auricgoldfinger

The bottom line is we don't really know. Does the WD-Black use better materials that might improve sound quality relative to the EVO? Why does industrial, wide temperature RAM sound better to so many people? Is it materials? I have not seen a definitive answer. Does the WD-Black have lower latency (similar to the Optane) than the EVO? We don't know from the specifications. Only listening tests can give us an idea. In my experience, a 32GB Optane M10 sounded noticeably better than an Apacer industrial, wide temperature SSD in my NUC when used to run the Euphony OS. The gener

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I've never seen anyone mention this product. It has better specs than the Samsung EVO. https://shop.westerndigital.com/products/internal-drives/wd-black-sn850-nvme-ssd#WDS200T1X0E-00AFY0

That's kind of a bizarre playback strategy for HQPe.

Did you ever have a chance to contact the accountants? Is there a way to find out who is in charge of the liquidation process? I see the PHD website is still live with no mention of the insolvency.

There was a time when some people were using external disk enclosures powered by a separate LPSU. IIRC, the external enclosure was connected by USB. Perhaps the second LPSU powering the external disk is key here.

How were you powering the external SSD?

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Conservatively, something north of $100,000 in unfulfilled custom build orders.

There is a good chance we will hear from Stephen on this thread in the coming days. He has privately confirmed the information RedundantSoul has shared, and more.

I can confirm all employees at PHD lost their jobs. I don't know anything about the liquidation status.

Yes I believe the answer depends on the server configuration. For example, having everything in the same box is likely to work better on a higher powered server. With a NUC, a 2-box solution may sound better. Can you install Stylus EP on the NEO? If not, then I don't know how it would be compatible unless I am missing something.

Are you talking about PHD shipments that never arrived, or custom builds?

I don't see the power consumption for the ASUS. The i7 is rated at 65W. A 19v Farad will only give you 57W, so I don't think it will work with the i7. This is not my area of expertise, so others may want to chime in.

With the Farad3, I think you'll be limited to a NUC.