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Thanks for the replies guys. My only issue with Defender is the cross-platform aspect and the Centralised Control for home use.

Hi all, I have a number of Windows and Android/Apple devices on my home network. Previously I've used Webroot Secureanywhere client on Windows/Android to secure these devices. It's unobtrusive, and it just "worked" but lately it's been getting more and more expensive, whilst my devices have reduced. What I'm after is: Central Management Console Light on resource/Cloud based is an option A good track record. Any suggestions?

I'd actually like to see an LTT series where they get "average Joe GenZ" guinea pigs to use 80's and 90's tech and see what they make of it. Do one on PCs, TVs, Phones, Audio content, etc

Let's look at what was not said here (note: I do not own any Apple products - I'm not a fanboy). If Apple is launching a product at that price, they are doing one of two things. 1) announcing their intention to be big players in the AR space for the foreseeable, 2) showing just how much money they've put into R&D and potentially how much they will continue to, and more importantly, 3) they see an actual use case for this product with consumers. For a company like Apple to publically back a technology like this is actually quite exciting. Yes, we've had Oculus and others, but they have been aimed predominantly at the gaming market for consumers. I'm not saying they'll succeed, but I am saying that they fully intend to succeed and will be putting their money where their mouth is going forward. That, for AR and VR, is massive in my opinion

I think a lot of people are using the collective term "AI" to group similar, but actually different, workloads. ChatGPT for example is a contextualiser or scraped data. It scrapes programmed sources (Internet sectors, other public DBs etc) for pertinent information and then contextualises what we say to it, and translates that into something a little more natural than what we've had before. The key here is in the ability to continually generate context - that is the "AI" part. For example, I asked ChatGPT to re-write the ending of Angel the Series (one of my favourite shows) and it obviously scraped data about the show, it's characters, essays written on it, thought pieces, as well as various synopsises. That's all great and ChatGPT will be awesome for repeatable tasks such as Support Desks, and Booking systems. what it isn't doing is creating anything "new". It's collating existing data and presenting it as information. You can call that "scammy" all you want but you have to understand the power of it and other similar workloads. Where AI is a bit scary is in the non-consumer-facing AI that we know is being used and developed behind the scenes. Actual artificial intelligence is the holy grail, and I fully believe that is what needs to be regulated and I'm not sure how far away from it we are. So, in answer to the original post (yes, I'm late to the party) - AI, as is present to us now, isn't a scam, the marketing of it could well be considered that though.

This is my little slice of tech....I haven't had chance to use it much in the last few months due to a new job, but it still does the job for me! Ryzen 2600X Asus Prime X470-Pro Motherboard RTX MSI Armor 2070 8GB 32GB Corsair Vengence RAM Samsung Evo 970 boot NVME DEEPCOOL Captain 240PRO V2 AIO 2 x carbon wrapped 1TB scratch SSDs 3 x S2415H monitors Seasonic SnowSilent 750w PSU NZXT S340 Elite case Generic dual motor standing desk frame (forget the name) Peripherals: SteelSeries Aerox 3 mouse SteelSeries Apex 7 keyboard SteelSeries Arctic 7 headset It still has enough power for me to do most things, but I am considering a chip upgrade to a 5-series Ryzen due to the prices they are available at, and I keep looking at Meshify cases for more airflow.

Here's my take. If you're going to test a product, it's because you are evaluating it against the competition. That wasn't the original plan for SC as I remember it. SC was a return to the old-style unboxing, where the product itself was judged on its own merit. Taking into consideration the quote above, that's like saying you shouldn't take into consideration how good AC is on a car because it comes with it turned off. If you're going to evaluate, then you need to evaluate the features that are sold as is to consumers. But that's where we get into "review" territory for me. I just wanna see somebody unbox a product, and say how it works and what they like or don't like about it. If I want to gauge whether it's a good product or not in the wider market, I'll check out a review.

Damn...burn lol

Any other recommendations?

Okay, maybe I'll look for a mid-tower case then for more airflow - it's certainly not going to be seen anyway - it'll be stored. Thoughts on other components?

apart from the Node 804 which has 8.

