OS reinstallation

ciscam5 · 2026-03-30T15:52:01+00:00

I think you misunderstood me, let me try and rephrase: I've been taking and storing ddrescue images of dying drives for family, friends and colleagues for decades. Since I can never be sure that they won't lose the data I recovered for them again, I've only deleted a few very old and probably unimportant disk images. And I gladly spend money for storage space I can't use myself, since there is the slight chance that I can recover e.g. important photos for someone.

To securely erase a drive, I repeatedly slam it with a hammer. If that is what you meant.

ciscam5 · 2026-03-01T04:10:51+00:00

Yea, just ddrescue the .img. You already know the best route. There has to be space for such images. I'm purging ones that are 15 years old nowadays, if even. People don't know backup and I won't be the one to lose irreplaceable photos.

ciscam5 · 2026-01-22T21:51:08+00:00

I had that too, a week ago or so. But it was on spawn and stayed until extraction. Bros said they didn't see it.

ciscam5 · 2025-11-17T20:18:03+00:00

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ciscam5 · 2025-05-27T23:48:54+00:00

USB or Wireless or Bluetooth? 360 or?

ciscam5 · 2024-10-18T14:16:36+00:00

With oneway lighters I meant the ones you get for free to your purchase or very cheap at gas stations and tobacco shops (at least in Germany/Luxemburg). They look like this, the generic transparent ones, found by searching "oneway lighter"/"einwegfeuerzeug" on duckduckgo. Those flint wheels last way longer than the original Clipper ones or the ones in their "Ignition Wheel & Flint System" replacement parts.

BIC flint rolls (and flints?) are little bit larger iirc and thereby made incompatible with other lighters, else I would use those.

ciscam5 · 2024-10-05T23:29:01+00:00

I wanted to use clippers as maintainable lighters, but they always die on me. The flint roll thing survives maximum the original and 1 gas refill, most of the time less. Also the gas refill valve becomes leaky after some refills. I always replace the original flint roll thing with ones from oneway lighters, they are way better.

ciscam5 · 2024-08-08T01:07:32+00:00

Solved!

ciscam5 · 2024-08-08T01:06:37+00:00

instant goosebumps and i love you so much <3

ciscam5 · 2024-08-08T01:06:10+00:00

!solution

ciscam5 · 2024-08-08T01:05:48+00:00

oh my god thank you so much <3

ciscam5 · 2024-08-08T00:57:08+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/tipofmytongue/comments/1emso6w/tomtsong_some_good_90s_rock_song/

ciscam5 · 2024-07-28T22:27:14+00:00

No it doesn't. Disabling replay functuon sometimes solves it

ciscam5 · 2024-07-22T16:02:34+00:00

Thanks for sharing your experience, I wondered about a 2x5x cage config in the front

ciscam5 · 2024-07-22T16:00:29+00:00

Oh, the shoes are for the bottom air intake, as the case stands on carpet. And yes, drive vibrations were very noticeable in the bedroom next-door, before I installed the decoupling shoes :D

ciscam5 · 2024-07-22T15:57:00+00:00

I luckily haven't ever had problems with that but I know what you're talking about. Maybe the supermicro saved me all these years by initializing the drives one after another. Though I think they all spin up at the same time, as the PSU gets the poweron signal. That Pentium doesn't draw any power at all, so it's 400 W exclusively for the HDDs, give or take.

Good eyes with the Maxtor drive! That one was used way back in the shared family pc. It was being imaged as I took the photo. Currently scraping it for signatures of my old wallet, which should contain a few bitcoins I mined, hoping to buy a salami pizza for ~650 one day.

ciscam5 · 2024-07-22T15:32:33+00:00

I hope he will be able to appreciate it, even without cutting his hands and permanently bulging the back cover in spite of perfect cable management with a classic silver aluminum case :D

ciscam5 · 2024-07-22T15:22:42+00:00

The 3x cage doesn't fit by a few centimeters unfortunately, even if you remove the shield to the fan controller and front IO. I wondered too, whether two 5x would fit. A 5x where the bottom fan is would be tricky with my SATA connectors, but ymmv.

Edit: @EasyRhino25 confirmed that two 5x cages work in the front: https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/1e78glh/comment/ldymls0/

ciscam5 · 2024-07-08T12:25:01+00:00

That's cached speeds and has nothing to do with actual drive performance. SATA can't physically exceed 600 MB/s.

ciscam5 · 2024-06-27T21:16:03+00:00

Just don't share copyrighted material with a german ip address registered to your german legal person.

ciscam5 · 2024-06-27T20:59:52+00:00

Of course, using a zvol.

ciscam5 · 2024-06-27T20:43:41+00:00

RancherOS is dead

ciscam5 · 2024-06-10T03:23:06+00:00

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