shoutingsteve

Wouldn't you be better having the radiator as the exhaust and then letting the cracks elsewhere on the computer provide the inlet? If your choices are to actively blow hot air over your components or to allow room temperature air to passively drift by your components... wouldn't it be better to do the second option?

So. I bought pilighting.com about 20 years ago or so and have my lighting portfolio on it. there is a much larger company that started up after that, and their website is pi-lighting.com. I no longer wish to keep my website as I switched career focus, so I reached out to them to see if they want to buy the domain. The only problem is: they are in Switzerland. If they were here, I could draw up a contract and have the legal protection behind me, but I have no idea how to sell something internationally. What should I do?

I mean... hardware shutting down cause it's overheating IS by design, but still could eventually hurt it.

This is asked a lot. short answer: No. Your computer is designed to be a closed case with fans in an d fans out. If you took off the side panel till payday, just point a box fan at it.

To be clear, the windows 7 machine was different hardware, so the more I think about it, the more it could be a BIOS setting.

Specs: intel 14900k 64 GB DDR5 6500 Ram windows is on an m.2 drive I don't think it's the hardware...

I have windows 11 desktop set to put the computer to sleep after an hour of inactivity, but when I wake it back up it takes about 20 seconds (actually I just timed it at 18 seconds) to wakeup. My windows 7 setup was less than 5 seconds. Any idea what i can do to speed this up, short of just changing it to "screen off" instead?

Oh, I thought you meant the concept of the raid is slower; like how 1 is slower than 0 in it's very nature, not that it is slower because of the shortcomings of the controller.

I've never heard this. can anyone explain WHY things slow down with more drives in these configurations?

did you buy it used or new? If you bought it used; it's pretty evident why the last owner sold it. In either case, take it back.

oh, i see now the column where it says "purchased"

Why does the intel build have 4 hard drives? Also, save yourself a thousand bucks and go down a tier for your graphics card.

I used to host Diablo 2 parties; It was such a great time! I wish i had friends... good lord I used to be so much more fun... What game are you planning on doing? AOE is always a great game when you have people in the same room: put 5 humans against one "max difficulty" bot civilization and it's a great comradery builder.

I dunno... apple customers have a reputation of being more demanding (they aren't so, but the prejudice is there). The brand is built on being the image of perfection, so if you go in person to the store and make a big stink you might get a replacement. But don't give them a dime to repair or replace it. If they try and change you anything, walk away.

I would advise you to just leave it be. You risk breaking things by "fixing" it.

Wow... you're really caught up on this point. The guy was asking if it is safe in a specific regard: heat damage. Everyone has agreed that it isn't a good idea, you're just

I mean, if we are including the unforeseeable, then it's not safe to even plug it into the power outlet. The utility pole outside your house could have the wrong transformer placed during routine maintenance and suddenly you're getting 277 volts instead of 120. But answering the original question with regards to dangers not avoided by implicit common sense: I stand by my answer of it is important to have proper cooling with the side panel on as other components are suffering with it off.

I am not sure, I never open my NAS box to the internet. My work laptop syncs as soon as I open it at home because I use a program called "Goodsync."

Like this setup here: https://www.ebay.com/itm/145493271145?hash=item21e0132269:g:dEgAAOSwqpBld3fs&amdata=enc%3AAQAIAAAA8HRhl3%2FiOtB1MNbZZZm0VT%2F8LAAGiBLz%2BR7liZGLCZSDmKgIP9Etj3cOfp09OnuIeGnibwyXjjJunGBnHjhBwt233lhHGp%2BCMXOxdTMd%2Bn%2FehDZdQWP2gwmGnYKhnk1SE7avE2sKHtNfmaGOgaKuvWgmlACaENeMNHkOGkvNiiXBKo2MKCZd5U3dzuC%2FbpvMFxIcV8b7qfSuPNHvQfCR0o7eFjNNxGtSg10SzOFqFZw%2BJZ2eN5Id%2B%2F0CrsEb1RbXy2owLZLRC9Jke2%2BJiGNMDHvGLczsituXYJVAevmR1OfP824mYk3xh4WxhktBjv4K%2FQ%3D%3D|tkp%3ABFBMgNzXxKBj GA-Z87X-UD3H has 8 sata slots. So if you had 8 2 TB drives laying around you can get 12 TB of storage (if you have 2 dsiks of parity to protect you from drive crashes). But if even one of those drives is a 1 TB, then the entire pool will be reduced to 6 TB ( the ZFS treats every drive like it is the same size as the smallest)

I don't think you can use a laptop, mostly because of the USB nature of the hard drives. jump on ebay and find a used tower PC that has a mobo with lots of SATA connectors. It doesn't have to be the latest technology (mine is a Pentium G4400 from a decade ago). Then you get enough drives to fill every SATA slot and you boot the TruNAS os of a USB thumbdrive (that you leave in the backpanel of the server). Important note: You cannot add more drives to the ZFS pool (the raid array) but you can increase the pools size by increasing the capacity of the drives. The system will be limited by the smallest drive. What size SATA drives do you have laying around?

I recently upgraded to windows 11 Pro (I so that means I do have access to group policy editor if that ends up needing to come into play) and I hate how long it takes the new rig to come out of a sleep state (It's only 30 or seconds, but still... I'm not getting any younger...). I want to create a power plan that will allow the computer to sleep if idle for 30 minutes if it's past 11 PM, but only turn off the monitors if idle for 30 minutes if it is before 11 PM. Google didn't really turn up anything so I figured I would reach out here.

Do you have spare hardware laying around? Building a TruNAS box from old harware is the best solution. I have mine with 6 drives in a raid 5 configuration. It has both SMB (windows) and AFP (apple) and NFS (linux) sharing, so it will work for everything. Plus if you have roku or firestick that you can install VLC player on, you've basically got a really great media server.

Thanks for answering. How did you find that answer?

https://www.newegg.com/seagate-st6000nm0004-6tb/p/N82E16822178521?Item=9SIA6CCK1H3720 https://www.seagate.com/products/cmr-smr-list/ Can anyone tell me if the HDD I'm looking at is CMR or SMR? I am upgrading two of the drives in my NAS box and i don't want to wait weeks for the raid to resilver itself between hard drive swaps.