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So you're the guy in all those math problems...

If you insist on shipping it assembled please have the courtesy to share the aftermath pictures when it arrives completely destroyed. Tall, heavy heatsinks do not ship well. That is a _LOT_ of force being applied when it bounces around.

I've put three Elements in my setup this month, they all had white labels inside.

BackBlaze is migrating all their old 4TB drives to 12TB drives and looking at going even bigger in the very near future. They don't care about price/GB as much as they do getting the biggest drive they can find in mass quantities. Majority of their cost is in power and infrastructure, not...

https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B07BN217QG/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 $50 price drop, hell of a deal. This thing SCREAMS.

The drives are $127.50 if you use the ebay coupon. It is a max discount of $100, meaning you can spend up to $666.66 and get the full 15% off.

No excuses, we demand results! Disclaimer: I will not be able to deliver any further results until next weekend when badblocks finishes its 6 days of torturing my drives...

Update on the $130 specials: both drives are EMAZ and running firmware 83.H0A83, no shockers there. That's been widely known for a while and posted everywhere. I checked from TLER since Silentbob hasn't followed up and the EMAZ drives do have TLER: jimmay@shoebox:~ # smartctl -l scterc...

Went to the local BB at about 1pm and they had room on the shelf for maybe 4-5 of the 8tb $130 deal and they were all taken. They still had about 30 of the $160 version so I grabbed two. Also checked every box to make sure they weren't mixed together. No luck. Finished my shopping and got in...

After many, many months of my M1 sitting on a shelf taunting me I was finally able to transfer my components into it. No build log and anything because that's been beaten to death at this point and there really isn't anything standout about my parts list to warrant another one. Just wanted to...