Recent content by cbf123

I've been using my Kinesis Freestyle Pro for over a year with an HP ZBook 15 G4, and yesterday it suddenly stopped working. When I plug it in, the lights at the top (above the layout/macro/remap/smartset keys) blink briefly and then turn off. (Normally the leftmost light above "layout" stays...

I'm looking at hard drives for a NAS and was comparing specs. The max non-recoverable read error rate on the WD Red Plus is 1 in 10^14, while the WD Red Pro is 10 in 10^14, or up to ten times worse. Just as a comparison, the Seagate Ironwolf drives are rated for 1 in 10^15, or ten times better...

Running out of space on my old QNAP, looking to build up a new NAS box. I haven't been paying attention to spinning drives, anyone have recommendations for non-shingled ones? Going to be used mostly for backing up digital photos and videos, data files, etc.

I'm pretty happy with my Kinesis Freestyle Pro. The Freestyle Edge RGB is the "gaming" version.

Some keyboards to consider for future reference: Matias Ergo Pro (split keyboard, Alps clone switches) Goldtouch (adjustable, membrane) Goldtouch V2 (adjustable, membrane) Kinesis Freestyle 2 (split, membrane) As far as I know the Matias is the only mainstream split keyboard with mechanical...

This sounds like an OS issue, not a displayport issue. It'd make more sense to resize things when a monitor is reconnected.

Just wondering if you could skip the RAID entirely and set things up so that you're generally reading from one disk and writing the results to another?

You insist on comparing these ultrawides to the next larger size. It's entirely valid to compare them to the next smaller size: 1) 2560×1080 is like a 1920*1080 16:9 monitor but with a third more horizontal space 2) 3440x1440 is like a 2560x1440 16:9 monitor but with a third more horizontal...

Ultra-wide makes some sense for people that currently have multi-monitor setups and like them but want to get rid of the bezels. In fact I'd argue that the upcoming 32:9 panels actually make more sense for this use-case than the 21:9 we have now. Also, there are people with older video cards...

The 32:9 panels are interesting. The smaller one is roughly equivalent to two 23" 16:9 monitors side by side. Personally I'd love a curved 44"-48" 4K monitor, but there aren't very many of those available yet.

If a disk benchmark really wants to test the underlying hardware (as opposed to how much RAM the OS will use as a disk cache) it needs to tell the OS to flush all writes out to hardware as part of the benchmark. On linux this would involve fsync() or similar. Not sure about windows.

That assumes you want it for gaming. For productivity stuff (office, photo/video editing, coding, browsing, etc.) it already works perfectly fine.

It's likely that the NIC driver can't handle the full line rate on a single core, and by running multiple iperf threads in parallel the traffic can be spread across multiple queues at the destination and be processed in parallel. (A single 'flow' can't be processed by multiple CPUs at the...

Basically, yes. At least to the first couple paragraphs. :) I'd suggest that colour uniformity, viewing angle, pixel pitch, refresh rate, physical size, and AG coating are more important than absolute colour accuracy, even to people that care about displays. (And most people don't really...

Below 1gig it requires a special crossover cable. 1gig and up it uses the regular cable and both ends automatically figure it out.