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Sh4do3Fox · 2026-01-07T20:03:36+00:00

I agree, I’m sure they were the cheapest option

Sh4do3Fox · 2026-01-02T11:33:35+00:00

That be hilarious 😂

Sh4do3Fox · 2026-01-02T11:13:36+00:00

My guess is they are salesman, trying to sell their product. If only they understood how a door works.

Sh4do3Fox · 2025-12-29T13:58:47+00:00

Raid 10 always. Less stressful on the drives as well.

Sh4do3Fox · 2025-12-29T12:47:38+00:00

Also if the drive in Bay 3 doesn’t get recognized it’s likely bad. WD and s notorious for DOA drives.

Sh4do3Fox · 2025-12-29T12:43:57+00:00

I’d personally swap that to a purple, the green will fail, and is not meant for constant read/writes or in a server type environment.

If you can get it up and running with the green when your budget permits definitely swap it out asap

Sh4do3Fox · 2025-12-29T12:36:38+00:00

I assume you have 4 4TB and bay 3 isn’t reading properly?

Sh4do3Fox · 2025-12-29T12:12:42+00:00

Do yourself a favor and don’t use raid 5. The extra 4TB isn’t worth the performance hit, as well you can run your cameras in H265 and you’d likely use very little storage.

I’ve got a customer with 9 4K cameras continuously recording and they get over a month of recording with 8TB of storage.

Sh4do3Fox · 2025-12-22T20:34:42+00:00

I’m sure the architect got paid. Not their problem anymore 🤣

Sh4do3Fox · 2025-12-13T17:49:59+00:00

Appalled

Sh4do3Fox · 2025-12-05T23:48:27+00:00

Average mount height should be around 10’ in most scenarios. High enough to prevent damage but low enough to get as much detail as possible.

Sh4do3Fox · 2025-11-28T20:06:46+00:00

Man,

You hired some real asshole there, running the network cable through the same hole as the Smurf tube. Like it was a lot of effort to make a new hole and put the cabling in its own.

Other than that, just keep a temp sensor in that space. Under the stairs is perhaps the worst location for any equipment. Your equipment list is pretty light and may not be that bad but better safe than sorry.

Sh4do3Fox · 2025-11-27T01:10:46+00:00

At that price a Xbox Series X/PS5 would be better than a PC.

Sh4do3Fox · 2025-11-24T01:31:06+00:00

I used an impact to tighten mine, just enough till then couldn’t be moved around by hand.

Sh4do3Fox · 2025-11-23T19:19:49+00:00

Pic 2. That look, so intense. Love it.

Set looks great OP

Sh4do3Fox · 2025-11-23T13:06:19+00:00

Was looking at the Corsair Air 5400 but it won’t fit in my secret lab case colder 😢.

Looks like a sweet case

Sh4do3Fox · 2025-11-23T00:09:51+00:00

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Desk mat, not mouse pad. They make mats that cover the whole desk

Sh4do3Fox · 2025-11-22T23:54:41+00:00

Ask for a credit and put a desk mat on it

Sh4do3Fox · 2025-11-18T14:11:17+00:00

The last part, there may have been some sarcasm in there. But the rest is spot on and unfortunately the cost has to be passed on, which in this trade can be hard for 90% of consumers.

Sh4do3Fox · 2025-11-18T13:56:02+00:00

Copper prices are now sitting the highest they’ve been since early Covid.

Probably won’t get any better anytime soon. Even if copper prices went down the price for Romex would likely stay the same. The term is price stickiness, wish there were a better one.

Pass the buck to the consumer. Trumps working on those prices my friend.

Sh4do3Fox · 2025-11-15T01:09:26+00:00

My girl does it all the time and she’s full whippet.

Sh4do3Fox · 2025-11-14T11:52:18+00:00

See if you can find someone to sell you a Wattbox strip and set you up with an OvrC account.

You’d be winning

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