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About maxtch
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- Birthday Feb 11, 1993
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Shanghai, China
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Male
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CPU
2x Intel Xeon E5-2680
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Motherboard
Asus Z9PE-D16C/2L with custom BIOS
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RAM
8x Kingston KVR DDR3-1600 Registered ECC 16GB
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XFX Radeon RX 480 8GB
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Rack
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WD Black NVMe 1TB
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HuntKey Panshi 800
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Dell P2415Q 4K monitor
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2x PCCOOLER Butterfly PWM
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Keyboard
Logitech K375k over Unifying
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Logitech M720 over Unifying
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Pioneer VSX-923 stereo system
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Windows 10 Pro for Workstation
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The thing is, built-in scaling on Windows 7 looks terrible and carries a hefty performance hit (maybe it is my old hardware on the performance side, but still.)
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I have a few pesky programs that don't work well with Windows 10, for example Xilinx ISE 14.7. (Xilinx dropped a ton of their older series FPGAs in their newer, Windows 10 compliant Vivaldo and Vitis software.) So I tried to set up a Windows 7 machine using older generation hardware (what was my storage server after the disks moved to a new chassis with an upgrade motherboard and CPU, based on Core 2 Quad Q9550S and still retaining that 8GB DDR2-800 ECC memory) and a used FirePro W2100. That FirePro is capable of 4K 60Hz output and Windows 7 can pick that up, but that resulted in a total train
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You have more than enough specs here. I have a similar setup with Nextcloud + Jellyfin on a Proxmox-virtualized Xeon L3426, still having leftover computing resources to parcel out. On the other hand, you might want to throw in a graphics card for GPU accelerated Plex transcodes. A standard GeForce will work as well as a Quadro if you puts in some modifications to your QEMU settings to allow GeForce being passed through and patch your driver to allow more than a few streams of NVENC. I threw in my unused GTX 1060 3TB for that.
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Here is the final update, with me updating the base platform as well. Now my storage server features 24 drives and 64TB total capacity. Hardware CPU: Intel Xeon L3426 (Lynnfield 4C/8T, 1.86/3.2GHz) CPU cooler: Deep Cool's imitation of an Intel stock cooler with a copper slug. Motherboard: Asus P7F-M with ASMB4-iKVM RAM: 2x Samsung DDR3-1600 Unbuffered ECC SDRAM (underclocked to DDR3-1333) GPU: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1060 3GB G1 Gaming PSU: Antec NeoEco 650W JD version semi-modular PSU, NE650M is the closest approximation SAS RAID contro
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Refurbished Hitachi SAS drives under Vivetronic brand - good idea?
maxtch replied to maxtch's topic in Storage Devices
I will check my local vendos (in China mind you) for prices. -
I am consolidating and migrating my NAS to a 24-drive unit filled with old drives - either my own old drives or recertified refurbishments, so expect an update. Spoilers:
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Refurbished Hitachi SAS drives under Vivetronic brand - good idea?
maxtch replied to maxtch's topic in Storage Devices
I fear that giving it some SMR drives would straight f up the RAID controller, vomit them out and destroy my whole array. -
Refurbished Hitachi SAS drives under Vivetronic brand - good idea?
maxtch replied to maxtch's topic in Storage Devices
My NAS was consructed using 3TB drives, which suffers from the drive-managed SMR pandemic, and I don't think my RAID controller can deal with those drives mixed along with regular CMR/PMR drives gacefully. I don't think there are many new CMR/PMR home NAS grade SATA drives out there any more that don't break the bank, so it is the choice between new old stock, or refurbished and recertified. -
As the title suggests, it is about those refurbished hard drives, specifically the ones with SAS interface (that is, retired server drives) for use within a home NAS (or a desktop PC) through a SAS HBA or SAS RAID controller. Are those a good idea? Keep in mind that my NAS is constructed using 3TB CMR/PMR drives and my LSI 9271-8iCC SAS RAID controller is too old to understand SMR.
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$ sudo ./amdvbflash -ai AMDVBFLASH version 4.69, Copyright (c) 2020 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. Adapter 0 SEG=0000, BN=83, DN=00, PCIID=67DF1002, SSID=0B371002) Asic Family : Polaris10 Flash Type : W25Q80 (1024 KB) Product Name : D00901 Polaris10 XT A1 GDDR5 256Mx32 8GB 300e/300m Bios Config File : D0090101.100 Bios P/N : 113-D0090101-100 Bios Version : 015.050.000.000.006785 Bios Date : 06/03/16 00:23 ROM Image Type : Hybrid Images ROM Image Details : Image[0]: Size(58880 Bytes)
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The RX 500 series are just rebadged 400 series so... (I basically have three RX 480's, two reference RX 480 and a Sapphire Pulse RX 580.)
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Can I cross-flash VBIOS of reference cards safely, across different card manufacturers for the same card? For example, cross-flashing Sapphire RX 480 8GB VBIOS into a XFX RX 480 8GB? (XFX cards have a known bug in its VBIOS UEFI support while Sapphire cards don't, so cross-flashing may fix it.)
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I encountered this thermal grease, AI Technology COOL-GREASE ZXM in SEMICON Shanghai 2020 and asked them for a sample to test with. It arrived a few days ago, and here is what I found out. This thermal grease is rated for 20W/(K·m). And the manufacturer claims that this is a phase-change non-curing epoxy type thermal interface material. The test system is my daily driver Hackintosh: i7-9700K on Gigabyte Z390 UD, under a Thermaltake 120mm AIO inside HuntKey S400 4U rack-mount case. The baseline was another free sample I got, with a nominal thermal conductivity of 4.5W/(K