My Synology DiskStation DS212j has gotten slower over the years ever since I bought in 2012. DSM operating system security and software upgrades introduced feature bloat that required more memory and caused memory to page to disk. Wikipedia gives an amazing overview of why paging is bad and why zRAM is amazing for memory constrained PCs.
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Some small jumps and blooper highlights at Whistler last weekend!

We decided to hit up Oregon and were lucky enough have it dump. Amazing times!

I have used Windows as my primary OS ever since I was a teenager because I am a gamer. Ironically, my gaming hobby also introduced me to my programming/Linux hobby (and now career) which are always at odds with one another. I can either game, which has an unfortunate requirement of needing Windows, or hack, which usually requires Linux. This meant I had to constantly dual boot between Windows and Linux or suffer with a virtual machine with poor video performance. Not ideal.However, a few years ago the Linux Kernel Virtual Machine (KVM) project enabled near native Windows guest performance by passing through a host video card to a guest. I was extremely interested in trying this out but was deterred by a lack of proof that SLI or CrossFire worked since my other, other hobby is also being a hardware enthusiast.All that changed when I discovered a post authored...
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I have used Intel’s SRT (Smart Response Technology) as a way to boost the performance of my slow spinner hard drives ever since they introduced the SSD caching technology alongside the Z68 chipset for Sandybridge in 2011. SRT works by caching heavily used data onto the speedy SSD with a fall back to the HDD at the minor cost of requiring a RAID driver on Windows boot.
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