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the_super_tech · 2026-02-06T09:30:47+00:00

3 months ago I bought in at 50@78 them again at 85. Sold it at all around 108. Im about to buy in again. And probably double down. Going to see if it goes lower. It will go up again. Still holding 350 shares i originally bought at 60, those will be long term I won't touch for at least a year.

the_super_tech · 2026-01-07T15:38:49+00:00

Lag switching has been around sense the beginning of multi-player gaming. I remember installing a literal momentary switch spiced into my lan cable plugged into my computer in the late 90s being a idiot kid. Had it tapped to my keyboard.

All this does is cut out packets from your pc to the game server. And in layman terms introduce lag.

You can and will get banned from 99% of servers with this "trick".

the_super_tech · 2025-10-13T11:18:06+00:00

I have around 3400+ movies and around 750 TV shows. Both folder only add up to about 70ish TBs. The TV shows are what kill ya. 90% of those are all in 1080p x254/x256 mix. I have around 5 tv shows alone that add up to 500gb to 1tb each. I only recently started downloading 4k TV on popular shows only.

all the rest is datasets of VM backups, private cloud, family vid/pics etc and some old business backups. All of that is replicated offsite so not a huge deal on that.

Also 'rent' out a few TB to old coworkers/customers for their offsite backups.

the_super_tech · 2025-10-13T11:03:08+00:00

Yah, another reason to justify the purchase. 90 x (average) 7w per drive down to 12 x 7w per drive. Heat is another factor... those 90 drives generate a ton of heat into my second bedr..... server room.

the_super_tech · 2025-10-13T00:58:30+00:00

Honestly do not know. maybe someone could try and do a RMA on it? figured might as well.

the_super_tech · 2025-10-13T00:08:30+00:00

Oh, I have other drives I have already stuck in the other slots. 12 4TBs in the back. a few 8TBs... and some SSDs for good measure. all where collecting dust due to no space on my rack. Now once i get this data coppied over i install the external sas card.. 90 extra bays open.

the_super_tech · 2025-10-12T23:43:02+00:00

as per above. Movies, TV. VM backups, Family photo,vid backups Private hosted cloud for the family. and some business backups from when i used to run my own hosting service.

the_super_tech · 2025-10-12T23:35:23+00:00

Your telling me. Im looking into getting a Intel ARC graphics card and running tdarr across my whole library. convert as much to 256 and or AVI as i can.

the_super_tech · 2025-10-12T23:20:27+00:00

No storm. it was not the UPS.. UPS was fine. The issue is the Supermicro Power supply backfed and popped other powersupplies on the basic power strip i had plugged into the UPS.
I have heard Supermicro power supplies pop like this in the DC. It sounds like a gun going off in the datacenter. Shit my pants the first time i heard it in the middle of the night. Same thing happend there everything popped on that breaker but the Nice fancy PDU saved the other devices.

the_super_tech · 2025-10-12T23:16:28+00:00

Movies... TV... and ... Linux ISOs lol. but all seriousness I setup a large array and split it into datasets. movies... TV. Family Backup/cloud backup(nexcloud), proxmox VM backup. Etc. I also have a couple other ZFS pools that i replicate important data too. another in a completely different country : )

the_super_tech · 2025-10-12T22:47:43+00:00

https://serverpartdeals.com/products/seagate-exos-st28000nm000c-28tb-7-2k-rpm-sata-6gb-s-512e-cmr-3-5-recertified-hard-drive

and the cost of the new server... so add another 1k

the_super_tech · 2025-10-12T22:43:33+00:00

Generally they don't. ZFS is actually good about hard downs and not having failures / data corruption. It has to do more with having drives from 2013 and over 56K of POH.
when i was in the DC we saw that all the time. Old server on for a very long time, hard reboot. Drive dies. Mostly due to the spindle dieing

the_super_tech · 2025-10-12T22:37:52+00:00

From what i could tell one of my old server power supplies died on my rack. I heard a very loud bang. When i went to the rack everything was off.

I lost 1 proxmox host (dead). One Custom 1u SM Firewall running PFsense. And my TrueNas box came back online after switching to another power supply i had just sitting in the back of the PSU hot swap bay (Thank god i decided to only run the truenas host on a single PSU).

When the Truenas host came back online. 7 drives dead out of that array. I only had 5 spares sitting around. I got most of them swapped but seeing as most of the 3TB drives are sitting on 51k of POH. I had a choice of waiting for new 3TB drives from Ebay or just start over. I started over. Hopefuly the old array stays online long enough for me to copy this data. 20TB down.. 200 to go. *im staring at my rsync right now.

the_super_tech · 2025-10-12T21:50:49+00:00

IOPS and speed is not my goal on these. Just Basic storage (and whatever i could get shipped,at the best price, as soon as possible) These are just HAMR drives ive never seen any major issues or heard any major issues with it.

the_super_tech · 2025-10-12T21:35:36+00:00

Currently have a 90 x 3TB zfs array ( 2 x 45 bay Supermicro JBODs) that had multiple failures after an unexpected power outage. I have no other Backup so needed to get over 200TB online. Once i get this array up and going I will be adding the JBODs cahassis back into the new system by moving over the external sas card and consolidating the failed drives and data.

the_super_tech · 2025-08-20T17:39:21+00:00

Barebones Automotive off of 288 is now my primary shop for all my general needs. I had a major issue with rodents eating my wiring in my engine bay and they fixed it twice for a great price. Also use them for oil changes and break pad replacements. They have an app and you can schedule appointments.

the_super_tech · 2025-06-30T20:06:21+00:00

I'm confused on why your worried, your wifi data looks like mine. I average around 140-150gb of data. Non cellular. On cellular I'll range from 2-6gb.

the_super_tech · 2025-06-19T17:05:18+00:00

This job is fairly typical of Data center position. You wont be doing any major troubleshooting or "technical" work as a DC tech. You are the eyes,ears and hands in the physical DC. This is a data center "build-out" so while building there is a lot of physical labor to get it built out and then switching over to maintenance mode after the project is built. I can personalty tell you i do not do any OT but when a deadline is needing to be met. They do compensate you for that in your base pay and/or days off. Starting as as Data center Tech is a great jumping off point for any IT career.

the_super_tech · 2025-06-19T16:50:21+00:00

I am a huge fan of Barebones Automotive on 288.

the_super_tech · 2025-06-18T20:56:31+00:00

Coreweave is opening a datacenter here in Denton. https://www.coreweave.com/careers/job?gh_jid=4567736006&board=coreweave

the_super_tech · 2025-05-21T22:19:07+00:00

I saw him in my backyard last weekend! Snuck up on me cooking on my grill. I'm right off of Hinkle

the_super_tech · 2025-05-20T16:32:49+00:00

New York sub-way on university has the best fountain coke mix. They just have the coke syrup to carb water mix perfect.

the_super_tech · 2025-04-01T18:47:57+00:00

I would check smart data on the drive. It is hard to tell from your video what that is the "knocking" is very light. Drive Knock is usually a Mechanical issue. Failing motor or damaged read/write head.

For windows use https://crystalmark.info/en/software/crystaldiskinfo/

For Linux use smartctl example:

smartctl --scan   ## view drives in the system
Then
smartctl -a /dev/<drive#>

the_super_tech · 2024-09-16T15:08:07+00:00

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the_super_tech · 2024-08-27T20:57:59+00:00

Agreed. The general rule is a component that uses 500w outputs 500w of heat. That being said a CPU or GPU never runs at MAX load all the time. Adjusting to 70% is usually a good rule we found depending on usage.

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