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Installing Xilinx ISE 14.7 on a Silicon Mac
I wrote a brief manual to make the VM work for someone like me who owns an arm mac, using QEMU(UTM) x86 emulation. Make & Spike also works, and I was able to solve Task 1 on UTM. The performance is great but may depend on the host machine. Preview Perquisites Prepare Making the VM…
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Recovering Data from a Single RAID-5 Drive
We had an interesting experiment recovering data from a single drive that was part of a RAID-5 array, as we are expanding our storage. The specific 4TB drive came from a Synology NAS using SHR-1, which is essentially RAID-5 with Synology’s flexibility layer on top. As we’re about to wipe & dispose the drives, we…
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Using a RTX GPU in a Dell PowerEdge R740 Server: What You Need to Know
This post explores the practical integration of consumer-grade NVIDIA RTX GPUs—specifically the RTX 4070 FE—into enterprise-grade Dell R740 servers for gaming and GPU passthrough workloads. It provides technical guidance on GPU compatibility, power and thermal limitations, physical sizing, and Proxmox-based virtualization. Readers will also find tips on managing fan noise, choosing the right PCIe power…