Yeah it's the drives and the controller for all the drives that are making the power usage what it is. I could replace some of the older drives with a newer one and be able to ditch the smaller drives and controllers, but it seems a waste to do that until they die.

Also, I wouldn't mind ditching for a Sufficient(TM) amount of nvme storage, but SSDs aren't actually getting cheaper and are probably going to do the opposite, so I'll likely end up doing uh, nothing,

The flipside is: why the hell doesn’t any game work on eight gigabytes of VRAM? Devs. What are you doing? Does Epic not know how a texture atlas works?

It's not that they don't work.

Basically what you'll see is kinda like a cache miss, except the stall time to go 'oops, don't have that' and go out and get the required bits is very slow, and so you can see 8gb cards getting 20fps, and 16gb ones getting 40 or 60, simply because the path to get the missing textures is fucking slow.

And worse, you'll get big framerate dips and the game will feel like absolute shit because you keep running into hitches loading textures.

It's made worse in games where you can't reasonably predict what texture you'll get next (ex. Fortnite and other such online things that are you know, played by a lot of people) but even games where you might be able to reasonably guess, you're still going to run into the simple fact that the textures from a modern game are simply higher quality and thus bigger than the ones you might have had 5 years ago and thus 8gb in 2019 and 8gb in 2025 is not an equivalent thing.

It's crippling the performance of the GPU that may be able to perform substantially better, and for a relatively low BOM cost decrease. They're trash, and should all end up in the trash.

Anecdata, but SSDs will last longer than you want to use them in terms of write endurance.

My NAS OS SSDs are 500gb hynix drives from about 8 years ago, and they're pushing 150 TBW.

150TB is a LOT of write cycles on a small drive, and they're still reporting 94% endurance remaining.

The controller will die or I'll upgrade well before that breaks at the rate it's going.

Also keep in mind that you can read flash all you want and that doesn't wear anything (unlike a HDD, amusingly), so for most consumer use cases, they'll load the drive up with their data, and then only slowly modify or add to it, but have lots and lots of read access.

HDDs will draw around 4W idle each, 8W in total

Whether your drives are idle is also a very use-case specific thing and I wouldn't spend any time trying to generalize based on that math as a "oh this is how it works for everyone".

In my case, I've got 5 drives all spun up at all times because of torrrent clients, Jellyfin users, and just general media acquisition and public content serving.

This thing would dramatically reduce my power footprint and save me giant buckets of money over it's lifespan while being smaller/faster IO performance/lower noise.

(My current nas sucks down about 120-140w 24/7, so....)

Post images you like and/or find meaningful to you.

Took a good picture? Post it.

Took a bad picture, but it's of your cat? Post it anyway.

What exactly do you need from a Discord replacement?

There's a LOT of options, with varying features so if you don't need certain things it gets a lot easier to suggest what might work.

Yeah, Puerto Rico and DC first.

So Canada can be the 53rd state?

(/s, we shouldn't be annexing anyone for any reason)

It's not just the baked products either!

I just bought some lemon pepper seasoning.

Now you'd t think that the top ingredient would be either lemon, pepper, or salt right?

Well uh, no. It's sugar for some reason.

There's a hill I'll die on: screw that 19th century-ass business dress crap.

Nobody gives a crap outside of a bunch of boomers who are still arguing about how offended they'll be if you don't put on a monkey suit to sooth their egos, so like, we should just stop that crap.

Also: ties. Who the hell came up with the brilliant idea of wearing a noose?

Vance was groomed to lead this movement

If you want some fun tin-foil conspiracy thing, there's one I heard that I both find entirely plausible AND actually believe.

Basically, when (not an if) Trump dies or is otherwise removed, Vance will come out as the 'We've had a hard time, what with our last president being a batshit insane rot brained moron. I'm going to undo the worst of his decisions, and get MAGA back on Track'.

And presto, we now have moved to the competent dear leader part of this whole play, and everyone from creepy neocons to the bleeding heart-ist liberals will applaud and say what a lovely thing this is, and all this change is good!

Except it's the same shit, just sane washed, because it's not hard to be LESS insane than the Tangerine.

Americans tend to buy the most car they think they can afford.

Hell, Americans buy the most car they can finagle a loan for, independent of if they can or can't actually afford it.

It wouldn't be surprising to find that a good portion of Tesla buyers are stuck in the trap where they owe so much on it that there's no way they could afford the hit to replace it, because they can barely make their payments now.

For real: I'm using a 38" ultra wide, and if you had told child me that a 38" monitor would be the smallest display in the house I'd have told you that you're full of shit.

She works at Google, not Yandex.

Though I'm sure Google could manage something equally mysterious.

If the past few years have taught me ANYTHING, it's that at least half the "gamers" are cheering the deportations on, so uh, yeah, anyway...

Yeah it's more hilarious: he's not hooking up with anyone, this is pure turkey baster going on.

Not that I disagree, but putting it in the hands of a foundation that's beholden to corporate money isn't exactly going to be the solution to "eventually messing up stuff".

Basically every one of them made in the past 4 or 5 years?

Some are better than others - CP2077, for example, will happily use all 16 threads on my 7700x, but something crusty like WoW only uses like, 4. Fortnite is. 3 or so, unless you're doing shader compilation where it'll use all of them, and so on - but it's not 2002 anymore.

The issue is that most games won't use nearly as many cores as Intel is stuffing on a die these days, which means for gaming having 32 threads via e-cores or whatever is utterly pointless, but having 8 cores and 16 threads of full-fat cores is very much useful.

Even if he did, how could you tell the difference between the holes dementia has made and the holes a worm would make?

You hope, anyways. Given how shit's going, I'd be entirely unsurprised if someone said that and actually meant it.

While that's true, "I'm sorry that you got upset at what I did" is in no way actually an apology or an admission that they might have been wrong, so.....