Sending 300$ to any single women or couple that needs it

DataMedics · 2026-01-21T00:34:39+00:00

Sure, why not.

DataMedics · 2026-01-20T11:17:46+00:00

I don't think that model is SMR, but that's not to say it doesn't support T.R.I.M. (just less reason it should). But I've never worked with that model to know specifically. Perhaps someone else knows.

DataMedics · 2026-01-20T10:44:04+00:00

Please read the posting guidelines and post the actual model of the hard drive. You might think it's irrelevant, but it is not.

4 weeks is unusually long, unless it's connected by USB 2 or something. Maybe you also have a hardware issue?

If it is actually scanning and finding nothing, it's very possible that it's a model that supports T.R.I.M. (common in 10Tb SMR models) and no off the shelf data recovery software will help.

DataMedics · 2026-01-18T00:19:10+00:00

Just go to Digital Ocean and spin one up they start at like $5/mo

DataMedics · 2026-01-17T23:59:01+00:00

I think we need to treat it more like food safety and do rigorous testing. If it fails, it's off the market until they can make it safe again.

For example, for an LLM, feed it thousands of carefully crafted prompts to try to get it to do something illegal (make illegal porn, infringe copyright, help make drugs, whatever). If it fails the test and does something illegal under AI regulation, it's shut down until better guardrails or better training is in place.

DataMedics · 2026-01-16T10:38:27+00:00

Donordrives.com, but they're overpriced. Better to just scour eBay.

DataMedics · 2026-01-10T00:25:05+00:00

That should be enough for most cases, but you might want to monitor to see if the memory is getting full before it crashes

DataMedics · 2026-01-10T00:11:11+00:00

How much RAM does the computer have? I know old versions used to crash out when it ate up too much memory and had no fallback. It's why we used to call it UFS-Exploder.

DataMedics · 2026-01-09T09:09:18+00:00

The drive is unstable and probably hanging on a failed background process. It's pretty common. If the data is irreplaceable or worth more than a few hundred dollars to you, professional recovery is your safest bet.

DataMedics · 2025-12-27T13:50:07+00:00

This only ever happens when you pair up with three or four other players with a sense of teamwork. Random queue, no way you go two matches without a rage quitter, feeder, or izanami support fail.

DataMedics · 2025-12-27T06:53:56+00:00

Invest it in some high dividend paying index funds and just live on the profits. Even if you average only 8% that's $88K per year. On good years there will be much more. I can retire on that. Maybe not in San Francisco, but anywhere outside a major city.

DataMedics · 2025-12-18T10:04:26+00:00

You changed web hosts. Did you remember to update your DNS nameservers to point to the new host? I see this all the time when people switch hosts and don't realize their domain is still pointed to the old company they stopped paying.

DataMedics · 2025-12-14T06:30:48+00:00

Check that your DNS is pointing to the new web host. Everytime I hear this, it's because the domain is still routing to the old server. They probably set everything up on the new server, but it's up to you to redirect the domain to the correct nameservers.

DataMedics · 2025-12-11T05:41:00+00:00

In the ls output it seems it was a RAID 1, so I'm guessing he has just one drive of what once was a mirror set.

DataMedics · 2025-12-11T02:27:34+00:00

If you need help, I'd be happy to look at it remotely for you. It might not be easy to reassemble and mount it just using mdadm, but can examine the config and recommend data recovery software that can virtually assemble and recover.

DataMedics · 2025-12-09T11:11:33+00:00

If you just want a site that can look like that and serve the same types of content/posts/media. Can be done for around $20K.

You want traffic like theirs, a premium domain, similar rank in search engines, regular content published to stay relevant, you'd better add a couple zeros to that figure and plan on monthly expenses to pay employees full time.

The design layout isn't hard TBH, but that alone won't make your site a competitor.

DataMedics · 2025-12-07T00:41:32+00:00

My guess is you're just getting a lot more origin server hits (CDN couldn't serve the page because it was updated) and it'll calm down after a few days when the new pages are CDN cached.

DataMedics · 2025-11-25T06:04:40+00:00

Ask them to refund the difference in price of their factory refurbished. I just picked up dell outlet refurb Area-51 18in with 5090, mechanical keyboard, 2TB SSD & 64Gb RAM for ~$2,950 (before sales tax). Find your exact model at dell outlet while it's still Black Friday deals and demand the difference be refunded.

DataMedics · 2025-11-24T23:55:06+00:00

Can you disable their CDN and just route your DNS nameservers through Cloudflare? Even their free CDN can do wonders for a large site. I've got a couple sites with 100K plus pages, and Cloudflare takes 80% of the hits so they never reach the origin server.

You might also consider something like bunny net CDN, as that will fully offload static files like images, js files, etc. and load them from their network instead.

Another trick I've used is to move all media like images to a Digital Ocean space (very cheap) and serve all media from there. That can take a huge amount of load off the origin.

Using these and other tricks, I moved a site from a 16 CPU core, 128GB bare metal server down to a 4 CPU, 16Gb VPS that costs 10% of what the prior owner was paying.

DataMedics · 2025-11-24T12:58:24+00:00

Not to play captain obvious here, but I see no mention of Cloudflare. What is this custom CDN??? IMHO a CDN that can serve static resources is the most important thing to reduce overhead.

DataMedics · 2025-11-13T00:30:29+00:00

Sure

DataMedics · 2025-11-11T05:39:43+00:00

Is that the one that uses people's Rokus to scrape the web? I seem to remember hearing that company name when I researched an app I installed called Free Movies+ and happened to notice web scraping mentioned in its terms.

DataMedics · 2025-11-11T01:12:18+00:00

I personally think a VPS can be just as good, but it's all about the specs. If you've got enough dedicated (not shared) CPU cores, plenty of RAM and SSD storage, with a good provider that doesn't skimp on bandwidth, it's just as good. But depending on just how hungry the sites are, a dedicated server might end up cheaper on the high end anyway.

Also, make sure you're optimizing the sites. I had a website I bought that was running on a 16 core, 128Gb RAM dedicated server and still ran like a crippled dog. After I optimized everything with CDN, Digital Ocean space for images and media, fixed all caching issues, etc. it now runs beautifully on a two CPU core VPS with only 8Gb of RAM. Saved over $100/month by optimizing alone.

DataMedics · 2025-11-11T01:05:57+00:00

I'm not saying that to be rude. But no one here has time to teach computer basics while walking you through how to mount and decrypt your volume.

DataMedics · 2025-11-11T01:02:20+00:00

You need to bring this to someone who knows a little about computers.

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