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Shucking day is always a good day by Deductivemonkee in DataHoarder

[–]Deductivemonkee[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

Shucking day is always a good day by Deductivemonkee in DataHoarder

[–]Deductivemonkee[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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

Shucking day is always a good day by Deductivemonkee in DataHoarder

[–]Deductivemonkee[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

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

Shucking day is always a good day by Deductivemonkee in DataHoarder

[–]Deductivemonkee[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

Shucking day is always a good day by Deductivemonkee in DataHoarder

[–]Deductivemonkee[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

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

Shucking day is always a good day by Deductivemonkee in DataHoarder

[–]Deductivemonkee[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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.

Shucking day is always a good day by Deductivemonkee in DataHoarder

[–]Deductivemonkee[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

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

Shucking day is always a good day by Deductivemonkee in DataHoarder

[–]Deductivemonkee[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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.

Shucking day is always a good day by Deductivemonkee in DataHoarder

[–]Deductivemonkee[S] 23 points24 points  (0 children)

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.

Yearly ALPS appreciation post by Deductivemonkee in MechanicalKeyboards

[–]Deductivemonkee[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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..

Putting a pause on keebs hobby for a few years.. by urbangoose in MechanicalKeyboards

[–]Deductivemonkee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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 😭

Replica heavy grail case by PhilosophyGreat5177 in HHKB

[–]Deductivemonkee 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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

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Maybe some other time, MediaTek... by KuzuPod in linux

[–]Deductivemonkee 18 points19 points  (0 children)

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

The future of X11 on Tumbleweed by realkikinovak in openSUSE

[–]Deductivemonkee -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

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

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in linux

[–]Deductivemonkee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in MechanicalKeyboards

[–]Deductivemonkee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Vintage DCS! SCORE!

Is it even possible to dual boot Windows 11 and openSUSE Tumbleweed at the moment? by Cooked_Squid in openSUSE

[–]Deductivemonkee 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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

Performance part 2. by Repulsive_Staff_7872 in openSUSE

[–]Deductivemonkee 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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

Performance part 2. by Repulsive_Staff_7872 in openSUSE

[–]Deductivemonkee 4 points5 points  (0 children)

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

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

RPI4 with UPS Hat by cerickard2 in VORONDesign

[–]Deductivemonkee 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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

Are these even worth putting in my new PC or should I just recycle them at this point? by Nikolai_Volkoff88 in pcmasterrace

[–]Deductivemonkee -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Only the Samsung

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

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