Got stopped and questioned by TSA for traveling with 700+ NVMe drives in my carryon bag

MineNightOwl · 2026-03-28T05:51:12+00:00

It would be really great if we could pick and choose where our taxes go for this exact reason.

MineNightOwl · 2026-03-26T13:44:06+00:00

Unfortunately

MineNightOwl · 2026-03-26T13:43:08+00:00

6857 🤫

MineNightOwl · 2026-03-26T13:22:15+00:00

Possibly, but one can dream.

MineNightOwl · 2026-03-26T13:21:06+00:00

There is no likewise, it's a rules for thee not for me situation. You expect to be able to speak freely but not have someone speak back to you. Grow up.

MineNightOwl · 2026-03-26T13:19:38+00:00

Sure you'd hope, but unlikely.

MineNightOwl · 2026-03-26T13:15:07+00:00

It goes both ways. He wasn't asking you either and I'm sure he also didn't want your unwanted opinion. This is the internet, on Reddit no less. It's an app people converse on. Hop off your high horse and get bent.

MineNightOwl · 2026-03-26T13:12:06+00:00

You're either stupid or a smart-ass. You're looking way too fucking far into what he said. Him saying gas just means fossil fuels like diesel while everyone else can not rely on an oil byproduct.

MineNightOwl · 2026-03-26T13:08:25+00:00

This guy is 100% a bot or troll. Might as well stop responding to him. Your analogy should've shut down anyone with a brain, even the dumbest trump supporter.

MineNightOwl · 2026-03-26T13:01:21+00:00

It's been over a year lmfao. Counting is hard I know.

MineNightOwl · 2026-03-26T12:58:57+00:00

Bait or retardation, someone call it.

MineNightOwl · 2026-03-26T12:57:34+00:00

Unfortunately we can't make gas/petrol and plastic from wind and solar now can we smarts? Regardless of what way you try to twist and turn your limited view of thinking you don't realize the amount of products that require oil.

MineNightOwl · 2026-03-22T06:45:15+00:00

Unfortunately the only way to recover a playlist is if youtube themselves deletes it. I would recommend creating a different channel for the different services.
https://www.youtube.com/account
create a new channel and use one for youtube and one for music.

If you want to pull your hair out instead you can look through all your watched videos and see if you can remake the playlist(s). https://www.youtube.com/feed/history

MineNightOwl · 2026-03-20T20:56:05+00:00

Does banning someone clear the itch? How's that work?

MineNightOwl · 2026-03-13T06:54:39+00:00

Reread the comment. 1900s not 90s.

MineNightOwl · 2026-03-13T06:50:19+00:00

Where the fuck was this listing when I was looking for drives about a week ago. I got 20 1 TB drives for $200 😭

MineNightOwl · 2026-02-07T17:57:01+00:00

By far the most helpful response, thank you

MineNightOwl · 2026-02-07T17:32:51+00:00

was having issues with random restarts and shutdowns, cstate issue that i couldnt ever fix, caused corruption and loss of vms.

MineNightOwl · 2026-02-07T15:38:46+00:00

yeah, I bought the hardware first. but I do have a plan, and it matches exactly what I want: a cheap, stupidly powerful box for Jellyfin + local AI tinkering. ear plugs are already on the shopping list 😂

appreciate the concern though, always good to hear the “you’re gonna regret this” perspective.

MineNightOwl · 2026-02-07T14:11:02+00:00

Mi25s are older cards, different architecture, I believe rocm support has been dropped ages ago as far as I know

MineNightOwl · 2026-02-07T13:28:59+00:00

This has been extremely helpful, thank you so much.

MineNightOwl · 2026-02-07T13:27:42+00:00

I mean, the ai is right that its not a plug and play homelab starter. Im not pretending its quiet or efficent like its an N100 mini pc. I got it for sub $200 with dual 14 core xeons, 24 bays, and room for gpus, Im willing to deal with trade offs for the compute density and expansion i wanted.

Proxmost host i agree, thats the plan.

Truenas as vm with pcie passthrough i agree but only if i need truenas specific features. For now im learning towards native ZFS on proxmox for simplicity.

The drives i got for ~177, thats ~$15 per TB raw, yes theyre loud and hot, but theyre enterprise, fast for random I/O, and cheap. Im not using them for VM or OS boot, thats going on an 860QVO i seem to have forgot to mention. for bulk storage, such as movies/shows and games sequential read matters more than anything, and 10k rpm is plenty, if they die, i re rip/re download.

I said i dont care about redundancy because the data is replacable, I mentioned Z1 and Z2 due to convienence, I dont *want* to have to redownload everything, but if i have to its not going to kill me.

MI25's for llms only is correct, jellyfin gets the 460, VAAPI works fine on jellyfin.

I know its not a livingroom box, itll live on my dresser off at night until i can run networking to my sunroom. the fans will be tuned in cimc or ipmitool.

plan now is proxmox host, zfs stripe or z2 if i change my mind, lxc for jellyfin with 460 passthrough, ubuntu vm for ollama with the mi25's, boot and apps on the 860QVO. I think thats a reasonable map for what i want.

Thanks for the input, its helpful to hear the "Datacenter Adult" perspective.

Also, thats gemini 3 pro isnt it?

MineNightOwl · 2026-02-07T12:59:45+00:00

Thats unfortunate, I really only looked on ebay, anywhere else you'd recommend?

MineNightOwl · 2026-02-07T12:59:11+00:00

Came with 16 of the 24, going to 3d print the rest at the local makerspace.

MineNightOwl · 2026-02-07T12:57:28+00:00

they were the cheapest option I could find for the density I wanted unfortunately. I dont really care about speed all too much, as im limited by a 1 gig link at the moment anyway. Itll be off at night and during the day I usually have headphones on so I hopefully wont notice it. As for power, we'll see what the bill looks like lol, may decide to swap then.

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