manikyath

while i agree with the sentiment.. they could also not give away an RTX 4080 super to a lucky individual who did nothing more than retweet into a void of zero followers. it's not the conclusion i want to make either.. but they either have this, or no RTX 4080 super given away. if you dont want to participate, you're free to not do so. act as if the link isnt there. to be fair i hadnt even noticed until you pointed it out.
 
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on topic: we need more people like Jessica in this world. life would be boring without chinchilla headphone pads. This video had a lot of "3/4 idiot" vibe going on.. and i want more of it.
(also, if you dont get that reference, look it up on youtube.. if you can handle *that* kind of humor)

remanents of the biological skin aging process.

RAID0.
 
does anyone ever say this?
 
striping a LOT of disks.. or realisticly, striping a LOT of RAID6 arrays, because at this number of disks, disk failure is a routine thing.
 
realisticly, with sequential reads, you'll do 2.5G fast enough, and 10G is just 4x that.. but the moment seek times come into play, spinning rust struggles hard.
 
SATA isnt a bus, it's 6Gbps to each port, you might reach PCIe speed limitations depending on the controller though.

there's merit to both choices.
 
- if you diversify, you'll always find a customer base, because you can do a bit of everything. but you'll have to rely on external people for the advances stuff, because you cant diversify *and* drill deep on topics while also still being able to sleep.
 
- if you focus to a specific thing, you'll become before mentioned external specialist.. but you'll have to send away customers that want something you're not able to do.
 
i've worked for a business on both extremes..
 
- i've woked for 6 years for a company that tried to be everything to everyone, but they very much were *not* ready for office365 to be the de-facto standard, and ever since then they've been hit and miss, with the employees having to glue together the rubble of management mistakes.
 
- given before mentioned situation i jumped ship to a very M365 oriented business, they did all M365, but only M365.. their financials are great, they did a lot of successful projects.. but if a customer asked something that was just barely outside their scope, that smooth machine crumbled down hard and fast.
 
i'll also give two examples of people who have been very successful in their field.
 
- Level1Techs is <essentially> an accidential side-gig of Wendell Wilson Consulting, Wendell has made his career out of fixing people's IT problems, whatever that problem is.
- Tron guy.. of all people.. is actually a brilliant IBM mainframe engineer. he's *the* person to call if you have a problem with your IBM mainframe.
 
if you're up for a bit of dry matter between the both of them, here's a good watch:

just make sure to get rid of all the burs and smooth the edge with some sandpaper, i've yet to encounter a computer case that's made from something that'll rust easily, and the sort of place you use a computer arent really environments where rust is likely to happen.
 
if you insist on protecting the cut edges with something, there's a wide range of options to explore:
- many forms of tape
- nail polish
- a heavier (thicker) oil, or grease
- some types of glue also work really well for a lack of better options

add thermalfake to your list.
 
that said, assume that everyone in the industry is at least partially copying each other's homework.
 
new ideas are rare, and there's only so many ways to make a square black box.

add thermalfake to your list.
 
that said, assume that everyone in the industry is at least partially copying each other's homework.
 
new ideas are rare, and there's only so many ways to make a square black box.

add thermalfake to your list.
 
that said, assume that everyone in the industry is at least partially copying each other's homework.
 
new ideas are rare, and there's only so many ways to make a square black box.

add thermalfake to your list.
 
that said, assume that everyone in the industry is at least partially copying each other's homework.
 
new ideas are rare, and there's only so many ways to make a square black box.

add thermalfake to your list.
 
that said, assume that everyone in the industry is at least partially copying each other's homework.
 
new ideas are rare, and there's only so many ways to make a square black box.

ground = "negative".
 
in cars everything is reference to the chassis aka "ground". so your 12 volts is between the battery's positive terminal and the ground, your accessory power is between the relay for that and the ground, etc.
 
ofcourse there's someone who bothered to document the whole thing:
https://old.pinouts.ru/Car-Stereo-Toyota-Lexus/Toyota_W58802_Head_Unit_pinout.shtml
 
B+  => goes directly to the positive of the battery / power supply (your standby power for the clock, etc.)
Ground => your "negative" side
ACC => connect this to the positive side to turn on the radio.
ILL => controls the backlight, presumably this is for day/night mode, in the car this is connected to your lights.
ANT => this is power out for a (retractable?) antenna.
AMP => presumably a power toggle for external amplifiers.
 
 
that all said, here's a fun trick for you to use in future projects:
 
see how that GND pin is connected to a very large surface, to which the connector itself is also fastened? that's almost always your ground, which goes to the "negative" side of your power supply.

