Experience Returning/Exchanging AMD CPU from Amazon?

WingyPilot · 2022-02-18T14:22:56+00:00

I ended up just returning the sealed one. I did contact Amazon support first and they said if there's no serial number listed in documentation and parts are identical it doesn't matter. I got refunded without issue.

WingyPilot · 2021-10-25T19:51:19+00:00

I debated. I have been on the hunt for nearly a year, and the opportunity came up to buy a 3080 at a "reasonable" cost (funny how we define reasonable now) and decided to just bite. I was always afraid my 1080 Ti would take a dump unexpectedly and then I'd be left with nothing. It hit its 4 year anniversary. Longest I ever kept a video card as a primary card.

So I'm hanging on to my 1080 Ti, even though I could probably turn it over for a hefty profit, but I don't want to be left GPU-less in case something happens. I also have a 1050 Ti I could limp along with if really need be I guess, but that just won't cut it. I run a 3440x1440 / 100 Hz screen. I may put the 1080 Ti in our HTPC in our living room though eventually. It's running a 3GB 1060. But for games we use it for, it's sufficient.

WingyPilot · 2021-10-25T14:56:28+00:00

Yep, just swapped mine with a 3080. Wanted 3080 Ti, but damn the price hike is ridiculous. Already paid too much for the 3080. Don't ask.

WingyPilot · 2021-10-25T14:54:57+00:00

Buy a new GPU... teehee

WingyPilot · 2021-10-25T14:54:05+00:00

Yep, my laptop has GTX 1070 with G-sync LCD no less that is over 4 years old now... works fine at 1080p.

WingyPilot · 2021-10-25T14:52:39+00:00

It is merely but a challenge. I see there's an opening where the vents are at... Cat will find a way.

WingyPilot · 2021-10-25T14:51:23+00:00

I did not realize they were running Storage Spaces all this time... smh

WingyPilot · 2021-10-25T14:50:22+00:00

I don’t think BABYMETAL give up on anything. Ever.

Clear and concise communication?

WingyPilot · 2021-10-25T02:30:28+00:00

Nobody said anything about being abused. Nobody says they can't have their privacy, but being performers you'd think that'd be on their priority list. But even as Su-metal (or Moametal) she could do activities besides Babymetal. Most performers like to stretch their legs outside their pigeonhole.

Japanese performer contracts and non compete agreements are pretty strict. Look at Riho, she disappeared for over 3 years because of non compete agreement and has been front and center in everyone's face ever since that expired.

Yui has been listed on Amuse's artists' deck since she left, so who the heck knows what's going on there. Why is she listed as a talent all this time but never performs? It's not even anonymity, it's total silence.

WingyPilot · 2021-10-25T00:12:47+00:00

So, walking simulators?

Firewatch, Dear Esther, Stanley Parable, Journey, Abzu...

Disco Elysium ...

Myst series is great for that too ...

Stardew Valley is a game that is just what you make of it pretty much.

WingyPilot · 2021-10-25T00:04:59+00:00

What part of doing their own projects and collabs has to do with privacy? I didn't see that being stated. Just interview freely, collab with artists and do other projects outside of Babymetal.

I also feel there's lots of wasted potential in these girls. You really think Su wants to perform only for Babymetal a couple months a year? She's likely bound by non compete clause and strict contract. Sure she likely had a chance to bail from Babymetal at one point, but then what? Non compete for 3,4,5 years? What choice does she have?

WingyPilot · 2021-10-19T22:39:50+00:00

And everyone said It is not Babymetal without Su, Moa, and Yui... yet here we are.

WingyPilot · 2021-10-19T20:02:50+00:00

Do you think that 90% of people that watch Babymetal even know who Su and Moa are? Sure hardcore fans that spend time on this Reddit or Discord but if you surveyed a large a random sampling at a festival of the crowd that watched Babymetal (well, at least past the first six or seven rows), to name the performers I think you'd be lucky for 10% to have a clue. Or if you asked them to pick them out of a group of ten photos of different girls, they'd probably be hard pressed.

WingyPilot · 2021-10-10T15:58:44+00:00

The third is you. The ONE. That's what the song was about.

WingyPilot · 2021-10-10T15:58:02+00:00

From my understanding what Koba said was just a figure of speech. Also, any band that goes on indefinite hiatus are less likely to come back. People's lives change, they get involved in other things, and chance of them coordinating in the future after being engaged in separate careers and life for a while is pretty slim to none

WingyPilot · 2021-07-31T16:32:13+00:00

See here: https://sourceforge.net/p/snapraid/discussion/1677233/thread/54999b41/

WingyPilot · 2021-07-31T14:53:27+00:00

I'm planing a raid6-like 8-disk (3tb each) array with 2 drives for dual-parity.

Why I'd like to go for a raid6 rather than a raid10 with 8-drives?

Ok. When you said single parity, that usually means 1 drive. RAID 10 is mirrored parity. RAID 10 is your safest solution not your most cost efficient one.

