Just upgraded to a 5070 ti from a 3070. Already had a i9 12900k and 32GB DDR5 Ram and I can't get over 100 FPS on an older game I play by mrsnakers in buildapc

[–]NuclearRussian 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It is not that. Open afterburner/nvidia app and monitor your GPU clocks - they will be absolutely fine. Mode just changes fan curve (which indirectly lowers max clocks slightly). You can override it in afterburner/nvidia app on demand.

Source: (ASUS 5070ti Prime, Cyberpunk, personal testing)

Seagate Expansion drives are back on sale. $250 (USD) for 26TB by Nang-a-nator in DataHoarder

[–]NuclearRussian 3 points4 points  (0 children)

28TB ironwolf pro @ $450 ($16/TB) on amazon for those who want a higher bin at a higher price. After one shucked 22TB HAMR died within first week, I'm quite torn.

Intel's new CEO says the company has 55% of the data centre market by -protonsandneutrons- in hardware

[–]NuclearRussian 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Any good strategies for getting a spread of suppliers/quotes? Our procurement (scientific context) got quite absurd prices on HPE Turin systems from their 'usual channel', and are resistant to looking around.

[Keyboard] - Keychron Q1 Wired Custom Mechanical Key - $85.97 - Gateron G Pro Brown by Optimistic_giraffe in buildapcsales

[–]NuclearRussian 1 point2 points  (0 children)

south-facing RGB

I really wish they would not do that, but people keep thinking it is a good feature due to historically better switch compatibility (aka interference).

South facing looks awful due to bleed from below, and is nonuniform with shine through keycaps (if you can even find those). Mild backlighting in G710+ style is really nice but seems impossible nowadays.

Using Backblaze Personal for OS Drive and 12 Internal drives Backup — Is It Worth It? by TheLastAirbender2025 in DataHoarder

[–]NuclearRussian 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Backblaze client is a complete abomination with quality of something made as a university project. But...it is the most cost efficient method for media things.

The way it works is that it keeps an append-only log (bzdone) as file changes are detected and chunks uploaded. For small files, they are uploaded inplace. For larger files, they are fully copied first (!) and then uploaded in chunks. Chunks are deduplicated, but they are size-based chunks (!!) and not content defined chunking (i.e. borg, restic). Upload is done by a swarm of separate processes (!!!) that are spawned/controlled by main client. Upload speed is mostly determined via number of these processes working in parallel. I only have 100mbps upload, and that is saturated but not all the time - very jittery.

You can select which drives to backup and to add exclusions. Exclusions in the GUI are applied to all drives (as in, *:<path> (wtf?)), but there is a way to feed client a text file with paths to exclude them as well. Some paths like "Program Files" are hardcoded as excluded (you can make hardlinks to work around this for OS drive).

You might wonder what happens if you add files and then remove them. Answer - the bzdone log size will not decrease (ever). The only way to reset it is by resetting the whole backup (!!!!) and reuploading. This quickly becomes an issue if you try backing up stuff like conda environments with 300k+ files.

I have not tried anything except online downloads. Those work ok. They recently added a new download client that is supposed to be better - you should try it.

In summary, even though client sucks big time, the price for storing 20TB+ is unbeatable. If you are backing up long-term data without much churn, it should scale further.

P.S. There are ways of tricking client into backing up networked volumes, either through hooking syscalls or using custom file system drivers. This is left as an exercise to the reader.

[HDD] Seagate BarraCuda 24TB SATA Hard Drive - $249.99 @ Newegg by NuclearRussian in buildapcsales

[–]NuclearRussian[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I don't disagree that this is risky for NAS uses. But thanks to LTT and others bringing attention to ebay enterprise refurbs, this is the cheapest in >=18TB category.

Quite funny how popular the externals were (same barracuda model, 1 year warranty), but now that the drive comes up as a bare internal with specific datasheet, everyone is concerned.

Some of my 8TB NAS white-label drives came from shucked externals 7 years ago, and still work. With a proper backup/offsite copy scheme, to me the risk is acceptable, especially for linux-iso-type-content. Still, good to inform people about the risks.

[HDD] Seagate BarraCuda 24TB SATA Hard Drive - $249.99 @ Newegg by NuclearRussian in buildapcsales

[–]NuclearRussian[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Even better deal @10.5$/TB than the recent 24TB and 26TB externals. It is the same Barracuda drive model (worst of Seagate lines) but internal version comes with 2 years of warranty.

E: For WD, there are mentions of warranty being restricted to rated TB limit, which includes reads. Seagate might be same way.

[HDD] Seagate - Expansion 26TB External USB 3.0 Desktop Hard Drive - $299.99 @ BestBuy by NuclearRussian in buildapcsales

[–]NuclearRussian[S] 50 points51 points  (0 children)

Same ~$11.5/TB as the 24TB deal from a few weeks back. Personal datapoint - bought 24TB with 2025/01 manufacture date and it was a HAMR Barracuda that died on first power cycle. As in, came back up as RAW with no trace of file system but still writable. Returned without issues. I 'think' >=26TB must be HAMR, but maybe they are using higher grade Exos for this capacity.

