Crunchy Dragon

I'd have to be running the latest BIOS to know for sure, and I can't be bothered to update that just yet.
 
I wasn't into PCs much growing up, but I got on the HEDT train when I discovered Linus Tech Tips just in time for the 5960X to be the best CPU on the market. A lot of the older LTT videos surrounding X99 were instrumental to how I approached the PC world, even now. HEDT hardware will always look cooler than regular consumer stuff.
 
I love that my motherboard has two EPS connectors and a supplementary PCIe power for when the slots themselves need that extra boost. Little stuff like that really tickles my nerd brain in a way few things do.

I remember when WD made 10 and 15,000 RPM hard drives.
 
Be interesting to see a combo of the two.

I remember when WD made 10 and 15,000 RPM hard drives.
 
Be interesting to see a combo of the two.

I mean, to be fair, X58, X79. X99, and X299 were all workstation platforms as well. They essentially just served the role of "people who needed workstation hardware but couldn't buy supercomputers" or "people who needed cores and performance in their home".
 
Workstation hardware isn't exactly my issue, that's nearly what we all run in this thread anyway. My worry is that instead of occupying the workstation space, these new Xeons will reside in the server space or the very high end workstation space. Think Epyc or the imaginary tier between Threadripper and Epyc.
 
Seems like the Xeons are more targeted at the server space rather than the consumer workstation HEDT space that X58/X79/X99/X299 were all aimed at.

When you pay someone else to make your site for you, you have the benefit of not needing to be an expert in everything necessary to make an inviting site.
 
The site will theoretically pay for itself if the site is able to attract enough business, so you need people good at marketing, graphic design, and a bunch of other things to make it inviting, easy to use, and ultimately a good site for your business.
 
Would you rather take your time and focus away from the business itself to do a job for a lower price yourself, or find a company with a good track record of making sites to do it for you, eat the cost, and make the money back?

Yes, and this should be the only drawback.

Everything except your budget and needing replaceable batteries screams "G Pro Wireless" to me.

Yes, and this should be the only drawback.

I remember when WD made 10 and 15,000 RPM hard drives.
 
Be interesting to see a combo of the two.

When you pay someone else to make your site for you, you have the benefit of not needing to be an expert in everything necessary to make an inviting site.
 
The site will theoretically pay for itself if the site is able to attract enough business, so you need people good at marketing, graphic design, and a bunch of other things to make it inviting, easy to use, and ultimately a good site for your business.
 
Would you rather take your time and focus away from the business itself to do a job for a lower price yourself, or find a company with a good track record of making sites to do it for you, eat the cost, and make the money back?

because not everyone is fluent in creative design, UX design, and SEO.
 
you're not paying for some neckbeard to punch HTML into notepad for you, you're paying for someone who knows what he's doing to set stuff up for you, with a system that lets the computer-inept management make small adjustments.
 
there's defenately plenty of 'splash and dash' so-called web designers out there, that'll charge stupid amounts of money for a website right out of 2004, but that doesnt mean the business as a whole is problematic.
 
also, another thing:
a week worth of employee hours might be worth a lot more than $1000 to a business. it's not only about the payroll of the employee, it's also the fact that that person is not spending that week doing something else - like dealing with customers.
also - i severely doubt "100x better".
i've seen a lot of wordpress sites, i've also seen a lot of work from web developer consultancies.. and i'd take the consultancy work over "punched into wordpress on a saturday" websites any day.
 
in a sense - it's the squarespace argument: you can throw up a brilliant website with squarespace in an afternoon, even if you are creatively challenged. but that doesnt mean that your website will be welcoming and easy to use for your customers, and a lot of those sites end up looking so alike that occasionally you arrive on a company website and think "hm.. squarespace." before even looking further into the company itself. it's not because you *can* make a good website, that you *will* make a good website.
 
and this:
is the very concept why consultancy was invented: the company just really doesnt want to bother with figuring out how to do something and who to task it with.. so they just have someone who knows what they are doing step in and do the thinking for them.
 
i disagree.
especially as a startup it's important to "stick out" from the competition. if someone at the company can whip up a "good enough" squarespace type site.. great. but if they dont, the potential time investment and potential 'exceptionally average' result might cost a lot more than having a consutlancy have their junior toss something up.

