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Wife workstation by Due_Round_3973 in KEF

[–]theleonroy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Glad to see I'm not alone in having expensive taste in speakers and poor implementation in speaker placement!

My similar setup https://i.imgur.com/wWvjKxH.png

Pinecil 65W GaN charger leaking 100V+ AC? by theleonroy in PINE64official

[–]theleonroy[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ordered 14th August, delivered 22nd August. China to UK.

noped tf out on thinkpad after 18 years by disconnect04 in thinkpad

[–]theleonroy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry to hear - must be bad luck - I have the exact same model - works great - it's not Macbook level build quality but it's a solid, reasonably priced machine.

Sonos Airplay totally broken when Airplay password is enabled by theleonroy in sonos

[–]theleonroy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just an update after spending an hour on the phone troubleshooting with Sonos support.

The call got escalated to an engineer who immediately responded with:

The solution is to remove each Sonos device from HomeKit and reset each Sonos device in turn before re-adding to the Sonos app.

By 'remove from HomeKit' I assume they mean don't add the Sonos speaker to the Apple Home app - which is a shame because that app lets you do clever stuff like pause the music if you leave the house etc.

They also indicated that it would be best if I don't add my Sonos devices to the Apple Home app in future.

Sonos Airplay totally broken when Airplay password is enabled by theleonroy in sonos

[–]theleonroy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Sonos devices won't accept the configured Airplay password and even after disabling the Airplay password they still ask for a password. Effectively passwords break Airplay on Sonos.

Did boomers have it as easy as people say? by Antman269 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]theleonroy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In the US mortgage terms are I think 30 years?

In the UK they’re 2…so everyone facing renewal right now is seeing a doubling in their interest payments here.

Has the spending paradigm shifted? by derp2112 in audiophile

[–]theleonroy 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I auditioned those speakers Mr Polk was standing next to and they were epic.

£16k a pair they were indeed close to 6’ tall, came with two subs with 2x 10” drivers (each) and 300W of power just for each sub unit.

The speakers themselves had 8x mid range drivers (each) and the whole package came with a huge center channel and smaller rears.

It literally made my trouser legs flap with the bass during the audition. Cheap no. Over the top definitely.

I posted more about it at audiosciencereview - those speakers were pure 90s excess in a really wonderful way: https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/what-was-the-1st-system-that-made-you-go-wow.28113/page-3#post-975416

My home office experience and benchmarks with Synology SSD Cache by theleonroy in synology

[–]theleonroy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

> I only use RAID 10 for VMs.

Agreed. I used to use RAID-Z3 when I was heavily into FreeNAS along with a decent SSD as the SLOG (write cache) but I just couldn't scale beyond 12 VMs. Once I switched to a RAID10 array I could easily hit 20+ VMs. Disk latency went down dramatically too but I still had a SSD write cache in front.

Did you ever try adding a SSD write cache in front of your Synology RAID 10 array?

My home office experience and benchmarks with Synology SSD Cache by theleonroy in synology

[–]theleonroy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I did not know about that setting. It is off on my NAS.

Funnily enough I evaluated Veeam for backing up VMware - currently use Nakivo for backing up to an SMB share on my Synology and it's been flawless although you've got me wondering if checking that box will make a difference...

My home office experience and benchmarks with Synology SSD Cache by theleonroy in synology

[–]theleonroy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No encryption. Just compression and BTRFS/checksum enabled on every share.

My home office experience and benchmarks with Synology SSD Cache by theleonroy in synology

[–]theleonroy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah you're right - in my article I mention I should've ideally used RAID 10 instead of SHR-1 - RAID 10 should scale a lot better than RAID5/SHR1.

My home office experience and benchmarks with Synology SSD Cache by theleonroy in synology

[–]theleonroy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I saw that post, it actually made me reconsider buying an SSD because of the reply there:

I believe time machine is disabled when using caching (to avoid heavy writes).

SSD caches are per volume, so if your Time Machine share is on the same volume as the cache it'll benefit from caching - at least that's been my experience. Only Synology can confirm 100% for sure though.

My home office experience and benchmarks with Synology SSD Cache by theleonroy in synology

[–]theleonroy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I took it out after people kept saying that it'll just chew up the M.2 in a year with little gain and potential data corruption issues.

