Wednesday, November 27
Daily News Stuff 27 November 2019
What The Heck Edition
What The Heck Edition
Tech News
- Thirdripper brings with it new motherboards. There's the Gigabyte TRX40 Aorus Master. (Tom's Hardware)
And the ASRock TRX40 Taichi.
Both have 2.5Gbit Ethernet, WiFi, 8 memory slots, and 8 SATA ports. (The tables say four memory slots, but the photos show eight.)
The Gigabyte has three M.2 slots; the ASRock has two on board but comes with a PCIe x16 adaptor card that can take another four. The ASRock also has a single USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 port. It would have had more but the label wouldn't fit.
- More details of the fishy sale of the .org TLD. (TechDirt)
- I guess if .org gets too expensive you could just get a .gov. (Krebs on Security)
Although technically this would be wire fraud and punishable with up to 20 years in prison, so maybe not.
- Australia's Attorney General wants to target social networks with a sort of anti-CDA 230. (TechDirt)
Or... Does he?
He needs to clarify, but he specifically called out a NSW Supreme Court decision holding newspapers responsible as publishers for comments on their Facebook pages. (Sydney Morning Herald)
I'll need to dig into this because (a) I'm not sure TechDirt has the facts straight and (b) this is of absolutely critical importance.
- Xerox is forging ahead with its plan to take over expensive ink manufacturer HP. (Tech Crunch)
They also make some nice laptops.
- Speaking of HP: Some HP SSDs will fail after 32,768 hours online. (Bleeping Computer)
And they didn't find out until it started happening to people. (Reddit)
This is why, even if you have a RAID Z3 array with daily snapshots you still need to do regular backups to a physically separate platform.
And just as I typed that, our primary database server went down.
Disclaimer: Well, fuck.
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I was watching one of the tech youtubers, I don't remember which one, and he kept calling the new chipset "T Rex". AMD should steal that for their marketing.
Posted by: Rick C at Thursday, November 28 2019 03:15 AM (Iwkd4)
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.org: I'm mildly disappointed that they couldn't figure out how to blame Trump, because I bet they just know it's his fault.
Posted by: Rick C at Thursday, November 28 2019 03:18 AM (Iwkd4)
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Yes, I've watched four different videos and one of them did call it T Rex but I can't remember who it was.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Thursday, November 28 2019 03:27 AM (PiXy!)
Posted by: Rick C at Thursday, November 28 2019 03:37 AM (Iwkd4)
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"SSDs which were put into service at the same time will likely fail nearly simultaneously."
Two different people near the top of that Reddit thread said they lost 6 drives "within 15 minutes of each other".
Two different people near the top of that Reddit thread said they lost 6 drives "within 15 minutes of each other".
Posted by: Rick C at Thursday, November 28 2019 03:41 AM (Iwkd4)
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Yeah, something very much like this happened to our source control server recently. We had upgraded it to a nice solid SSD-based RAID for performance, and woke up one day to a cascade of drive failures. "Fixed with a firmware update" really, really doesn't restore our trust in that vendor...
(no data was lost, because I had three separate backups and a replica server running on a different brand of SSDs)
-j
(no data was lost, because I had three separate backups and a replica server running on a different brand of SSDs)
-j
Posted by: J Greely at Thursday, November 28 2019 07:17 AM (ZlYZd)
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For even more fun, multiple people on Reddit reported that they had service contracts with a company that clearly didn't have enough stock on hand, because in spite of a 6-hour SLA it took them days to get the handful of replacement drives they needed.
Posted by: Rick C at Thursday, November 28 2019 09:29 AM (Iwkd4)
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So a Threadripper might be a bit much for my next home gaming machine, what's a more practical price/performance ratio?
Posted by: Mauser at Thursday, November 28 2019 01:02 PM (Ix1l6)
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I find a 3600X (paired with an RTX 2070) to be great in games. Reviewers suggest you could probably get a 3600 instead & save some money for almost no performance loss.
Posted by: Rick C at Thursday, November 28 2019 02:07 PM (Iwkd4)
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