Stole this thing from work, waiting for an adapter for it. In the meantime...
(Apologies for the terrible photo)
[t]http://i.imgur.com/uUEO8WT.jpg[/t]
And yes, there is an SSD wedged in there below it :v:
I guess this whole new forum thing makes my [URL=https://fpapi.nanderson.me]scraper API[/URL] a dead project before I even finished it.
[QUOTE=deadeye536;50428941]I guess this whole new forum thing makes my [URL=https://fpapi.nanderson.me]scraper API[/URL] a dead project before I even finished it.[/QUOTE]
what about [url]http://fpr.braxnet.org/[/url] :v:
[QUOTE=helifreak;50426446]So is there a free video editor suite that doesn't suck ass like Lightworks does? Original TS source has audio desynced by a few seconds, plays fine in MPC-HC, Lightworks can't read MKV for some reason and dumping it into an MP4 container instead results in no audio despite it working fine in MPC-HC. Had to reencode the audio from 5.1 to 2.0 to get it to work.
Not spending any money on this because I'm just doing a retarded dub for friends.[/QUOTE]
ffmpeg could probably transcode the audio and repack it for you.
ffmpeg -i video.mkv -vcodec copy -acodec aac -q 2 -ac 2 video.mp4
or something
[img]http://i.imgur.com/AQ8kQiY.jpg[/img]
Matryoshka flash-card.
Something like that would be an awesome, although probably quite too complex, way to handle an all in one card reader.
Aww yeah. I don't even need to build up a home lab for my CCNA. Family friend who's a CCIE with Cisco is just giving me access to their cloud infrastructure rental system for CCIE's.
[QUOTE=Lyokanthrope;50428513]Stole this thing from work, waiting for an adapter for it. In the meantime...
(Apologies for the terrible photo)
[t]http://i.imgur.com/uUEO8WT.jpg[/t]
And yes, there is an SSD wedged in there below it :v:[/QUOTE]
heh, HD-DVD reader
[url]https://www.amazon.com/dp/B018X8LB2G/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_TnEtxb63VM43S[/url]
Are these SSDs any good?
[editline]31st May 2016[/editline]
Why did my post format itself like that?
What did I do wrong this time?
[QUOTE=Makol;50431178][url]https://www.amazon.com/dp/B018X8LB2G/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_TnEtxb63VM43S[/url]
Are these SSDs any good?
[editline]31st May 2016[/editline]
Why did my post format itself like that?
What did I do wrong this time?[/QUOTE]
I have a 240GB one in one machine. It's ok, not as good as my mx200 though.
I have a few SanDisk SSDs and they don't win any awards but they're still certainly leagues ahead of platter disks.
I'm thinking of getting it to replace my Spinpoint F3 since I want my personal machine to be all SSD.
The 1TB will be going into my soon to be built guest PC.
Replacing all platter disks sounds good, but I'd imagine it will be very costly to replace an 3TB drive and also get a new one because I'm running out of space.
I keep a mix of platter and solid state, best of both worlds really. And leaving stuff like games and archival data on my platter drives helps reduce wear and tear (mostly because I actually don't play games that much so the drives rarely go used aside from the initial write and updates.)
Yeah I mean some data is fine on Platter, I'd imagine my Blu-Ray rips, music and photos will do just fine on one. It is rather irritating though hearing it spin up whilst playing games.
[QUOTE=Genericenemy;50431904]Yeah I mean some data is fine on Platter, I'd imagine my Blu-Ray rips, music and photos will do just fine on one. It is rather irritating though hearing it spin up whilst playing games.[/QUOTE]
Just pour some motor oil on it, keeps it lubed and reduces noise!
I choose motor oil because hard drives are powered by motors, but other oils can work in a pinch.
I have a sipwikit story that stars me.
My sister recently got a new laptop, which meant that I got to have her old one. I was gonna wipe it and install Linux on it but I wanted to make an image of the drive in the event that we needed it to go back to Windows, or if she just realized she forgot something and needed to pull shit from it.
So I went to deleting as much stuff as I could, trying to keep the image file down. I noticed in WinDirStat that system32/installer was taking up a fuckton of space. I figured it was a caching area for like Windows Updates and stuff so I just deleted the whole folder.
That broke everything. Had to reinstall Windows to get it working again so I could keep it. :v: No user files got wiped though so it all worked out and I made the image properly. She lost all her registered software installs for things like CAD and Photoshop though, so I hope she wrote down the CD keys or something.
I recently got a 4TB external hard drive from WD at Costco and it's basically going to be where most of my editing will take place on. My 2TB external portable hard drive from Toshiba is like 3.5 years old and it's starting to really slow down in terms of copying stuff onto it and such and it just doesn't feel as fast as it used to be. I've more or less backed up everything on it on wither the new 4TB drive, or on Google Drive.
I'm also about to start editing a large video and since it was going to have footage from different cameras and such, I decided that instead of importing everything, I would first import what I need, use Windows Explorer to find other video clips that I want, then start importing individual files based on whether I actually need them or not. That way it doesn't take forever to open the damn project each time like with previous massive projects.
As I edit more projects, I'll eventually want to get a shared storage solution, especially when more than one person will eventually start editing with the same footage.
[QUOTE=garychencool;50432141]I recently got a 4TB external hard drive from WD...[/QUOTE]
I really would suggest that you nail that down to the desk or something; I'd be [B][I]slightly[/I][/B] worried about 4TB of data floating around on an external drive.
I wouldn't even fucking TRUST a WD drive with that much data unless I had a backup.
