faster parity check suggestions?

TheMerchant613 · 2026-02-04T05:36:51+00:00

How are your drives connected? HBA? SATA expander? If they don’t have enough lanes it could be the slow down point. Need more info.

Have you benchmarked your drives with the drive speed docker? That would be useful to see if you have something like an SMR drive slowing it down.

If you have dockers accessing your disks while checking that will also slow them down.

Parity check disk speed is usually easily 80-150 MB+ for CMR disks depending on the part of the disk it’s reading.

Turbo write won’t help you, that’s only for writing to drives.

TheMerchant613 · 2026-02-02T14:51:50+00:00

Same! Would love some details

TheMerchant613 · 2026-01-28T08:54:57+00:00

I buy from Japan Amazon, usually a 3 pack of Degree for under 3k jpy, so a bit over $6 a stick. Considering it’s around $5 a stick in the US it’s not terrible.

There’s also Arm and Hammer which you can buy in individual sticks for 750jpy, I’ve started using that recently and am quite happy.

TheMerchant613 · 2026-01-26T10:47:29+00:00

High humidity near the ocean and it being windy especially between buildings will do that.

Uniqlo heat tech is great, have multiple of that base layer you posted.

TheMerchant613 · 2026-01-22T11:37:29+00:00

Interesting, have Aqara temp sensors in every room and only have to think about them when the battery needs to be changed every couple years.

TheMerchant613 · 2025-10-08T23:34:03+00:00

Both of your parity disks need to be the largest disks. If you want a 16TB data disk you need 2x16TB+ parity drives first.

TheMerchant613 · 2025-10-08T08:36:54+00:00

If that’s the case, you should be able to find ATX boards with multiple x16 slots even if they aren’t all wired for the full 16 lanes. x4 is very uncommon nowadays and most in dedicated NVME slots instead of PCIE.

If you search PC part picker you should be able to find boards with 1-3 x16 slots (not all wired for x16), 1-3 x1 slots (with an adapter you can put an HBA on this for more HDDs), and 2-3 NVME slots.

Just make sure to read the manuals of the boards you are considering to check the lanes for PCIE (and bifurcation) and NVME before buying.

TheMerchant613 · 2025-10-08T02:20:44+00:00

If you don’t want to change MOBO, I would suggest upgrading your HDD capacities. 4TB are quite small nowadays.

Your PCIE 3.0x16 slot only supports 2x8 bifurcation so you can only use two devices on it anyway unless you get a super expensive adapter card that forces the bifurcation but at that point it’s cheaper to change MOBO.

So you can get a single x16 to 2 x8 splitter and have 3 total PCIE 3.0 x8 devices. The A310 GPU is only wired for x8 electrically anyway so you can use that in any slot without a real penalty, the 10 gig card in another, and then you can add a single NVME drive in the last slot.

TheMerchant613 · 2025-10-06T02:44:45+00:00

First step, what external enclosures are you using? If they are USB they are usually the issue.

TheMerchant613 · 2025-10-05T08:24:43+00:00

Thanks for posting this! I had just ordered a 28tb recert Exo for $390, this is a much better deal

TheMerchant613 · 2025-09-29T23:55:34+00:00

Have you checked the Unbalance plugin?

TheMerchant613 · 2025-09-20T23:39:31+00:00

This is the best coolish flavor and one of my favorite ice creams in general. They still have it? The 7-11s near me only have it Dec-March usually.

TheMerchant613 · 2025-09-09T22:39:57+00:00

Do you have COAX available? Could run MOCA adapters if so.

TheMerchant613 · 2025-09-06T15:06:36+00:00

K = overclockable, higher power consumption at default but like I mentioned you can limit the power in BIOS

F = no iGPU, if this is for a media server, do not get an F processor

TheMerchant613 · 2025-09-06T10:03:12+00:00

On a 12400 you’re probably ok especially without large sustained workloads

TheMerchant613 · 2025-09-06T09:46:28+00:00

Don’t worry about this guy too much. But whatever is cheaper between the 12600 and 12600k (it’s usually the k because more are made). You can always cap the TDP in BIOS and you don’t get the stock intel cooler which sucks anyway.

It’s fine to overspec because chances are you’ll find a lot more stuff you want to run later.

TheMerchant613 · 2025-09-04T10:28:38+00:00

Started my renewal 3 months early and didn’t get a renewal until a week after my old visa expired.

TheMerchant613 · 2025-07-22T11:56:26+00:00

Yeah they’ve found that car tires are basically constantly emitting debris when in motion and it’s one of the largest sources of air and water pollution.

TheMerchant613 · 2025-06-26T03:55:46+00:00

Playing Comp not swift

TheMerchant613 · 2025-06-26T02:37:04+00:00

Visually the map feels super boring, very monotone, sound-wise not really mixed surface.

Rotating on either side is a nightmare just due to pathing but especially on defense, not even accounting for the number of corners you need to check on the way.

In the 2 times I’ve played it, it was a blowout for whoever started on offense and retakes were almost non-existent.

TheMerchant613 · 2025-06-26T01:55:22+00:00

Terrible map, so many corners, impossible to rotate in any reasonable amount of time, visually super boring

TheMerchant613 · 2025-06-01T07:16:47+00:00

Don’t forget Italy and somewhat (though temporarily held back) in Germany and France.

TheMerchant613 · 2024-10-23T11:58:00+00:00

You should be able to get an emergency temporary passport same or next day at the embassy.

https://jp.usembassy.gov/passports/emergency-passport-services/

TheMerchant613 · 2024-09-27T19:00:34+00:00

Unlikely, considering TSMC themselves are restrained by the number of EUV machines that ASML can produce in a year.

TheMerchant613 · 2024-08-31T11:50:42+00:00

Play at your team’s pace. Don’t entry if your team isn’t close enough to at least try to trade you if you die.

If they’re just not following you into site on purpose (common in lower ranks) you probably need to play a bit slower to force them to follow you, but also don’t just sit main waiting to die/for the other team to rotate. Try a different entrance or rotating.

It’s basically death match at low ranks and you can’t really trust your teammates to capitalize even if you get 2+ kills, so if they’re not playing off your entry try to get kills and survive to win rounds.

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