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In the before times, I ran a lot of Intel enterprise SATA SSDs. They were pretty good, and the failure rate was maybe 10% of our spinners, maybe less. But none of them ever showed any prefailure indicators that I could tell --- just disappeared from the bus randomly.

A quick look around says socket 7 was introduced in 1995 k6-iii was released in 1999. Wikipedia says AM4 launched in lat 2016, but Zen came out early 2017. AMD is not only continuing to make AM4 chips, but they're also making new SKUs; so yeah, AM4 is longer than socket 7. The pace of computing...

Highly doubtful that you'll get more lanes IMHO. Best case would be a chipset with pcie 5.0 upstream on the x4. Maybe the dual chipset boards would run pcie5.0x4 from the cpu for both of them, you'd lose a cpu m.2, but have a much wider path for data through the chipset.

My 13 year old has basically taken over my steam account at this point. When he was younger and wanted to buy garbage games on steam, they went into my account, because why setup a steam account for a 10 year old... and now it's clear, I haven't bought much recently, so all the fresh games are...

Maaaybe, you can often figure out the sector number, and then if you have the right tools, go from a sector number to find out the file or directory that's got trouble. But I'm not sure how to do that with filesystems people actually use. I'm assuming these are unreadable sectors; if they're...

It's a packet switch, not a circuit switch. So the switch negotiates each wired connection to the best mutually supported speed on that port, and then packets come in and go out at the speed of the port involved. So your 10g box can send 10gbps to the switch, and it'll distribute it to the rest...

Firmware update is a good bet. Lazy answer is I think ASUS puts a scheduled reboot option in their routers; if it reboots every sunday night, that 'fixes' the problem. I've had this kind of thing happen with different network devices if I write scripts to hit the web interface once a minute...

The biggest thorn in Microsoft's side is Microsoft. If they wanted Windows 11 to be adopted, maybe they should have made it good. If they want people to use the Windows Store to buy stuff, it needs to work consistently, or at least be something normal people can repair or reinstall. If they've...

Adding on, a higher grade drive may last longer, but nothing lasts forever. Spinners fail, SSDs fail (less often, but more spectacularly). You really should have 3 copies of things you care about, and one of those should be offsite. The 3-2-1 backup rule suggests having two types of media, but I...

Keep in mind, the first gen famicom had RF out only, and it's tuned to Japanese TV frequencies. There's references our there that say there's a pot you can adjust to get it on a US TV channel, but it's still RF. And the controllers are 'permanently' connected and the cords are short. If you can...

Confusion between Costco and Cosco strikes again.

There was one for the Coleco vision too. Not sure how the intellivision one works, but the coleco one is pretty much an whole atari clone in the adapter and it just takes over the whole output, none of the original guts do anything.

Does it? Isn't it mostly a rebranded 7950x3d, so one CCD has 32M and the other has 96M? Plus whatever memory controller differences.

The bandwidth for optical audio is tiny compared to video, and video needs two way signalling. Optical audio really cheaped out because they can, IIRC, the transmitters are usually led, not laser, and the cables are usually plastic, not glass fibers. Unidirectionality means no format...

Adding on, some people have improved the game significantly (caveat, I haven't played it this way) http://www.neocomputer.org/projects/et/ Some of those changes could have likely happened with a couple more weeks of development. Falling into pits unexpectedly wasn't ever fun, although I'm a...