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  1. For a little more I got a 5600g+MSI B550 Board with 8 SATA ports. I paid $220 after tax on Amazon.
  2. Budget (including currency): None Country: USA Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: UNRAID Other details So I have a 6 year old Unraid server and it needs some overhauls. It has: Athlon 200ge Gigabyte ax370 Gaming Board (8 sata ports) R5-220 for video out 2x4gb ddr4 2400mhz CM 650w 80+ gold PSU Adata SU655 480gb SSD cache 2x3TB parity drives 1x3TB Storage Drives 4x1TB Storage Drives I have since upgraded the CPU to a Ryzen 5 1600 after I happened to have laying around after a purchased at DOA 4600G. And I purchased 2x16gb ddr4 3200mhz (running at 2666). I realized that my board has at least one if not two ram slots that are not working that great. So I probably want to replace the board. But most boards only have 4-6 SATA ports, but I found this: https://a.co/d/27A81XF Would this work? The reason why I'm upgrading is I need more compute to run a VM for work. I did order 4x3TB HDDs to replace the 1TB ones.
  3. Turns out the processor is DOA. I happened to find a Ryzen 5 1600 and an r5-220 and it booted into unraid. I did try the r5-220 with 4600g and it didn't work either. But since I found this 1600 I don't need the 4600g anyway.
  4. Nope, just using the IGP for display output but no VMs.
  5. I have no spare drives at the moment unfortunately so I can only boot to bios and unraid. Edit, put the other CPU back in and it's now trying to boot into unraid.
  6. So I've had an unraid server for quite awhile now, 7-8 years. I upgraded the CPU from an Arjlon 200ge to a Ryzen 5 4600g. Updated the bios and it posts fine. But as soon as it tries to post into unraid I lose the screen and it hard locks up. I tried updating my unraid OS, Changing the efi- folder to efi, tried a dedicated GPU and I got nada. I am trying to latest bios now as I was afraid of losing CPU support. Any other suggestions?
  7. Hey Linus, You may or may not recognize me but I've been a follower since 171k subscribers. I always loved watching your videos because you have a lot of the same likes and biases I do. To be honest, I never really used your testing at the gospel but I also always did my own testing when I was a reviewer. I loved your personal takes on many products because it feels genuine. With that said, I think you should have waited to respond. Maybe just a simple post stating that you saw the video and want to take some consideration and feedback from the team then responding. The reality is, and you may not agree with it, but this won't just blow over. This is not something that in 2 weeks everyone will forget. This will impact future sponsorship deals (afraid of being exposed for favoritism) or just negative PR. When the whole "Hard R" incident happened, everyone including me felt you were genuine, and even I had the same thoughts on its meaning. This won't be like that. Are you wrong about Steve not checking with you regarding the block issue? No, but you phrase it in a defensive way. Yes, your brand is being questioned but look at the backlash. All of Reddit, well 90% is against you atm. The reality is, a shorter response would have been better. Acknowledge the water block issue, issue a correction, and acknowledge that you agree with Steve that you have much to improve and will put policies in place after consulting others in leadership. Then reach out to Steve and have a serious conversation and see if you can pick his brain as well. Work WITH the media not against them, embrace feedback don't reject it. You know deep down, you're going too hard too fast and it's a problem. Rome wasn't built in a day nor was it built by 1 person. Thanks, Stevie
  8. I know tools can vary, I was guessing lower especially since your licensing the mechanism. But yea it seems my general analysis is correct. I'm glad to see thay the hardwork has paid off and you can breathe a little now that going forward it's a profitable venture! Side note, a few weeks ago I realized your payroll is north of $500k/month, that's insane! I don't think you nor I expected LTT to be this large this fast.
  9. I was literally googling what the gross margins are on screwdrivers to make a post on this forum about it. So I guess it's safe to say that you're at the point where this is been enough of success to cover the last 3 years of work? I presume that even with the licensing your gross margins have to be at least 20% which means your net revenue should be 1.2 to 1.5 million. Then there are advertising and marketing costs including what you do with MKBHD as well as some losses you mentioned during development cycle. While I'm sure you're not going to reveal this probably because you can I would guess that your net profits at this junction have to be the least $500,000 All things considered. Which to me means at this point anything after this should hopefully give you plenty of cash flow towards things like LTT Labs until that self-sustaining.
  10. Okay sorry had to do the clickbait. But with Taran departing and now Jono, I think it's a good time to point out why. LMG has been around for about a decade at this point. They have around 60 employees and 3 people are the C-Level. Outside of being on the C-Level the highest out can probably go is a segment or department manager/supervisor. What I think many people don't realize is that now days people don't want to do the same thing forever. They want personal growth, new skills, new roles and responsibilities. Now we know that LMG tried very hard to supply that for everyone. But not everyone is going to become the head of a department. Some people also want to go a different direction. After being a write or editor for years, maybe you want more editorial control of the content. So maybe a startup is a better fit. Maybe you want to create your own content (we've seen that a few times now). One of the pros to LMG has been that they are really big on creativity and growth. But being 60ish employees your growth potential is somewhat limited. Just the nature of the beast. And to be clear we aren't talking about $$$, I'm sure people are getting paid well. I saw $50-60k USD a few years ago for positions and I suspect it's gone up. If I had to guess, their payroll is north of 4M at this point. But I expect to see more OGs leave over the next few years, short of Luke and Nick Light as they are on the board they are less likely to leave. Some may stay, say Brandon and Edzel who I think have families, being comfortable on a long term position is also something you can see as well. I think the younger and less committed people are in their lives, the more likely they would leave for the next opportunity after 3-5 years. I also think LMG is really good at giving people opportunities to grow and learn but I think sometimes it works against them. Like for Taran, he wants to focus on his videos and channels between his extensive editing and on screen work, he now has the tools to focus on his channel. But that goes to show you the compassion LMG has for their employees. So no, nothing is probably happening at LMG. I suspect it's a great place to work and people are treated fine. OG people leave, it just happens and many times it's no fault of the companies. So please don't think LMG is anywhere near dying.
  11. That LMG is really doing well. Sorry for the click bait . But it's true that people are really growing at LMG, sometimes they grow out of the roles that LMG can provide. Taran is a professional editor and is building his own business and channel (now over 200k subs). Taran's been with LMG for almost a decade, people rarely stay with their first few jobs our of college for more than 2-3 years die to how advancement in the US works. Anyone who is an OG member but not on the board/senior leadership we may see depart in the coming years. But they are growing so damn fast that we only see like 1 big name leave maybe once every 12-24 months while we have literally a dozen new faces a year. Going to miss Taran, his awkwardness was always interesting and he was a big reason why LMG was successful during the early years with his editing. Best of luck to his new endeavors!!!
  12. So when I say I thought I've seen everything I really thought I have. Since 2009/2010, I have built over 850 PC's and worked on thousands of others. Many XP/Win 2000 systems when I worked for a PC Shop in 2010. I've used every single Consumer CPU since the Phenom I/Core 2 era and GPU since the 9000 NVidia Series and 4000 AMD Series. So when I saw this gem today out of a customers PC, I was blown away. Even my dad who has been working on computers since the 90s didn't believe me.
  13. I didn't say I was confident, I've been adjusting a lot, I've upped production value a bit and working to continue it, my editing has gotten better as well. I can always improve and what I've noticed is, my like/dislike ratio is much better, mostly over 80% and even my lesser popular videos have several hundred views vs a few dozen.
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