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I got a RTX 3080 20 GB from China, which probably has memory issues at higher temperatures. Repasting/repadding didn't resolve the issue. I don't want to reball the memory modules and so I am looking for a repair shop, which is located in the EU (for tax and shipping cost reasons).

It's really tough to find one. Krisfix.de was the only known good repair shop, but they decline to work on 3000 series since 2026.

My current company is managing the employees' laptops, which can either be Windows 11 based or MacOS based devices. We use JAMF, Intune and Empirum (made by Matrix42) to manage and ensure governance over the devices. In my former firms, this was never a problem, as the company trusted their experts to ensure secure usage and proper licensing on their devices, but this is not an option in this scenario.

We would love to offer Linux-based laptops as well and especially the developers and IT technicans would be super happy to have a debians based OS, the IT service teams don't want to hand over these machines without any centralized control/governance.

Do you have any experience or hints how to ensure any kind of centralized managemend / governance / control for a linux based laptop? What you the solutions, your company have chosen?

Thanks

Till September 2019, it was possible to get the Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) binary packages and use them free of charge.

After the merger with Cloudera, you need either a subscription or just get access to the plain source code which you need to fiddle out how to get your local HDP cluster to update.

Who of the HN readers used the Hortonworks platform or another Hadoop "distribution" without subscription and what are you using in 2020?

Are there solutions or distributions I haven't seen?

A few weeks ago, I read an article at StorageReview (?) that the 2,5 inch Seagate FireCuda Compute hybrid disk drives are not using the classic PMR technology but Shingled magnetic recording (SMR). Initially however Seagate has stated that it is PMR in their tech specs.

In late November 2016 they updated their documentation at: http://www.seagate.com/www-content/product-content/seagate-laptop-fam/laptop-sshd/en-us/docs/100802299d.pdf

Quote of the Changelog for Revision D of the tech spec: page 5: Add MTC bullet & change Perpendicular recording to SMR"

So I checked out all pages just to find on page 8 ( Recording and Interface Technology) Recording method: Perpendicular

Surely they wrote in the changelog that they changes Page 5, so let's see what they wrote on page 5:

• Shingled magnetic recording with perpendicular magnetic recording heads/media.

Wait - What ?

Does that mean that Seagate can classify every SMR Drive as PMR now ?

This is pretty serious as there are still issues with using SMR drives on Linux Kernels higher that 3.19 (Search for: Seagate Archive 8TB HDD and Linux).

Also it would be far more transparent for the buyer to know that SMR drives are having hard times getting large write jobs.

Does anyone with more technical depth with ("SMR" vs. "PMR" vs "SMR on PMR Heads/Media") can clear these things up ?