Yea, seems like the distinction is a scientific one, not a language one.

Still interesting, I had no idea.

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 breach, if you have a consistent power-use profile.

Well spotted! Looks like it’s very closely related.

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And now I did too.

Cool, thanks for sharing, I had no idea

We wouldn’t be here if we hadn’t already answered the second question affirmatively.

I have an Optiplex that at one point I had 4 2.5" drives in, had to use some duct tape and glue, but it worked fine.

I would suspect he’s getting relayed, and I suspect I was too for my test.

Connecting remotely to your home devices is dependent on your home internet connection’s upload speed, which is usually a fraction of the download speed.

Then add the overhead of the VPN (Tailscale) and how direct of a connection it’s able to make.

Then the connection of the device you’re testing from - it may have some bandwidth limitations.

I just did a quick test - copy a specific file from a local server to my phone - just enabling Tailscale made that copy take twice as long, so it’s definitely adding significant bandwidth constraints (could be an Android limitation).

See of you can find Crema (Mexican sour cream) - it’s much better than regular sour cream (for Mexican dishes). It’s thinner, a little salty.

Is the U2 still used by the military? I thought the remaining ones had moved to research years ago.

I didn’t even consider the 130, but yea, that’s a workhorse too!

To add - by doing pulls the backup server uses different credentials to run than the credentials used to perform pulls.

Backup server has it’s own credentials database, machines being backed up have their own database. Backup service in backup server uses appropriate credentials from machine being backed up to access the data there (shares, etc). So credentials from compromised machine are unrelated to credentials for backup server.

And if backups are done properly (full on a schedule, daily incrementals, or something similar) you should be able to revert to a known-good state with minimal data loss.

I have a 10+ year old 10" photoframe with wifi and Bluetooth - I’m surprised how much I like it.

It rotates through hundreds of photos - each photo has a name with a date, so they serve as reminders of places we’ve been, things we’ve done.

On a good day it simply shows what’s in a network share it has access to. Sometimes it pukes and I have to reset the wifi on it.

I’m surprised the oldest active aircraft isn’t a B52

Well, shit.

That alien looks like it’s remembering the things David made it do.

My espresso machine paid for itself in the first month.

Ok?

As stated it’s about margin distribution and marketing.

This, as stated, is a nothing burger.

If they aren’t going after every other business that does this then it’s selective enforcement.

And I haven’t been to a Starbucks in 15 years, even then I only went because it was the only coffee available in my building.

Yea, the Broadcom crap really sucks. I feel bad for businesses being held ransom by them.

Hyper-V just isn’t an option for small businesses, unfortunately (it’s really designed for Enterprise where internal expertise is the norm).

I can ignore their nonsense for my home setup., fortunately.

Have you tried XCP-NG or Proxmox?

Ok, John Denver! 🤪