amazon not permitted? Someone was having a tough time figuring out a cable, I provided a link to a $12 item on Amazon (Canada, where it appeared he was shopping). Just a plain link, no affiliate reference or anything like it.

From the description, it sounds like it. I'd email the seller to be certain.

Isn't that a _reverse_ breakout cable? They look alike, but it's not the same as a standard breakout cable. That one would go from a controller with individual SATA ports to a backplane with an SFF-8087 port. Read the last customer review on the NCIX page. Here's an old post in another forum...

This is the ultimate necro forum. Only 12 active threads in the past two years. :meh:

I seldom power down/up my main computer, so that's not a consideration. I still use an optical drive to rip audio CDs, so I can't yet see the day where I wouldn't have one in my desktop system. I also have an external one for servers and other systems with no optical drive, but I can't remember...

All of my WD 4TB Reds have run flawlessly the past 3 years. I'll be buying several more this year.