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Electronics Wizardy

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  1. Really depends on the exact budget and what your options are. For me, I'd make sure the CPU is supported by windows 11(typicaly 8th gen or newer on intel), and the GPU has software support. Probably wouldn't go older than pascall(10xx) or amd polairs(4xx)
  2. Ecc lowers the chances of data corruption. Probably not needed for home media storage, but nice to have. Consumer platforms typically idle at lower power and will have higher single threaded performance compared to these older server CPUs. You also often get a hardware encoder on the iGPU, so that would remove the need for the a380. Server platforms will let you have much more ram if you need that, but I don't see that being super important here. As far as cases, I like these supermicro 36 bay cases. Pretty cheap used. Here is a example on ebay, should be lots if you look up supermicro 36 bay. https://www.ebay.com/itm/144716914920. Generally pretty easy to work with, and I'd say pretty good build quality. With a 10g nic and that many drives, I'd be tempted to get a different solution for faster disk io than a single HDD, but depends on your needs.
  3. How about video encoding using something like ffmpeg and svt-av1 for encoding. I'd also look at encryption performance. There is often acceleration for that on cpus so take that into account.
  4. Most UPS are single voltage only. I'd probably just get a 230v UPS when you get there. Voltage converters are gonna wast some power, and just gonna be anouther expense and point of failure.
  5. I really doubt going 2011-3 is gonna be much faster, if at all. You losing a lot of singlethreaded performace which those apps like. Puget has some benchmarks with the 9700k and the 7900x(slightly faster, same core count), and in resolve and premiere the 9700k is faster or about the same as the 7900x, so I'd guess the 6950x would be a downgrade here. I'd look at your GPU usage to see whats more limiting for you now. I'd probalby try to get a 12/13th or ryzen 7000 system on sale if you can find one.
  6. Barracuda drives are mostly SMR now, and you typically don't want SMR drives in a NAS or raid configs. SMR can cause extremly slow speeds and long rebuild times. Should last a similar amount of time though.
  7. Is this the AC cable that plugs into the wall? Those are the same, so you can use it if it fits. If its the cables inside the PC, then those have to match. I'd check voltages to make sure its the right cable.
  8. Do all the drives appear to the system? I'd probably try making a image of all the drives, and importing from the images.
  9. I'd just get a large external HDD here. Size don't really matter probably go for something like 16TB+ here.
  10. What drivers did you install? I think you need to install 3 drivers in the setup to see the correct virtual disks. I'd just boot from a single disk here if it was me.
  11. Did you install all the correct drivers? I'd generally recommend staying away from motherboard raid
  12. The USB C for all phones works pretty well as all phones pull about the same power, with a pretty small range in battery capacities. But with monitors there is a lot more variance. I think it often makes a lot more sense for a monitor to power the device as much of the time the monitor will move less than a laptop or phone, and likely the monitor would pull more power than a low power laptop. And this is getting kinda common on some monitors now. This doesn't work with high power desktops, but I'd guess that's a pretty small amount of the market compared to the low power business laptop/desktop market.
  13. Can you show exactly what you want in the spectogram? Is this the frequency vs time plot? I don't think any standard photo camera has one.
  14. what model is the rack station, and what network setup? I'd buy a second rackstation/nas and fill it with drives. Should copy pretty fast over 10/25/40GBE. Then you have a backup server incase something happens to the main one.
  15. Its possble apple has done it in the past with ADC, but there are a lot of problms so no one uses it. As far as making monitors cheaper by removing the PSU, this probably won't happen unless every device has the power adaptr built in. And a lot of device that can connect to displays like phones and laptops aren't really ready to provide extra power. You could only have it for lower power displays but there its annoying which display needs power and which has it included. I doubt this would be a win. Extra large PSUs only really make sense if the monitor is using it. And how much extra power? A basic office monitor is like 20-40w, but a few HDR displays could be 1000w+, so this makes it much more complex.
  16. Do they all have Wifi? I'd setup a wifi hotspot on on lapop and then everything can connct to that wifi
  17. Typically downscaling videos will look better, so go for the highest resolution you can, in this case 1080p. I is interlaced. Basically half the fame changes, then the other half. This is basically a relic of NTSC and other anologue video standards, and almost never used with digital video these days.
  18. Yup thats the issue. Thats about the max speeds for a 10gbit usb link. You can't max out the SSD in this enclosure.
  19. Do you want a single connection to be faster? If you do, speedify and simmilar are your only option here. If you want multiple transfers to be faster, you typically want your router to do this, but you could run a virtual router in a vm or set different apps to use different connections.
  20. Higher voltage = less current for the same power Current is what makes cables warm and drop voltage, which is the main limit for current. So higher voltage lets you use thinner cables for the same amount voltage drop and thermal issues.
  21. If he is happy with the sync setups he already has, I'd be tempted to not touch it, and just put a big SSD in a laptop to store all the files. Then you don't have to maintain Do other people work with these files? I'd be tempted to have the Dropbox/other solution backed up directionly, so then there isn't a need to store all the files on the laptop and back them all up.
  22. Yea that cable will work fine. SInce you got 240v, your moving 4-5amps max, so you basically any cable will be fine here.
  23. Can you go 4k 120? Since its a 4090 system, I'm guessing you have a pretty high budget, and a nice monitor can look a good amount better. I'd be tempted to go OLED here if you can.
  24. I'm not sure about all filesystems, but many I have seen run a trim on format. Also trim is likely setup to run auto automatically after the install oo
  25. If you installed another OS over it, its almost impossible to get the file off. Most SSDS will trim on format and automatically so that would have earsed all the data in the parts of the drive that aren't used. You can try linux tools like photorec to get the file back, but I'd say your chances are very low.
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