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When the wife is at work tomorrow, I will crack open the system again and see what I can come up with UEFI and secure boot is enabled I do believe.

I have not tried diskpart (I don't think). I basically formatted the drive, created the boot usb from TrueNAS website, and then did the "installation" on the ssd. This is the Card I am using. Thanks for the help! GLOTRENDS M.2 PCIe NVMe 4.0/3.0 Adapter with M.2 Heatsink for M.2 PCIe SSD (NVMe and AHCI), PCIE X 4 Full Speed, Desktop PC Installation (PA09-HS) : Amazon.ca: Electronics

Update: Cancelled the pixel 8s, getting two pixel 8 pros ha ha. Both the wife and I want some extra features found in the pros.

I think now that Beeper has figured everything out, Apple cannot close the doors permanently. I think it will be a temporary thing, and then it will be figured out in short order. Props to a high school student figuring out how to make imessage work on android though.

Go watch snazzy labs take on this. It's awesome. iMessage was reverse engineered by a high school student. Apple...Kings of security! ha ha ha.

I will be trying out beeper mini on Christmas morning when we open our pixels. Reports to follow.

Got our two pixel 8s ordered. Should be here next week. We are excited to move from apple for a change.

I will get them this morning after we get straightened away for the day. I have to pull the case off the system.

It sees the HDDs no issue. I want to install an ssd I have as a 5th drive in either the PCI-E card, or the esata port in the back of the system to run the OS off and have the 4 HDD just for storage with no OS on them.

If those solid state coolers are soon able to be purchased by the public (frore ssd chip coolers), I would try a maxed out spec MBA 15 inch. No throttling then. Would be an interesting system.

Sorry, I am posing two completely different setups. 1. the drive on the PCI-E card is the small SSD that came in my dell notebook. I bought the card to install the ssd in the open PCI slot on the motherboard. 2. the Esata port on the back of the system is showing in the bios. So if I get a hard drive/ssd in an external case and plug in there, can I run the OS off that? There are 4 hotswap HDD in my server and that's what I want to use for storage only, no OS if at all possible. Sorry for the confusion.

Too bad his numbers are not correct. Windows as of today is sitting at 69.7 percent bumping back up from June low of 65%. I don't know where people pull their numbers from. Apple bumped up in that same timeframe when windows went down, but the inverse it true currently. Windows went down/MacOS went up, 6 months later, MacOS is down almost the exact same percentage windows went up. It's all give and take between MacOS and Windows. the others are non players. I am also guessing a bunch of people got suckered into Apple's marketing vortex of the supremely vague graphs showing how performant their Mjesus chips supposedly are, only to find out that's not entirely true and moved back to powerful systems. I know I was falling for the fanboys claims of supreme power from the studio and macbook pro. Only to find out my current systems are faster at doing what I do than the M1 Ultra systems. I am sure that's where the dip and spike between the two come from.

No, it doesn't. When I open up the loader for the software, it shows there but not in boot. Could I use a eSata drive pluged into the back of the unit to run the OS? I am trying to keep the 4 drives for storage only.

Just a regular 2280 512gb NVME ssd on a PCI-E expansion card. The server is the acer AC100

It is not windows, but TrueNAS that I am trying to install.

I tried everything in bios to get this card to be recognized as the main boot drive. Any ideas on how to make this work?

I need to get my office/workspace cleaned up and get some updated pictures of my desktop setup. I am upgrading my monitors soon to two dell 27 4k ultrasharp monitors soon. I will miss my touch, but I have plans for that as well.

That's clean. great job.

Update 3. Installed the OS onto the new ssd in the system. The system will not recognize the new drive in bios, and windows 7 ultimate does not see it either when I loaded in one of the HDDs with the OS on it. Any ideas?

Update 2. went down to my shop behind my house and took the cable from that to start the install of TrueNAS. I have the USB iso in rufus now creating the boot drive

Update time. Started this build. Ran into a couple of issues I am working on now. One, TrueNAS needs the same size drives to work correctly. Right now all I had was 2 1tb and 1 2tb. So, This delays the project. What's worse is that I don't have a video cable and the machine has no other input method for display. So I have to wait until my buddy gets off work. He has a bunch.

From what I see, The Asus studio book 16 was faster in every metric except on specialized benchmark. Every other one, The studio book was faster. If I was buying a MacBook now I would go M2 Max MacBook Pro.

Yeah, really!

I guess I am showing my age with this one, ha ha ha!

How so? my 2070 super has 8gb of ram for itself. How is having 8gb JUST for video and say having 16gb unified better? ram is ram. Apple crows about how their ram works like double the amount of ram on a windows/linux based PC (which it does not btw). I have 128gb of ram on my board, plus 8gb extra, and when doing certain things I can use both my 2070 super and UHD on my chip at once. You are falling for the Apple marketing spin.