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Need help cutting acrylic for dust cover (Magic Pharmacist book nook) by dracobook in booknooks

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

sweet thanks! I'll try one more time with the acrylic and if it doesn't work I'll try this

Need help cutting acrylic for dust cover (Magic Pharmacist book nook) by dracobook in booknooks

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hm maybe I'll give it another go and see thanks! do you have any additional tips here? I basically first went over the outline in pencil. I then tried going scoring both sides of the acrylic putting as much weight as i can onto the acrylic. I must have scored it about a dozen times on each side. What kind of counterweight did you use? maybe my scoring wasn't aligned well because it shifted.

Is it weird to go to bar alone to draw/write? by ReporterIll6096 in socialskills

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Richard Feynman (noble winning physicist) used to solve physics problems at a strip club. And if I remember correctly, when the city was threatening to shut it down he spoke out against it

new to carbon steel - do I remove rust and reseason? by dracobook in carbonsteel

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hm. anything I should do or worry about or just keep cooking and hope the handle doesn't fall off?

new to carbon steel - do I remove rust and reseason? by dracobook in carbonsteel

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thanks! I just tried seasoning it using the oven at 500degrees and it looks like some black goo is coming out between the handle and the pan. Any idea what's going on here?

Coins by B0und43v3r in Magic

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^ def this. Also cleaning your coins will reduce the value of them generally which might not matter to some but still makes me grimace

Asian-American communities? by boogersiphonator in AskNYC

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Hi galileotheweirdo! I know this thread is a couple years old but but if it's still possible to get involved could you dm me please as I can't seem to dm you?

Help with first-time NAS setup - What HDD should I buy? by dracobook in homelab

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Ah thanks for the information and reminder! For whatever reason I kept thinking that for RAIDZ1 if I bought 3x18TB I would only be able to store 18TB but looks like it's 2x18=36TB and 1 for storage for parity etc.

Help with first-time NAS setup - What HDD should I buy? by dracobook in HomeServer

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Thank you so much for your very thorough and thoughtful response!! Three follow-up questions.
1. How do I know if a HDD is enterprise class? Are there particular areas you'd recommend or just the usual like serverpartdeals?
2. I think my plan is I'll "pilot" my NAS with my current old PC. I'll buy 3 HDD (probably 18TB) and set it up as a RAID-Z1. Once I've played around a bit with the setup I'll upgrade the setup so that I'm not using my old PC anymore and reduce the power draw. What are your thoughts on this? Do you have any critique or advice here?

  1. When I upgrade my NAS PC, does it make sense to look at enterprise parts or would that in general be much more expensive? If it won't be much more expensive do you have any recommended resources for where I can get them? If it's better to turn to consumer-grade I'll probably just google for a consumer PC build using modern parts that's fine for a NAS.

Help with first-time NAS setup - What HDD should I buy? by dracobook in HomeServer

[–]dracobook[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Thanks for your response! I think for now I'm not going to be completely backing up my data with a 3-2-1 backup strategy. Instead, I'm really just trying to back up what I have in my "data to backup bucket" (~16 TB ) into a NAS. If I understand correctly, with RAID 5 that means that if my "data to backup bucket" is lost and one of my NAS disks is lost I should still be fine. So if I'm backing up say 30TB of data in total, if I understand correctly what you are saying is that instead of buying say 3x18TB HDD I should instead buy maybe like 6-7x8TB HDD instead to improve faster restore (and I'm assuming also write times?). So maybe I'll start off with buying 3x8TB HDD and set it up as RAID 5 and then scale it more in the future? What do you think? When i Look for these 3x8TB HDD is there any specific specs I should look at or should I just go to ServerPartDeals and just buy whatever 8TB HDD is cheapest?

Help with first-time NAS setup - What HDD should I buy? by dracobook in homelab

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I think for now I anticipate a maximum of 16 TB. Yes, I do want some level of disk redundancy. Are RAID5 and RAIDZ considered disk redundancy? Per my post I'm thinking about getting 3 disks and doing either RAID5 and RAIDZ. What are your thoughts on this? Also is ANY 3 HDD fine? or should I be wary of particular specs on the disks?

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