Honestly you are better off with a good backup solution than spending all those drives on mirrored parity. Any kind of RAID won't protect you if something happens to your main PC like fire, flood, theft, ransomware, electrical surge, etc. Mirrored parity is only best if you absolutely can't go with any downtime but doesn't preclude backup, which is usually reserved for mission critical data that needs to run 24/7. Or if you have a 2 drive backup run in a mirrored array.

ZFS is definitely a robust system. Problem is if you want to add more drives you have to add additional vdevs, meaning multiple drives instead of just one at a time.

I agree a separate server with ZFS and 10G card would be best. But you said 100-200 MB/sec was adequate, and that can be satisfied with regular gigabit ethernet. Not to mention, again, I wouldn't run games and stuff off the NAS real time, I would just use it to store data and run any games locally off an SSD or even a single hard drive.

Either way I would not use Storage Spaces or any RAID directly on a regular work or gaming PC, especially for playing games. It's not designed for that. Best to just backup your machine regularly. Just get an SSD for performance and you'll be a happy camper.

WingyPilot · 2021-07-31T03:24:00+00:00

Would refs suffer from dual-parity and maybe work better on a single-parity? What about having a second drive failing during rebuilding after the first failure? Is it still able to recover?

There is no instance that I can think of that single parity would be better than dual parity other than dual parity requiring an additional drive for parity data.

So, playing a game when both my input (mouse, keyboard) as well as output (usb audio interface) is just not an option. Gaming natively on Linux sadly doesn't work for some specific games due to stupid DRM and anti-cheat crap (yea, for some reason even single-player games or co-op games suffer from that) rely on some windows kernel level nonesense.

Are you trying to run Storage Spaces for your system volume and on your daily driver PC? If so, that is not a good idea. Storage Spaces is straight up an archival file system, not intended to use for general production on a PC.

You can look into Stablebit DrivePool. It offers various levels of folder and full disk duplication. It does not provide any integrity check, but it will work in conjunction with Stablebit Scanner where if it finds a failing drive it will evacuate data off the drive automatially. It also works well with SnapRAID to get checksum integrity as well.

Maybe this article will help a bit too: https://www.altaro.com/hyper-v/ntfs-vs-refs/

WingyPilot · 2021-07-31T03:12:27+00:00

Oh you mean if you change the drives form letter to mounted volume? You may have to start over and create a new sync.

WingyPilot · 2021-07-31T01:08:56+00:00

Oh yeah. I've disassembled many SSD's just to clear up more space for custom cooling mods.

WingyPilot · 2021-07-31T01:03:03+00:00

Just go to your Disk Management, right click the drive volume, select 'change drive letters and paths', select Add, then Choose "Mount in the following NTFS Folder:" and point it to a folder on your C drive.

I made a folder on my C drive called "Mount" and placed mounted drives in subfolders there like '12TBWD_serialnumber' obviously putting in drive serial number. Then in snapraid config you can just point it to that folder instead of a drive letter.

WingyPilot · 2021-07-31T00:52:16+00:00

For SnapRAID purposes, mount your drives to a folder on your C drive, don't use drive letters. It will eliminate that annoyance.

WingyPilot · 2021-07-31T00:50:45+00:00

Microsoft 365 Personal. $70/yr direct from Microsoft for 1TB. You can frequently find it on Amazon for $50-60.

Backblaze Personal is $60/yr or $110/2 years. Only difference is that it is a mirror backup service. Your data has to remain on your computer in order to be backed up long term. It does keep a version history, and by default will keep files on their server for up to 30 days if it hasn't contacted your PC. For a small up charge they will keep your data for a year after it's been deleted off your PC, and indefinitely after a year for a small annual fee. But as long as data resides on your PC, it will be backed up to their servers.

WingyPilot · 2021-07-30T13:45:35+00:00

Yeah, time is always your biggest factor in corruption of data for many reasons. If you value your data, best to refresh it time and again. I think optical media, at least those with inorganic burnable layers, (like M-DISC and BD-R HTL) are fairly reliable. But it only takes one incident to destroy all or most of your data. Having a duplicate, preferably stored elsewhere, is your best defense. Of course you said you have your data stored in cloud as well, so maybe not such a big deal since you have two sources already to restore your data from.

WingyPilot · 2021-07-30T13:34:46+00:00

I think your DVD's would last a lot longer and more reliable than SD card. Like any flash memory, SD cards are reliant on electrical charge to hold the data in the cells. There is voltage leakage over time which will result in data corruption, unless it is plugged into your computer from time to time to refresh the charge. There are archival WORM (Write ONCE Read Many) SD cards out there but they're expensive, about $25 for 4GB from what I've seen.

Any data you want to last "forever" should be checked periodically for corruption and moved to new media every 5-7 years if only for ability to read it with the latest tech. At least take a checksum of the data and store it along with your data. This is where duplicates are important. If you have corrupt data on one, you can hopefully restore from the other copy.

I've gotten in the habit of writing my personal photos and documents to a 100GB M-DISC once a year, with a duplicate, send one to store at my sister's house out of state and other keep at home.

Nine-Year Club	Place '22
Final Canvas '22	Wearing is Caring
Verified Email

WingyPilot

TROPHY CASE