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Looking forward to testing/building in this

Well intentioned ^^ thought for sure - though as a long time viewer of tech youtubers, a tech youtuber myself, and a person who put forth an honest offer to put my hat in the ring here so-to-speak, I would advise against that for many reasons. To sum it up, I don't believe that's what review samples are meant for.

I don't think they will succeed. On the other hand, I can't say I'm a fan of Elon or Dogecoin either.

Forgot about this build, rediscovering cool project is always fun . What are you doing with this now? Definitely makes me wish I went in deeper into my TR build ha.

Bummer but the revenue side of the equation is understandable. I have ideas and interest and maybe a few bucks. I'd be interested to know more.

Not sure if you worked this out already but I'd definitely take a look here at this Lawrence Systems ACL permissions video: Also another great LS video on the ZFS Log and L2ARC:

Striping mirrored vdev's will definitely work. Modern TrueNAS GUI is quite nice IMO as well. You should have a relatively easy time backing up TrueNAS with included tools I will soon be swapping my ancient TrueNAS Core Supermicro x9 setup for a 12th gen pentium. Hoping to see a nice reduction in power consumption!

I run both UnRAID and TrueNAS Core in my setup. For UnRAID, I've found the flexibility combined with community support (forums + docker) to be unmatched. TrueNAS however is just better at offering certain types of storage and may meet certain goals better than UnRAID. There are most certainly benefits and drawbacks to both operating systems, I find the success to be in the config/deployment. They overlap, a lot, a real lot. Currently, I use UnRAID as a bulk format storage appliance as I similarly have many TBs of Linux ISOs just like yourself. This is where UnRAID excels on a basic level, it's easy to grow the array. UnRAID, not being RAID, gives you the benefit of array survivability should you lose more disks than your # of parity slots, this can be handy. If you don't particularly care to have a fully baked in and fully supported ZFS experience, UnRAID is near perfect. I also take advantage of docker to run a few applications. My UnRAID server is powered by a threadripper (1920x). I am in a near perpetual state of encoding media files so the CPU is quite busy along with a few other apps. There's oodles of documentation as well as several examples of modest and overkill setups. I find the licensing cost of UnRAID to generally equate to the $$ you might typically spend on extra memory for TrueNAS so, unimportant (to me). As for TrueNAS Core, it powers my iSCSI SAN for my virtualization lab. TrueNAS Core is quite useful for easily setting up ZFS arrays then sharing that through either iSCSI or NFS for ESX / Prox / KVM labs. I personally run ESX as my main hypervisor but essentially, TrueNAS Core provides almost all of my storage for the hosts and does it extremely well. This is not to say TrueNAS Core / Scale is not a good solution for say, bulk Linux ISOs though. It is quite good at being a NAS too. If your calculus of your time, data, sanity dictates you must use a ZFS file system, TrueNAS is the only recommendation out of the two for the time being IMO. The system memory requirement is not quite the end-all you may believe from reading older forum posts but generally you will spend more on TrueNAS system memory if you benefit from / require file caching. There are many people out there running UnRAID in horribly slow configurations, it's quite easy to achieve poor performance when combining certain hardware and array strategies. While UnRAID doesn't stripe data in the main array, I would argue requiring performance out of the main array on a typical UnRAID server might mean the configuration is technically wrong (ie not the UnRAID meta). UnRAID supports the addition of cache arrays which could all be SATA or PCIe SSDs. Depending on your file server needs, you will want to put some thought into any type of arrays you might deploy in UnRAID and TrueNAS. I could go on and on but generally speaking, when I see posts such as this, I typically think, what level of importance is placed on the data and realistically, honestly, super cereal honest, will you ever make a backup? Neither solution is good enough for rolling the dice with out a backup but there are considerations. UnRAID would probably serve you well at the moment. The software is intuitive, the community is quite large and helpful. Hardware support it very good, growing the arrays is an easy and relatively quick task. In 1-3 years, perhaps TrueNAS Scale would rise to the top of my recommendation list we will see

I'm glad to see you take the steps necessary towards sustainability for the forums. I can tell based on your posts you had a certain goal but I believe you can navigate sustainability with a good experience

When I was a bit younger I bought the GT2 (or 3? Cant remember) PlayStation bundle. Hard to imagine doing that today though.

I've certainly found myself desiring to stay on platforms that are dialed in for a longer period of time. There's still gems out there but GPUs for example, RX 400/500 and the ability to edit the BIOS reinvigorated my interest in GPUs at the time. I quite like my RTX 3060 Ti but, I don't think it's as fun as my Polaris GPU was.