Hi all, I dabbled with unRAID in the last 6 months on an old N54L Microserver and I was blown away with it's versatility. I ended up moving all of my docs, photos, and personal videos to it, delivering music and photo media servers from it with only Plex being used on an old I7 Win10 machine I have. Fast forward and I'm ready to consolidate it and a few other services, into a new unRAID build. There is so much choice, I'm enlisting your expert help (hopefully). have a few pre-requisites: up to 5 concurrent Plex stream, but mostly Direct Play (1080p), however I want to dabble in 4K streams shortly (storage dependant) I will have around 20 or so dockers doing various other stuff, but nothing too taxing - the N54L manages it perfectly right now aside from Nextcloud (which is a dog) I want the new setup to be power efficient. I'm using the N54L, as well as the aforementioned Windows 10 machine which is sitting on an I7 2600k I want this in a small case (MicroATX perhaps) but I want a bunch of 3.5" caddies - I was looking at the Node 804 but it is pricey Noise is a bit of a factor so the less the better - I'm sure it'll be less than the N54L I'm dealing with in my office right now though (Win10 machine is in my loft/attic) So, the ask is what components I should be looking for to give me the above and some headroom? I was looking at I5 10400, with the Plex requirements (iGPU, etc) in mind and headroom, but I'm after options. Budget wise, I'm trying to get all of this done and dusted for £1000 all in. This might include a couple more drives than I have now, but we'll see. I have 3 4TB Seagate drives sitting in my N54L, and a couple of mirrored Toshy N300 6TB drives in my Win10 machine so between all that I should have enough. Thoughts, notes, assistance? Thanks!

Thanks for that - quick follow up. If I have to add a new disk to that array, will it just "add". It won't have to change the parity disk again, because that takes an age!

Hi guys, Grabbed myself an old N54L microserver as I had a few drives sitting around, and thought I'd dabble in unRAID. So, I have a 250GB SSD which I'll use for cache, and then I have: 1 x 6TB 2 x 4TB 1 x 1TB My plan was to use 6TB as parity drive, and through the rest in (all 7200rpm). My question is, am I right in thinking that I'd get the full usable space, as I would in a JBOD, of the 2 x 4TB and 1 x 1TB drives (9TB), and the 6TB would be used for parity, as would be the case in a striped array?

Oh I'm not worried about it at all - just wondered if I could get it any lower.

I thought it should be a little lower myself. I know it's not scary high by any means, and under load I don't hit anything that worries me. Perhaps Air Cooling would provide a better option but it wouldn't look as nice

Hi all, I have a Deepcool Captain 240PRO V2 rad/pump on my 2600x and whilst temps are kept under control, idling I'm still jumping anywhere from high 30s when just booted to 50C when a few things open but doing nothing. Fan curve is tuned for quietness which might be the issue. They idle at around 600rpm. Setup is two 120mm intakes on the rad at the front of a NZXT S340 Elite (I know, not much intake there). 1 exhaust on the rear, and 1 exhaust on the top. Intakes are meshed and all fans are Corsair ML-120 Pro. I have thought about changing the flow of air so that it's back to front as exhausting hot air might be easier at the front than the rear. Open to suggestions.

I know this is quite old, but I thought I'd add my thoughts. I had been running WD Reds (6TB) for a few years now. One of those just died so I was forced to replace them. I ended up purchasing the N300 due to their value at the higher capacity. I got 6TB again as my storage requirement has actually shrunk. Suffice to say I've been really happy. They are sitting in a hardware RAID 1 (two of them obviously) on an old Z210 Sandybridge media server, but they do the job just fine. Noise wise I found them very similar. Just keep an eye on temps

One quick update - the migration worked, however in the process one of my WD Reds has decided to die! Gives me an excuse to purchase some Toshy N300s instead

Just FYI all worked smoothly. When I thought about it logically, it's just the controller that governs what the OS sees....so thanks for confirming all!

Hi both, Just to confirm, yes it';s a PCI RAID controller I added in a while back with SATA ports connected to the drives in question. So, if I life that controller card, and the drives, into this new machine it should just "spring" into life and not want to rebuild 6TB of an array, sync it, and wipe the data?

Hi all, Not strictly a "server" piece of hardware, but the utilisation of these PC's is with a server function so, here goes. Long story short, I have an old machine running a Q9550 on an old P5Q-PRO board. Within that system, I'm running a few pieces of software (Subsonic, Plex, etc) to server up media for my household. I have 2 x 6TB WD Reds connected to a JMicron JMB36X RAID Controller (in RAID 1). Not the best setup but good enough for the 5-10 devices I stream to at a max of 1080p. However my Q9550 is starting to creak a little despite a few upgrades to the OS, and I have an old I7 machine I had a sitting gathering dust, that I'd like to migrate to for the same use. My question is can I lift and shift the RAID controller form my old machine, to my new one, without having to rebuild the array/losing data? For reference, both systems are running Windows 10 for now.

So, it's two the same then eh?

Slightly strange post perhaps here. I have another thread looking at a replacement for my dual Dell S2415H. What I am thinking of however is a 1080p panel for gaming (AOC 24G2U), and then perhaps a slower response panel for media consumption and productivity, but higher resolution. The questions I have are: Would you recommend having different resolution monitors next to each other? I'll keep the same size, but they have to look similar in terms of design (if not identical) Thoughts?

Also, what's their 1440p equivalent, or isn't there one yet?