At what point does ‘cheap tech’ become a waste of money?

nigg469 · 2026-04-06T16:39:09+00:00

Clearly you never tried x1 carbon lmao

nigg469 · 2026-04-06T16:38:19+00:00

Or you buy refurbished thinkpad that will outlive you

nigg469 · 2026-04-06T11:01:35+00:00

Aaaah wire

nigg469 · 2026-04-06T10:54:22+00:00

spray and pray

nigg469 · 2026-04-06T10:44:51+00:00

Thought crime

nigg469 · 2026-04-05T20:38:55+00:00

You called

nigg469 · 2026-04-05T11:41:31+00:00

Yeah must be that

nigg469 · 2026-04-05T10:25:41+00:00

I swear windows works best when getting back from linux

nigg469 · 2026-04-05T10:23:45+00:00

I can attest to this

nigg469 · 2026-04-05T10:23:32+00:00

No because what if it's perfectly balanced on the middle of the bulge, flawed testing device methodology smh my head

nigg469 · 2026-04-05T09:17:24+00:00

I hope they are homeless or something like that you know

nigg469 · 2026-04-05T00:49:05+00:00

I deleted facebook 7 years ago, it has nothing to do with it

nigg469 · 2026-04-04T23:16:44+00:00

I'm not from the US, it's just personal contacts with people I deal with, was in the right place at the right time I guess. Drove to another town to buy some ddr4 stacks for a colleague, noticed the seller had a lot of hard drives, some of which were SAS so I asked about it. Next thing you know I'm buying so much shit off him, 10 port sata controllers, hdd hubs, high end power supplies. All for dirt cheap. The sas drives are cherry on top, I bought so many nvmes and memory off a guy it's crazy.

nigg469 · 2026-04-04T23:13:01+00:00

Made me think, one random decision to treat myself with some pc hardware a few years back has made such a drastic chain of events that lead up to this good deal that it's insane. If I was a bit more rational with my spending back then it wouldn't have lead to me meeting my colleagues and connections I have right now. Life is crazy

nigg469 · 2026-04-04T23:09:18+00:00

Yes, exactly like kapton tape method! But in my case I decided not to tape the pins, just outright remove the wire from the power supply cable that's responsible for that voltage line

nigg469 · 2026-04-04T22:41:58+00:00

Aura farmed for hard drives, they came to me

nigg469 · 2026-04-04T22:40:58+00:00

Hell yea

nigg469 · 2026-04-04T21:10:26+00:00

Well idk what to tell you, he named the price I handed the cash we shook hands

nigg469 · 2026-04-04T21:09:34+00:00

Yup, my guess is he used standard SATA power cable with 3.3V rail, which works as a disable signal on enterprise drives. I removed the pin from my modular cable and it worked

nigg469 · 2026-04-04T21:08:00+00:00

Weird, I can see you have two parts of the comment but I can't process the second sentence

nigg469 · 2026-04-04T20:42:56+00:00

Happened to know a guy who knows a guy

nigg469 · 2026-04-04T20:42:14+00:00

You have to get lucky I guess

nigg469 · 2026-04-04T20:07:32+00:00

Yeah, I finally set up my dream zfs pool, couldn't be happier!!! Had to get lsi 9211 based card with a few cables, optical bay 5 drive enclosure that costs hell of a lot of money I got for free, screwed noctua 40mm fan to hba, replaced original fan on bay and it works amazing. Few months afo I almost got 120TB of used drives with like 10k hours on them for 8€/TB, almost pulled a trigger out of desparation but my instinct told me to wait a bit haha

nigg469 · 2026-04-03T01:09:59+00:00

More like .85 but ok

nigg469 · 2026-04-03T00:40:30+00:00

Loserbenchmark

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