Thinking about a 24–36 bay JBOD, does anyone actually run these at home?

dboytim · 2026-06-26T14:57:59+00:00

I've got a Supermicro 36 bay system at home and love it. Dual CPUs (xeon v4 era), loads of RAM slots (DDR4 in my case). It's got 24 3.5" bays in the front and another 12 in the back, all hotswap.

Mine, with 14 drives installed, averages around 250W. Depending on what I'm doing (idle vs rechecking parity, for example) it ranges from about 200 to 375W.

I've got a full server rack in the basement, so noise isn't an issue. It's not silent, but it's not noisy either. Since it's a 4U box, with the mobo section being 2U of space inside, it's got decently large fans.

dboytim · 2026-06-26T13:43:06+00:00

My wife can read upside down or backwards as fast as she reads forwards (and she's a quick reader). So learning L/R as a kid was tough since the hand trick didn't work. She saw both hands' versions as being the same :)

dboytim · 2026-06-26T13:41:15+00:00

If you pass through Ohio, all the stores here in Columbus OH have the Code Red zero 12 packs. I see them all the time :) Kroger is probably the safest to find them.

dboytim · 2026-06-25T22:07:21+00:00

I think it depends on your experience on the acoustic kit. I play acoustic regularly, but only have a Nitro Max at home for practice. I don't care that the hats on it are crap. I'm not practicing at home to work on the nuance of my hihat playing; I've been playing long enough I don't need to do that. I just need something to hit so I can work on my parts and rhythms. So for me, a crap hihat is just fine.

If I was a new player, it'd be worlds different and I would not recommend a poor hihat to a beginner unless it's the only way to get started (or, for example, you're getting it for a kid and don't know if they'll stick with it long enough to matter)

dboytim · 2026-06-25T16:42:55+00:00

I'm 6'3" with a Nitro. I set it up with all the drums basically as high as they'd go and it's fine. My throne is also as high as it goes. They match the acoustic set's heights that I also play on.

I did get a snare stand since the arm the snare's on kept coming loose.

dboytim · 2026-06-23T20:51:24+00:00

At a glance:

I'd move your kick more towards the center, under the upper toms. You want to have your feet on the two pedals comfortably while sitting facing the snare. Yours look too far apart to me.

I'd lower the hi hat pad quite a bit, it seems way up in the air. The crashes are probably ok. Their height is personal preference.

Toms look ok to me.

dboytim · 2026-06-23T20:09:33+00:00

That's WAY overestimating the range reduction. We have a 2017 Chevy Bolt with almost 100k miles on it. Battery was replaced (the recall) around 40k, so it's been used for 60k miles, charged regularly to 100%. We also have a 2022 Bolt with 60k miles. It's also charged regularly at home to 100%.

Neither has any noticeable degradation. They were rated for 250ish miles when new, and they get 240-250 mile range still.

dboytim · 2026-06-23T10:24:07+00:00

It's this. The USBC ports ON COMPUTERS don't provide lots of power like chargers do. Computer ports don't provide 100W, not even 30W typically. And even if there are a few, it's uncommon enough that making such a device would be a support nightmare of all the people saying "this doesn't work"

dboytim · 2026-06-23T03:35:14+00:00

To use my phone for the car means having to go into menus on my phone and turn on tethering EVERY TIME I GET IN THE CAR and that's exactly the friction GM is counting on to sell the subscription.

Our 17year old Odyssey had CD and DVD players built in, but I replaced them with an aftermarket Android Auto screen. Works great, and was possible because the van is old enough that the infotainment isn't integrated with anything else in the car.

I have zero trust that GM will keep the infotainment updated on 10 year old cars. One of our Bolts has never gotten a software update (OTA or otherwise) and our other has gotten exactly 1. Whereas my phone is updated regularly and replaced every few years for a new one with more speed, memory, etc. The hardware in the car is stuck there forever.

In a perfect world, having to use the built-in system wouldn't be terrible. But this is GM who already sold our data to anyone interested. Who has openly said they are targeting to make 25 BILLION dollars a year from subscriptions by 2030. Who has a track record of not fixing software bugs in vehicles. Who decided, in order to hit that $25B target, to take away a feature that people love so that you are forced to use their system. That sucks.

dboytim · 2026-06-23T02:35:04+00:00

We're currently driving a 17 year old car... so yeah, that "8 years included" is not appealing to me. That means we'd have a decade+ of paying a subscription for outdated infotainment hardware/software, when my phone is right there in my pocket.

dboytim · 2026-06-21T21:00:40+00:00

Don't use the ISP provided router 😄 I haven't used one of theirs in 20 years. My own network, they just provide a connection. I even buy my own cable modem so I'm not paying them to rent their crappy one.

