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Gronnie

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  1. If you have coax at both locations then current gen MoCA is much better than Powerline. I have these and they give a solid Gigabit connection: https://www.amazon.com/Actiontec-Bonded-Ethernet-Adapter-ECB6200K02/dp/B013J7O3X0/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=moca+adapter&qid=1572367826&sr=8-3
  2. There will always be something new or a deal right around the corner. The best time to build is when you need an upgrade.
  3. I see a couple of problems with combined_parts: 1. It's on the stack (meaning once you return it is out of scope). 2. You don't give it a size (how much memory is/needs to be allocated?)
  4. How long do you need the cable to be? Over 15 feet will be iffy unless you get a fiber optic HDMI cable.
  5. So I tested the cable and it had absolutely no signal anywhere along it, not sure what the heck was wrong with it. Thankfully there was another Cat 5e that was ran to the same location but wired for phone. I don't have landline phone service so I just rewired that cable for phone.
  6. Yep looks like both ends are wired as "A". The white and blue cable looks to have a "chewed up" look to it that you scan see in the picture halfway between the yellow wire sheath and the punch down block... I wonder if that might be part of the problem. Also, are the wires maybe untwisted too far?
  7. No I've never done it before, but now is as good a time to learn as any! Any good tutorials you recommend? Tools to buy?
  8. I just moved into a new rental house that is wired with Cat 5e. I was able to get all the jacks to work except one (of course the one located right by my TV and HTPC, the second most important one, doh!) I don't have any testing equipment so I took some picture hoping to get some input on what is wrong. In the closet upstairs is an RJ45 terminated end, and downstairs by the TV is a punchdown wall box. There's two cables upstairs that it might possibly be (and I'm not positive which on it is), so I included pictures of both.
  9. I use Windows for my gaming PC, Linux for my work PC (SSD firmware development), and a Macbook Air for browsing from the couch. They all are great (and not so great) in their own ways.
  10. Definitely won't hurt. Could maybe get by with less.
  11. OS drive is a 1TB SSD and storage pool has 7 4TB drives for data plus two 4 TB parity drives. Working for a storage company is neat, can buy drives for cheap.
  12. Go ahead and use it, you will be fine. If you are worried, install the Samsung Magician software and that will tell you how much total you have written to the drive. If you start getting close to 2000x the capacity of your drive, then consider replacing it (although even then you will likely be ok).
  13. This is true if the m.2 drive is NVMe. Not true if the m.2 drive is SATA.
  14. This is true if the m.2 drive is NVMe. Not true if the m.2 drive is SATA.
  15. Don't worry about this for even a second. The SSD will be well past it's useful life well before the NAND ever wears out. Samsung 850 Evo is rated for 2000 program/erase cycles. That basically means if you continued to write 90GB to it every day, it would be wearing out 30ish years from now. The only thing I do for consumer SSDs is make sure to not defrag them and I usually manually overprovision them about 20%.
  16. What are you building, and is it for business or pleasure?
  17. Definitely don't turn RAPID on if you don't have a UPS.
  18. Do you have RAPID enabled? If so, you aren't really testing the SSD. You are mostly testing the RAM caching of RAPID along with some periodic traffic to the SSD.
  19. Select each partition individually and use the command delete partition override
  20. Buy more, more, more! Bonuses should be good this quarter!
  21. Those drives are likely rejects that didn't pass testing to be used as an internal SATA drive.
  22. Hmmmm.... maybe I misunderstood the reasoning for it. Never worked on HDDs, only SSDs.
  23. Before SSDs, people used to "short stroke" the drive and try to get their OS and other things they wanted to be fast to be in the middle of the platters (where it is a shorter revolution).
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