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Re: "Full Blown Linux"

WSL and WSL2 are not "Full Blown Linux". They are far from it in fact. At the very least, WSL 2 does not ship with a system-daemon. A lot of programs do run on WSL, but the majority of the ones that you'd probably use don't, or at least don't run properly. And for example, in order to use docker in linux... you need to install docker for Windows.

It's nothing more than a modified Linux kernel (I think?) running alongside/integrated with Windows. And the best part of all of this? WSL 2 uses a VM... which was exactly not the original plan or goal with WSL 2.

I am glad they added support for GPU pass through at some point, but really WSL is no good for anything beyond Node web development or some PyTorch apps (though I still had other issues with PyTorch even after they setup GPU pass through). But even then, tools like Cypress that require a browser window don't work properly. It needs to send a desktop preview through a display directory thing and it's just not intuitive.

Basic rule of thumb: If the Linux thing you're doing has a Windows alternative, you're better off doing it through Windows or dual booting Linux.

Very informative video, someone on Youtube said "As someone who is tired of all the "10 Tips you didnt know" style videos that only show basic things your mom wouldn't know, thank you for providing genuinely interesting and useful information I didn't know." and I think that one nailed it. You are working with a very talented team.
 
I had honestly no idea windows was this powerful. I am currently still on w10, but after this video I am kinda considering giving w11 a try.

You can just tell Windows to put the Downloads folder on another drive via the Location tab by right-clicking and going to Properties. I moved it to my DRAM-less SATA SSD, to free up space on my C drive. It's not like my 50Mbps Internet is ever going to overwhelm a cheap SSD.
 

You can. In the container configuration, you're able to choose the directory you want to mount as database and thumbnails.
 
Goes without saying, all of the above applies to a NAS, with a containerized Plex instance.

If you need to have 10000% reliability, make sure to have an offsite backup solution. Something in the server could break and fry all the HDDs at once, the server could just go down and you need to access the data any way possible, etc. As the old IT adage goes "two is one and one is none", and try to practice 3-2-1 backups (3 total copies, 2 different media formats and one offsite)
 
For a storage server like this one, single threaded power is what actually matters, so unless you're gonna be running a bunch of services on the same box 10 core chips would make no difference in performance.
 
The biggest strength with UnRAID is its plugin support and its JBOD filesystem. Both of which are really good for consumers, but for a small business, not quite as necessary. TrueNAS's biggest strength is ZFS, basically the most bulletproof filesystem. If you want as reliable as you can get with a ton of drives, you really should be using ZFS. Less than 12 drives, either one will be fine. TrueNAS is pretty user friendly, and their new "Scale" variant is great. It's personal preference which on people end up preferring. You can add ZFS to UnRAID as well, it's just that there currently isn't a GUI for it, so you'd have to setup and manage the array through the CLI. 
 
ZFS does support drive expansion, it just doesn't support single drive expansion. With ZFS, you have to add drives in chunks called vDevs. There are a bunch of different rules regarding adding vDevs to an array, but for the best results you want to add the same drives, the same number of drives, setup in the same redundancy structure. Every vDev is responsible for its own redundancy, so you might have 3 drives dedicated to parity in an array of 12 drives consisting of 3 vDevs each in RAID-Z1 (1 drive of redundancy), but if you lose two drives from the same vDev you lost all your data. This method does have a lot of advantages, but that is one of the downsides. It's just a lot more reliable for actually expanding the array than single drive additions with a RAID card, which is why it's done this way.

I can almost guarantee it was written specifically for the hardware being towed behind the ship, and the contractor who built it isn't just going to hand out licenses.
 
I gotta ask... do you have a towed multibeam sonar array you're not telling us about?

Yes, Usually I do ~ 80% L2ARC and 20% SLOG.
(the slog can help reorder writes into a optimal order, zfs gears it's writes towards the device doing the least amount of work to automatically balance it. The slog helps with that. Neither of these cache implementations work like other filesystems.)

Lack of ECC is fine, it's better to have it but fine if you don't.. (there is nothing special about ZFS that encourages the use of ECC then there is with any other filesystem, a bad block in ram is a bad write on everything.)

Ram for ZFS is for performance alone. It can run without it and only it's performance will suffer.

(A lot of these rumors and myths about the usage of ZFS came from Sun's original deployment guidelines and were for enterprise use.. Home use does not need to be as stringent)
 
Also: One thing you want to do is try to slice up your data into as many different types as possible that you know of. Datasets are free so use them, they make management easier and give you options. Video files are quite a bit different from database files (etc)
 

CPU wise I think you're fine for your usage. Don't expect to be running VMs or anything fancy down the line, though you should be fine with a bunch of containers.
As for RAM, ECC is recommended, but that'd be a change of platform. 16GB is the minimum but enough: still, the more the better, ARC will eat anything you give it.

DNS (that's all PiHole really is) is barely any load at all. Don't sweat it.
 
A cache drive will help repetitive random reads, but as I understand it a ZIL ("write cache") will only help ZFS on synchronous writes. If you really want one, get something like an Optane or a Sun F40 / F80, so you never have to worry about write endurance.
 
I'd add a data SSD and use that for things like the Plex database and thumbnails. That will make a huge difference in how responsive the clients feel while browsing around.