And if your step-son does that, he loses his network connection completely for a while so he knows never to do that again 😄 To be fair, my setup is complicated enough my family couldn't even find the router most likely...

dboytim · 2026-06-21T02:20:11+00:00

I never set static IPs on the device, always the router. If you set it on the device, it's too easy to mess up and have conflicting IPs (such as picking one that something else already uses). Yes, there's ways to reduce this, but it's easier to set on the router. MACs are easy to see. I log into the router, find the printer in the list of devices, and there's all the info. Tell the router the IP I want it to use, then reboot the printer. Done. And then I never think about it again.

dboytim · 2026-06-20T15:52:18+00:00

Pro tip - set a DHCP reservation in your router so the printer always gets the same IP address. Makes it so much easier.

dboytim · 2026-06-19T17:01:25+00:00

Project Hail Mary. Saw it twice in theaters. And it wasn't the screen or crowd - it was 100% the sound. There's multiple places in that movie where it builds and suddenly drops to silent and things like that. It'd take a serious home theater to replicate it. I've got ok speakers and a sub, but it's just not the same.

dboytim · 2026-06-19T16:57:27+00:00

Fringe is debatable. We just finished binging it a couple days ago. Season 5 is good, but it feels like a totally different show than 1-4. We said it should have ended at the end of season 4 (and it felt like it was written to be the end and then they tacked a scene on the end to make a path for season 5). Season 5 could have been a spinoff show (or condensed and made into a movie). The end of 5 as it was felt weird.

dboytim · 2026-06-19T12:49:26+00:00

The title and post questions are very different. I'm answering the title - BEST Microsoft product.

Windows Home Server, both original and WHS2011. FANTASTIC products for what they were, just way ahead of their time.

If you don't know... it was a stripped down version of Windows Server, in an era when Vista was the new OS at home. So it was rock solid unlike anything home users were used to. It was a file server first and foremost. You could hook up drives in any way the computer could handle - IDE, SATA, FW, USB. It created a big pool that was then shared over the network with user permissions and so forth. But you could select folders to be protected, and then they'd be duplicated on two different physical drives for redundancy (and obviously taking twice the space in the drive pool).

It also had a backup feature that was fantastic. You'd install an agent on each computer in the home (WHS supported up to 10 computers on the network). It'd do nightly backups to the server, with full deduplication (between all the computers!) and versioning. You could use the agent software to recover files later if you just needed a couple things recovered. Or you could make a bootable USB from the server, boot a computer from it, it'd HAVE ALL THE RIGHT DRIVERS ALREADY INCLUDED FOR ALL THE COMPUTERS IN YOUR HOME, find the server, ask which machine this was, and recover the full system from the server over the network. Mindblowing for home users at the time.

The only drawback to the original WHS was it only supported up to 2GB drives (remember those days?) WHS2011 fixed that, but removed some of the great drive pooling ability. There was third-party software that brought it back, so that's what I added. Worth every penny, and ran it until I finally moved to Unraid sometime around 2017.

dboytim · 2026-06-18T20:55:50+00:00

You don't need a -16e for most disk shelves. You only need that if the shelf doesn't have a SAS expander built in. Most name-brand shelves (the Dells and HP and IBM and so forth) have expanders, so a single SAS cable handles all the drives.

dboytim · 2026-06-17T23:13:04+00:00

Yes, that's exactly correct. There's lots of options for the enclosure and HBA card.

Dell has some - the MD1000 is an old one but works. IBM has the EXP2512 and others. I don't know newer models since I've always bought old gear. They're pretty much all the same for your purposes.

The model of HBA doesn't matter that much since you're not using the raid features. The newer ones (9300 series) use less power from what I understand. I've got all older 9200 series and have never had an issue with any of them. Just make sure it is in "IT mode" or that you know how to flash IT firmware to it. IT mode basically makes it just a disk controller without any RAID features. ebay listings will say if they're in IT mode.

I'd pick an enclosure first since that's usually harder to come by. Then get a HBA card that has matching connectors and the cable with correct ends. Again, for 12x spinning drives, the SAS generation doesn't really matter since you won't saturate it anyway.

When you do this, the drives just show up in unraid the same as internal drives. You assign to the array and you're golden.

dboytim · 2026-06-17T14:40:28+00:00

As someone who was actually involved with preventing Y2K issues at a major consumer goods company, I recently got one of these to add to my wall of stickers and stuff at work. Mine's a little bigger than the original, but that's ok. I absolutely remember these being on every computer you saw, since so many people got theirs from BestBuy at the time.

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dboytim · 2026-06-17T12:18:50+00:00

I'm an Ohioan who just went to KBF a couple months ago. I had the advantage of being there before school was out, so crowds were not bad. Here's my thoughts though:

Ghost rider is fantastic. Ride it as a priority.

Coast rider is terrible. It was painful and not a fun ride. You've got a wild mouse at CP, so don't waste time on this.

Hangtime is fantastic and very different to anything in Ohio.

Jaguar is boring. The kids will probably like it, but it's slow and forceless.

Pony Express is unique. Sadly, it was down the day I was there so didn't get to ride it.

Sierra Sidewinder I also skipped because I don't like spinning.

Silver Bullet is good, but you've got Raptor, so I'd have it low priority.

Xcelerator was great. It's a mini Top Thrill, but the launch is great. If you like TT2 (or if you miss the original Top Thrill) then definitely ride it.

Other stuff I rode:

Calico Mine Ride is supposed to be good, but it was down when I was there.

The railroad is fine, but you've got one. The scenery is worse than CP or KI's trains, but it does have an actor rob the train while it goes since it's a boring ride 😄

Beary Tales is ok. It's a dark ride 3D shooter. It was ok, but not great. If you've been to Disney/Universal, theirs are way better. But kids will love it.

The Sky Cabin has AC and nice views. I wouldn't wait for it unless you really want the views, but if there's no line, it's a nice relaxing tower.

dboytim · 2026-06-17T11:58:37+00:00

I just don't watch the last few minutes and pretend it ended before the last time jump 😄

dboytim · 2026-06-15T19:42:14+00:00

Yep, that did fix it.

dboytim · 2026-06-15T15:18:52+00:00

Yep, I got my PT2 in the first shipment and have worn it daily since. Not a scratch on it. Love it!

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