Images of items I have purchased (except trainers)

NoobCannon · 23 Jan 2019 at 17:44

ChrisD. said:
MX518 is the obvious one missing for me, probably the best mouse I've ever used. I just wish they did one exactly the same size etc but wireless.

Still using my mx518

Best mouse ever

darael · 23 Jan 2019 at 18:47

ChrisD. said:
MX518 is the obvious one missing for me, probably the best mouse I've ever used. I just wish they did one exactly the same size etc but wireless.

22. LOGITECH MX518. Yes a golden oldie but still oddly popular. review in progress..

I agree, the MX518 was a fine mouse. My G400 is the natural upgrade from it in my opinion.

Oh Ed not again. · 23 Jan 2019 at 18:53

ChrisD. said:
MX518 is the obvious one missing for me, probably the best mouse I've ever used. I just wish they did one exactly the same size etc but wireless.

There must be someone who's gutted another mouse and made it work... To Google!

Squid Vicious · 24 Jan 2019 at 11:29

ubersonic said:
Picked up some bits to upgrade my home NAS

What write speeds do you get to your NAS over 10GB connection? I've been thinking of doing something similar myself with a mikrotik SFP+ switch and a couple of the connectx-2 PCI cards but thinking I'm just going to be bottlenecked unless I setup some sort of caching on the NAS.

Also.... new shoes!!!

Brizzles · 24 Jan 2019 at 11:39

Squid Vicious said:
Also.... new shoes!!!

You've got 3 feet ?

Squid Vicious · 24 Jan 2019 at 11:42

Brizzles said:
You've got 3 feet ?

Nah, I just take a spare in case I lose one :rolleyes:

thegreysquirrel · 24 Jan 2019 at 11:55

Squid Vicious said:
Nah, I just take a spare in case I lose one

But how can you predict whether it will be the left or right one? Very stressful.

Surely just taking a very thick sock and a carrier bag for over it secured with an elastic band would be a much more universal approach? You'd look very silly turning up to a meeting with 2 left shoes otherwise.

Squid Vicious · 24 Jan 2019 at 12:01

thegreysquirrel said:
But how can you predict whether it will be the left or right one? Very stressful.

Surely just taking a very thick sock and a carrier bag for over it secured with an elastic band would be a much more universal approach? You'd look very silly turning up to a meeting with 2 left shoes otherwise.

9 out of 10 times it's my left shoe that gets lost, so odds are well in my favour

Bar · 24 Jan 2019 at 13:27

Squid Vicious said:
What write speeds do you get to your NAS over 10GB connection? I've been thinking of doing something similar myself with a mikrotik SFP+ switch and a couple of the connectx-2 PCI cards but thinking I'm just going to be bottlenecked unless I setup some sort of caching on the NAS.

Also.... new shoes!!!

Do I spy Cheaneys? Fairly sure I have those in the black, very comfortable shoes.

Squid Vicious · 24 Jan 2019 at 13:41

Bar said:
Do I spy Cheaneys? Fairly sure I have those in the black, very comfortable shoes.

Close, they're Church's and also very comfortable

Tone1979 · 24 Jan 2019 at 14:47

Squid Vicious said:
9 out of 10 times it's my left shoe that gets lost, so odds are well in my favour

andy_mk3 · 24 Jan 2019 at 21:31

You simply can't argue with the odds man.

robfosters · 24 Jan 2019 at 21:54

Reminds me of Total Recall (the good one).

“You make me wish I had three hands!”

ubersonic · 25 Jan 2019 at 01:41

Squid Vicious said:
What write speeds do you get to your NAS over 10GB connection? I've been thinking of doing something similar myself with a mikrotik SFP+ switch and a couple of the connectx-2 PCI cards but thinking I'm just going to be bottlenecked unless I setup some sort of caching on the NAS.

