Dutch_Master

There is no such thing as "free".  Some how, some way, they will try to get your money.

Backblaze B2 is 6$/mo for 1TB of data.
 
Don't trust anyone who is "free" with your data.  

Let em, he did specifically state in the video "Anyone who does this anymore can be shadow banned by the community team, and they've been encouraged to do so."

So, it may happen, but very quickly will stop happening, cuz they can't message or comment anymore.  

If you're comfortable with potentially loosing files, or a non-bootable PC, then by all means make a RAID0 with these drives.
 
If your data has any value above zero to you, then avoid RAID0 like the plague
 
Your message implies you have more of those drives, why not create a RAID5 or even RAID6, this allows for redundancy (of 1 resp. 2 drives) while still increasing storage capacity.
 
HTH!

I wouldn't simply for the extra potential latency. When your boot/main drive is in the first M.2 slot, almost always that's wired directly to the CPU's I/O die or Uncore (aka the North Bridge). Almost always, the secondary M.2 slots are wired to the chipset which shares bandwidth with most other PCIe devices, which can be as small as PCIe 4.0 4x or 8x. That then also forces bandwidth to the chipset (South Bridge) to manage that RAID volume.
 
I ran RAID0 M.2 PCIe 4.0 4x drives pretty early on with an X570 motherboard. I ended up getting rid of it and seemingly noticed a latency benefit. The best I could come up with as an explanation was the lowered complexity of data transport. Where I concluded that the potential increase in latency isnt worth the unnecessarily higher read/write speeds with RAID0. RAID1 is another story which is entirely useful, but that's not applicable here.

Already taken care of.
As mentioned, just report the offense and no need to make topics on it. 👍

Go for the deal. A 12600K is a significant upgrade over your current CPU and allows for more FPS and/or higher settings for your games. A water cooler on your current CPU just doesn't offer the same performance boost.

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The only legitimate way to watch the Behind the Scenes Floatplane exclusives is to subscribe to Floatplane. Any other methods to obtain the video is piracy, which we do not condone or allow. 

For starters, boot a Linux Live CD-R to see what's actually in the system. You don't need a harddrive for that. Next, install the system-OS SSD from your old system and see if it recognises your new PC components. After that, just add more drives. It's likely your data can (and will) be reused. As for the licence key, accept a test licence for now and upgrade to a new key once you've obtained that.
 
Or install Linux outright, no paid-for S/W key required 😛

For starters, boot a Linux Live CD-R to see what's actually in the system. You don't need a harddrive for that. Next, install the system-OS SSD from your old system and see if it recognises your new PC components. After that, just add more drives. It's likely your data can (and will) be reused. As for the licence key, accept a test licence for now and upgrade to a new key once you've obtained that.
 
Or install Linux outright, no paid-for S/W key required 😛

Called it. It's been painfully obvious for a while now that the Titanic MG was heading towards its iceberg moment. The sheer amount of grandiose delusions pushed forward by the egomaniac-in-chief, in a desperate attempt to brush the mounting catastrophic failures under the carpet... Everything from the flawed, overpriced, alpaca-filled backpacks to the massive commercial failure of the screwdriver (see how they had to reduce the handle length to cut costs), from cancelling LTX (clearly due to no one attending) to embarking in that bottomless pit of money called "Labs" (or is it? Has the IRS paid a visit yet?), from the law-bending tax write-offs to hiring a sock-puppet, experience-less CEO (why the f* is he there? Isn't it supposed to be someone recognizable?) to save face, everything predicted the disaster that finally happened.
 
Speaking of write-offs, remember how his pink car would appear in videos all the time? It supposedly got thrashed and replaced by this luxury car he keeps talking about but no one has seen. Yeah, right, "thrashed"... sounds like insurance fraud to me.
 
I'm sure Colton regrets not getting fired for real before the downfall. At least I'm glad not to see Yvonne in the video, obviously she was smart enough to jump ship before it was too late (which also explains Luke moving back to the basement).
 
Imagine burning through all that Nvidia shilling money so quickly... I guess you actually needed a special screwdriver to screw up this hard, huh. What a loser.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
PS: It was genuinely one of your funniest videos!.

Yeah, it's still April 1st somewhere in the Universe 😉

Video was posted early and thread was posted late. Nice one.

