I do not have info like that, just lamenting that manufacturers (not just AMD) are raising prices of their tiers. The GTX 1070 launched in 2016 for USD 379, GTX 1070 Ti in 2017 for 399. Adjusted for inflation, they are $506 & $522 in 2025 dollars, so expecting there are still some room for reduction, even if manufacturing costs might have risen quicker than inflation, for the $599 price is not unreasonable IMHO.

It is sad when we have to celebrate $599 as “AMD not being greedy”.

For IOS devices, by default has “fixed” randomized MAC per network, i.e. each Wireless network you join sees a different MAC, but they’ll stay the same even if you leave and re-join (or even delete and re-add). So, it should not hamper MAC filtering since your AP will see the same MAC from the same device, unless you’re running more elaborate setups like multiple APs (I don’t know how IOS treats that).

This can be changed on a per-network basis in any case, so it is possible to turn it off on the device just for your home network.

A wire which is supposed to carry 9.5A max carrying >20A is bad.

With the way the Founder Edition uses the connector – all the 12V pins are just connected together on the card – isn’t it better to do the same on the cable, in other words connect all 12V wires together at the connector on both ends? Would that eliminate imbalance between the cables?

Need to input an additional passcode which is unnecessary when using a cash card, and still need to input the PIN. It is remembering 1 more thing in exchange of carrying the card.

Not as insecure as I first thought as just scanning your face and getting authenticated, nor as convenient as that would be.

I don’t see it getting so popular that it replaces cash cards. There is not a huge advantage to the user so banks probably cannot convince that many people to give up their biometric data for this service.

Wonder how the app sent geolocation with Location Services disabled.

Hisense’s new RGB LED panel uses thousands of optical lenses, each containing red, green, and blue LEDs to produce “pure colors directly at the source.”

Sounds like there will still be zones and bleeding since each LED would correspond to more than one subpixel.

Is this some biological instinct to ensure gene diversity?

The cable one is just a regular SATA connector, since SAS HBAs can also control SATA drives (but not vice versa).

I believe the connector you are looking for is called SFF-8482. It is available in backplane and cable versions.

https://www.servethehome.com/sas-sata-cables-guide-sff8087-8088-8470-8482-8484-single-device-connectors/

OP should be looking at backup before considering RAID anyway, because RAID is not backup.

The equivalent of SAS expanders for SATA are called port multipliers, and the JMS562 chip in the picture can act as one (as well as becoming a sort of RAID controller).

Disclaimer: this is not from experience so perhaps someone who do run servers with USB HDDs can comment on long term stability of USB as an interface.

Technically speaking, even USB 3 gen 1 (5Gb/s (gigabits per sec)) is far more than enough to saturate a broadband connection (probably under 1Gb/s). Assuming you’re going to use mechanical HDDs, best case they can transfer around 200MB/s (that’s megabytes per sec)), so no problem there either.

You might want to use external 3.5 inch HDDs as they have separate power supplies (less picky on power supplied from USB) and are much more likely to be CMR (which performs better than SMR, best if you check the specific model’s spec to make sure it is CMR) than 2.5 inch ones.