I'm actually planning on using the Mikrotik myself (should arrive tomorrow) but wanted to run some tests so just quickly plug and played a ConnectX-2 into my Win10 machine, another into my DS1517+, ran a SFP+ cable between them and set static IPs so no fine tuning of the cards/packets/whatever.

Speeds are good, I tested with CrystalDiskMark and a shared folder mapped as a local drive, over the 1GB connection the read and write speeds maxxed out at 118MB/s which is about the limit for 1GB after overheads, over the 10GB link speeds shot up to the native speed of the array/drives. With the network bottleneck gone it means in future if I'm transferring data between the NAS and one of the SATA3 SSDs in my machine then the SSD will be the bottleneck for R/W speed, which is crazy to think about.

You should totally do it, well worth the upgrade especially considering how cheap the ConnectX-2 cards are used these days (I got one for the NAS, one for my PC and two SFP+ cables for less than half of what Synology charge for their own branded card lol).

Participant · 25 Jan 2019 at 06:27

IvanDobskey said:
Seat Leon FR 1.4 turbo 150bhp with the technology and convenience packs and 18 inch wheels:

Subject to viewing / test drive anyway

Wow dems some big rimz for a poky little hatchback.

IvanDobskey · 25 Jan 2019 at 06:39

Participant said:
Wow dems some big rimz for a poky little hatchback.

I think it's just the angle of the camera.

ChrisD. · 25 Jan 2019 at 09:03

Squid Vicious said:
What write speeds do you get to your NAS over 10GB connection? I've been thinking of doing something similar myself with a mikrotik SFP+ switch and a couple of the connectx-2 PCI cards but thinking I'm just going to be bottlenecked unless I setup some sort of caching on the NAS.

On my QNAP I get around 350 MB/s backing up to it via NFS using Veeam from my vSAN cluster. The NAS has 4 6TB reds and two SSD cache drives.

Squid Vicious · 25 Jan 2019 at 12:50

ubersonic said:
I'm actually planning on using the Mikrotik myself (should arrive tomorrow) but wanted to run some tests so just quickly plug and played a ConnectX-2 into my Win10 machine, another into my DS1517+, ran a SFP+ cable between them and set static IPs so no fine tuning of the cards/packets/whatever.

Speeds are good, I tested with CrystalDiskMark and a shared folder mapped as a local drive, over the 1GB connection the read and write speeds maxxed out at 118MB/s which is about the limit for 1GB after overheads, over the 10GB link speeds shot up to the native speed of the array/drives. With the network bottleneck gone it means in future if I'm transferring data between the NAS and one of the SATA3 SSDs in my machine then the SSD will be the bottleneck for R/W speed, which is crazy to think about.

You should totally do it, well worth the upgrade especially considering how cheap the ConnectX-2 cards are used these days (I got one for the NAS, one for my PC and two SFP+ cables for less than half of what Synology charge for their own branded card lol).

ChrisD. said:
On my QNAP I get around 350 MB/s backing up to it via NFS using Veeam from my vSAN cluster. The NAS has 4 6TB reds and two SSD cache drives.

Thanks for the feedback! Time to find me some Connectx-2s and a DAC! :cool:

Steedie · 25 Jan 2019 at 17:22

New centre speaker. Quite a bit bigger than the old one :eek:

ubersonic · 25 Jan 2019 at 17:36

Squid Vicious said:
Thanks for the feedback! Time to find me some Connectx-2s and a DAC!

If you are ordering off a popular auction site, simply search for "connectx-2" then order by lowest price inc postage, and scroll down until you see two cards and a cable as a bundle. It will probably be from China (mine were) but despite the free postage should arrive promptly and with tracking (mine took <7 days) and with no import costs (you may get unlucky on this but that would just change them for super cheap to cheap).

I genuinely cannot understand how Chinese sellers can sell a product (even used) so cheap with non-economy international shipping and be making any money, perhaps it's disgruntled employees just walking out the datacenters with bags full /shrug

Oh yeah, my MikroTik CRS305-1G-4S+IN arrived today and so did my die cast Klingon Battlecruiser