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    It’s really ironic and embarassing. The most valuable chip manufacturer in the world, thanks to advances in AI and AI research, which is usually done using Linux systems. And yet Nvidia still sucks hard when it comes to Linux support.

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      Nvidia graphics support.

      Their money is in headless systems, which TBF are much less problematic with Nvidia. Anything CUDA is first class on Linux with Windows as an afterthought.

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    Yeah, I don’t buy nvidia for this exact reason. No amount of performance matters if the drivers are broken

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    This is why I don’t update Nvidia drivers unless there’s a fix I need. If it’s stable, that’s all I want.

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      Until the GPU cooks itself anyway, because nvidia can’t admit their new power connector was a mistake.

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        Seems to be less about the connector, but more about load balancing. The German guy who had 150°C connectors at the PSU side also measured current draws. One cable was doing 22 A (so almost half of the 5090’s total consumption) while the other 7 five were just chilling.

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          Nvidia connected all six cables like they were one and have no way to measure or balance the load across all six.
          They used to do load balancing on the 30 series, treating it as 3 cables basically (3x2 cables).

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          That’s true, but once my apartment is on fire, I don’t really care if it was the cable or the connector.

          My insurance might be interested, though.

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    Iktf, I had my 1060-6GB die and for a while I was gaming on a 750Ti lol.

    Recently my Crucial 1TB SATA SSD suddenly died, no errors, no SMART, no detection on any computer or via USB adapter, only coil whine, taking with it exactly all the things I never backed up because SSDs are supposed to be good :(

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      SSDs at the end of their lifespan do tend to fail more gracefully than HDDs, as even when they become fully worn and unable to take new writes, they will often still allow reads.

      But, that depends on the specific type of failure.

      I had an SSD fail in the same way as yours, where the controller chip or something along the path there died, and it went from fully working to toast in an instant.

      Some drives are more reliable, some drives are less reliable, but the only rule is that any drive can break, at any time, old or new.

      Always have backups.

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        Yeah i should know, but I’m too lazy haha. Didn’t lose anything completely irreplaceable but my beautiful bind9 local DNS zone written and annotated by hand is gone.

        Plus I have basically nowhere to back up to.

        At least the first thing I did when reinstalling Debian was set up an an rsync cron job to fetch the home, etc and some other select dirs, but this is backing up to a Raspberry Pi with a busted micro SD slot that runs off a rather dodgy USB enclosure’d 120 gig mSATA SSD that already failed before that originally transplanted from a busted MSI gaming laptop I sold for coke cash in the mid-2010s.

        Not ideal. That pi also periodically shits the bed. It’s exposed to the elements a bit because it’s also in use in 2 DIY iot projects.

        Is there a decent non-shit non-megacorp-empowering affordable way of doing off-site backups on a small scale?

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          Sounds like you’ve got quite the esoteric setup, hehe :)

          My personal solution isn’t exactly small as I have two identical four-disk NAS servers which operate with one as primary and the other as a read-only mirror of the primary. For off-site I don’t have an automated solution but just backup onto external every so often and leave it with a family member.

          A good solution could be as simple as a raspberry pi with an external SSD at a friend or family’s place, and then make that accessible via VPN to your home network.