I certainly wouldn’t remove existing cables, that’s effort for little to no gain.

Surprisingly, there’s very little anymore that exposes the bandwidth difference between wireless and wired, and I run a media server at home.

I see the performance difference when copying files, but that’s about it.

I have multiple local devices streaming video (over wifi), while the devices that really need a wired connection get one via a single cable and small switches.

For example there’s a cat5e running to a 5 port gigabit switch behind the TV. So the TV gets a drop and anything else I may need there (Apple TV, dedicated media PC, etc).

Currently have 3 of these switches, with about 10 devices directly wired, but only 3 runs from the primary switch.

NAS sits next to my server, so they’re on the same switch with just patch cables. Pretty much everything else get wifi if it supports it.

Don’t buy any kind of drive from aliexpress.

Shop here: https://diskprices.com/ and even then pay attention to the source.

You have backups or replicants of your data, right?

I think you’re right that it’s likely a hardware issue since it happens with all demanding games and it’s pretty instant.

I would think it’s either the power supply or video card.

Can you set the video settings super low and run the game? This may help clarify where the problem comes from.

Is it a specific game or with all games?

What’s more important is redundancy, as all drives fail.

What’s your replication/redundancy/backup plan look like? That’s more important than “which drive” (other than SMR/CMR), as even enterprise drives fail.

I’ve had consumer drives running 24/7 for 10 years.

Drives are a lot more robust than most people think, but they still fail at seemingly random times, so having backup is crucial.

Backup, backup, backup.

I have an (old) NAS that frankly I don’t trust to not die. Then again, anything can die, so it’s just one component of my local data replication.

I also have my server which is authoritative for all data, which is then duplicated (on schedules) to the NAS and 2 external drives, so I have 3 local copies.

All of these drives are 5+ years old except the primary data drive which is 2.

Or keep cutting until it’s long enough!

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I like your point about power monitoring - that would be an interesting secondary method for alerting to a possible breach, if you have a consistent power-use profile.

Good point.

Though the advantage Android used to have over Windows (mostly battery runtime) isn’t what it used to be.

We wouldn’t be here if we hadn’t already answered the second question affirmatively.

I have an Optiplex that at one point I had 4 2.5" drives in, had to use some duct tape and glue, but it worked fine.

I would suspect he’s getting relayed, and I suspect I was too for my test.

Connecting remotely to your home devices is dependent on your home internet connection’s upload speed, which is usually a fraction of the download speed.

Then add the overhead of the VPN (Tailscale) and how direct of a connection it’s able to make.

Then the connection of the device you’re testing from - it may have some bandwidth limitations.

I just did a quick test - copy a specific file from a local server to my phone - just enabling Tailscale made that copy take twice as long, so it’s definitely adding significant bandwidth constraints (could be an Android limitation).

Haha, 500 word padding.

You did more work than the author!

I don’t even hibernate unless I’m on the move.

What am I saying, I don’t even hibernate anymore, as sleep is so much better on power than it used to be.

Like my battery would have to be below 15% for hibernate to kick in - I’ve manually set it there more as insurance that I don’t lose work in case I’ve accidentally forgotten to hit ctrl-s.

As someone who cut their teeth on DOS, then Win 3.1, saving all the time has been ingrained - you just can’t trust a system to not lose it’s mind occasionally.

Not just Windows 11 - any OS that has a hibernate feature, so all modern versions of Windows.

This isn’t a Windows thing, it’s a product of how SSD/NAND memory works/ages.

What a nothing article.

To add - by doing pulls the backup server uses different credentials to run than the credentials used to perform pulls.

Backup server has it’s own credentials database, machines being backed up have their own database. Backup service in backup server uses appropriate credentials from machine being backed up to access the data there (shares, etc). So credentials from compromised machine are unrelated to credentials for backup server.

And if backups are done properly (full on a schedule, daily incrementals, or something similar) you should be able to revert to a known-good state with minimal data loss.

I have a 10+ year old 10" photoframe with wifi and Bluetooth - I’m surprised how much I like it.

It rotates through hundreds of photos - each photo has a name with a date, so they serve as reminders of places we’ve been, things we’ve done.

On a good day it simply shows what’s in a network share it has access to. Sometimes it pukes and I have to reset the wifi on it.

Any OS without Google Services.

Yea, the Broadcom crap really sucks. I feel bad for businesses being held ransom by them.

Hyper-V just isn’t an option for small businesses, unfortunately (it’s really designed for Enterprise where internal expertise is the norm).

I can ignore their nonsense for my home setup., fortunately.

Have you tried XCP-NG or Proxmox?