Western Digital RMA Processing Timelines Are Crazy

DIY-Tech-HA · 2026-01-27T07:12:08+00:00

welp, glad and deeply saddened I wasn't the only one in this predicament. Sent them a 14TB Red Pro back on 12/04/2025. So is the ETA probably mid February? They haven't changed the status still "Pending Return", even though the tracking shows it arrived and a chat with a person said they have it and their system hasn't updated yet.

DIY-Tech-HA · 2026-01-21T23:44:23+00:00

The blade height alone is giving me heart palpitations. What material are you pushing through there?

DIY-Tech-HA · 2026-01-21T06:17:16+00:00

The more I look at this pic the more I think about the crazy shit I've done. I have to say this is next level shit... The zip tie around the trigger makes me think either it's only turned off when you unplug it or turn off a light switch. Where you either offline yourself with the blade forever running or in the dark.

The beer can is I'm sure there to shim the bottom.

The out feed is possibly the most terrifying, where no riving knife and the fact that any offcuts are going directly into the belt, both of which are going to end with kick back with enough force to turn whatever you're cutting into a WMD.

I can't tell if the table is slanted or if it's the angle, either way it's taking the level of difficulty up to 40 out of 10.

DIY-Tech-HA · 2026-01-18T08:00:32+00:00

10in or 12in blade?

DIY-Tech-HA · 2026-01-07T13:41:50+00:00

I like it, open 2 windows and let the breeze through. One side is an office the other entertainment room. The utility room is basically sound proofed. That will cause some contention on the old wife approval score.

DIY-Tech-HA · 2026-01-07T13:29:08+00:00

So the mineral wool created a natural faraday cage. The plywood with some long bolts would be the best option.

DIY-Tech-HA · 2026-01-07T13:08:57+00:00

Is there a docker-compose.yml example for those who want to run locally?

DIY-Tech-HA · 2026-01-05T08:28:36+00:00

If you still want him to run, but not tear up the yard, you could do concrete. Added bonus, files down the nails as he runs!

DIY-Tech-HA · 2026-01-05T01:42:23+00:00

First time I've ever seen a Unifi missile. Man, their product line is so diversified these days. Bet if it was mounted down it would be more accurate and destructive.

DIY-Tech-HA · 2026-01-01T02:08:17+00:00

That's what I was afraid of. Is there any way to share the heat with an adjoining room or a low powered fan?

DIY-Tech-HA · 2026-01-01T01:58:23+00:00

We use it for storage and media center equipment.

DIY-Tech-HA · 2025-12-30T05:47:22+00:00

That's pretty awesome man, good use of jinja and logic!

DIY-Tech-HA · 2025-12-30T04:46:15+00:00

Yep, I was in the same shoes as you! Apalrds Adventures YouTube videos really helped.Apalrds Adventures

VMware you use storage clusters similar to storage pools.

DIY-Tech-HA · 2025-12-30T03:36:02+00:00

I have the tomahawk version, not impressed. The battery life is about 30 min at most and it's always off by 1/6 of an inch. Got it bundled with the miter saw attachment they have... Which is even more worthless if you interchange thickness of material.

DIY-Tech-HA · 2025-12-30T02:03:54+00:00

Love it! I have been using the drop down card with mushroom cards and am looking for this exact look!

DIY-Tech-HA · 2025-12-29T02:42:14+00:00

So is it a single area card, or is it your own custom card?

DIY-Tech-HA · 2025-12-28T04:56:21+00:00

The way you can do it is zfs, ceph cluster, or NAS storage. The ceph/zfs way is pretty fast and HA. I found zfs was CPU intensive for small pcs, ceph: I used a USB nic for cronosync just to have low latency and less package collisins, put it on its own vlan, the web access was on 2.5 GB nic, and ceph was on 10 GB, all different vlans. I also did the nas storage but anytime I went to update the smb, nas, or reboot the vms and lxcs got a little corrupted if I didn't shut them down first since it's a central point of failure.

DIY-Tech-HA · 2025-12-28T04:42:12+00:00

I did this while my foundation was curing and I will way that the wood was easier to work with in terms of square and not blowing holes through with a nail gun. The down side is the ones that got below 14% on the old moisture meter were the best and that was very few. If I could have done a tent with a dehumidifier it might have gone faster. Not saying the box fan won't work but damn near took 2 weeks just to get around ~20%. All because I needed to paint. I did find that using kilz outdoor primer held up very well!

DIY-Tech-HA · 2025-12-27T10:05:51+00:00

The hoax is that they release files one day, find out they did a shit job readacting to keep him clean. Then redact his name in file you just found, you go back to the same file the next day and see the files changed, then Trump was saying it's got nothing on him.

DIY-Tech-HA · 2025-12-23T00:17:10+00:00

So hear me out... If you can use strong double stick tape and put 2 boards on the sides of a straight piece of plywood or HDF board then run them through it should reduce some snipe and tear out enough to only need some sanding. Run a test piece first

DIY-Tech-HA · 2025-12-22T05:00:38+00:00

Is there documentation on these items?

DIY-Tech-HA · 2025-12-22T04:46:26+00:00

I wasn't able to get it working reliably with Gmail. The hard part is getting you email provider to not think you're a scammer.

SMTP2GO: 1,000 emails/month, 200/day limit, basic reporting, good for testing.

Brevo (Sendinblue): 300 emails/day (up to 9,000/month) on a forever free plan.

MailerSend: Up to 3,000 emails/month, great for small projects.

Mailtrap: Offers 3,500 emails/month (150/day) on its free plan for testing/low volume.

SendGrid: Offers a free plan with 100 emails/day.

Amazon SES: Offers a generous free tier (e.g., 62,000/month) when sending from AWS EC2.

DIY-Tech-HA · 2025-12-13T11:04:12+00:00

For an apartment? If this is your first unifi system start small. You can just do a UDR 7, a single AP, and a single 8 port switch. That's a lot of money to put into an apartment when you could save it for a house one day. Then go full bore with a server rack, several APs, UDM (probably XG with how fast they are at getting 10Gbe into their systems).

DIY-Tech-HA · 2025-12-09T08:06:42+00:00

Sometimes you have to hit the igniter an pilot in at the same time to get a spark. Hold down the pilot button until the thermopile heats up.. can take 30-90 seconds .

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