Currently the largest NVMe drive is: Kioxia LC9 series drive with a massive capacity of 245.76 TB. This enterprise-class drive is designed for data centers and AI workloads and is not available for general consumer purchase (prices unown but possibly […]
search for it on ebay it has a nice blue glow to it the assembly is a bit confusing X-D search for SKC3000D2048G on ebay similar card might different name? what else is there NVMe 2TB wise? # get info […]
Server Model: G292-Z20-rev-100 search em on ebay another search always the POSITIVE first: overall it’s an excellent machine but the user needs to know the details it has 1x BMC (LAN) and 2x slots for SPF fiber modules for example […]
currently testing the AMD workstation with the KINGSTON SKC3000D2048G NVMe, directly attached to one of the 2x NVMe slots (no RAID), as this NVMe drive seems to offer excellent price-to-disk-size-and-performance-value, if it is a kingston-quality drive, then there should be […]
got a new toy. after the MDADM RAID0 with 2x datacenter capable Kingston directly mounted on the mobo, did not turn out MASSIVE speeds 😀 (it was just a test, what speeds those datacenter (!!! 24-7 operation for years!!!) can […]
update: 2024-04: system running well fastest AMD with integrated GPU would be: Ryzen 7 8700G (search bundle on ebay) the Ryzen 7 has more cores, so single core wise the CPUs are close to each other, multicore the 7 should […]
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WARNING! always use the default supplied usb cable using other usb-c cable (even high quality ones) might overheat the USB-NVMe adapter (happened while copying 50GBytes of data over left USB port of lenovo t14 gen3 it worked again after a […]
IDE, SCSI, SATA, SAS now U.2 M.2… these drives are called: “U.2 PCIe NVMe” no kidding, search for em on ebay. that reminds of… “the usb cable chaos” has arrived with “Slim SAS” for another round of mass cable connector confusion […]
because Win 10 compared to Win 7 is incredibly slow, a way to upgrade an older ASUS Mainboard was found RAM was increased from 8 GB to 32 GB it actually had an M.2 slot for the MZ-V8P500BW NVMe SSD […]
update 2025: very basic cross os distribution monitor harddisk speeds bash script by counting sector read write UPDATE: 2022 may have to appoligize to HighPoint and ALTERNATE, as other RAID systems such as the AMD RAIDXpert2 based systems (same concept) […]
WARNING! UNTESTED! dwaves has not (YET) been given a free sample to review this SOC, armbian is supporting it, which is good: https://blog.armbian.com/friendlyelecs-nanopc-t6-plus-the-flagship-edge-computing-powerhouse-and-media-station/?ref=news-from-armbian-newsletter (big question is: will BOTH LAN interfaces work reliably with ARMBIAN? because there seems to be some […]
hostnamectl; # tested with Static hostname: workstation Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 13 (trixie) Kernel: Linux 6.12.30-amd64 Architecture: x86-64 Hardware Model: Gigabyte B550 Aorus Elite AX V2 rev-1 Socket AM4 # gpu used nvidia RTX 5060 Ti 16GByte the idea start […]
Skyrim on steam: 39 bucks imho too much, place it on player’s wishlist and when a discount is going snap it up 😀 pros and cons: [+] looks really awesome after all these years (with shader mods + character facelift […]
# 1 PetaByte (binary) should be echo “scale=10; 1024*1024*1024″|bc # 1073741824 MegaBytes the “original” ChatGPT get’s confused and mixes binary and decimal (as can be seen from the question, it’s clearly about BYTES = multiples of 8 Bits, not Bits, […]
it’s still possible to use inernal snapshots btw Dear OpenSource and other communities, [+] virt-manager is a neat tool to manage virtual machines without having to go thorugh pains such as: # delete remove vmname (cleanly) # including its storage […]
yes there is iostat and all the other fancy software but sometimes, it’s not possible to access the internet or install packages so here is the poor man’s iotop in pure bash v4 will give this output, in a bit […]
OpenSource will always win over closed source, so OpenAI (AS THE NAME SAYS) used to be (at least partly) OpenSource available accessible for every user (with the right hardware) in theory ollama https://ollama.com/ https://github.com/ollama/ollama WasmEdge https://github.com/LlamaEdge/LlamaEdge https://www.secondstate.io/articles/deepseek-r1/ should both use […]
hostnamectl; # tested on Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm) Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-25-amd64 Architecture: x86-64 Hardware Vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. Hardware Model: B550 AORUS ELITE AX V2 Firmware Version: F16d ls -lah; # show content of this dir lsblk; […]
the benchmark game https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/index.html WORK IN PROGRESS!!! quick answers: PHP + Python are both great languages PHP performs FASTER on the benchmark game than Python but Python performs FASTER on marix multiplications file performance wise they should also be equal […]
tape: is it worth the hazzle? what is better (+ cheaper +faster +easier): 1PetaByte of tape or 1PetaByte of harddisk storage server? the race is on! that’s what it might look from the inside: a lot of dirt and dust […]
since 2022: ARM in the datacenter for example Gigabyte R272-P33 in the ARM Ampere Altra Max Version: 2HE All-NVMe Server happyware.com) while Ampere Altra ARM CPUswere geekbenched a bit NO ONE GEEKBENCHED THIS SERVER YET! 😀 BE THE FIRST! 😀 […]
Hetzner is already doing it with very energy efficient Ampere ARM servers delivering world-class-cost-and-energy-saving-virtual-servers. (Gigabyte has them as well UNTESTED!) #SuperCharge #IT processes with #OpenSource + #GNU #Linux (call it #GNU #Linux and give the dude that wrote gcc some […]
“os-prober is disabled with the grub 2.06 upload, which is obviously a bit controversial and the outcome is not necessarily in the best interest of our users” “os-prober is inherently insecure as it mounts all partitions on your disk using […]
Year 2000 has passed, no flying cars yet but at least more faster (SSD and NVMe) disk space 😀 All sorts of resources also digital resources and bandwidth, RAM and DiskSpace space are STILL precious and should be treated as […]
UNTESTED! 😀 these drives are called: “U.2 PCIe NVMe” no kidding, search for em on ebay. “Micron has been developing some of the world’s most advanced memory technologies for more than 40 years, including DRAM (Dynamic Random Access Memory) and […]
From Open Source software to Open Hardware: RISC-V is the future: “Computer chip designs are expensive and hard to license. That’s all about to change thanks to the popular open standard known as RISC-V” https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/01/09/1064876/riscv-computer-chips-10-breakthough-technologies-2023/ future Smart Phones could be […]
2023 Update: first scandal with SandDisk SSDs: cheap solder. WD helps ruining latest bought up brandname SandDisk it’s name for quality, by building maximal cheap crap and selling it for premium prices: “Suspected cause of SSD death raises eyebrows | […]
NTFS (better file exchange since 2021) vs Open Source https://www.theregister.com/2021/10/13/how_ntfs_finally_made_it/ wow. just as the word.doc(x..xx…xxx) formats NTFS kept changing… will it ever “settle”? X-D (currently v3.1) making proper file exchange (without the risk of dataloss) between the Open Source and […]
proceed with caution: only recommend it to be applied to filesystems that are for backup purpose (of which another copy exist). “ntfsfix tool is very limited compared to M$s chkdsk” using a NVMe as backup “USB STICK” and rsynced a […]