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Happy morning.
To be honest, it does really kill the conversation in the thread though as massive blocks like that. I just woke up to 30 pages of "we've doubled your blah" and after 3 pages, there's no way I'm reading the rest to see what anyone else might have written.
Inam as of now. Hbu?
Hey ralf, haven't seen you around a lot this time. Aren't you an owner of RackNerd backpack as well?
Welcome back
Frankly though, we are used to it. And, we kinda feel good to know that there are more people joining the double bandwidth gang. I get your opinion though.
BTW, welcome back to the RackNerd threads. It was fun to have you last year as well.
Thanks buddy. Today was hectic. Was out of home most of the day.
Oh what happened? 11 AM for me so I still have a long day to go
Anyone know if this drive just has a standard 2.5" drive within or does Seagate do weird proprietary stuff with it?
https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Portable-External-Hard-Drive/dp/B07VS8QCXC
BTW 2 of these is in the prize pool for RackNerd's December giveaway - https://lowendbox.com/blog/racknerd-december-2025/
missed most of it, sorry couldnt be there, maybe next year
Oh nothing. Had some work to be done today on priority. Couldn't procrastinate
So, you got a few more hours before you can be home back to your new PC.
How is your new PC treating ya?
I feel like requesting Dustin so that we have the chef for 2 days next year. If we can make some noise right now, maybe Dustin could plan something like that for next year, in advance.
But, imo, the deals on RackNerd BF page are still good as well. Or, were you looking for a specific location or something?
I've got one like that. As far as I know, it's a standard 2.5" drive, but the thicker variety, not the thin one you'd normally find in a laptop.
But, imo, the deals on RackNerd BF page are still good as well. Or, were you looking for a specific location or something?
upgrades, beeing there for the party
won 1 server and i gave me friend (dont need more, else would just buy one)
also mainly megathread... there are few providers i want to try and few services that rn does not offer (hdd, spicy locations or simly 1€/y deals)
rn is great, just i dont keep all my eggs in 1 basket (this includes any other provider and my home servers)
during christmas might finally make a blog/page that will include provider rewievs...
Oh yah, I got one of those. I am just checking to see if it has the standard SATA port to see if I could just use it as an internal HDD. Won't win one, but definitely got me curious.
I understand. There was 1 resource upgrade giveaway(512mb) this time. Moreover, the recent RAM inflation does make it extremely tough. But, Dustin did say they were able to source some good amount of RAM this time iirc.
Anyways, I will tag you in if there's a resource upgrade giveaway, if that's something you'd like.
Anyways, I will tag you in if there's a resource upgrade giveaway, if that's something you'd like.
wont see it anyways, but thanks ^^
enjoy the party
I'm not sure, I haven't tried removing mine from it's case. It might be SMR, though.
wow it's cool!
Sure, dude. Drop in from time to time when you can.
Ok. I have heard of Seagate doing proprietary stuff to these external HDDs to prevent them from being used as internal. Will have to research more. Pretty sure I can find a breakdown or disassembly video somewhere.
Thanks for the input.
That's the
RACKNERD BLACK FRIDAY PARTY THREAD!!
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Anyone using JuiceFS?
This looks interesting. Are you going to use it locally?
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Maybe I'll use something like Backblaze B2
Or a hostbrr storagebox!
Is it for remote storage only?
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