Recent content by bobkn

One thing I don't notice as having been mentioned: SMR (shingled magnetic recording) vs CMR (conventional magnetic recording) drives. SMR achieves a higher density than CMR, at some performance cost. An enthusiast would avoid SMR. Whether such a drive would be adequate for editing video, I have...

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Do both of those contain ordinary SATA drives? Some external drives use other interior interfaces, so the drives can't be extracted and plugged into standard SATA connections.

A SATA "NAS" drive is little different from a common or garden SATA drive. It's spec'd for more continuous use, and may make less vibration.

I may be taking this too literally, but the 3800X is a DDR4 CPU. The 9800X3D, DDR5.

Not really. But, for starters: https://www.newegg.com/p/pl?N=50011165%2050011245&d=DAS&Order=1 As I said in post 9, Seagate Ironwolf Pro. It's a NAS drive, which I use as a regular desktop drive.

The discussion caused me to check prices. Yikes. I hope I don't need to replace a GPU anytime soon. Or RAM. Or an SSD. I presume that prices will drop if the AI bubble bursts. But that could cause a recession, making funds for stuff like gaming PCs less available.

I failed to notice that. I did a Google search: "is windows gaming on a VM in linux ever done?". The AI response was lengthy. It's unclear to me whether using the VM approach would be feasible for a laptop with a single available GPU. But I'm out. This is wildly far outside of my limited...

Stupid? No. I believe that a typical DAS is external. It may use a faster interface to the PC than would typically be available via Ethernet. (It assumes that your PC supports such an interface, like USB 3.2 Gen2X2 or Thunderbolt.) Years ago, I used a RAID 10 setup that was mounted inside the...

I'm unclear on why you're running a Windows VirtIO GPU version. (It's a software emulation package, primarily used in Linux, apparently.) https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/system/devices/virtio/virtio-gpu.html Do you know what your GPU hardware is? Even if you're using unusual drivers, I assume...

Sounds like premium components. I'm curious: which GPU? The 9800X3D has an iGPU, but I doubt that a gamer would stay with that.

Disclaimer: I don't use any external drives for online storage. I wonder whether you'd prefer a DAS (direct attached storage)? If you only need to access it from a single PC, it may be a simpler choice. As to whether you could transfer RAID disks to another NAS or DAS, I don't know. A little...

This is a bit off to the side, but do you have Armoury Crate installed? Do you have its autoinstall enabled in the BIOS settings?

In my ignorance, I'm surprised that MS modifies a firmware update that it is passing through from Asus.

I've never used one, but I believe that Asus sometimes provides firmware updates to Microsoft. Not sure how one would be applied. I'd expect the updater to reboot the PC and apply the update outside of Windows. Regardless, I avoid issuing commands to other forumites.