PC Community Thread

[Legend]

I kind of did something dumb, and am using a 0% APR payment plan to buy a HDD...

As long as you didn't refinance your house for this, all good.

My desktop has 13 gigabytes free. I need to come up with some plan.

[the-pi-guy]

I've effectively added 36 TB in the past week. 

It's been an adventure. 

Added a new drive. One of the older ones was having issues. 

So I added a second one to replace it. 

But I am keeping the one that was having issues for less demanding work. The RAID building was crushing that drive. But performance seems fine by itself. 

I also have another drive that I took a risk on and it didn't pan out. Supposedly some external drives are exos drives if you remove them. But it wasn't the case for me. 

[the-pi-guy]

I have 164.5 TB of drives on my server now. (there's 1 20 TB drive and the OS is on a 0.5 TB SSD.)

128 TB of usable space.

I think I've generally been adding another 18 TB drive every ~6 months. But I expect that will change.... 

[the-pi-guy]

Have more server work to do.

Something seems to be wrong as most of the fans aren't running.  I did find one connection unused, but I don't think that would cause 6 fans to not run. 

Bought some new fans, and a new way to connect them. 

It's been a hectic time. This might be why one of the drives was struggling during the RAID reshape. 

Things seem stable enough, currently during normal use. But I can't finish adding the drive to the array until I get the fans replaced.  And it'll be good, because they were molex fans. 

I tried reconnecting the molex connection that was missed, and one of the pins apparently broke out... 

[kitler53]

steam deck just got a massive price increase:
https://store.steampowered.com/steamdeck

 512GB: $549 to $789.

1TB:$649 to $949.


...part of me thinks i should buy a second switch while the price is still $450.   i could sell it in a year for massive profit!!

[Legend]

Yeah just came to post. Wow that is crazy.

I need to start buying things at launch. There is no reason to wait cause prices go up not down.

[kitler53]

Yeah just came to post. Wow that is crazy.

I need to start buying things at launch. There is no reason to wait cause prices go up not down.

i mean, this is the first gen to do so.   maybe it won't be true with next gen (ps6) because AI implodes.   but at this point i'm not upset about getting a ps5/ps5pro/switch 2 near each launch.