Nice setup there - while a 775 build would technically have worked I would imagine some tasks would suffer in terms of performance on that platform. I finally went back to a TrueNAS server myself. Upgrading to the latest ESX 7.x instance for my homelab will result in my controllers not working. My TrueNAS server is setup mostly for sharing an SSD array to ESX but may use it for certain types of other storage.

Consoles aren't my jam anymore. Here's to hoping!

Thanks for the post, interesting for sure. For my bulk storage, I've settled on 14tb easystore/mybook shucks for now with 2 parity disks. I use UnRaid for this type of storage, my parity calculations are usually 30-34hrs now.. Wonder what those shiny 20tb drives would be for LTTs new PB server.

I feel we have had similar experiences. Seeing the GN video though has given me pause to remember the threads / posts from the last few years as well as my general purchasing habits... For me it seems as if the magic of Newegg is gone, its a bummer as a long time customer.

I don't know what the financials look like on forums these days - I'm more so in the YouTube/Amazon side of things. I'm sure it still wasn't an easy decision. To me it seems like adsense revenue would be low and text based forums would rely on affiliate programs? It seems like the consolidation of where people go for information has had an impact as well, facebook, reddit, and YouTube though NBR was seemingly quite large. Perhaps you could work out acquiring the data or operations?

Blizzard and Activision games are why I first upgraded my graphics card in my first PC (prebuilt Compaq). Been an interesting ride for them.. Looking forward to the possibilities.

Looks like you got me beat! I'll have to rerun the per ccd/ccx testing to see which can exceed 4.5GHz. Awesome result! That is quite good for the 9600KF! How much power does it consume at that level during this test?

Wow, that's some serious air displacement power! I might end up acquiring as many as you

Haha, the cooling performance hinges on her cheek rubbing activity Interesting selection of CPUs there - good to know about the P12's on the PureLoop. The Arctic fan bundles seem like some of the best value fan buys around. I was considering using these in the Rosewill RSV-L4500 servers I have in my rack, each run x2 fan trays with x3 fans each and I have x3 L4500 based servers currently. The Rosewill fans are ok but from what I have seen the P12s will be a bit better. Some of these fans are quite old and tired as well (thinking of my first chassis). Also, 4 pin molex is not my favorite.

It's a very unique AIO and it performs well so, I like it quite a bit actually. Being able to refill this AIO basically means I can use it for quite some time at nearly the same original cooling performance levels which I like. I have only tested it as a top mount with the push fan configuration - at some point I will do push + pull for that little extra I can extract to help speed up video exports. Even 1 or 2 additional 25mhz increments across the cores (auto overclock + PBO auto) during an export that takes an hour or so would be a benefit that would justify the cost of x3 fans to me. I would like to test the newer v2 but it is not available in the US (likely due to the Asetek patent issue?). The main cooling issue I have is cleaning dust and cat hair from the intake areas . Sometimes I watch the cat walk over to the computer and just rub against the front grated/mesh area and think, that's awesome..... ha. EDIT: Yeah, RGB-free parts have become somewhat rarer - I agree, if you can get a color you like, it can be a nice addition. This rig will be set and forget soon enough (was assembled just before the holidays). Perhaps when I move my test rig into some case I'll think through the color scheme.

Thanks! I'm not one for RGB, the cleaner look is good for me. This is my production machine, sadly the way my office is setup I cannot see the window of the PC with any of the configurations the Dark Base 700 supports. The 5600X rig I ran has no case currently and live on a cardboard box . I quite like this CPU, I'll be on it for a good long while. If you catch up and pass me, I'll find the cores that can go higher and Price is Right you! Awesome work with your 9600KF rig btw, that's definitely slick and I've been watching / looking forward to the updates!

Fwiw, I run this rig stock always, and dont typically like to go to 1.45v on Ryzen chips even for the 3 minutes I used to close tasks and run this benchmark. Not sure I want to raise the vcore higher. I would need to make it through the bench at 4.6ghz all core or at least half of them at 4.6ghz and half at 4.5ghz in order to beat those dual Xeons...but I'm close, we'll see But for now here is my 4.5GHz 3900xt run, 558/9199.5.

We had so many fan kits for some of those Lenovo's in a previous job I had. Boxes and boxes, out lasted the lifetime / lifecycle of the laptops. I had found the replacement kits years after all the Lenovos were gone stashed in a storage area, ha.

^^ wow! I tried to get my 5600X to clock up a bit higher but 4.7GHz all core seems to be the limit on my chip. That's ok though, more chips will come out Here's the best I could muster from my dedicated capture PC (Ryzen 3700X @ 4.2GHz 1.4v)