add thermalfake to your list.
 
that said, assume that everyone in the industry is at least partially copying each other's homework.
 
new ideas are rare, and there's only so many ways to make a square black box.

add thermalfake to your list.
 
that said, assume that everyone in the industry is at least partially copying each other's homework.
 
new ideas are rare, and there's only so many ways to make a square black box.

add thermalfake to your list.
 
that said, assume that everyone in the industry is at least partially copying each other's homework.
 
new ideas are rare, and there's only so many ways to make a square black box.

add thermalfake to your list.
 
that said, assume that everyone in the industry is at least partially copying each other's homework.
 
new ideas are rare, and there's only so many ways to make a square black box.

for those who care about more than pointing and laughing at apple.. here's some detail:
 

he's probably using it for a phone review, so if you're interested, probably wait a month or so, and you'll see a review pop up on LTT.

it's not because it happens to be on the same frequency that it's in any way compatible.
 
without the original controller to reverse engineer you have a better chance at 'headcrabbing' your own RC hardware into the car than to make your own wireless controller to connect to the car.

it's not because it happens to be on the same frequency that it's in any way compatible.
 
without the original controller to reverse engineer you have a better chance at 'headcrabbing' your own RC hardware into the car than to make your own wireless controller to connect to the car.

last i heard his "daily driver between reviews" is still the note 9. it comes up on WAN show every so often.

the thought process between RAID5/6 and what unraid does is fundamentally the same, but the way it is achieved differs.
 
in a RAID5/6 array everything is written "across" all drives, splitting at a bitwise level just like RAID1 does, for example if you have a RAID5 with 3 disks, half of the data is on one disk, half the data is on another, and the third contains the parity data. raid6 just adds an additional slice of parity data.
 
unraid stores files on 'data' disks in their entirety, the parity disk (or disks) then store the same style of bitwise parity calculation of the data on these data disks.
 
the key difference in the parity calculation is that RAID5/6 splits data and parity across all drives, and unraid dedicated specific disks to parity operation.
 
essentially, the data on a raid5 array looks like this:

and an unraid array would essentially contain A-D1 on disk1, A-D2, on disk2, A-D3 on disk3, and A-D parity on the parity drive.
 
essentially if we ignore the way the data itself is stored (striping vs whole files) and the way the parity is stored (dedicated parity drive vs spread out) they both do the exact same thing.
 
for parity calculation sake each drive is just a big row of bits: one or zero.
 
you then put all of those rows side by side, and your parity is also just a big row of bits, each one is the XOR result of the other bits on that place in the row. the unraid page @Kilrah linked does a good job at explaining this process.
 
the difference in methodology that unraid uses compared to traditional RAID5/6 has one very interesting benefit for home users: as long as your parity drive is equal in size to the biggest drive in the array, you can use any odd mix of drives you like and the parity mechanism isnt affected. this is displayed in before mentioned unraid page by having different length bit rows in the example.
 
on another note; this is why on unraid's webinterface on the main page all disks have a "disk usage" bar, except for the parity drives, because they are essentially "always full"; they contain a full array of XOR data, no matter how much or little is stored on the rest of the array, or no matter how big or small the other drives are.

but the CM3588 doesnt run anything that isnt compiled for ARM, and just about everything has a version compiled for x86. besides, you can buy N100 boards for around the €200 mark *here in the west* without dealing with aliexpress shipping taking a month.
 
also, the N100 is a beast among low power CPU's, like you state it 'can' turbo up if needed, but the embedded parts dont actually use *that* much more. besides, the RK3588 is quoted as being a 12 watt part for as far as i can find. on top of that, i'm pretty sure all of the embedded intel cpu boards have an option to disable the boosting all together if you absolutely want to go for efficiency.. but we're at the point that the drives will be using more power than the CPU.
 
also, your comment is irrelevant because:
 
having that said - both of these platforms have one shared issue for OP's requirements:
they're both limited on PCIe lanes, and by extension SATA.
 
if you go up to something i3-something or ryzen 3 something, you can still enjoy quite good idle power draw figures (like, actually shockingly close to on par with the embedded systems these days), but you have the "oomph" to run game servers, and the expandability to add several HBA's for extra drives if so desired.

last i heard his "daily driver between reviews" is still the note 9. it comes up on WAN show every so often.

he's probably using it for a phone review, so if you're interested, probably wait a month or so, and you'll see a review pop up on LTT.

i went digging for power draw figures on the rockchip, and the best i can find is a 12W TDP, so depending on how much it has to work you might have a whole lot less.