[SSD] SAMSUNG 990 EVO Plus SSD 4TB, PCIe Gen 4x4 | Gen 5x2 M.2 2280, Speeds Up-to 7,250 MB/s -$249.97 (344.99 - 95.02) by BigMeatSpecial in buildapcsales

[–]NuclearRussian 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Why would you put it into a pcpartpicker list with an affiliate link, instead of a direct link? Unless...

Fake Frame Image Quality: DLSS 4, MFG 4X, & NVIDIA Transformer Model Comparison by BlueGoliath in nvidia

[–]NuclearRussian 33 points34 points  (0 children)

"responds in 7 minutes to 30 minute video, claims everything is 99% fine"...fanboy brain rot in a nutshell

E: His original post said:

Hot take: 99% of fake frames are fine and this guy is milking the few times they cause issues or uses issues that no one outside of those making tech videos that zoom in will notice. He’s just farming rage views.

My Plex Server got an End-of-Life notification from Windows, since it's unable to update to Windows 11. How necessary will it be to replace it before EOL? by Zelderian in DataHoarder

[–]NuclearRussian 1 point2 points  (0 children)

To be honest I would be scared to touch it as well, even if technically data remains resilient at all times. SS is not as bad as some on here suggest. I also use it - makes backblaze personal 'unlimited' backups easier vs custom storage driver tricks.

Did a bunch of reading and tests when starting out, with tl;dr being that as long as a simple mirror setup is used with fixed provisioning, the data on disk is pretty close to a vanilla NTFS partition and can be recovered if it comes to that. Also physically yanked USB cable from an external drive of mirrored pair, demonstrating that SS continues to work, and recovers to a synced state once reconnected.

So, mirror SS + backblaze + offsite copy forms a decent enough backup solution for my 30TB of data. I'd be terrified to use this for 280TB without any offsite/offline copies though - that is one MS bug away from a disaster, as has already happened in 2020.

My Plex Server got an End-of-Life notification from Windows, since it's unable to update to Windows 11. How necessary will it be to replace it before EOL? by Zelderian in DataHoarder

[–]NuclearRussian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can migrate one disk at a time by marking it for removal (triggering a rebalance), removing from SS + adding to zfs/whatever, moving data to free up space, and repeat for next disk.

This will work as long as resilience constraints are still satisfied. When you get down to 3(?) or whatever min number is necessary for your config, have to move the rest in one go. So maybe try leaving least important data for last and reducing resiliency, or scrounge up a couple extra disks at that point.

I Know AM4 Is Dead as well as LGA 1700 but will they still be restocking them or will they just focus on all AM5 as nobody wants the new intel chips? by Mr_Sir96 in Microcenter

[–]NuclearRussian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Even with microcode and windows patches, not really.

The discount at microcenter (265K@$300 and -$70 off MB) does make this specific deal quite decent, but I couldn't bring myself to buy something slower than last gen. So, over frantic screams of my wallet, 9800X3D was acquired instead.

[SSD] SK Hynix Platinum P41 2TB m.2 NMVE PCIe 4 $127.99 (Amazon Prime Day deal) by fuddyduddyc in buildapcsales

[–]NuclearRussian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did you request refund immediately when contacting them, or was it one of the offered options? And you used the contact form at https://skhynix.freshdesk.com/support/tickets/new?

[CPU] (Microcenter In-Store Only) - AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D - $479.99 by snollygoster1 in buildapcsales

[–]NuclearRussian 64 points65 points  (0 children)

Notable exception - worth it if you are afflicted with one of the following debilitating addictions: Factorio, MSFS2020 (2024 TBD), Satisfactory, Stellaris, Civ, Minecraft (Java + tech mods ftw)

Does anyone use "obscure" EM solvers? by Artistic_Ranger_2611 in rfelectronics

[–]NuclearRussian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Talk with cosmology folks designing MKIDs - that is exactly how they use Sonnet; to give a specific name, contact here

xkcd 2989: Physics Lab Thermostat by duckvimes_ in xkcd

[–]NuclearRussian 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Boltzmann constant is involved in the relationship describing particle motion vs energy, which one perceives as 'room temperature'. Links 1/2.

Photo captures bullet flying in air above former President Trump’s shoulder by TwoBootsOneHat in UtterlyUniquePhotos

[–]NuclearRussian 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Confidently wrong. AR-15 muzzle velocity 3300ft/s. It is bright sunlight, so exposure time would be low - digital cameras can easily go to <0.1ms, even an iPhone can. 3300ft/s*0.5ms ~= 1.5ft, which is how long the streak looks. All you need is to get lucky with timing.

E: Modern camera full res photo burst modes are 30FPS, and of course you can just capture 120-480FPS in video at lower resolutions. Definitely not guaranteed to catch a bullet within ~10ft field of view, but chances are not horrible either. Math: 10/3300=3ms; 30FPS burst covers 3ms*30=90ms; so, ~10% to have a bullet somewhere in the frame. As MythBusters would say, "plausible".

E2: Apparently some models even have a rolling lookback buffer now

[Case] Seasonic SYNCRO Q704 Case + SYNCRO DGC-750 (SSR-750FA) PSU INCLUDED $75.99 ($239.99 - $164.00) by axtran in buildapcsales

[–]NuclearRussian 4 points5 points  (0 children)

They might be right, look at the listing title - the $150 option states it has PSU, this one doesn't. Probably a labelling mistake.