Recent content by odditory

Yep, it's a bit slimy - throw a bunch of unrelated stuff into an article, put "AI" in the headline, and bake it in the oven. SSD and HDD increases have been getting signaled in quarterly investor calls for the past 9 months - the "why's" are nuanced and mostly related to manufacturing overshoot...

Smart man. DIY replacements has been my strat since at least 2007 (for home storage anyway, not in a business), as once you are dealing in enough quantity then there's a crossover point where you're overpaying for warranty if cheaper variants are available. Person A buys 20 x WD Reds for...

Interesting project. I tested this last night, was able to create a Raidz2 with 12x14TB HDD's in the GUI on Win11, did some basic performance testing. Was also able to import the zpool into a TrueNAS instance, as well as go the other way and take a TrueNAS-created zpool and import it into the...

I've been unexcited by both Intel W790 and AMD TR7000/WRX90 and their high early adopter costs, mostly because Gen5 PCIe storage devices aren't there yet to take full advantage and will take a few more years for throughput to mature. The middle ground option for me last year was a TR 5955WX...

It's the same shady business model: they make their margin on deception - relabeling, SMART wiping, misrepresentation. But ignorance is bliss "well I got my drives and they seem to work knock on wood" so the cycle continues. So don't think in terms of reputations - echo chambers and herdthink...

Wonder if the lower-corecount Pro's will be Lenovo locked timed exclusive again, since the press release mentioned "select" Pro's will be at retail.. If so it'll be easy to skip this gen, since the non Pro's just don't have enough PCIe lanes.

I just called the police.

All good. The concern isn't about literally getting scammed out of money, but potential for being scammed out of time and energy. That buyers have an edge in disputes in the overall doesn't really change what I said. In case you missed earlier part of the thread, the seller had contacted buyers...

You do you, but you may not be aware of the openings you create for an unscrupulous seller by accepting delivery rather than refusing it, and to elaborate on all the variations I've seen and dealt with would just bore everyone and mostly go off topic. I'd rather appeal a shipping charge...

IMO $240 + tax is too high for any red flags to be tolerable. If it was $150, then the 30-day warranty of the ebay return period might be an acceptable risk for some people. For me, it's not about New or Used. The principle of a seller playing games trying to post-sale social engineer buyers...

Ideally you could refuse the package so seller has less leverage for restocking fee. Inevitably there will be the one or two predictable outliers that ordered one or more of these drives, and will post "well I got the drives and they powered on and seem to work, not sure what the big deal...

This is a tactic, not to mention bait and switch. It's to get a buyer on written record in ebay messaging to unwittingly agree to a post-purchase downgrade to Used/Refurb for what was advertised New to capture a higher price. It's leverage against the buyer for several scenarios if buyer...

Its because the manpower required to research how slots are configured electrically, which may require intensely studying block diagrams that aren't even always available - would make it a nonstarter. Easily a fulltime research job for 1-2 people. And that's not the site's business model since...

On-point post, and will unfortunately go over many peoples' heads since PCIe lane mapping is a tedious and murky topic, can vary wildly between motherboards since Intel/AMD leave a lot of 'creative' room to AIB's for configuration, and some AIB"s don't even make the exact configuration...

Yep, join the club. The lack of modern offerings in the HEDT/WS segment has been a frustration for many of us going on years now. PCIe lanes in desktop class AM5/Z790 is still absolutely anemic, and then there's a massive void before you're suddenly at 128 lanes with a TR Pro/WRX80. And so the...