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Something like a battery door alarm/siren might scare them off. https://www.grainger.com/product/1DPE1?gucid=N:N:PS:Paid:GGL:CSM-2295:4P7A1P:20501231&gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAjwmYCzBhA6EiwAxFwfgKZZUL8ZfIt9kZB7WETq-jK-aBnmtGnb6x8YPW8E6edwJSuaE7_MUxoCyYQQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

I'd been wondering if enterprise drives would work. They do. Bought a refurb 14TB WD Ultrastar HC530 from Ebay, model with Power Disable Mode. Works fine and writes at 250-280 MBps doing windows file copies of Windows workstation backups. Compared to the 80-90 MBps my other 2.5" 4-5TB drives get...

I think it depends on the specific board model. Some have it, others don't. It's a premium feature from what I've seen.

That would be too hot for me to be comfortable with. You can typically find the temperature range in the spec sheet though. You could consider a PCIe to M.2 card to move it the front. They're $10-$20. I have a u.2 enterprise SSD and it runs at 51c in my home server on a pcie card. It's rated to...

It's hard to resist but I'd kick myself if we see a non-X3D 8 core part that nearly matches it next gen. I don't want BIG.little or mismatched cores. My personality would have have me paranoid and chasing ghosts to ensure optimal core use. I have a 12700 at work and VMs run like dog shit on...

In the context of displays I think of DPI as a result of a calculation of resolution and size. How it was manufactured. If there is a DPI setting in the OS then I'd say it's software scaling and a decision made during development on how to draw the screen at a given DPI or scale setting.

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...