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Cake day: July 20th, 2023

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  • I think it has a lot to do with what you’re comfortable with.

    Are you going to store just movies and TV shows? Then yeah, a RAID failure that can’t be recovered from for one reason or another won’t be the end of the world.

    Storing priceless family photos that for some reason you’re ONLY storing here? Maybe go to the extra expense and do it “right.”

    You’re introducing multiple points of failure to a system designed around protecting against failure. Everyone is going to argue against it because it’s additional risk that can be avoided. There’s also a chance of the host computer chipset going wonky and disconnecting the devices (I’ve seen it enough times it IS possible. Usually a reboot fixes it, but odds are the RAID would still need rebuilt), or a bad USB cable, or you forget that it’s in a RAID and plug it in to another computer, or any other hypothetical that seems unlikely but could happen.

    If you want my advice that you didn’t ask for, plug them both in and mount them separately, put all data on one of the drives, then use a tool like FreeFileSync to copy all data over to the second drive drive. You’ll miss out on the theoretical 2x read speed, but this way if one or the other DOES come disconnected, you just need to plug back in and you’re back working without a chance of a RAID needing rebuilt.


  • A much better way of putting my point.

    The fact that someone like him was elevated to the status he was coupled with someone feeling they needed to go as low as killing another human to make things better is insane. I hope American history (as long as America still exists long enough for this to become history) looks back at this like we looked back at other huge events in American history and some 4th grade teacher someday has to try to explain to our great-grandchildren how we let things backslide to this point followed immediately by a chapter on the first presidential debate held entirely virtual with augmented reality and holograms.


  • I can’t say I feel sorry for him, specifically.

    But anyone who can’t agree with the fact that us being here, where a man (whether you agree or not) was shot at a public event for his beliefs and people are celebrating it, is absolutely insane for things to have gotten to this level, needs to do a bit of thinking.

    And I mean that as, whether you think it was his beliefs (which I fully believe are WILD) that led to him being shot because they had no basis in reality and only sowed hate or the guy who shot him was crazy and shot him, we all need to admit, this situation is so far out of normal that I’m not sure there’s a chance to go back.



  • So everyone else has good points but there’s one other part I don’t think was mentioned.

    Most ISPs use a PON based network. This lets them connect one fiber in their network and “split” that to up to 128 (or more, depends on the OEM) customers. You need a either GPON (Gigabit passive optical network) or XGS-PON (10 gigabit symmetrical passive optical network) SFP module and usually the ISP has to get a serial number off of that module to provision the proper data service.

    This is contingent upon the ISP being willing to do that. The one I currently work for, we really don’t do that except for businesses.






  • What about a WiFi connected smart outlet? It can be voice controlled or controlled from a phone or turned on at the outlet. You can set just a “run timer” (from the time I turn it on, run 2.5 hours) without it repeating.

    AND if you need to make sure it’s off at any point, just check your phone.

    TP Link Kasa outlets can run for 23 hours and 59 minutes at a time.