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Submission + - Upgrading a 29y old debian install from spinning rust to rPi5 and N355 mini PC

marcmerlin writes: If you are interested in the story of upgrading a 28 year old debian install with raids of spinning rust drives from 2TB with 26 SCSI SCA drives to 60TB of SATA spinning rust to 18 4TB SSDs to save power and move off randomly failing drives, this first upgrade story shows a failed attempt with a raspberry pi5 which could not sustain a 4way M2 PCI splitter and 18 SSDs: https://marc.merlins.org/perso...

But this second attempt with a 4 M2 NVME CWWK N355 mini server, worked. Amazing how small those servers are now and what they can do with barely more power use: https://marc.merlins.org/perso...

Also, hat to debian for having allowed me to run the same Linux install for 29 years without any re-install

Comment Re: Are we in a "post-information age" now? (Score 1) 72

100% bullshit.
This is indeed the world in 2026, but that has not always been the world. It doesn't HAVE to be like this.

It used to be two people could sit down and talk about almost anything without it turning into politics.
Not everything is the fault of the libtards.
Not everything is the fault of the MAGA legions.

Your (and frankly, all of social media's) obsession with slavishly consuming the bullshit binary is unhealthy.

Of course subjects CAN have political relevance, but they don't have to. We can talk about local students struggling to pass basic performance benchmarks. My "blaming the fucking teachers' unions and their DEI woke agena" is no more productive than you saying "it's the fucking Great Orange Satan". Both are ways to AVOID substantive change by scaling the argument beyond what either of us can meaningfully change; they're both excuses for accomplishing nothing but getting a righteous frisson of rage and maybe a little extra hate.

Comment Re:AI Doom Slop (Score 0, Flamebait) 59

Yes. And the most tiresome thing is the mountain of morons falling for it. Almost as if a large number of people have no intelligence of their own. Well, that explains why they are so hyped about the idea that they can now buy mental powers to use instead of what they lack. Just that there is a teeensy flaw in that idea.

Comment Re:It's a distraction (Score 1) 59

To be fair, they are backed against a wall. Their business numbers continue to be a complete catastrophe and all the gains they promised are not materializing as LLM use does not positively impact revenue. And the serious and sometimes severe problems with LLMs are becoming more obvious every day.

And hence, they go for the maximum in distraction that they can. Needs to only work on the stupid money.

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