Search results

  1. C

    [Warm] Refurbished HGST Ultrastar HE10 10TB SATA HUH721010ALE601 - eBay $70

    Now if JTS was on that list... ;-)
  2. C

    [Warm] Refurbished HGST Ultrastar HE10 10TB SATA HUH721010ALE601 - eBay $70

    He is hard to contain for sure. Remember the story about iphones and apple watches getting (temporarily) bricked when in the presence of He? Amazing how it can it get anywhere. A sealed borosilicate ampule will hold it in place. HeNe laser tubes expire after years of sitting and those are...
  3. C

    [Warm] Refurbished HGST Ultrastar HE10 10TB SATA HUH721010ALE601 - eBay $70

    I will say that drives in NAS (both Synology and QNAP) seem to be noisier and show more activity then ones in servers with intelligent host controllers with gigs of fast onboard cache. (RAID6/10/60) The exception is the Rack Stations with 2TB nvme cache drives.
  4. C

    [Warm] Refurbished HGST Ultrastar HE10 10TB SATA HUH721010ALE601 - eBay $70

    I know these are good drives but the 5 years scares me considering these are heliums and ours have started failing at the 6 year mark. I guess they haven't figured out to keep the lighter than air gas inside forever. ;-) Or it's just media wear. I mean recording 24x7 in a conditioned...
  5. C

    Microsoft blocks workaround that enabled users to create local accounts as part of the OOBE installer.

    The place rhymes with pass save. ;-)
  6. C

    Microsoft blocks workaround that enabled users to create local accounts as part of the OOBE installer.

    Windows 11 IoT Enterprise LTSC 24H2 is what you want. ;-)
  7. C

    What Would Cause MB's Reset (not CMOS reset ) Button To Stop Working (along with CPU red light, MB Error Code 00 which is memory issue on Gigabyte)

    Do you get post code 00 immediately with no other changes? That typically means a dead CPU or a problem with CPU connection (bent pins, etc).
  8. C

    Google Chrome’s Plan To Limit Ad Blocking Extensions Kicks Off Next Week

    10 Tom meet Jerry 20 Tom chase Jerry 30 goto 20 Always liked Tom and Jerry. This will be fun. ;-)
  9. C

    $2,500 RTX-5090 ( 60% faster than 4090 )

    My biggest issue with CRTs back in the day was oftentimes we could do 85+ at 1600x1200 but if we weren't using BNC inputs, the text would get fuzzy which was annoying to my (then) 20/15 close vision! 60Hz on a CRT particularly with white background was utterly murderous to my vision like...
  10. C

    iPhone 14 Pro speaker sounds distorted at or near max volume

    Definitely NOT normal. Was the phone exposed to water/fluid or a lot of dust?
  11. C

    Windows 11 24H2 will enable BitLocker encryption for everyone - happens on both clean installs and reinstalls

    Windows 11 IoT Enterprise LTSC 2024 will be the solution for this. ;-) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fbo8WagqlvY
  12. C

    3DMark's Time Spy successor, Steel Nomad

    How about Final Reality? :) I remember back in 1997 running that on my dual pentium pro 200 with Matrox M3D and it revealed the accelerator's missing D3D features. Badly.
  13. C

    3DMark's Time Spy successor, Steel Nomad

    Well of course it won't be the M4 but the A18 pro will certainly be based of it so it will be single core king in mobile as usual.
  14. C

    3DMark's Time Spy successor, Steel Nomad

    Makes sense. The M4 is blowing it away. Makes me think the iPhone 16 Pro Max is going to really smoke 'em. Of course it's not going to have the thermal mass of the (iPad) so it will throttle madly or feel like a jon-e handwarmer. (or both!)
  15. C

    3DMark's Time Spy successor, Steel Nomad

    Thought the S24 Ultra would have done better!
  16. C

    3DMark's Time Spy successor, Steel Nomad

    Definitely felt the slate getting hotter with this one!
  17. C

    Microsoft stoops to new low with ads in Windows 11, as PC Manager tool suggests your system needs ‘repairing’ if you don’t use Bing

    So now we need Windows Vanced? :-P
  18. C

    How much RAM you got?

    Z80 at 4.77MHz with 64K RAM on S-100 bus is pretty close to Twin Pines Mall IIRC. ;-)
  19. C

    Sony Xperia 1 VI

    Losing 21:9 was one thing but 1080P is another! No flagship device in 2024 should be less than QHD period. 4K defined Xperia and now that's gone. If it were $999 then maybe, but users wanting the Xperia experience weren't particularly concerned with cost. Now if the camera is an across the...
  20. C

    Do you guys use Bitlocker on your home/Personal machines?

