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    Gigabyte GA-Z170X-UD5 vs ASRock Z170 Extreme6

    Of these two boards, which would you pick and why? The intended use will be a Plex server running Linux and powered up 24x7.
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    SSD performance in Linux

    Noticed something weird speed-wise with my SSD. In Windows, with write back caching enabled in Device Manager, I typically get around 120MB/s when copying files from my server over the gigabit switch. Turn off write back caching, and write performance drops to 60MB/s (give or take). I had a few...
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    Opinions wanted on (RAID) big drives vs. more smaller ones

    Currently have 2, 4TB drives in a RAID 1 array and I'm running out of space. All this is running on a media server box (movies, TV shows, pictures, Plex, etc.) and I'm thinking about getting 2, 8TB WD Red drives (the new ones just released....I think they ship next month) and setting them up in...
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    Samsung 840 Pro is slow all of a sudden

    http://imgur.com/8K4eViF http://imgur.com/dbdttAG My media server has a 128 gig C: (Samsung 840 Pro) and a D: which is a RAID1 consisting of two, 4 gig drives. The last few weeks, when I un-RAR a 5+ gig video file from the SSD to another directory on the SSD, 7-Zip tells me the write...
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    Can no longer ping names of computers on home network

    About 2 months ago, I lost the ability to ping (and get replies) from computers on my hone network. If I pinged 'server-pc'.... before, I would get replies and I could fire up MSTSC and connect to server-pc by its name. But now, if I ping server-pc, the command prompt displays, "Pinging...
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    Which Intel NUC for Sims 4?

    My wife and oldest daughter share an aging PC. The specs are as follows: Q9450 CPU 4 gigs of RAM NVidia 8800GT GPU Windows 7 64bit 24" monitor for now but might hook it up to a 32" TV (720p) The most demanding games they play on it are Spore (yes, the ancient alien creating game) and...
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