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Comment on Got An Old D-Link NAS Device? Dump It Just Like D-Link Has! by razor512

razor512 — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 19:08:18 +0000

This is one major reason why I do not like NAS appliance devices like this. Such devices carry a large price premium for the hardware offered, while offering rather short service life, while also often being heavily locked down so that when the company discontinues support, then the device becomes either a paperweight, or unsafe to use. There are currently 2 bay NAS appliances that are being sold for $600 and comes with no drives, and use a dual core Intel Celeron J3355 and have 6GB of DDR3L RAM, Imagine the PC you can build to make into a NAS for $600.

Turn an old PC into a NAS, and for far less money, end up with a device that will often start with support for 6-8 drives, along with options to expand via HBAs, while having the freedom to choose which software you run. Even if your current NAS software gets discontinued, the hardware will live on as you run run something else to meet your needs.

While some NAS appliances can offer unique conveniences, especially in cases where you just want a turn key solution, often times the software support ends long before the hardware gets even close to becoming obsolete. For example, there are many NAS products that can saturate a 2.5GbE connection but no longer receive security updates.

Comment on Alienware AW3225QF 4K QD-OLED Monitor Review by BigTed

BigTed — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 23:26:00 +0000

I’d totally forgotten CRTs suffer from burn in. You’ve reminded me of Pole Position at our local swimming baths that permanently displayed ‘Game Over’.

I reckon I’ll be ready to bite on one of these 32″ OLED panels soon. Give it 6 months and competition should drive prices down a little.

Comment on Beware Of A Notepad++ Clone Or Not? by MyTaintedBrain

MyTaintedBrain — Tue, 09 Apr 2024 11:08:19 +0000

“The makes of Notepad++ are sending out a warning today ” should read “The makers of Notepad++ are sending out a warning today “.

Comment on Beware Of A Notepad++ Clone Or Not? by willmore

willmore — Mon, 08 Apr 2024 20:49:38 +0000

Sounds like a confidence attack. Bring it down!

Comment on Beware Of A Notepad++ Clone Or Not? by Jay

Jay — Mon, 08 Apr 2024 18:50:43 +0000

I know the owner. Website has been online since 2020. All downloads were redirected to the official website. Guy earned like $50-100/month from Adsense and most of it was from traffic to articles. Instead he is being DDOSed and hacked all day today lol.

Comment on A Pi 5 PC Or A No Name Amazon Mini Desktop? by willmore

willmore — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 20:39:10 +0000

Dechromed chormebox. An Asus CN62 is a great little box. Super cheap, easy to dechrome, and easy to use as any other x86 PC. Small, limited internal expansion (already has good WiFi, video out, and USB3 ports), but it has two memory slots and a dual bus processor. As long as you’re okay with a relatively slow dual-core Haswell chip, they’re awesome. Normal barrel jack labeled 19V, but I’ve happily run them off of way less. The 5V regulation on the USB is the first thing to go at around 7.5V. So, any 9V or higher supply should be just fine. And they don’t use much power. I ran Prime95 on one to test power draw and I couldn’t get it over 15W.

Comment on Thermaltake CTE C700 TG Mid Tower Case Review by Kent Burgess

Kent Burgess — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 13:54:08 +0000

In reply to Brett Hood. Despite my love of water-cooling, personally, I'm really interested to see some of the newer SFF cases out there. I think my favorite case in the last couple of years is the Fractal Terra.

Comment on Thermaltake CTE C700 TG Mid Tower Case Review by Kent Burgess

Kent Burgess — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 13:52:05 +0000

In reply to BigTed. But...I have said all of that. Point taken. I didn't proofread the final draft as thoroughly as usual prior to sending it off to my editor.

Comment on Thermaltake CTE C700 TG Mid Tower Case Review by Brett Hood

Brett Hood — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 23:56:17 +0000

Another good review Kent. Its a radical looking case and seems slightly large for a mid tower, as a fan of mini PC I don’t have too much to do with these cases any more but I can see the attraction, its a good looking case without being excellent as you mentioned it seems to fall short in a couple of areas.

Comment on Thermaltake CTE C700 TG Mid Tower Case Review by BigTed

BigTed — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 20:04:24 +0000

Great photography? Check. Perfectly manicured nails in shot? Check. Ridiculous overkill waterloop for a case review? Check. Must be a Burgess article. Are you keeping the build?

