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My Synology 2413+ 12 bay NAS recently died after 12 years of service. This NAS was primarily used as: an iSCSI backup target for Veeam Video recording for home security cameras Media storage Overall, i was pretty happy with the unit itself - but as per most companies these days, support was non-existent.... so when…
Continue readingA month or two back, i grabbed a new media/VR PC - and had a great deal of flicker on the screen. After some googling, i found that "Virtual super resolution" seemed to be a common cause - and disabling this stopped the flicker. Fast forward to today - and a monitor on my main…
Continue readingIt's been a loooooong time coming, but it's almost here! A number of our clients provide Surface Pro's for their staff, and for what seems a very long time, have been complaining about the lack of a Surface with LTE. It seems like such a simple thing, yet Microsoft haven't released it in Australia. IT…
Continue readingAfter quite a bit of research, i have finally purchased a new system - along with a SM951 - 256GB version. I wrote an article a while back about some of the difficulties of getting appropriate performance out of M2 drives - http://www.hayesjupe.com/finding-the-right-motherboard-for-the-samsung-xp941/ I ended up getting a MSI X99A SLI Plus motherboard which has…
Continue readingMy existing work laptop was around 4 years old - so it was time to get another one... I use my work laptop for writing documents, RDP'ing to other systems while at client sites, email, internet.... so pretty basic functionalities - and have always gone an appropriately basic laptop. This time, I went a HP…
Continue readinghttp://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/01/usb-3-1-and-type-c-the-only-stuff-at-ces-that-everyone-is-going-to-use/ The potential to reduce the overall number of interfaces is interesting... Credit to xkcd on what will actually happen
Continue readinghttp://www.engadget.com/2014/12/12/seagate-ships-8tb-shingled-hard-drive/ might be time to change the 4TB drives in the NAS to 8TB drives.
Continue readingSo most nerds would be familiar by now with the Samsung XP941 an M.2 PCIe SSD which offers, what seems to be, substantial performance benefits over standard SSDs. If not: http://www.samsung.com/global/business/semiconductor/news-events/press-releases/detail?newsId=12921 https://www.ramcity.com.au/buy/samsung-xp941-256gb-m.2-pcie-x4-80mm-ssd/MZHPU256HCGL-00000 Some of the difficulty with new tech, as always, is finding compatible parts.... searching for a motherboard which will work with the XP941…
Continue readingFor the past few years i have been using a variety of DLNA clients, including an Astone MDT310, WD TV Live Streaming, PS3, Xbox360 and the built in DLNA client in samsung TV's. The Xbox and PS3 media centres are ok - but the rest are just plain terrible. The Astone has difficuly connecting to…
Continue readingAs some of you may have seen from a previous post, i purchased a Thecus N7700 pro NAS a few years back...... i was most unimpressed by this NAS. The performance was poor, the AD integration simply doesn't work, the iscsi is flaky and the support is non-existant...... So, when this NAS reached capacity, it…
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