Daily News Stuff 6 October 2022

• Intel's Arc A770 Limited Edition is here and it's not awful. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  It's four times as fast as the A380 card we saw earlier for 2.5 times the price, which changes the calculus a bit. Plus they've had a couple of months to work on the driver issues.
  
  Basically everyone is saying that at current prices your best option for a mid-range card is AMD's 6650 XT (though not at Australian prices), but in terms of price/performance, ignoring features and drivers stability, Intel comes second.

• The A750 is here too, same story. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  A little slower, but also a little cheaper.
  
  
  
• Need a 64TB 25GBps RAID array for your next gaming rig? Highpoint has you covered. (Serve the Home)
  
  The $1100 SSD7540 supports up to eight M.2 devices in RAID-0 or RAID-10, or presumably JBOD. There are also smaller, cheaper models supporting four or two M.2 slots.
  
  The SSDs themselves are extra, of course. But if the five M.2 slots on your next motherboard aren't enough, this is for you.
  
  
  
• Facebook is reportedly laying off 12,000 employees. (Futurism)
  
  It's a start.
  
  
  
• Meanwhile at Twitter they're planning things much better: You don't get a severance package if you quit.
  
  

  "virtually every Twitter employee I’ve spoken to in the last six months has told me that he or she plans to leave if Mr. Musk takes over" https://t.co/cytghPTaWi

  — Tom Gara (@tomgara) October 5, 2022

  
  
  
  

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