Re: [gentoo-user] planning a new machine : comments welcome

2022-03-03 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Mar 3, 2022 at 2:11 PM Julien Roy wrote: > > The WD Reds are still marketted as RAID compatible to this day, despite the > fact that they are SMRs. > > Julien > 18 months ago WD put out this statement: https://blog.westerndigital.com/wd-red-nas-drives/ If by 'marketed' you mean Amazon

Re: [gentoo-user] planning a new machine : comments welcome

2022-03-03 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Mar 3, 2022 at 1:38 PM Dale wrote: > > Julien Roy wrote: > > This is exactly what happened to me. I unknowingly bought SMR drives > > (I didn't know the difference, but the drives were "RAID" rated, > > whatever that means. SMR drives obviously aren't "RAID" anything.) > > Well, when was t

Re: [gentoo-user] planning a new machine : comments welcome

2022-03-03 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Mar 2, 2022 at 12:40 PM Philip Webb wrote: > > After > 6 years , I'm planning to build a new machine ANB6. > The present machine ANB5 -- details at end -- continues to perform well, > but I can't rely on that for ever. > > I use it for everyday desktop work + fun. > The weekly Gentoo upda

Re: [gentoo-user] planning a new machine : comments welcome

2022-03-03 Thread Dale
Julien Roy wrote: > This is exactly what happened to me. I unknowingly bought SMR drives > (I didn't know the difference, but the drives were "RAID" rated, > whatever that means. SMR drives obviously aren't "RAID" anything.) > Well, when was the time to expand my RAID, it wouldn't work. > Needless

Re: [gentoo-user] planning a new machine : comments welcome

2022-03-03 Thread Dale
Laurence Perkins wrote: >> >> -Original Message- >> From: Dale >> Sent: Wednesday, March 2, 2022 5:08 PM >> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org >> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] planning a new machine : comments welcome >> >> Laurence Perkins wrote: >>> With regard to SMR drives, note that there

RE: [gentoo-user] planning a new machine : comments welcome

2022-03-03 Thread Laurence Perkins
> > > -Original Message- > From: Dale > Sent: Wednesday, March 2, 2022 5:08 PM > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] planning a new machine : comments welcome > > Laurence Perkins wrote: > > With regard to SMR drives, note that there are three basic types: > >

[gentoo-user] QMPlay2 exiting/closing window when finished playing video or playlist

2022-03-03 Thread Dale
Howdy, I think I posted once about switching from the old Gnome-player to something new.  After trying a lot of video players since that time, I've kind of settled on QMPlay2.  I still use Gnome-player tho but some newer videos don't play since it has no support for some new videos codes.  That is