Post your battle stations!

SgtAwesomesauce · February 6, 2018, 8:05pm

*twitch

NeOZeN · February 6, 2018, 10:59pm

giphy

MFZuul · February 7, 2018, 7:00pm

Make a table top out of them

Grim_Reaper · February 7, 2018, 7:35pm

I’m really digging that blonde in black underwear. You have a good taste.

HK-47 · February 7, 2018, 8:02pm

I can’t even tell where the mount is. Nice work on the concealment.

fmissio95 · February 7, 2018, 8:31pm

Thanks! Actually it’s hidden behind the phone , it’s one of those poles with the arms attached to the joint, relatively cheap on Amazon but very sturdy.
And the 17" is on a small table behind the desk with one of the original stands of the bigger monitors (because it looks better)

psycho_666 · February 10, 2018, 2:19pm

Well, today I got my second monitor… Cleaned my table, put it in order and then… Then I realized I don’t have a DVI cable to plug it in. So…

FaunCB · February 11, 2018, 2:28am

My face hurts help.

Grim_Reaper · February 11, 2018, 2:02pm

I still haven’t posted mine.

Ethernet over power.

Ultimate Ear speaker.

Router/modem

I don’t know why the pictures are so grainy. Perhaps the light was too weak.

anon97550313 · February 11, 2018, 7:26pm

Your camera has poor low light ISO ?

noenken · February 11, 2018, 7:48pm

Small sensor (phone probably) + not enough light + auto settings -> high ISO

Options:

a) manual settings + tripod
b) bigger sensor
c) faster lens
d) more light

Grim_Reaper · February 12, 2018, 12:19pm

Damn. Everything is spot on. Are you a detective?

noenken · February 12, 2018, 6:48pm

… … uhm … … … let’s say … no … ?

HK-47 · February 12, 2018, 8:00pm

No, he’s a photographer.

djdaft · February 15, 2018, 9:44pm

In all seriousness I actually wanted to have additional SATA ports in addition to the 8x on the motherboard. I wanted 2x SATA SSDs that I could do a simple mirror in FreeNAS and create a dedicated pool for VMs and jails. I ended up buying a single 512GB SM961 to save on costs. It was more pricey to buy an additional PCI SATA controller w/ 2x 850 EVO 512GB drives than to buy a single NVMe of the same size. I also found out that PCI-E SATA expansion cards are a real risk, FreeNAS isn’t too fond of them and a RAID card is actually discouraged by iXsystems.

Whizdumb · February 16, 2018, 5:43pm

Get a SAS HBA. A 2 port SAS card will yield you another 8 Sata capable connections. Plus they can be had for cheap. $80 to $100. I’ve been using LSI 9211’s in my server for a while now and they don’t skip a beat.

djdaft · February 17, 2018, 10:39am

thanks for the advice! this is the kind of card I’ve been looking for that isn’t going to make me feel nervous installing it into my FreeNAS box. I’ve really wanted to be able to add a few more drives in the future

Marten · February 17, 2018, 10:48am

Freenas does expect hardware access to drives so when virtualized HD access can corrupt data. My battle station is also my NAS as in I dont have a spare machine and the need to slow down access to network speed.
I run linux so picked BTRFS and have 6 random drives in raid 1. Its fast enough I game off the drives with steam and well streaming video is trivel.

Ethereal · February 21, 2018, 2:40am

Well this is unnecessary.

But why not?

1440x2560 on sides. 4k in middle, 1080p on top.

kewldude007 · February 21, 2018, 2:58am

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