Tin
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SSDs are a night and day difference. My lowly Dell 11z with it's ancient 1.4GHz dual core Pentium cruises along good with one :lol:. I've always had a SSD in my desktops and laptops the last 6 or 7 years.
Post a picture of your latest purchase.
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SSDs are a night and day difference. My lowly Dell 11z with it's ancient 1.4GHz dual core Pentium cruises along good with one :lol:. I've always had a SSD in my desktops and laptops the last 6 or 7 years.
my89notchback
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Just bought two new drag lites and drag radials.
svtserpent
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46in deck and a cup holder baby.
Anthony
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46in deck and a cup holder baby.
Cup holders are unless for beer useless it's in a sippy cup
mustangmike6996
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damn all of you and your drag radials... lol
ReiKo
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No unfortunately... I emailed his wife and told her I couldn't make it cause of work... This year I don't have a wedding soooooooooooooooo
Tin
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A couple of drives in my 4x 500GB RAID 10 are making that familiar clickity-clack of dying drives, so I backed up my virtual machines and ordered those. Those old drives were running 24/7 the last 6 years. I also have 4x 1TB Hitachi Ultrastars that are chugging along just fine after 4 years. I tossed the 2TB drives in my server last night, just waiting on the hot-swap module for the 1TB Reds, those will be in a mdadm RAID 1 array and run the hypervisor and virtual machines. Lots of virtual machines; MythTV back end (Debian), MythTV slave back end (Debian), Vortexbox (Fedora), Squid proxy (CentOS), ownCloud (Ubuntu LTS), OpenMediaVault, Amanda network backup (CentOS), Piwogo (Debian). Every man needs a Mother Brain in his house :lol:
soap
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ReiKo
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City of SCS passed a ordinance you can't use a flame to light off fireworks... No more torches? No problem... I'll still light up that sky like no tomorrow... :rockwoot:
Tin
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Sucked when the floods hit Thailand and drove the prices up for those couple of years, they've leveled out pretty well since. I paid $59/ea for my 1TB Ultrastars just prior to that, once the flood hit they jumped $100. From what I've been reading, the sweet spot for storage right now is in 5TB drives, but I'm pretty comfy at 2TB per drive.
Tin
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For sure, but I like to keep things like music, movies, and TV shows stored locally. As it stands now, I'm sitting on roughly 400GB worth of FLAC files, another 1.5TB worth of TV shows, and about the same for movies. I have enough music on there to play for 40-some days and not hear a repeat :lol:
Tin
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Ask your employer if they will give you decommissioned server. Those 5500 and 5600-series Xeons are pretty friendly on the electric bill. You can run something like OpenMediaVault from an 8GB disk-on-module and be good to go. OMV has a nice web GUI which makes it pretty easy to use. It shouldn't be too hard to set up, considering you're a Windows guy. It doesn't require any CLI activity like most other server-centric Linux distros.