[QUOTE=shadowboy303;50432237]I really would suggest that you nail that down to the desk or something; I'd be [B][I]slightly[/I][/B] worried about 4TB of data floating around on an external drive.[/QUOTE]
There's a high chance I would be bringing that 4TB drive around with me. I started to look online for protective cases for it and apparently no one makes cases for 3.5inch external hard drives. I found one made by WD tho. If anything, I can just get a pelican (or similar brand) case and just cut out my own protective box for it that can store 2 or more 3.5inch external hard drives with their respective cables.
I'm also tempted to get a new 2.5 inch portable hard drive to be more mobile since I can't power the 3.5 inch external hard drives without an AC power outlet. With the 2.5 inch ones, they can be powered with the USB port.
[editline]31st May 2016[/editline]
[QUOTE=pentium;50432318]I wouldn't even fucking TRUST a WD drive with that much data unless I had a backup.[/QUOTE]
I have yet to have any drive to fail on me (besides that WD Caviar Black 1TB in my parents computer that I have yet to diagnose on why it's being dumb. I think it was a problem with the RAM sticks that ended up corrupting stuff but the parent's desktop is still using the same RAM sticks but new WD Black 1TB hard drive) but I have basically everything uploaded onto Google Drive.
10Mbps upload is slow it eventually finishes uploading.
Eventually I'll probably build a NAS and get it to auto upload everything to Google Drive instead of me manually uploading stuff to Google Drive each time there is a new project on my hands.
I was also thinking of getting the WD external hard drives with networking capabilities, then I remembered that it probably sucks and building a NAS would be easier and better.
[QUOTE=Protocol7;50431884]I keep a mix of platter and solid state, best of both worlds really. And leaving stuff like games and archival data on my platter drives helps reduce wear and tear (mostly because I actually don't play games that much so the drives rarely go used aside from the initial write and updates.)[/QUOTE]
In the next year or two I'm definitely investing in a 10gb fiber switch (not nearly as expensive as you'd think even now) and a SAN with like 4x4tb drives so all my bulk data, games included, can go in those and I'll just have a 500gb SSD in all my systems. I should realistically be able to do it all for under $1500.
Currently installing Win10 on two of my CF-18 toughbooks, just to see if it will run. These things were "vista certified" and I imagine that 10 is probably eons better optimized.
But will it be able to do it with all its 1.2ghz and 1gb of ram? Find out in the next episode!
If I were to replace a PSU fan would one of these work with an aftermarket fan?
[url]http://www.amazon.com/Coolerguys-Pin-Adapter-style/dp/B002FR84FY[/url][B][/B]
[QUOTE=Sam Za Nemesis;50433110]got my avatar ready for the change[/QUOTE]
If you upscale, use Nearest Neighbor so instead of being a blurry mess it's creative and revolutionary like garry wants
[QUOTE=Sam Za Nemesis;50434182]Holy shit AMD blew NVidia and Intel out of the water
RX480 will cost [B]only 199[/B] and has near 1080 perfomance
Manufacturers are choosing AMD again
Zen will go to the embedded market that Intel just left (phones, tablets)
Zen is p much ready for release
Are we in for a new era of AMDomination?[/QUOTE]
Can you cite any of these claims? They all sound like fanboy anecdotes to me.
The only thing I know for a fact is the RX480 is indeed $199, but I haven't found any sources demonstrating it being as fast as the GTX 1080.
[QUOTE=Sam Za Nemesis;50434182]Holy shit AMD blew NVidia and Intel out of the water
RX480 will cost [B]only 199[/B] and has near 1080 perfomance
Manufacturers are choosing AMD again
Zen will go to the embedded market that Intel just left (phones, tablets)
Zen is p much ready for release
Are we in for a new era of AMDomination?[/QUOTE]
It has near 10[I]70[/I] performance (5.5 TFLOPS on new AMD vs 6.5 of the 1070)
The RX 480 reaches GTX 1080 performance in [I]crossfire[/I] when used in a benchmark that currently favors AMD cards.
Woah, slow down there, cowboy.
[QUOTE=Sam Za Nemesis;50434182]RX480 will cost [B]only 199[/B] and has near 1080 perfomance[/QUOTE]
Looking at the paper specs, it's not going to come close to that. Half the teraflops, 20% less memory bandwidth. Comparing to chips on the AMD side, it seems more like a better 380, not even necessarily going to dethrone the 390X.
[QUOTE=Sam Za Nemesis;50434182]Manufacturers are choosing AMD again[/QUOTE]
About fucking time.
[QUOTE=Sam Za Nemesis;50434182]Zen will go to the embedded market that Intel just left (phones, tablets)[/QUOTE]
Which Intel left because they were losing, hard, despite having a perfectly good product. The high-end mobile makers just want to make their own CPUs for marketing reasons, as far as I can tell.
Also, [I]Zen[/I] in mobile? Not Puma/Jaguar/whatever cat they're on now? That seems unlikely to me.
[QUOTE=Sam Za Nemesis;50434182]Zen is p much ready for release[/QUOTE]
About fucking time, again. Although if AT's take is to be believed, it's far from "pretty much ready for release", since they haven't even gotten a full Zen-based system running yet. OEMs won't have their hands on it until Q3, which means it'll be 2017 before we see it released.
[editline]31st May 2016[/editline]
[QUOTE=Sam Za Nemesis;50434239]DX12 disregards crossfire and just goes multigpu, one interesting thing to note was that the two cards were 51% idle during that test[/QUOTE]
That's not a good sign. That's the [I]exact opposite[/I] of a good sign. It means they're either thermally constrained, or that the drivers are absolute crap, or best-case the benchmark was not accurately stressing the hardware.
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