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I’m not - that’s a used price.

I don’t have a problem with used - all my drives are used, and they typically last 5-10 years. I have some drives from 2010 that are still running.

New drives fail too, so relying on drives being new to prevent failures is foolish. The only defense against failures is duplication (which 3-2-1 backup falls under).

Whats just as important is to use a file system that can detect and repair data errors (such as ZFS).

LTO tapes are 18TB today, raw - 48TB compressed.

How much data you got?

At that size I can probably build 2 Proxmox boxes with drives and compete very well on the costs.

A single 14TB disk is about $270 today - that’s in the same realm as a tape.

But tape also requires a drive, and that gets pricey fast.

This is the answer.

I haven’t done the math, but even SMB’s dontnuse tape today.

They may do a local replica and then some kind of local-hardware-based cloud backup solution, because cost and capability.

I think you just said what I was trying to say, only you said it more clearly. Haha

As best I can find, there’s no logo/mark to indicate compliance with PD3.0, nor for PPS.

If it’s compliant with those, I suspect it’ll be in the documentation.

You’re probably on the right track - they designed this for their devices, will publish what it can do but not claim compliance with a spec they didn’t build specifically too.

In the High Level Design meetings (or equivalent), they probably laid out charging time/performance requirements which included using exsiting commodity tech and general conformance to USB C.

This so any PD compliant charger could charge the laptop, but their own charger would follow it’s own specs.

I’m uovoting for your openness and directness about your approach, what you will and won’t do.

You built this for you and are sharing, for us to do with it as we will.

It’s an interesting idea for basic printing.

Someone else mentioned just using a calendar client that can connect to different calendars.

I use Fossify to connect to calendars through Davx, which includes my Google calendar (configured it through DavX).

This way all entries remain independent. And I can filter my calendar view based on source calendar, and all entries are color coded (automatically) by which calendar they’re on.

I know it’s not exactly what you were asking for, buy it’s one way to approach it.

Or, just completely bypass any config by simply not using IP6 for an environment where it offers no advantage

So I have an adsptrt that goes from battel to USB-C

That’s joy part of USB spec as there’s no way to communcate requirements through the barrel. Hard to blame USB for when we side-step it’s design.

I do stuff like this too, but only for devices that just need power, nothing like a laptop or with circuitry that could get fried by the wrong voltage.

Well put.

Though I’ve had little trouble using other power supplies across brands, so I wonder of this is a single HP line.

I’ve never run across this in business models - if the barrel fits it works, but each brand used their own barrel design, whether that was a different size or a pin in the middle.

And I’ve worked with many brands since the mid 90’s - I’ve deployed thousands of machines over the years - not to say I’ve seen all of them, but a lot of the major brand’s business models.

Consumer models are just garbage, so if this happens there I’m neither surprised nor concerned. I never buy consumer models - they’re garbage, and cheaper for that reason.

And now C is resolving the issue.

But you don’t know of it’ll even power up, or if the data is valid.

Printing should be relatively easy nowadays

Hahahahahahahahahaha

Meh, those designs were to ensure you got the right power supply and didn’t fry the mobo.

It’s a little of asshole design, but it also prevented warranty issues from people using the wrong PSU.

Having been on teams depliying thousands of laptops and desktops, knowing everyone had the right power supply was important - this helped us too. End users can be oblivious and will just plug in shit willy-nilly. We only had a few spare machines, and no spare time. Imagine of using a different PSU could cause problems - we could be chasing a few rogue power supplies for days.

I’m ok with this choice, even with the bit of asshole design.

Fortunately USB C adoption is making this problem go away.

No.

Cold storage is really “no storage”. A cold drive can’t tell you when an area of disk fails, or when the controller itself fails.

May as well just throw away the data, because you have no idea how much will be there when you try to power it on.

I have 8TB of data, and I get bit flips - if the drive were cold, I’d never know.

There’s no 'wearing it down" - age is age.

If anything, unpowered drives die faster because lubricants slowly harden over time.

Everything I’ve read (and from my own anecdotal experience) drives on a shelf die every bit as frequently as running drives, of not more often.

Laws may be “made up” but we all operate by them (by greater/lesser degrees) nonetheless.

Especially social laws which we all follow to get along.

So not sure what your rant is about. We all conform to varying degrees, and there are consequences to how much we choose to conform.

Speed of light, expansion of universe. The end.

Ok? And?

Are you me?

This is the exact argument I make about updating.

Without knowing, you’re just trading known risks for unknown risks.

Known risks can be managed.

Are you going to pay for a feature you’ll never use?

Engineering for 220v/50hz requires completely different wiring and componentry than for 110v/60hz.

True.

It really depends on a lot of “what ifs”.

I’ve been through the cabling thing in multiple places since 1996…

Today I run cable as-needed. If wi-fingers it done, I’m not putting in the effort for cable.

If wifi isn’t getting it done, I’ll run a single cable for the location with issues, and drop in a gigabit switch (if needed).

The days of running cable “just in case” are in the past, for me.

I have 53 nearby wireless networks. Lots of interference.

Channel scan charts just looks like a bunch of color mixed together.

Still, other than copying media files, it’s fine.

I certainly wouldn’t remove existing cables, that’s effort for little to no gain.

Surprisingly, there’s very little anymore that exposes the bandwidth difference between wireless and wired, and I run a media server at home.

I see the performance difference when copying files, but that’s about it.

I have multiple local devices streaming video (over wifi), while the devices that really need a wired connection get one via a single cable and small switches.

For example there’s a cat5e running to a 5 port gigabit switch behind the TV. So the TV gets a drop and anything else I may need there (Apple TV, dedicated media PC, etc).

Currently have 3 of these switches, with about 10 devices directly wired, but only 3 runs from the primary switch.

NAS sits next to my server, so they’re on the same switch with just patch cables. Pretty much everything else get wifi of it supports it.

Don’t buy any kind of drive from aliexpress.

Shop here: diskprices.com and even then pay attention to the source.

You have backups or replicants of your data, right?

Wouldn’t it depend on how fast that rope is pulled too, adding in the acceleration of the mass?

Wouldn’t it be 100, same as the mass being lifted (well more really, depending on the acceleration of that mass)?

What’s more important is redundancy, as all drives fail.

What’s your replication/redundancy/backup plan look like? That’s more important than “which drive” (other than SMR/CMR), as even enterprise drives fail.

I’ve had consumer drives running 24/7 for 10 years.

Drives are a lot more robust than most people think, but they still fail at seemingly random times, so having backup is crucial.

Backup, backup, backup.

I have an (old) NAS that frankly I don’t trust to not die. Then again, anything can die, so it’s just one component of my local data replication.

I also have my server which is authoritative for all data, which is then duplicated (on schedules) to the NAS and 2 external drives, so I have 3 local copies.

All of these drives are 5+ years old except the primary data drive which is 2.

I like your point about power monitoring - that would be an interesting secondary method for alerting to a possible breech, of you have a consistent power-use profile.

Oh, wow, F.E.A.R. now that’s a name I haven’t heard in a while!