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  1. Rotate faster? Fast mechanical drives exist for both SAS and sata. Drives that are like 10k rpm are largely useless now, as their purpose was to provide faster access and somewhat faster randoms, at least as fast as you could get with spinning rust. They were loud, ran hot, and cost more for less capacity. They've mostly been replaced with flash storage these days for anything that requires fast access. The drive itself isn't largely different, just the board on the drive. If you're looking for like raid controllers with more advanced features and better diagnostic data, you're probably looking at a SAS card (not that there isn't good sata solutions out there). A sas controller can support multiple data lanes, and the total throughput I think is 12Gb/s, faster than sata but it's not like you're going to saturate that with one mechanical drive- and it's only with enterprise solutions you're likely to see shit like port multipliers and sas expanders. Oh, and SAS supports sata, but not the other way around. It actually gets really confusing on what can do what when it comes to server mass storage solutions. It's really not something you should concern yourself with unless you are looking for just a few drives. There's some other unique reasons for SAS (like the long max cable length, 10m if you want a jump rope), but to be honest if you don't know them you're probably not in a position to even consider it, and since it's mostly server/enterprise solutions, it often costs more and is less user friendly/well documented. The drive itself is not defined by the connector really, and while you'll generally see faster and more reliable drives with sas, that's simply because no one is using SAS in the consumer market- pretty much all of the drives are enterprise grade. These days you'll see some high end drives that come in both sas or sata are basically the same drive. In the end it's still just a hard rive, though likely more often enterprise grade. Just choose whatever's more convenient for you, and SAS probably only is if you're working with something that already has it- like raid cards or servers people like to scoop up off ebay for cheap is where I see people have to deal with it that have no experience with it.
  2. Skeuomorphism will one day return to forgive us for our sins.

    1. DrMacintosh

      DrMacintosh

      Watch out, you’ll resurrect Scott Foretalls’ career! 

      Spoiler

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    2. Syntaxvgm

      Syntaxvgm

      truly how it still should be 

  3. Syntaxvgm

    Status Update

    They are scientifically fruits but in culinary practice are used as vegetables. Leave it to a christian series to reject science /s
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    Status Update

    The thing I dont get is Bob and Larry are fruits. Why are they the stars of "VeggieTales"? What are we teaching our kids?
  5. Yah I'm really not sure with this one. My mbp is annoying, and USBc has a lot of problems, but this pic that I posted on reddit to make fun of it (there's also a mini dp to full dp adapter between the dp and dldvi adapters not pictured) Really shows the power of the port, you can do almost anything with usbc, and with thunderbolt 3 my boss has 2 4k screens and all of his peripherals on one plug including power using this dock so when he brings his laptop in, it's as good as the old latching docks. https://www.caldigit.com/ts3-plus TB3 is also way more reliable than usbc but the adapters are also way more expensive. Either way I'm not sure I could do as much with only 4 of any other ports, only 2 of which I actually need. I did the dongle mess because it was cheaper (and I already had a lot of the adapters) and I strapped it under my desk for a total of 2 plugs. With the dock, I would have still needed an active DL DVI adapter for one of the legacy 1440p screens I use. Now, I'm not sure I like the lack of usb ports, but I do like more motherboards having usbc and thunderbolt. I used to carry an itx pc, and this would have been so cool to have this all down to one plug, though im sure I'd still have to plug power in.
  6. Syntaxvgm

    So a guy lit himself on fire in front of the wh…

    you prove that you're flammable.
  7. So a guy lit himself on fire in front of the white house today. 

     

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    Burned for a good 25-30 seconds walking around before they got to him, I'm not sure they did him any favors by putting him out might die anyway and more slowly. 

    1. DrMacintosh

      DrMacintosh

      Sounds fun, guess the guy hated life. Not sure what you prove by killing yourself by lighting yourself on fire though. 

    2. Syntaxvgm

      Syntaxvgm

      you prove that you're flammable. 