If only the OS goes onto it, 250 GB should be fine
 
I wouldn't recommend that since the cache drive has to withstand a lot of writes and dies quicker than the OS drive would. If it were to fail and you had cache and the OS on the same drive, you'd lose the OS if the drive fails. Get a 250GB OS drive (or keep your 500GB one) and a separate chache drive (2350 GB or so)
 
I don't think you'll ever have that much traffic. Maybe once every now and then but I don't think it's nessesary

sorry bro i copy paste the gpu name so it became like that 🙂  btw thanks for replaying my question i thought i need better cpu to use my gtx 980

Why the huge font size?
I have your same CPU with a 1070 Ti, and in all games the graphics card is still the bottleneck. You'll be perfectly fine

It's worth noting that the windows mixer itself is not bitperfect, even if sample rate is set correctly. It's tricky to get good quality audio through windows mixer.
If you want to play music in the highest quality, with no alteration of the data at all, you need to use a player that has an 'Exclusive mode' output support. (WASAPI Exclusive, or ASIO if your DAC has an ASIO driver).

Players like foobar and musicbee are free and can do this. Or if you're wanting something higher end and are happy to pay, Roon and Audirvana are fantastic
Tidal has WASAPI Exclusive support, and Qobuz has both WASAPI Exclusive and ASIO support.

Spotify is windows mixer only. There used to be a third party client called 'fidelify' which added WASAPI Exclusive support but to my knowledge it's no longer maintained.

Exclusive mode will bypass windows audio mixing, automatically adjust the sample rate of your DAC depending on the content being played, and if using ASIO, will also support DSD content if you have any and your DAC supports it.

This is false; setting the volume to 98 (or any) % won't avoid clipping, it will only reduce by 2% the resolution of your DAC. That 2% volume reduction (a linear scale, then quantized in digital) happens after your player, therefore if you're clipping, you're clipping before that linear map, scaling that distortion as well. DACs don't clip; their 100% is Windows' 100%.
The only way you can have a "DAC clip" (it doesn't happen in the DAC, but still in Windows), is if you boost your audio somewhere in your digital path, perhaps with EQ or ReplayGain. Again, since Windows' volume will apply afterwards, this will simply scale the clipped audio to 98%, retaining the distortion.
 
Clipping is a kind of distortion that happens when your signal hits the limits of amplitude of your carrier:
- in digital, if the value tries to go above 16/24 bits, or below 0; this happens only if there's some audio boosting happening (EQ, ReplayGain or something similar).
- in analog, if the value tries to go above or below the maximum available voltage swing of the audio signal chain. The component that has the lower limit will cause the clipping; generally it's either an OpAmp, or a transistor. This happens if the audio coming from the DAC / preamp overloads the gain stage (very rare) or if you're overloading the power stage by attempting to drive low sensitivity drivers at higher volumes. Typically, high impedance headphones have this kind of issue, as they require high amplitude signals.
Power, in audio devices*, isn't limited by current, but by how much amplitude you can get before too much distortion or clipping.
 
*except when you're dealing with <8Ohms loudspeakers and power amplifiers; some amps (especially tube, OTLs and BJT amps) may not be able to drive lower impedance loudspeakers for current reasons. With headphones there's no such problem.

What you should do is play it the in the exact same format as the source file, otherwise you are resampling. Some player programs have a thing called "Exclusive mode" which will do this automatically. (Amazon music has it but it doesn't actually work).  If you are playing from a compressed source then it really doesn't matter. 

Atom stack should be great! Full potential is a funny term and has a lot to do with just having a better source as well. Where headphones just tend to improve when fed a  better source. Some more than others. A Tom stack will basically get you 95% there. You have to spend a good amount ore if you want true full potential. 

As you said in your own words: you lost the thumbnails. They are stored, for all files, in databases that windows got rid of to save space. The files are still there, intact.
I'd suggest you to free up some space deleting old stuff, uninstalling programs or upgrading your hard drive; running so low on storage can be problematic.

Thank you both for the helpfull info!.

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What I think @whispous meant is, instead of trying to cheat, look up how to play the game the way it's supposed to. Games have rules to make them fun; if you wanted a sandbox with unlimited access to anything, there's Minecraft for that.
 
What even is this mentality?

I don't really understand the OS thing... Windows 8.1 is deprecated, almost EOL; Windows 7 is outright dangerous, unless you're using it for a strictly offline retro machine. Why wouldn't you be able to choose your OS with whichever hardware? Am I missing something?
About the graphics cards, 2080 Ti > 3060. I wouldn't even take into account possible future upgrades; with how the market is going, and will be going in the future, when you'll need an upgrade you'll see what's available. It's worthless to consider possible alternative futures, when even the present is hypothetical availabilities.

You need to set up either remote-access software or a VPN. Assuming both machines are behind Internet connections that don't have static WAN IP addresses, you'll need either a dynamic DNS service or a VPN service that uses their own server at a static address for handshaking.

We're not going to help you circumvent policies put in place by your school or employer on hardware owned by them. 

The 2080 ti is a significantly stronger card than the 3060.
 
I am not going to comment on obsolete operating systems. 

The thing with IEMs is that they have very high sensitivity and low impedance: they tend to exaggerate the noise floor and all interferences that happen on laptops especially. An amp is really needed for high impedance headphones, which have the opposite problem (they don't get loud enough, need more gain); indeed, as @ShearMe said, you'd be better off with a USB DAC / dongle combo doodad. The most important thing is isolating your source (DAC) from the inside of the laptop, where there's all kinds of noise. Most reputable USB DAC dongles have good isolation from the USB-carried noise, and also have ample power to drive IEMs. On audiosciencereview, you'll find tons of technical reviews (especially those made by amirm, a moderator / owner) with truckloads of information about all sorts of devices, including USB DACs etc.

Tell me you have a cat without telling me you have a cat.
 
I haven't serviced a mouse since I stopped scraping the gunk off the track ball wheels, other than poking a bit of fur away from the sensor eye. I guess I replaced the slide pads on one mouse, if peel n stick counts. Modern stuff is pretty maintenance free which is nice.