Recent content by glugglug

I started getting SMART alerts today because one of my 2.5 year old 4TB WD Red drives exceeded 600,000 load cycles. I checked and all 4 in the pool are nearing this threshold. Back of the envelope calculations tell me this means there is a load cycle every 2-3 minutes? This seems crazy to me...

Almost..... They don't have copy protected channels working with the hack yet, and a lot of people report problems getting extenders to work. Support for older tuners is very iffy.

That article is so full of crap. The stuff about 2-way is FAR BEYOND misleading. Tru-2Way is essentially a spec for the cable box to hand over control to Java applets that know the protocol for sending back to the cable company. So it would require (a) running the same Java apps on your...

Is there a .wtv to .ts converter that doesn't lose any metadata (and preferably even keeps closed captions?) Actually according to Wikipedia, .ts doesn't support metadata tags, so I guess those are in a separate XML file or something?

It doesn't support blu-rays... At least not without some 3rd party add-on like TMT...

Is it an unrepresentative sample? Probably, I'll grant that. But the idea it is used primarily for DVDs is preposterous. In fact, when MS mentioned the low usage (6% launching it at least once in July 2011), they specifically said TV was the most used feature, and that physical media use was...

For me it is at least 3 of the above. (And DVD is NOT one of the 3). But the polls only allow 10 choices, so I phrased it as what do you *primarily* use it for. Ideal would be a poll that lets you check multiple boxes.

According to @GabeAul, people primarily use WMC for DVD Playback. Let's just say this seems a bit implausible. Created a poll here to see what you guys primarily use it for. https://twitter.com/GabeAul/status/595326865205817346

My 512GB Neutron has a raw read error rate value of "1" (raw value 0x00008104) after 2-3 weeks uptime. This is at least the 3rd time this has happened, if I COLD boot, the counter will reset to near 200 with a raw value near 0. Windows restart does not reset it. CrystalDiskInfo, Stablebit...

I am only seeing it load ridiculously slow when at home. I found it is actually loading dramatically faster right now on my cell phone which is barely connected since I'm in the basement than it is on my 35Mbps FIOS. Traceroute shows FIOS is reaching the forums through cogent.... so maybe...

My PSU has a 4+4 pin ATX 12V arrangement (Rosewill Capstone 550-M) Motherboard has an 8-pin connector (Asus Z87-Pro). The part of the motherboard connector that is thicker for the cable to clip on to is at the center of the 8 pin connector. The clips on the 4+4 cable are at the center of...

Seriously I've never seen it update near this slow. And the only new feature we are told about is switching the overpriced XBOX Live Videos between devices?

Not automated, but this will make your life a lot easier than creating the links from command line: http://schinagl.priv.at/nt/hardlinkshellext/linkshellextension.html

There are no event log messages about the drives, at all. One thing I noticed checking the drives from safe mode so drivepool isn't started up using them, is that on one of the drives the # of bytes it is checking of the USN journal goes to 4GB, then like -220 MB. in the last second. Maybe...

One drive has clean SMART info, the other has 6 pending sectors (which read fine on a surface scan, it has had them a few weeks now, but apparently there is a bit error getting corrected on them by ECC so the drive is waiting for them to be explicitly rewritten).