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SpaceX for better or worse is the only thing that showed up to give my grandparents Internet even remotely close to modern standards. For years prior, they were on HughesNet (DirecWay back then) satellite internet, and got the chance to get 512kbps DSL from AT&T in 2007. They limped that along...

My Tesla just passed 85,000 miles and had it's first real breakdown issue. The superbottle (the unified coolant valve / heat exchanger / pump system in the car for cabin / battery heating / cooling) failed. It imposed a low speed limit (50MPH), and I made an appointment in the app noting that I...

Given this is a Windows system, and you want resiliency, my vote is to just buy a Microsemi Adaptec SmartRAID 3101-4i for a couple hundred bucks and keep it simple. Has a driver for everything, installs easy, supports SSDs, and otherwise will just work. While there's a lot of ways to navigate...

In a world where modern devices are able to show signs of life in seconds, it's absolutely ridiculous how many modern DDR5 based platforms are out there that give absolutely no indication that memory training is taking place. It's just begging for unnecessary support calls and poor user...

Give me Dual Motors, at least 250 miles of range, ideally an LFP battery chemistry I don't have to worry about charging to 100%, and the R3/R3X sounds like a solid EV alternative to my Impreza

Any time you're purchasing parts designed for servers, you're going to have to do more homework on the Vendor. I recommend hanging around the Servethehome forums and finding out what other people use for their home labs if you're looking to find a fast track. There's lots of parts out there...

The Micron 9400 PRO is a 20-25W NVMe design in a 2.5" form factor. That's well over double what most 2.5" 15K spinning drives are and most 7.2K 3.5" spinning drives. It's 5x what many M.2 NVMe drives target. It's designed for servers that have linear data room temperature airflow coming across...

The first-gen Ryzen Memory Controller just wasn't as capable as later Ryzens. I have an ASUS Crosshair VI Hero board with 32GB of G.Skill (2x16GB Samsung B-Die) RAM, and another identical build but with 16GB (2x8GB Samsung B-Die) Started with an 1800X. The 16GB system could do 2933. The 32GB...

Sloppy terminology on my part. It's 24Hz at 4Kx2K DCI spec (which I don't have any monitors like that). It's 30hz at 4K UHD, 16:9. Apparently at the very edge of those specs every pixel matters 😂

Did you look in the advanced display settings and validate that the monitor is actually negotiating a 60Hz display refresh? This was during the long drought where Intel only had HDMI 1.4 support with DP 1.2. That means HDMI is limited to 4K@30Hz. The only way to get 4K@60Hz in that generation...

If you want natively supported, quick and easy, get the HP Thunderbolt Dock G4. It supports DP 1.4 with and without DSC. Thunderbolt is expensive, you're driving alot of bandwidth. If spending a couple hundred dollars on the system in addition to your monitors is expensive to you, you may...

Haha, MSI has got to be trolling with this. This is the equivalent of something you'd see at SEMA.

Yeah with NVMe when it comes to sharing the only option is either a PCIe switch, which enthusiast boards have seemingly all but stopped doing, or an NVMe eHBA like the Broadcom 9600-24i that can natively attach 6 NVMe 4 Lane drives back to a single x8 PCIe port. More than a couple NVMe drives is...

Yep that would be the thing! I think MCIO is a very aggressive bet here, but since these can be converted between there would be options for say, Oculink to MCIO or SlimSAS to MCIO cables. Just gonna be pricey. The carrier and drive latch are non-specified on EDSFF. In other words, an OEM can...

I'm still curious if it will work out for U.3 as a direct drive interface. From a lot of my discussions, most workhorse server SKUs leveraging Granite Rapids or Turin will be transitioning to EDSFF. This leaves U.3 relegated to low-cost platforms and flexible storage nodes. That means direct...