Any.  Literally any Gen 3 or 4 NVMe drive fits that bill.  From the Crucial P3 to the Teamgroup lineup.

Money.
 
Money is the reason bridges and other infrastructure isn’t built and/or maintained like it should be. Paying a structural engineer to inspect a bridge isn’t that much, getting ahead of a catastrophic failure by preemptively replacing gussets, cables, and rivets is very expensive, especially when public perception is ‘road closed = bad’ even though it’s necessary to facilitate that maintenance.
 
The last twenty years of my life I’ve worked in commercial architecture, mostly on medical facilities like hospitals. Even extremely necessary facilities like that have to ‘value-engineer’ aspects of them and reduce project scope to fit a budget. It might be cheaper plumbing fixtures or wall finishes, something innocuous, but if they can put less shutoff valves in med gas lines and save $75k, they’ll do it even if it makes a potential future expansion much more difficult.

Money rules everything, even the most important things.

I know, I live in one of those despised European socialist countries 😛 (founding member of NATO, and all predecessors of the current EU, home of the International Peace Court as well as several International Criminal Courts. Not to mention the biggest flower auction on the planet and only 2nd to the US in agriculture exports, key transport hub in NW-Europe and inventors of the Exchange system now dominated by Wall Street. And the first multinational company, the VOC. But to Americans, we're the loathed socialists )

What we got in return of our tax-euro's? Don't ask me, this guy knows:
https://www.youtube.com/@NotJustBikes

And this from that other "socialist" country, Germany:
https://www.youtube.com/@TypeAshton
 
Please explore their channels, and many like them, for a North-American view of European solutions to problems the US and Canada also have.
 
 

ik, still kinda funny

You have every right to be upset about this as well as being vocal about the situation you were put in by no fault of your own.
 
However, stay civil and courteous, especially on public platforms like this. Not doing so will actually harm your case should it ever get out of hand and you'd have to resort to the Court system.
 
Best of luck!

Well, it is the Off Topic section, so whaddaya expect? 🎯

NTSB report on bridge collapse near Pittsburg, PA, with animations and actual footage of the collapse:
 
 
 
It's easy to conclude the root cause of the collapse was lack of maintenance on the part of PennDOT. But that leaves the question: why didn't they maintain the bridge as they should, especially after nearly 8 years of alarming reports on the rapidly deteriorating state of the bridge? If you know the answer, let us know too!
 
 

so... "no one is safe" because of a commit that only made it into a dev build of fedora and debian?
 
while this is a potentially very big backdoor.. it seems that humanity had some karma saved up, and a microsoft dev of all people just happened upon the backdoor while working on a dev build.
 
the short of it is; if you havent updated in the past few days, there is no reason to suspect your system is affected.

You can also use a SAS expander rather than a 24i port card or multiple cards. The 9207 can address 256 drives.

1. Correct: SAS controllers can communicate with SATA drives, but not the other way round.
2. Depending on future upgrade plans, you may opt to spread the load from the drives over more then a single HBA. There are mixed HBA's, that have both internal and external connectors, the latter to connect to a disk shelf. Or as Linus demonstrated in an earlier video on his NetApp rack, a string of disk-shelves. For your case, a 16-drive internal and a mixed 8i8e HBA (dual external ports) might be sufficiently interesting to investigate. Buy from reputable sources or if you're shopping on Aliexpress, make sure the shop exists for over a year minimum.
3. Obviously, you need cables with connectors that suit both the HBA as well as the backplane. They might be SFF8643, but there are different standards in use so pay close attention which connectors you need.
 
HTH!

1. Correct: SAS controllers can communicate with SATA drives, but not the other way round.
2. Depending on future upgrade plans, you may opt to spread the load from the drives over more then a single HBA. There are mixed HBA's, that have both internal and external connectors, the latter to connect to a disk shelf. Or as Linus demonstrated in an earlier video on his NetApp rack, a string of disk-shelves. For your case, a 16-drive internal and a mixed 8i8e HBA (dual external ports) might be sufficiently interesting to investigate. Buy from reputable sources or if you're shopping on Aliexpress, make sure the shop exists for over a year minimum.
3. Obviously, you need cables with connectors that suit both the HBA as well as the backplane. They might be SFF8643, but there are different standards in use so pay close attention which connectors you need.
 
HTH!