I honestly don't do nearly enough single threaded stuff at this point to care. Core i7-7820X will be fine for a while.
When I rebuilt my PC into X299, I did it with the idea of turning it more into a workstation and a potential flight sim. RAM was cheap, so I went big with 64GB just to make sure I'd cover all my potential bases for at least a couple years.
 
I'm learning programming again with the intention of getting into AI at least as a hobbyist, so I snagged a cheap GPU upgrade to help me do AI and machine learning a little more efficiently.
 
As a result of several factors, I'm doing less and less video gaming these days and looking at more intensive tasks, so I'm not worried if my CPU won't get the best possible performance in the newest titles.
Additionally, my motherboard not being Windows 11 Ready means that I can continue to use my PC in peace without Microsoft bothering me to upgrade. Might not be an optimal choice, but that's certainly a major selling point for me.

More information in case anyone wants to dive further into the W790 chipset: 
 
https://wccftech.com/intel-w790-desktop-workstation-hedt-cpu-platform-detailed-up-to-8-channel-ddr5-oc-support/
 
This article is similar to the wccftech article above: https://appuals.com/official-specs-for-w790-leak-out/
 
https://videocardz.com/newz/supermicro-next-gen-intel-w790-xeon-hedt-motherboard-pictured-up-close
 
 

Some key important things to note for this WD HDD:
PMR/CMR Presents to the host system as two 10TB LUNs (disk devices) so not suitable for traditional RAID and must use software that can handle this properly i.e. Hadoop/Ceph etc Only comes in single port SAS, not SATA  
I would recommend Seagate over this WD option because:
PMR/CMR Comes in SAS and SATA All SATA SKUs present as single LUN All SAS SKUs present as two LUNs (software support required like the WD)  
Seagate came to market with dual actuator way before WD and far as I see it have much better options.

I still have a few of those (Velociraptor drives) in working order and will be checking these drives out later.

SSD's are fine but I still prefer a HDD for simple reliability and the ability to rescue data from a dying HDD drive before it's 100% gone in most cases.
Unlike an SSD which can/will die without warning and "That's all folks", most of the time an HDD will give some indication it's about to go, giving you time to back up it's data beforehand so you don't lose it.

I remember when WD made 10 and 15,000 RPM hard drives.
 
Be interesting to see a combo of the two.

I remember when WD made 10 and 15,000 RPM hard drives.
 
Be interesting to see a combo of the two.

I remember when WD made 10 and 15,000 RPM hard drives.
 
Be interesting to see a combo of the two.

I remember when WD made 10 and 15,000 RPM hard drives.
 
Be interesting to see a combo of the two.

Ok the article is from a couple days ago, but did anyone else see it??? Intel possibly making a comeback in the HEDT space?
 
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-return-to-hedt-xeon-w9-3495x-hits-geekbenched

Summary
Western Digital announced the Ultrastar DC HS760 20TB that has two actuators that work in parallel increasing the performance of the drive. They also say it uses les power than two separate drives despite the second actuator.
 
Quotes
 
My thoughts
Seems like this could have been something that should be around all the time. I'm sure there were other HDD with 2 actuators but nothing I can think of recently. Maybe will finally be a cheaper solution to fast storage once the price drops. 
 
Sources
WD Launches Dual-Actuator 20TB HDDs With SATA SSD-Like Throughput | Tom's Hardware (tomshardware.com)
Ultrastar DC HS760 Performance Data Center HDD | Western Digital

If you are using integrated graphics it probably doesn't know what it is.  Did you install geforce drivers?  Without DVI or s-video you'll never really know, but frankly that thing is so weak it's not worth using over integrated graphics anyway, depending on what CPU you have.  I would not spend any money on using it.  Someone on craigslist or eBay might have a use for it (scrapyard zen 1 workstation) take it from your for $10 or for free if you just wanna see it used.

I don't recall ever not seeing drive labels in the Windows Installer.
 
I also don't typically leave drives connected to the PC that aren't my boot drive when installing/reinstalling Windows.

Last one I banned had emojies and pretty obvious title... Most spam bots are obvious, either by title or username.

Watched the dark knight over the weekend.
 
Wife says: "I know that dark knight set the bar, but I like the batman better"
 
This is a couple weeks after she said: "interstellar is pretty meh, but I like the memes"
 
Anyway, divorce proceedings have been filed...