  8. Just outside a medium sized city, right in the country but still close to all the city has to offer. Move any time something is annexed or the population spreads more.
  9. I didn't know this existed until today. This is top notch, putin dies fighting a terrorist truck attack and gets crushed by his own head to end up in another world
  10. When I first saw some jojo episode on tv, and some guy introduced himself as "Robert E.O. Speedwagon" then proceeded to talk like he'd always been there I lost it, funny shit. Still haven't watched jojo, but seen a few episodes on adult swim
  11. seriously reddit eats up that kinda stuff. "This was my friend's collection until he passed away. His wife wants to sell it, I just want to make sure it goes to someone who'll appreciate them as much as he did"
  12. Like anime it's full of trash and sometimes trash is enjoyable. There's good stuff here and there too of course.
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    Throwback to when I did this How many things ca…

    a 1080ti in a windows 7 system with 2GB of memory. remind me of this old 'experiment' of mine that resulted from an argument i had with someone about threading in games.
  14. dont skimp on the PSU. There's only a few OEMs that make the actualy power delivery parts, make sure to pick based on that or the reviews like johnny guru.
  15. When picking a name (the one you assign in windows), it might be nice to keep it short so when you type it in over the network it's easy to type. I like picking names about where they are like "SHELF" or "DESK" or I had one that was "FLOOR" Be creative, make it fun. Here's some others I've chosen or people I know have Reparations - my pc with all black parts ( a bit long) CaptureCrunch- my capture pc Privilege - White computer Vore - my server that consumes drive images whole Donglebook- my Macbook pro Macbook- my dell precision Blacklung- crypto miner screamer- miner banshee- loud server waitress - server craptop- see this one a lot kahn- one 'a' seems to miss the mark wacbook- art student that couldn't afford a mac hodor- hodor predator- alienware IevanPolkka- A watercooled computer that had some replacements parts becuase it leeked? Get it? I know. Platterhouse- a lot of hard drives. StableGenius- A computer with issues If you have a ton of devices go for a theme. I've seen breakfast foods, cities in ancient greece or roman things, mythical creatures like cerberus (three screens), greek gods, different names for the devil, and the cast of seinfeld or TNG to name a few.
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    Remember, no matter how fucking retarded your s…

    I mean if you get an abortion in another state they want to charge you with murder 1 which is not even how state law works so that's getting most of the headlines.
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    Also I just wanted to take this opportunity to…

    no one stupid, it's just that no one in the entire line of fulfillment and delivery has time to try or is paid enough or care. The universal speed limit is the speed of light+ the 20mph over a UPS driver would go
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    This is just disgusting and frankly should be i…

    "So I bought a house, but the original owner wants me to pay again access my basement."
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    I'm honestly so confused as to why many eBay se…

    From what I've dealt with, most will, they just offer no returns and try to scare aware people who don't know how its works from even sending a claim
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    me_irl

    some are soft be me I go setting
  21. Syntaxvgm

    Everybody, apparently: [thinks that I’m offensi…

    "we downt wike yowr kind awond here uwu" furry nazis are truly a sign of the end times
  22. Back to normal meaning it happened again? Let me know, I probably wont be avaible to help you over a call until monday.
  23. In services.msc (win+r, type "services.msc) restarting "Windows Audio" may be of help, but that's something that a full restart should take care of either way. I have to go to sleep for now, I will check updates to this thread tomorrow. If it really comes down to it and we're not able to fix this, I may be willing to remote in and try solve this myself if you want at some point here if nothing on this thread works out. We'd have to set aside a time that we can both be on a call for a few hours to figure it out. Let me know and if I forget to come back and this thread goes nowhere PM me. This just seems like it sucks, so I'd really like you to have a solution somehow.
  24. alright still looking do that full restart thing I edited in while I look around more. Almost all the problems I've had so far that aren't the above are more about timing and hogging the cpu in an uninterruptible way since windows updates- where one driver isn't the problem, it's being interfered with, but that only happens with that intermittent popping not something like this.
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