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I just used CloneZilla the other day to migrate from one disk to another. It is an OpenSource tool that does many of these functions quite well. It is not a tool you use from within windows, so don't think of it as being equivalent to Macrium in that way. If you need to image a machine, clone...

This workflow is foreign to me so I was approaching it like I would any sort of server system where I ideally break up the workloads across the storage types that make the most sense. Your statement for RAID 6 not offering speed increases to write is interesting though. I find that many...

OK, I thought the cache/edit type stuff would be on a separate flash based array. On my system I use RAID 6 for movie storage, and smaller RAID 10 for all the small files and database type stuff. I didn't realize when you edit you are actually changing the master, to me that sounds crazy...

UnknownSouljer I would be curious to understand why you want RAID 10 for this application? For large writes like this parity calculations aren't a huge deal with modern RAID controllers. RAID 6 would be a reasonable choice, but I am sure you have thought about this and I am curious to...

I bought it for the dolby vision and atmos. I have a good Ultra from 2018 that was just fine but those features are worth buying a new one for the one TV / room that supports that technology. Obviously not everyone has those requirements or interests.

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/roku-ultra-2020-4k-dolby-vision-streaming-media-player-with-voice-remote-tv-controls-and-premium-hdmi-cable-black/6424781.p?skuId=6424781 $69.99 at Best Buy Many of their deals seem to have just gone live, so dig around for those things you were looking for there.

Until a few years ago I would buy shoes on prime day every year. They stopped offering good deals on shoes I want the last couple of years though. I still check each time just in case. Lately I have picked up a few articles of clothing to replace items that have worn out. I also normally...

I got one too, thanks for the tip, it expires tomorrow and I would have missed out.

I thought Decibel was sort of joking but the first Question on Amazon is if Pornhub works on it or not. The answer is detailed too.

Now that is tempting. $15 per TB, just like the 12TB at 180, but higher storage density and less power consumed per unit storage. I think I am not going to do it, and wait for 16TB's to come down to $15 per TB. I have enough open space I can afford to wait.

If downtime is that expensive, keeping a spare $80 controller on hand doesn't seem that daunting. If you are running large arrays, you likely exceed the on board connectivity of most mainboards around.

I will offer some thoughts on hardware raid controllers. Modern controllers store the array configuration on the discs, not on the controller. If the controller fails, you replace it with an equal or newer generation from the same manufacturer and it reads the configuration in from the disks...

Already bought a pixel 3a, might have jumped on this if I hadn't.

I took the plunge. I found a LG OLED 55" B8 (2018 model) on Craigslist for $700. Seller bought it in August from Dell, he provided the receipt. It is up and running on my desk right now, but I am just getting started setting it up for the purpose. Looks pretty awesome though. More updates...

I haven't done this YET, but I am seriously considering it. I have browsed the Black Friday ads and I might go with an LG OLED 55". Just make sure your desk / environment will allow you to put the display far enough away and at a comfortable height.

Getting old isn't fun, but most available evidence says it is better than the alternative. Part of getting old is the cornea loses flexibility and bringing near things into focus gets more difficult. This typically starts in the 40's. Being in my 40's I can say that this is true!

My current set up is 60 inches (5 feet) wide. The outer monitors are angled towards me which makes it ONLY 5 feet wide. I like the setup, but want more vertical pixels, and ideally would like my monitors to be a bit taller, but not wider, assuming I stay triple head. I sit farther away from...

My $300 to $400 monitor upgrade is starting to look like a $1200 monitor upgrade. Time to check the Black Friday ads to see if I can find a 55" OLED.

I can't touch my display, looks like 33 to 34 inches based on my tape measure. https://www.rtings.com/tv/reviews/lg/b9-oled I am seriously considering this... (if it doesn't work out my theatre room will get a new display )

Just running the math and a 55 3840x2160 is effectively the same PPI as my current 27 1920x1080 and I have no issue with this setup. This is also very interesting as the quality of sets gets much better with 55" presently and wanders into the OLED area. I find this intriguing. For the OLED...

I was looking at that, around 85 something right now, and a 42.6 4k would be 105. What 48" did you go with?

I should have been more verbose. I wouldn't plan to use it as a gaming monitor/setup. Life keeps me from doing much of that these days anyway. It would be replacing 3 27" 1920X1080 GW2760HS monitors I have presently sitting in a widescreen row on my desk. I find I don't use the far edges of...

I am considering the 43 inch version of Vizio M series 2019. https://www.rtings.com/tv/reviews/vizio/m-series-quantum-2019 Looks to be about $350 most places and I am tempted. Anyone used one these as a monitor yet?

$450K goes fast in these sorts of projects. That theater probably didn't have tiered seating before they began. The door weighs 2 tons and was "difficult" which definitely equals expensive! I wouldn't be surprised if the door cost $100k. 6 months of planning, that alone cost at least $50k...

Thanks for all the tips on POE options. I looked for those a couple of years ago and had no luck, now they seem to grow on trees!

I believe you have been able to stream from PLEX with older Pi units, and this one is even better. I really wish they would support POE on these little guys, how easy would that be for those of us with POE switches already!

The answer to my question on who is buying SolarFlare is Xilinx https://www.hpcwire.com/2019/04/25/in-wake-of-nvidia-mellanox-xilinx-to-acquire-solarflare/ And I miss the old mainpage because I wouldn't be just hearing about this now.

Gives them a sales opportunity for GPU's at all of the large corps that already buy Mellanox for low latency networking. Also, glad it wasn't Broadcom, there has been massive consolidation in the networking world in the last five years, and if Broadcom would have bought them it would have...

I am sure this will end up with taxes on things. Just like gas guzzler taxes and so forth. In the end you won't be told to use less energy, but you will be much more financially well off if you use less. The tech all exists to drastically reduce our energy consumption, it is just a few...

https://xkcd.com/1321/ https://xkcd.com/1732/ Yes he is a web comic, but he does research his comics so that they are as accurate as possible. I also like knowing when storms are forming over our oceans so I would prefer the satellites to not be degraded by ground based interference. I also...

I drive a Tesla Model S (bought used, not that expensive on the used market) and I put 18,000 miles on it in the last year. I did some longer road trips, Northern Illinois to San Antonio Texas over Christmas break for example. I have nice home charging so no issues staying charged at home...

What's Crysis? Just kidding. Some of us have powerful hardware and haven't gamed in years. Sounds like a fun toy. I also happen to know that Dell has made two server in two U type boxes too. Some of Bing runs on them.

Not like you have any "anti piracy" mechanism's slowing you down. Like Musky I have copied VM's all over creation and that is painless in the land of Linux. Moving physical disks isn't much harder so long as the hardware is all default in the kernel on both sides. Linux is good so thank...

MY GFX is tired and this would help lots!

I have been busy at work lately doing a different role and I drop back by and HOLY COW. I am still plugging along with my i7 but no paying much attention. Looking good! Keep running those puppies.

Lawyers win, Everyone else loses...

Yep I grabbed it already. Got it unpacked and will try to do it once my WU finishes.

So long as things don't get to crazy hope to try it out over the weekend.

6903 TPF on first is 16' 40" for a listed PPD of 389K Completion in 1.16 days so that isn't to bad but really not much of an improvement over the previous CPU's in this same platform. When I saw that they were putting the E7 CPU's in the G7 platform I was suspicious that the platform would...