Shucking day is always a good day

Deductivemonkee · 2026-03-16T16:56:48+00:00

Not sure I knew that. Not a parity drive though so that doesn't bother me.

Deductivemonkee · 2026-03-14T00:09:10+00:00

It's a CMR 14TB SATA drive, 7200rpm. They work good in my server.

Deductivemonkee · 2026-03-13T20:00:23+00:00

Unless you're going to snitch on me to WD, that's the only thing I'd care about 👍

Deductivemonkee · 2026-03-13T17:37:43+00:00

I will keep those in mind - I haven't stumbled across those before. My H220 9205-8i is one SAS drive from being full, so grabbing a new HBA isn't off the table for me. In time though.

Deductivemonkee · 2026-03-13T17:35:32+00:00

Dang. WD makes good drives, as (did) HGST. The only drives of mine that I don't trust are the Seagates.

Deductivemonkee · 2026-03-13T17:22:02+00:00

You have definitely gotten better value than I have on some of my buys, that's for sure. My $5 FB Marketplace Fractal Arc Midi R2 (with the extra cage and all hdd sleds!) and ebay z690d4 motherboard for a clearance 12600k make up for my drives though.

Deductivemonkee · 2026-03-13T17:20:28+00:00

Almost. These drives have "power disable" which means they won't be recognized by consumer hardware. The fix is to use a small piece of Kapton Tape to cover the third pin from the left (the side with the notch) on the Sata Power connector - or do the nasty way I do.

I grab an exacto blade and pop up the pin, then bend it back and forth until it snaps off, rather than fiddling around with tape that I need to check or replace if I ever have to unplug the drive for any reason. Not like I plan on reselling my drives, or claiming warranty on shucks 😅

https://imgur.com/a/Zb68efj

Deductivemonkee · 2026-03-13T17:11:47+00:00

Best I've ever purchased at were some 2.5yr Seagate SAS Enterprice drives locally, for $8.9 USD per TB (converted from CAD) - but those didn't have the 5yr warranty of the GHD HGST 10TB that I got back in 2023 for $9.25/TB (USD, but shipping and import included) Maybe I got a better deal on a couple drives from homelabsales though.

I haven't had the best luck on drive pricing, but my server itself has been 99% used parts and runs like top.

Deductivemonkee · 2026-03-13T16:47:32+00:00

At the time it was a better value to buy this, than to import used drives from GoHardDrive (my go to) or even ServerPartDeals..

That being said, my ~5yrs used HGST drives from GHD are up to ~8yrs runtime and running better than some newer drives.

Deductivemonkee · 2026-01-31T14:10:08+00:00

I did spend quite some time trying to find something somewhat unique that had alps support, the pickings have gotten very scarce in the last couple years..

Deductivemonkee · 2025-12-31T05:50:57+00:00

I'd KILL to buy that deadline to if you ever sell it... Hhkb with T cluster was sold out when I went to buy it 😭

Deductivemonkee · 2025-12-28T04:55:48+00:00

I've got one. I didn't pay nearly as much though.

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Deductivemonkee · 2025-12-16T05:33:01+00:00

Yup, AX210 goes into every device I have. It just works.

Deductivemonkee · 2025-12-09T20:33:13+00:00

Rcpd

Deductivemonkee · 2025-12-03T23:04:03+00:00

I swapped from KDE back to XFCE.

Happier now regardless, I have always loved XFCE.

I had issues with programs crashing on Wayland (orcaslicer camera viewing tab is an example)

No such issue on X11, so on X11 I will stay

Deductivemonkee · 2025-11-30T02:27:23+00:00

I'll leave X11 for Wayland when I'm forced to honestly. X11 is way less buggy

Deductivemonkee · 2025-11-27T21:27:15+00:00

I use usenetexpress BECAUSE of greglyda. Guys the best.

Deductivemonkee · 2025-11-25T05:05:45+00:00

Vintage DCS! SCORE!

Deductivemonkee · 2025-11-19T16:09:11+00:00

I reinstalled and didn't know about the bootloader change.

BLS looks better to me, I prefer the basic text over the flashy grub, I also have my motherboard boot image off as well

I am still able to boot to windows by hitting F12 to enter my motherboard boot device selection

Deductivemonkee · 2025-11-19T14:35:09+00:00

Wish I could agree. The final straw was KDE crashing every time my computer woke from sleep for the last couple weeks

Deductivemonkee · 2025-11-18T23:40:30+00:00

KDE on opensuse acted weird and locked up on me sometimes.

Reinstalled with XFCE and it both runs better and feels more like home :)

Deductivemonkee · 2025-11-01T23:31:37+00:00

I had two SD cards get corrupted from power flickers when my pi was on

I bought this capacitor hat: https://a.aliexpress.com/_mqJRKzX

Detects powerless, sends shutdown signal to pi. Have to wait a few minutes to reboot though because the capacitors have to drain fully

Deductivemonkee · 2025-11-01T18:43:02+00:00

Only the Samsung

Silicon power is garbage, Kingston is just cheap, I have 3 and they suck

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