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If that can help European readers, some reliable shops have them in Germany and in the Netherlands (over 200 available!).

Downgrading BIOS, if possible at all, does NOT downgrade Thunderbolt firmware (NVM). As pointed to by @CaseySJ , you need to ask (or beg…) Asus support to provide a custom BIOS which does downgrade Thunderbolt NVM to the last version with support for TB2. And, of course, if Asus obliges and...

…why Apple does not even advertise the feature. At the very least, it allows to run Intel 500, 700 and Mellanox ConnectX-4 to 6 series in a Thunderbolt enclosure from any Mac or Thunderbolt-enabled iPad. But there's not much official communication about it.

6950XT, 6900XTXH: spoof 6900(XT): BF730000 6650XT: spoof 6600(XT): FF730000

You're welcome… as long as no moderator complain that we're drifting far away from hackintoshing AM5. None of that should generate sync writes. SMB is generally asynchronous; only TimeMachine does generate sync requests over SMB. So based on that you do not need a SLOG at all. Which is the...

SLOG is only useful for sync writes; it is not used for async writes. Async is always a lot faster than sync, even with a SLOG. If you use this NAS for hosting TimeMachine, you actually have sync workload over SMB… but disabling sync writes (sync=never) may be an acceptable solution. SLOG does...

TrueNAS only supports ZFS as file system. As for ECC memory, pages have been written about it… Fact is ZFS is designed with the assumption of ECC memory; ZFS checksums everything on disk to prevent bit rot but trusts what's in memory, relying on ECC to catch bit flips (there's a debug flag to...

Compression is essentially free and there's no reason to turn it off, even for holding "already compressed" files such as JPEG or MP4: Lz4 and zstd are designed to handle the case gracefully. Compression comes in addition to dedup if you want to experiment with it, and I'm curious about the...

If this a for pure storage, go for TrueNAS CORE rather than SCALE. The memory allocator in Linux cannot allocate more than half the RAM to ARC; FreeBSD (Core) has no such limitation. The memory discussion above was for Core; due to this issue, the numbers may double for SCALE. rsync is heavy in...

As you probably know, ZFS is not too good at accommodating that. Drives in the same vdev are best identical, or of very similar size (it's possible to have different vdevs with drives of different sizes tough, there will be a performance penalty as the vdev with more free space will get more...

The headers may not be compatible across manufacturers, but it is not necessary to use the header. One can mix and match, or use a Thunderbolt AIC is a card without header. Titan Ridge is supported by macOS: Hot plug works; a flashed GC-Titan Ridge can enable the Thunderbolt bus and work exactly...

Good teaser (for now, it looks like yet another regular PC) but… a delivery on Easter Monday? :unsure:

@Kubokun Is that a NH-L12S? A quick check of Noctua's Compatibility Center would have prevented the mismatch: @Aluveitie 's excellent suggestion could drop you at the level of a 7900 non-X (= green check, but no margin).

Existing MPX modules are: Radeon Pro 580X, Radeon Pro Vega II, Radeon Pro Vega II Duo, Radeon Pro W5500X, Radeon Pro W5700X, Radeon Pro W6600X, Radeon Pro W6800X, Radeon Pro W6800X Duo, Radeon Pro W6900X. There is no Radeon Pro W6700 in AMD's line-up, and no driver support for RX6700/W6700 in...

I'm fairly sure AMD would have mentioned if they had released a Radeon Pro W7900 yet. Apple uses the Pro version in their MPX modules, not the consumer/gamer RX. So, assuming that Apple intends to release a W7900 MPX module for the soon-to-be-discontinued Intel MacPro, the hardware part is not...

To just play with the GUI, you may install to a virtual machine (Virtual Box, or other). This is also a great way to test resiliency by removing drives or "playing" with a hex editor on one of the virtual data disks and watch ZFS work its magic of correcting on the fly. Of course, do not commit...

Let's hope for you that it is not a scam after all and you'll get the hardware. But, for the sake of your data, do NOT run it as intended with two VMs under Proxmox. As described, the hardware is seriously underpowered. https://www.truenas.com/community/threads/scam-alert-storaxa.108318/ Good...

My reading of the last point is that "exchangeable" ("tauschbar") refers to cards in PCIe slots, as opposed to devices which are soldered to the motherboard. I see no eGPU hint here. For the rest, the ease of use benefit is clear. Decyphering ACPI and PCI paths is a major hurdle for many.

What? You're not itching to get a tiny screaming fan on a M.2 module? Fell how it spins FAST…

Being "RDNA2" does NOT mean that the iGPU is "like" a desktop dGPU. Remember: MacOS supports RX6800/6900 (Navi21) and RX 6600 (Navi23) but not RX 6700 (Navi22) and no-one has yet managed to force support for RX 6700 from a driver which supports higher and lower tiers! The pared-down iGPU is even...