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Software - you want SilverStack, it does duplicate detection.

Hardware - you want a Promise Pegasus3 if HDs, or a ThunderBlade if SSDs.

Feel free to PM me for more info on the above.

Went to Apple store to have a look at the new Air M2. Nice

May replace my 2011 Air

#CSB

Mine arrives Friday! Studio display to plug it in to arrived Friday just-gone. All the shiny-shiny.

Nice

Good. I have one ordered, should be here in a couple of weeks. Not very happy with my 2020 i5 Air.

Nice.

I’ve ordered a 10 core, 24gb, 1TB one to see how it stacks up against my 16” M1 Max for daily use. Will return / sell the one I don’t want after 14 days

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Interested to see how long you last without the creamy 120Hz MiniLED screen of the Pro...

In your case, being that it sounds like this will be a mission-critical device, I'd definitely buy a couple of whichever caddy you choose, and keep an empty one to hand as a cold-spare that you can transfer the drives over to if the main one fails.

The main thing however, and I can't stress this enough, is making sure you choose the actual storage drives wisely.

Avoid 'consumer' SSD drives. The actual flash chips are rated for far fewer write cycles than equivalent 'enterprise' drives, and the firmware is optimised for burst speed rather than sustained performance or resilience.

For example, for the beefy NAS servers I build for work, I fit Samsung PM9A3 drives, which are the enterprise versions of the consumer 980 Pro. The DWPD rating is much higher, and the write speeds quoted are lower but those figures can be sustained all day across the entire temperature range quoted, whereas the 980 Pro will quickly run out of SLC cache and bump down to a much lower sustained speed, then start throttling once it inevitably overheats.

Always do your research when it comes to actual SSD drives, never use consumer models, never use RAID0, and always keep spares to hand.

I probably only use the screen 1.5 days out of 5 as it’s docked to a 43” 60hz screen otherwise.

Read that as a 60" screen to begin with and wondered how far away you sat!

Keep us posted on the comparison between the two. My use case is similar to yours.

14 m1 pro, absolute madness.
Fans don’t even come on with teams video calls and Miro running, not sure there is a tougher test.

Ha.

There’s finally an Apple silicon version of teams in beta. Uses a quarter of the ram the intel version does.

Fans don’t even come on with teams video calls and Miro running, not sure there is a tougher test.

Try playing Smashkarts at the same time, then you'll know for sure

Well there goes my day...

Yep, been using it since I got my Apple Silicon machine, runs so much better than the Intel version under Rosetta 2.

Here's the link if @chrisbmx116 or anyone else needs:
https://github.com/ItzLevvie/MicrosoftTeams-msinternal

Have you managed to keep it as this version? I've been testing it but it keeps reinstalling the intel version for some reason. It's fucking annoying.

Yeah, been using it for a week or so, no problem.

Have you disabled automatic updates for Office apps?

I have. Even enabled beta channel updates in the Microsoft updater.

How do you notice that the older Intel version gets reinstalled? Does it happen silently?

I've never seen this kind of behaviour; if you disable automatic updates in Microsoft Updater then it'll just notify you but should never actually change anything without permission.

Maybe it's doing it because you've enabled the beta updates? Try disabling that.

I only noticed because the silicon version has a purple header (ooo er) and the intel version is black on dark mode. Confirmed in activity monitor.

I'll try it again and see what happens.

Amazing, thanks.
I hate Teams.

It's literally done it already. Reinstalled to Intel.

I deleted the intel app, installed the universal app. Got on with work and after about 3 hours, it's now an Intel app again (checking get info) and it's showing as Intel in Activity Monitor.

Baffling.

I did but it was using up 148px if valuable screen real estate when I was scrolling through OnlyFans

Bizarre.

Try installing the Intel app, then just installing the latest R1 version of the Universal app from my Github link above, over the Intel version, without uninstalling first.

And make sure you've disabled the Beta Channel in MS Autoupdate.

PS if anyone with an Apple Silicon Mac is trying to get a Windows program based on OpenGL to work via Parallels, but the OpenGL version supported by Parallels is too old (3.1):

The latest x64 MSVC versions of the Mesa3D project fix everything. I'm currently running Pixera by AV Stumpfl, which is a Windows x64-only program that demands OpenGL 4.5+, on my M1 Max MBP, and everything works. Bonkers!

If you'd have told me this was possible before I bought the machine, I'd have been dubious.