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May. 31st, 2023 04:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
psipsyAfter shuffling around some computer parts, I put my 1060 video card into the new computer, and my older 760 (from 2013) back into my anime-watching computer. The 760 seems to have a bit of trouble with newer files? Well, I'm planning to sunset that computer before long anyway. I'll probably get a newer card at some point and shuffle around video cards again. But I don't want to buy a new video card right now. They're still too expensive.
I stuck another 2TB of NVMe into the new computer to support the new capture card. At current price points, SSDs are the way to go for 2TB or less. (For anything under 500GB, the local MicroCenter only has SSD.) For 4TB, SSD is an option but somewhat more expensive. At 8TB and up, that's clearly still platter drive turf. Crazy to think that hard drives have shrunk down into a part a little bigger than a stick of bubble gum. Some of them are down to the size of a postage stamp.
When installing this drive, I discovered one of the M.2 ports was disabled because I was also using some of the SATA ports. There are only 4 SATA ports on the board to start with. That number has been coming down in recent years. Used to be, boards would come with 6, 8, even 10 SATA ports built-in. But hardly anyone is building computers with optical drives now, and new SSDs are going to NVMe. The logic being that if someone wants to use a pile of SATA drives all at the same time, it's probably going to be a dedicated server, and they'll use an HBA card for it. Boards are getting kinda stingy with the PCI express slots these days too. That's another thing, everything is going to PCI express for connections. The video card, M.2 drives, and expansion cards are all sharing PCI lanes. They do that because they can tap directly into the CPU for the most speed.
In fighting rust or at least slowing it down, there's a substance called Rust Encapsulator. It can be applied via spray can, or brushed on. It's viscous and gooey, smells like an asphalt truck, is so black that it seems to swallow light out of the room, congeals like a blood clot as it dries, and I learned quickly to wear gloves while handling it because if it gets on my skin, I need to immediately use straight acetone and vigourous scrubbing to get it off. But it does the job of sealing off surface rust from getting worse. Or at least I hope it will.
Yard work: Going through and chopping things out. The previous owners of the house were a retired couple. It was the two of them, who had all day to do that. But now, it's just me, and I have to work, and when I'm not working, there are other things I'd rather do. Or need to do.
I stuck another 2TB of NVMe into the new computer to support the new capture card. At current price points, SSDs are the way to go for 2TB or less. (For anything under 500GB, the local MicroCenter only has SSD.) For 4TB, SSD is an option but somewhat more expensive. At 8TB and up, that's clearly still platter drive turf. Crazy to think that hard drives have shrunk down into a part a little bigger than a stick of bubble gum. Some of them are down to the size of a postage stamp.
When installing this drive, I discovered one of the M.2 ports was disabled because I was also using some of the SATA ports. There are only 4 SATA ports on the board to start with. That number has been coming down in recent years. Used to be, boards would come with 6, 8, even 10 SATA ports built-in. But hardly anyone is building computers with optical drives now, and new SSDs are going to NVMe. The logic being that if someone wants to use a pile of SATA drives all at the same time, it's probably going to be a dedicated server, and they'll use an HBA card for it. Boards are getting kinda stingy with the PCI express slots these days too. That's another thing, everything is going to PCI express for connections. The video card, M.2 drives, and expansion cards are all sharing PCI lanes. They do that because they can tap directly into the CPU for the most speed.
In fighting rust or at least slowing it down, there's a substance called Rust Encapsulator. It can be applied via spray can, or brushed on. It's viscous and gooey, smells like an asphalt truck, is so black that it seems to swallow light out of the room, congeals like a blood clot as it dries, and I learned quickly to wear gloves while handling it because if it gets on my skin, I need to immediately use straight acetone and vigourous scrubbing to get it off. But it does the job of sealing off surface rust from getting worse. Or at least I hope it will.
Yard work: Going through and chopping things out. The previous owners of the house were a retired couple. It was the two of them, who had all day to do that. But now, it's just me, and I have to work, and when I'm not working, there are other things I'd rather do. Or need to do.