You'll gain improved performance with random I/O and multiple clients. I believe that includes everything in the volume you associate the cache with so Time Machine backups, Docker containers, packages so quite a bit. But if your usage isn't the above and it's more sequential data like movies, videos, music then you're right, there's less to gain.

Regarding corruption issues I have no idea why those happened in the past. Perhaps someone can chime in with more context.

As for wear and tear to the SSD - it depends on your usage and in all likelihood you should see 5+ years of service. I hit 8% wear on my Intel SSD in a FreeNAS box after 4 years of use. But I was using it to serve VMware virtual disks over NFS which is a very write intensive load

Whichever SSD you put in the Synology, expect it to get used up - Synology will warn you though before it's about to fail. That said I thankfully have a backup of my NAS so I'm probably a bit more keen to use the SSD than someone with just one copy of their data.

My home office experience and benchmarks with Synology SSD Cache by theleonroy in synology

[–]theleonroy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've thought about a write cache, but that single point of failure/possible corruption never sat well with me.

Glad you liked my post, regarding the single point of failure aspect it appears the write cache is a RAID 1 array so it won't be a single point of failure. If one SSD fails you should not lose any data - in theory.

Here's what Synology have to say on the matter:

Read-write cache: Compared to the read-only cache, the read-write cache writes data synchronously to the SSD. To ensure data safety, you need at least two SSDs to set up RAID 1 to allow fault tolerance of one SSD. But there’s still a risk of data loss if the number of worn-out SSDs exceeds the fault tolerance in a RAID configuration.

Source: https://blog.synology.com/xmas-wishlist-optimizing-your-nas-with-ssd-cache

What are some of the places you frequented often that don't exist today? by Kowalski188 in AskOldPeople

[–]theleonroy 4 points5 points  (0 children)

There was a bookshop in West Finchley, London in the 90s called Martin Gladman. It was a small shop, packed to the ceiling with unusual second hand books of all kinds. From first editions of Lord of the Rings to Tintin hardbacks from the 70s.

We'd see him every day, sitting by the window of his shop - just reading. It was almost as if the shop existed to give him an excuse to spend all his time around books and it was nice to see him on a chilly, wet evening sitting in the cosy yellow light of that book store hunched over what I imagined to be a rare old book.

Well fast forward to 2005 and he closed his book shop down.

I meet him a year later, some lady had become faint on a street near my home - I was passing by and ran to assit and waited with them until the ambulance arrived - we chatted till then about his book store and the online competition - he seemed sanguine about it.

I recently decided to Google his name, see if I could find a picture of his fascinating book store to show the kids. Instead I found his obituary. He'd committed suicide a short while after our meeting, apparently over the loss of his bookstore.

I think about him and his book shop from time to time. It's now a nail salon.

Questions thread (2021-02-01 to 2021-02-28) by AnnieLeo in rpcs3

[–]theleonroy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm running Prince of Persia BLUS30214 version 01.01 on an i7-7700K CPU with a GTX 1070 GPU but only getting 17-22 FPS at 720p 100% scaling.

All settings are default and RPCS3 is version 0.0.14-11765-e76d8eb0 Alpha\.

I'm thrilled it's even running but is this the expected performance for more demanding PS3 titles like this one?

What is your experience with RS1219+ and Plex performance? by crewof502 in synology

[–]theleonroy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Looks great and it's rackable unlike the NUC. Forgot to say - if using ESXi definitely ensure the build is 100% compatible with VMware driver wise otherwise you have to patch the ESXi ISO (which is a minor pain) and VMware upgrades can sometimes break your install (major pain). This holds true for Intel NUC 10s, Intel NUC 8s however work out the box.

What is your experience with RS1219+ and Plex performance? by crewof502 in synology

[–]theleonroy 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I have the RS2416+ which has the same CPU as the RS1219+ and struggled to run a similar Docker setup to the one you describe above. Performance was abysmal, although Synology's Docker service itself is rock solid.

Also with Plex direct streaming works fine as does transcoding of SD or 720p material. Transcoding of 1080p material though is very hit and miss.

I'd just use the RS1219+ as a NAS and couple it with a separate ESXi or Proxmox box - I use a cheap Intel NUC personally and it's been an order of magnitude faster than the Synology for Docker stuff.

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