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Power isn’t so bad really. These were all 2tb disks, so ended up with about 40tb total after shenanigans.

Cabling was atrocious. I’d originally been using several pulled 4 disk SAS backplanes from servers thrown out of my work, just screwed down to some pine boards in a stack.

Zip ties and sata/sas cables were the rule.

Overall the drives had 4 small power supplies initially, 300watt iirc. Cheap.

Somewhere I have an old photo from the wiring during the “rescue” but I have to look around.

Disk failure was actually not an issue for ages before. A specific thunderstorm with 2 nearby tornadoes is what caught me this time. Before that, the occasional single disk every 6 months or so.

I still have running arrays using 15 year old disks, many with more than 10 years of that powered on. If you find good models, they can last ages.

Mine would be when I had a 48 bay disk array / JBOD fail on me… badly. After a storm, it killed the larger card that allowed for me to get many of the drives into a PCIe 16x slot, and I was relegated down to only getting ~8 disks per box made from spare hardware. A single box I got 16 going. Add to this mix an SSD for mid-line caching.

These were all running bcache on top of mdraid… One single mount.

Yes I understand how obnoxiously stupid it was to run RAID6 on a 48 disk volume. It was almost all just stuff I could re-acquire over time, not irreplaceable things.

I just HAD to solve this one though.

In come several spare chassis / mobo etc… get a bunch of drives powered and on /dev/ , move to the next.

A couple spare gigabit switches…

several gigabit NICs…

two explicit paths for each machine…

a bit of iSCSI magic, and one machine now had the physical disks all exposed to it… mdadm --assemble blah blah, bit of UUID chaos…

It’s surprising that while a bit speed limited (I think I got just around 110MB/sec reads), it was nicely performant for what a huge mess of wires and disks just strewn out around my rack.

Managed to evacuate all I needed without much issue once I got that going. Now, I try to keep my arrays under 16 drives at a time, or keep a very rigid policy of “I can lose this and don’t care” vs “this box gets RAID10 and/or offsite backups nightly”.

back up your critical stuff people!

Hey, Rimu DID improve! He’s been caught out in the past just outright deleting directly from the DB.

He’s also repeatedly bitched about people screenshotting his chats. I wonder why?

Thats a misrepresented story that Rimu was propagating.

The core issue is that he intentionally went out of the way to try to copy code after directly denying and blocking Mia from submitting PR upstream.

Why deny the code through GIT/Codeberg, only to copy and paste it (incorrectly as well) and claim it as new features from his team?

We know the AGPL well enough and don’t care if patches were taken upstream. Lying about it is the issue at core, and slandering folks at the same time.

root@kamidake:~# for i in /dev/sd? ; do echo $i; smartctl -a $i |grep Hours| awk ’ { print $10/8760}'; done

/dev/sda

15.6055

/dev/sdb

15.6979

/dev/sdc

6.04909

/dev/sdd

7.35708

/dev/sde

10.618

/dev/sdf

7.28071

/dev/sdg

10.5689

/dev/sdh

10.6264

/dev/sdi

2.28311

/dev/sdj

10.7498

/dev/sdk

10.5832

/dev/sdl

7.35502

/dev/sdm

10.643

/dev/sdn

10.8016

/dev/sdo

10.7558

/dev/sdp

9.11416

root@kamidake:~#

These are running ZFS and I have 2 other boxes with similar, most in the 10-12 year range. Spinning drives.

Good stuff.

lol.

lmfao even.

“stop wasting time with that Linux thing. Nobody will ever hire you unless you specialize in Windows”

Linux has done far more for me professionally than being a Windows engineer ever got me, and it repeatedly keeps being proven.

Fuck yeah ShadowRun!

The Video itself is rendered off screen in a special area of memory, then the browser simply uses a predefined color to tell the driver where to display the video. The driver then takes care of things like stretching to fit etc.

It’s not actually that shade typically, and you are just seeing a side effect of the glitch.

Cool ranch flavor

it’s Python. It’s foss.

I’ve removed code I didn’t want in mine. (A feature I later re enabled).

If I want to add code, I do so. Or I remove code.

Microsoft is closed, and they are leveraging tons of cash to manipulate. Try turning off updates on a windows 11 machine… Is it just a toggle? What if Microsoft removes the option or requires… oh wait closed source and they already did.

All piefed has been doing is giving options.

Blame admins if you like but be honest about your intentions instead of this campism.

Masto and other fedi services give options of blanket blocks or filters, so arguing entire concept of fedi is nonsense.

Just to note, the dev has been really responsive to help any issues I’ve experienced. Xylight has been great.

If you’ve had bugs, have you thought about asking about them or trying to help solve the issue? Photon is obviously under rapid development, and it’s also pointed at moving targets… Lemmy and piefed both are rapidly changing.

I hate AI gen code as well, but I don’t think that’s related to things with photon.

Seeing most of the negative comments here noting bare metal etc.

Moving to the AIO build solved literally every issue I had with the single exception being the colabora office stuff.

For the image stuff, basic file, download etc… been great.

The Android app gives me grief, but I suspect that’s my janky Samsung phone killing it’s permissions.

Considering they only officially support the AIO, it’s worth trying that out before passing full judgement. It has flaws, for sure, but it’s immensely complex and the AIO nullifies many of the variables that they can’t otherwise account for easily.

Can I rent some space in your garage?

Elegoo petg and PLA have become my go-to over the past 2 years. Rapid vs pro tend to affect me more with how brittle the end product is than printing speed. I’m using a K2 Plus, but also printed on Anker M5C.

Fun detail: you can order 10kg packs for a good discount vs other shops if you hit their site directly.

My only gripe is they don’t have variety packs of their fancier stuff. Some of their silk is gorgeous.

I usually have gotten about 35-40% rh on my should out of the bag. I still get good quality at that level, but would warn to actively dry a bit if you are in a more humid area for sure.