    From elevated command prompt: manage-bde -off x: where x is the drive letter you want to decrypt. While it's running check out disk transfer rate in task manager. 🙃
  21. C

    What happened to Graphics Card box art babes?

  22. C

    Electrostatic discharge with the case closed?

    The resistor is around a million ohms (1 meg OHM) limiting the power to around 15 milliwatts! (120V example). That's just over a tenth of a milliamp which is less than most people's threshold to feel it. To get 1W, the resistor would be around 15,000 ohms and the current would be approaching...
  23. C

    Electrostatic discharge with the case closed?

    Sounds like a floating ground scenario where your case was not earthed. If it's plugged in (obviously it was as you said it was running), this should not happen as the PSU screws will ensure that part is indeed earthed as long as your power supply is connected to a properly grounded outlet. If...
  24. C

    EK in hot water again?

    Yes. Ideally you want the dissolved oxygen to be close to zero too. It's hard to get things near perfect in a home environment. Additives, in theory can help but without monitoring cycles of concentration, flow control and delta across devices that have backpressure it's hard to tell...
  25. C

    Nvidia Geforce FX 5800 Ultra 128MB GPU

    Nostalgia. Same reason why some will pay $$$ for a scratchy old 78rpm Wurlitzer jukebox with bubble tubes when a phone and partybox would be louder and more detailed. ;-)
  26. C

    EK in hot water again?

    Just like oil additives (eg. Slick50) they are both un-necessary and will introduce problems of their own. KISS applies here with liquid cooling.
  27. C

    EK in hot water again?

    Yep, that's your answer right there. Purest water (ideally 18meg+ RODI) measuring 00000TDS is best. Keep it dark as possible (completely opaque hoses and reservoirs), NO boutique reservoirs (waterfalls, lighting, et al). Pure silver kill coil OK. Also it is a very good idea to assemble...
  28. C

    EK in hot water again?

    Always use Laing OEM parts and pure distilled water. 100s of k hours. But run dry and the bearing is toast. If you need higher flow and head use Iwaki RD30. They deliver the goods.
  29. C

    EK in hot water again?

    This. D5 pumps will last well past any Asetek junk. As long as you *never* let them run dry. Even cavitate.
  30. C

    EK in hot water again?

    Heatkiller for me. Worth the price.
  31. C

    14900KS coming with new boards same 1700 socket TechYES video

    $650 at my local Microcenter with 5 in stock. My 14900K has more "biscuits" than the 14900KS does according to the Aorus BIOS (like ASIC quality on NV). The 14900K will run 192GB RAM at DDR5 5600 and the KS is stuck in training hell. Go figure.
  32. C

    Two years after launch Windows 11 adoption is still waaaay behind Windows 10

    My biggest issue with Teams is default auto starting. It's amazing how much faster a well optimized Windows system is compared to the out of the box experience. Particularly with vendor preloads with ridiculous amounts of crapware.
  33. C

    Anyone went strictly to SSDs only yet ?

    Anyone using SSDs for caching larger volumes of spinning rust? We had an issue with a few Synology Rackstations where copying/reading hundreds of thousands of small files into a database application was chugging even on 10Gbit. Added a pair of 2TB nvme drives and performance went back up to...
  34. C

    Crucial T705 Gen 5 Coming!

    Can confirm it approaches 15GB/S reads and 13GB/S writes. Real world copying from one drive to another hits 6GB/S in explorer and was pretty stable (multiple VHDX files in the 600GB range). Bare drives using mobo heatsink (Aorus Extreme X) and they were pushing over 65C. Without a heatsink...
  35. C

    Two years after launch Windows 11 adoption is still waaaay behind Windows 10

    Disabling those features including uninstalling works initially but it will come back later, often surreptitiously. Like many unwanted programs. I'm in the crowd that will install what I need when I need it. None of this forced nonsense. Copilot comes to mind. As with search clutter. The OS...
  36. C

    Microcenter is coming back to the Bay Area!!!

    Microcenter is awesome! I'm lucky to live within an hour drive to two of their stores and if I expand that to 3 hours, maybe half a dozen! They definitely need on in Florida. Miami is a stretch, maybe Orlando is next? ;-)
  37. C

    EK in hot water again?

    Yeah I go back to 2010 with them and their really bad nickel plating fiasco. Truly a CF!
  38. C

    Two years after launch Windows 11 adoption is still waaaay behind Windows 10

    If you do, security has failed. I'd rather not go down this rabbit hole and go way OT here, do your research and conclude for yourself.
  39. C

    Two years after launch Windows 11 adoption is still waaaay behind Windows 10

    No, I prefer to keep malicious programs off my computer, which in fact *any* AV is.
  40. C

    Two years after launch Windows 11 adoption is still waaaay behind Windows 10

    It turns itself back on, even if disabled by GPO or registry the executable is still running.
Back
Top