What's your latest tech purchase?

[Deleted member 24505]

The question on my mind is, did Windows or Office load any faster?? (I'm avoiding the main one.......)

I have no idea if it is worth using raid on them or not.

 

[Mussels]

here is someone elses 2x sn850 raid 0, serious speed.
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As long as the RAID controller recognizes them. But general practice is to not bother with RAID on an SSD. I know that when I tried SATA RAID-0, it performed only marginally better than a single drive, perhaps due to bus limitation. Never dug too far into it.

It's mainly that at SSD speeds the cpu overhead for striping becomes more large than the marginal speed benefit is worth.

It's cause SSD's get boosted sequential read/write in RAID, but the random read/write doesnt really change - and you cant use those sequential speeds for much (no use for file transfers to something slower, be it other storage, network etc)

Just got a Galaxy S20+ 5G 128gb today, goodbye iphone 8+

Get the "goodlock" app from the samsung store, a LOT of important phone tweaks hide in there
Has modules for various aspects of the phone, like tweaking Dex, lock screen, always on display and such

 

[lexluthermiester]

The question on my mind is, did Windows or Office load any faster?? (I'm avoiding the main one.......)

Very unlikely, but for file transfers, lordy-lordy the SPEEEEED!

 

[R-T-B]

Very unlikely, but for file transfers, lordy-lordy the SPEEEEED!

If transfering to something equally fast anyways... that's the trouble.

 

[Mussels]

I feel like i'm "Cutting edge" with my 10Gb USB ports, but even that falls far short of what USB can do

USB 4, come save us! (and like... cheap 10Gb home ethernet?)

 

[natr0n]

Got a EVGA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti FTW3 Ultra ....fancy model. $980.45 with taxes.

 

[Chomiq]

Got a EVGA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti FTW3 Ultra ....fancy model. $980.45 with taxes.

Oof. Here I was thinking prices are going down.

 

[oxrufiioxo]

Oof. Here I was thinking prices are going down.

Yeah, not sure why it was so expensive they been in the low 800s for a couple weeks. You can get a 3080 for only about 100 more than that with tax.

 

[Mussels]

Bought a new mouse today, it's the latest cordless from logiheck

cursor skips around a lot, and i cant find it at all now

 

[oxrufiioxo]

Bought a new mouse today, it's the latest cordless from logiheck

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cursor skips around a lot, and i cant find it at all now

Even the mice look pretty gnarly in the outback.....

 

[Mussels]

Even the mice look pretty gnarly in the outback.....

this thing had full force feedback goin on, and the DPI was defaulting to over 9000


(I can explain the fig and bacon, but then you'd have even more questions)
(animated GIF, you must click for boingo)

 

[Chomiq]

this thing had full force feedback goin on, and the DPI was defaulting to over 9000


(I can explain the fig and bacon, but then you'd have even more questions)

Instapot?

 

[Mussels]

Instapot?

Raising vegetarian zerglings, the bacon was my dogs gift to the mouse.
If this wasnt started as an april fools joke, it wouldn't belong here but...

Spoiler: Mussels is re-enacting the Zerg campaign of SC2 downunder

This ones animated, click if need be

 

[Deleted member 24505]

I apparently have 3 x 20Gb USB 3.2 Gen 2 ports and one USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 port, though no idea what the difference between 2 and 2x2 is

 

[phill]

this thing had full force feedback goin on, and the DPI was defaulting to over 9000


(I can explain the fig and bacon, but then you'd have even more questions)
(animated GIF, you must click for boingo)

Hopefully the batteries will run down shortly and it'll stay still long enough for you to actually use it.....

 

[tabascosauz]

I apparently have 3 x 20Gb USB 3.2 Gen 2 ports and one USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 port, though no idea what the difference between 2 and 2x2 is

Are you sure about that? Gen2 is 10Gbps. Gen2x2 is the 20Gbps solution, so that would be a bit of a redundant distinction.

I took a look and the Strix-A has a single 20Gbps type C, a 10Gbps type C, and two 10Gbps type A on the rear.

 

[Deleted member 24505]

Are you sure about that? Gen2 is 10Gbps. Gen2x2 is the 20Gbps solution, so that would be a bit of a redundant distinction.

I took a look and the Strix-A has a single 20Gbps type C, a 10Gbps type C, and two 10Gbps type A on the rear.

edit so that is 3x 10Gb and 1x 20Gb rear 1x 20Gb front in fact?

 

[tabascosauz]

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Yeah. That's 1 2x2 on the back, and 1 2x2 on the front, the rest are 10Gbps, USB3.0, or USB2.0. I don't blame you for coming away with that impression, USB 3.1/3.2 naming sucks big time.

 

[Deleted member 24505]

Yeah. That's 1 2x2 on the back, and 1 2x2 on the front, the rest are 10Gbps, USB3.0, or USB2.0. I don't blame you for coming away with that impression, USB 3.1/3.2 naming sucks big time.

They should be named by speed not type. So 1x 20Gb on rear, 1x 20Gb on front rest 10Gb, Though would it make any difference to normal PC users. does said plug fit in port on PC yes/no. i think that's as far as it goes.

On my rear port markings, it actually says SS 10 or 20 on them.

 

[Mussels]

I thought you were wrong, but i'd remembered it all wrong myself

Had so much trouble with my brother and a USB-C card reader because they'd called version 2 of their dongle "gen 2" making it confusing as all hell, if it was 10Gb or not

Since the downstream ports are all 5Gb... we have no way of knowing.

Website says Gen 2.
Product packaging says V2 (same product code, definitely same device)

Even the product page cant understand what USB standards it is

In summary:
I am declaring war on USB.

 

[Deleted member 24505]

I thought you were wrong, but i'd remembered it all wrong myself

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Hey i get confused about USB myself. does it fit in the port is enough for me.

Maybe it could just be USB 3.10 or 3.20 the .xx denoting speed. seems better than all this 3.1 3.2 3.2x2 stuff

 

[lexluthermiester]

If transfering to something equally fast anyways... that's the trouble.

Good point. Still copying to/from such an array would never show a bottleneck at the array itself.

Hey i get confused about USB myself. does it fit in the port is enough for me.

Maybe it could just be USB 3.10 or 3.20 the .xx denoting speed. seems better than all this 3.1 3.2 3.2x2 stuff

I would get out the soldering iron and add solder to the points highlighted. Those are structural stress points and they need some additional solder to re-enforce them.

 

[Deleted member 24505]

Good point. Still copying to/from such an array would never show a bottleneck at the array itself.


I would get out the soldering iron and add solder to the points highlighted. Those are structural stress points and they need some additional solder to re-enforce them.
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I will do tonight.

 

[lexluthermiester]

I will do tonight.

Cool. Would hate to see that cool adapter break on you just because the factory didn't use enough solder to re-enforce that joint.

 

[Solaris17]

I have to re-purpose my 64TB SAN so ended up with this to move all my games too.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08JSMKW3J/ref=ppx_od_dt_b_asin_title_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1