Also, I don’t wanna be that guy but repeated paragraphs “Having said all of that…”

Thanks for the review.

Comment on TrueNAS CORE Bids Goodbye To FreeBSD by Lylieth

Lylieth — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 15:35:58 +0000

This article HAD to be written in AI. First off, CORE will NEVER switch and be based on debian; like the title suggests. Not only that but existing jails from CORE do not become VMs in SCALE… Jails are a container and SCALE uses k3s for them; not KVM.

Comment on Lapping, Delidding, and Liquid Cooling to Tame Intel 13th Gen Thermals by derbroski

derbroski — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 10:07:38 +0000

Hi Kent. Thank you for the review.
Unfortunately, there is one big mistake. When comparing coolers, you should limit the core voltage and/or the power consumption.
As you can see on your screenshots, the core voltage, the power consumption and the clock frequency differ from the Iceman to the EKWB. It is therefore impossible to say exactly which cooler performs better or is cooler. The EKWB with 6.0 GHz or the Iceman with 5.9 GHz? To be able to really compare these two coolers, the values must be fixed.
However, the Iceman is a really good cooler at a good price.
Best regards.

Comment on ICY DOCK ToughArmor MB842MP-B, M.2 Storage On The Go by Anon

Anon — Sun, 31 Mar 2024 19:34:15 +0000

I would buy this if they also made a USB dock for their NVMe sleds. I’d use the PCIe adapter in my home desktop and the USB dock with my work computer. Until then I’m ok just using my USB to NVMe enclosures

Comment on ECSIPC LIVA Z5 PLUS Mini PC Review by Brett Hood

Brett Hood — Fri, 29 Mar 2024 00:22:33 +0000

Another good write-up Sebastian

I love the form factor of mini-PC. Having used 2 NUC’s which I highly recommend for cool and quiet PC operation and even light gaming. The ECS LIVA looks like another nice addition with solid innards and excellent productivity performance. I would also recommend getting 32GB RAM minimum to future-proof the performance & longevity of your mini-PC.

Comment on TrueNAS CORE Bids Goodbye To FreeBSD by TrueNAS Team

TrueNAS Team — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 21:46:33 +0000

Recently, we published our latest blog talking about the future of TrueNAS CORE! Spoiler alert: TrueNAS CORE is not going anywhere!

Comment on AMD Radeon RX 7600XT 16GB Launch and XFX QICK 309 Review by Josh Walrath

Josh Walrath — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 18:16:15 +0000

In reply to Brett Hood. That particular GPU does not feature anything more than a 128 bit memory bus. Something like the RX 6700XT is a cut down version of the 6800 series, so instead of a 256 bit bus it uses only the 192 bits.

Comment on TrueNAS CORE Bids Goodbye To FreeBSD by will Soteros

will Soteros — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 16:24:18 +0000

Hello everyone, iXsystems has recently published their plans for future versions of TrueNAS CORE.

TLDR: TrueNAS CORE is not dying or going away anytime soon.

Those plans can be found here: https://www.truenas.com/blog/truenas-core-13-3-plans/

Comment on The Fosi Audio LC30 VU Meter Amplifier And Speaker Selector by Igor

Igor — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 12:15:01 +0000

hi 🙂
Thank you for the article.
I have to return mine as the VU meters barely move at all. Otherwise it’s a great product, like you said 🙂

Comment on Where Once We Sailed The OCZs by Langston

Langston — Tue, 26 Mar 2024 03:43:21 +0000

In reply to Amanda. Where is Ryan now? Do you know? And I’d like to hear more stories.

Comment on Apple M Series Hardware Security Flaw, Too Bad You Can’t GoFetch A Patch by John

John — Sat, 23 Mar 2024 19:34:46 +0000

Well its out of the box now, so it now depends on what the bad guys do with it. Intel had to address the potential even though it was also consider a low risk impact. My complaint is that Apple chose to handle this in a way that ignored the past with Spectre and Meltdown. It basically has repeated the same mistakes for the sake of performance. The risk might be low but it could be combined with other types of attacks as well. Bad guys are clever taking one weakness and combining with another. Then you have the weakness of the end user. One who has been convinced by Apple that no harm can come to them. You also have a bigger footprint in the world and a common design thread with iPhone’s and iPad’s. So nobody has tested this on those devices. Clearly has a problem and a need to address it in order to have it not affect the trust of the end user.