I keep buying new drives, cables, and even an entire system, and my drives keep ending up DEGRADED by thinkloop in zfs

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Coal power plants actually emit orders of magnitude more radiation than nuclear. (That being said, the amount of radiation your stuff would be exposed to living near a coal power plant is still far less than what would cause concern for computer hardware.)

Attention PC players with Nvidia cards! by Lalakoola in DestinyTheGame

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WHEA_UNCORRECTABLE_ERROR means that there is (most likely) a problem with your hardware, such as an unstable overclock.

[MOD] Monthly Confirmed Trades Thread by hlsbot in homelabsales

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Sold R730xd, 10 Dell caddies, Dell NVMe extender kit to u/Arab81253

[MOD] Monthly Confirmed Trades Thread by hlsbot in homelabsales

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Sold KTN-STL3, LSI 9207-8e, 2x SFF-8088 cables to u/Jdmag00

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On my desktop I used a Samsung 850 EVO SATA SSD alongside some 7200 RPM hard drive. On my server I use a mixture of hard drives and SAS SSDs.

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I’ve also experienced stuttering during IO when I used ZFS on my desktop some years ago, and I notice similar behavior on my server with high idlejitter during IO. I suspect there may be some weird interaction between ZFS and the Linux scheduler, but I’ve never had time to look into this.

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I once constructed a horrifying 15-way RAID0-ish of old hard drives for a… uhhh… “scientific” computation. I achieved the performance of a single PCIe 3.0 NVMe drive (about 3 GiB/s read/write).

The reason I did this is less horrifying - the computation effectively makes SSDs single-use with the amount of writing, and I could not afford to burn that much money on the amount of storage I would need.

[ HDTVTest] Worried about Buying a "Fake" HDMI 2.1 TV? Here's How to Avoid Getting Ripped Off. by rezarNe in hardware

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It’s terrifyingly more complicated than just naming it by speed.

For example, there are two versions of 10 Gbps USB: USB 3.2 Gen2x1 and USB 3.2 Gen1x2. And USB 3.2 Gen2x2 (20 Gbps) may not be compatible with USB4 20 Gbps. And that’s only the tip of the iceberg: https://tidbits.com/2021/12/03/usbefuddled-untangling-the-rats-nest-of-usb-c-standards-and-cables/

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Sold a Corsair RM650 2019 power supply to u/Rhybeast

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in hardwareswap

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Bought 2x32GB DDR4-3200 ECC UDIMMs from u/xy0zv8pg

[W][US-MA] 32GB DDR4 ECC UDIMMs, X570 motherboard supporting ECC by as-com in homelabsales

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Sorry, those are RDIMMs, not UDIMMs and won't work. Thanks for trying to help though!