Used Hard Drives from Tech on Tech
Updates July-2024 (5 month) update - no failures on any drives. August-2024 (6 month) update - still no failures on my drives from tech on tech, but I had another of my original Seagate Exos NAS drives fail - that’s now a 100% failure rate in less than 4 years. I recently had a drive failure on my NAS. While not a big deal with RAID-6, it wasn’t the first in that array, and the array as a whole was more than 3 years old.
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Tags: hardware storage thrift
Updates July-2024 (5 month) update - no failures on any drives. August-2024 (6 month) update - still no failures on my drives from tech on tech, but I had another of my original Seagate Exos NAS drives fail - that’s now a 100% failure rate in less than 4 years. I recently had a drive failure on my NAS. While not a big deal with RAID-6, it wasn’t the first in that array, and the array as a whole was more than 3 years old.
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Tags: hardware storage thrift
New Workstation
After a long absence (circa 2006) from using Linux as my daily computing environment, I decided to build a new Linux workstation. I’m extremely happy with how it turned out, so I’m writing this post with some details about the hardware and software I selected and why. The short version is that everything works, including suspend to RAM, GPU drivers, sound, hardware sensors (temperature, fan speed, etc.) and all with no weird patches and only one or two custom settings.
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Tags: linux hardware wayland archlinux
After a long absence (circa 2006) from using Linux as my daily computing environment, I decided to build a new Linux workstation. I’m extremely happy with how it turned out, so I’m writing this post with some details about the hardware and software I selected and why. The short version is that everything works, including suspend to RAM, GPU drivers, sound, hardware sensors (temperature, fan speed, etc.) and all with no weird patches and only one or two custom settings.
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Tags: linux hardware wayland archlinux