I only use mdadm (built-in *nix RAID software) rather than any hardware RAID controller. Hardware RAID controllers aren't necessarily compatible with one another, moving drives to another controller might not work. If you think you absolutely need the kind of battery-backup hardware RAID controllers can provide, you absolutely need to worry about proper backups anyway.

Completely true for the enterprise if you have scheduled bulletproof and *regularly tested* backups. For "normal people"/ enthusiasts, who "kind of" have recent backups, who might still lose a whole bunch of stuff if the primary storage drives fail, I feel 350% better about recommending to stick with RAID1 / RAID10 even though the cost is higher due to the mirroring. At least you won't have to panic about a second/third disk failure during very long rebuilds. Yes even RAID1 / RAID10 can fail if multiple drives from the same batch happen to have an identical flaw, so no getting around needing backups.

Same 5 year limited warranty as earlier drives and they've been testing them with integrators and early adopters for years. We won't know for sure until a bunch more years pass with millions in use, but if there were serious issues by now they'd probably pull the product.

It means you can run it 24x7. 365*24 = 8,760. I.E. these are server drives that run continuously full-time with no issues. It doesn't mean they blow up and leave a crater behind after 1 year.

Lots of articles since many years ago saying DO NOT USE RAID5 or RAID6 because the size of modern drives mean not only very long rebuilds, but a high likelihood of additional drives failing during the rebuild, which will destroy ALL OF THE DATA on the RAID device. Use ONLY RAID1 (if 2 drives), or RAID10 (if more). Yes you have to pay for full mirrored RAID and lose 1/2 of your capacity, but no you cannot keep using RAID 5 or 6 if you care about data. And if you don't care about data why bother with RAID anyway. RAID10 fresh build/rebuilds take a few days for a 50-100 TB RAID device. Don't know about RAID5 or 6 which nobody should use, maybe they do take weeks I'll never need to know.

With a home temp of 26 C, my 4 20TB Seagate drives inside a quiet mini server case show (smartctl -a) temps 32 - 34 C in RAW_VALUE, well within the 60 C max, which is all the same across X20 / X24 / M(30TB). One change in M(30TB) needs a bit warmer minimum temps of 10 C instead of 5 C, makes sense for a HEAT ASSISTED tech. Haven't had any failures so far on the 20TB's running for years, therefore don't expect any different results on the 30TB's, at least not due to temperature. X20 SATA Operating temperature: 5 to 60 C, X24 SATA Product Manual Operating temperature: 5 C to 60 C, Exos M SATA Operating temperature: 10 to 60 C

The UN is a 'Slow-Moving Global Catastrophe' - My Honest Report 90 super holy assholes flew their private jets to a wedding recently and they'll fly the same jets to the next UN "Environmental Action Summit" because their work is so damn important they have no time to waste. Same for the limos idling their engines outside the entire time so their important clients can be warm the second they exit the all-important summit. All these F-ers don't care one dimwit, party on.

This is the kind of destruction we love to see. Destruction to determine product quality and help decide what to purchase. Not dumb destruction of brand new quality products in order to generate dumb clicks and dumb comments.

Several decades after the Germany yoyo stories (dumps Windows, dumps Linux, dumps Windows again fooled you!) comes Denmark to entertain us with the latest chapter in that page-turning platform migration snooze-athon nobody still alive cares about.

Pay for some conference, to have a chance, to maybe go find some "food truck" that has no food, to get the opportunity, to give Nvidia a lot of your money, for some dumb GPU they choose to manufacture in small numbers. Let's all play stupid gameshows for stupid prizes.

The words did hurty hurty. Police bad, and also the color blue, or something. "Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times."

The way to become a legit company is to push ads into everyone's faces and steal and sell all of their users' usage info and library metadata. Can't wait for this new legit corporate version of Plex. And to those asking yes they are listening, they know what we want and you want and I want is to just see our own local files but they don't give 2 shits about that because only heavy ad pimpage and data theft will make them more money at this point.

I thought it was time to finally install my 13900K CPU recently when they released 0x129, but now we have 0x12B so wait wait some more weeks for ASUS to offer this for my MB. And we don't know how many more "critical final" patches they'll keep releasing for these cpu's while they continue to degrade and fail.

300+ cycles I'm down to 91 or 92% battery life after 1 year. One aspect of limiting to 80% is it makes it more likely you'll hit 0-10% remaining more often or significantly more often, which also wears it down more quickly. So probably yeah, F the 80%, charge to 100% so you actually use the battery capacity you paid for instead of becoming a professional battery babysitter for all these devices, nobody pays you anything for this second job.

A small relatively quiet Super Micro mini tower SYS-5028D-TN4T (mb: X10SDV-TLN4F) running Slackware Linux 64 15+ (15.1 next). Fans get somewhat louder if location temperature gets warmer for ex. 75-80F+. Boot drives: 2x Intel SATA SSD's, 1 TB each (SSDSC2KG960G8), raid1 mirror (via mdadm), device name md0. Data drives: 4x Seagate 20 TB SATA HDD's (ST20000NM007D), raid10 (via mdadm), results in a 40 TB storage device named md1. Accessed as NAS via ssh and Samba from multiple Macs on the LAN. ssh for backups (Arq for Mac etc.), Samba for playing media files. Server also runs Plex Media Server, accessed via Plex player apps for Mac/iOS/iPads. It would be possible to configure the Linux server as a Mac Time Machine target, would require additional config and a few addl. pieces of software.