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I decided to get myself some 3PAR-branded DC HC530 drives that came formatted with 520-byte logical sectors. The datasheet says they can be reformatted between all of the various sector sizes, including "fast format," and I was able to convert them from 520/4160 to 512/4096. It's a two-step...

Is that true for the actual use case I've got? 4K h264/h265 being transcoded down to 720 or 1080? I was under the impression that a 2G card would be enough for one or two of those sessions max, whereas my CPUs can handle that already and won't run out of RAM.

The only Pascal device that looks good for this is the P100, weighing in at 600$ on eBay right now. I also don’t see anything in the Pascal lineup with more than 16G of memory and a promise of ever being affordable. Is there anything else you’d suggest that has unlocked nvenc?

I know I'm 6 years late to the party here. These cards are pretty cheap and I'm thinking of stuffing the 24 GB variant into my Dell R730 for Plex transcoding. At $200, is there any reason I shouldn't? Transcoding seems to be VRAM-limited, with the 24 GB model seeming to promise me slightly more...

To be clear, I'm only really worried about performance of sync writes. e.g. large docker/k8s/kvm local dev environments. Wondering out loud if I should expect to see tangible performance benefits with these applications. It's probably silly to cut typical performance in half just to speed up...

Hi folks, I'm building a Linux workstation and trying to decide on what storage device to use for my Linux root disk. My motherboard supports 22110 devices, so I'm seriously considering getting a used datacenter Gen3 with PLP device, rather than a newer Gen4 consumer device. I seem to lose...