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sedrosken replied to the thread Laptop time?.Yeah, throw a copy of Outlook with a giant, uncleaned-for-years mailbox and a few instances of gen-u-ine Adobe-brand Acrobat and maybe a... -
ddrueding replied to the thread SSDs - State of the Product?.The irreplaceable stuff is in 3 places, offline here, offline at our storage unit (in another similar Synology) and in Amazon S3 Glacier... -
Mercutio replied to the thread SSDs - State of the Product?.You CAN just plug a bunch of 7.6TB u.2 drives into the NAS you have right now. Just like how m.2 drives can be addressed as SATA drives... -
ddrueding replied to the thread SSDs - State of the Product?.Mine is also ancient (DS1812+), but I'll only replace it if I can go fully solid state for a very reasonable price. Probably still a...
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Mercutio replied to the thread Laptop time?.Insurance agency. Systems are Beelink SER5s (Ryzen 5800/16GB). All they use are Chrome (or Edge, for one guy) and NitroPDF. They don't...
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Mercutio replied to the thread SSDs - State of the Product?.I actually can't believe prices on 8TB drives haven't fallen any more than they have. It seems silly that a refurb 8TB drive is $100...
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ddrueding replied to the thread SSDs - State of the Product?.I am still keeping an eye out for a replacement of my archive cold storage 8x8TB Synology unit. The prices are getting close.
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Amazon is doing a buy two, get one free sale on Silicon Power 4TB TLC 2.5" SSDs. I'm not sure if anyone needs 12TB of 500MB/sec storage...
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Mercutio replied to the thread SSDs - State of the Product?.Amazon is doing a buy two, get one free sale on Silicon Power 4TB TLC 2.5" SSDs. I'm not sure if anyone needs 12TB of 500MB/sec storage...
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Mercutio replied to the thread Something Random.Hey, I was a working professional through all of that as well.
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mubs replied to the thread Something Random.Thanks a lot, Merc. You made me remember how old I am. -
Jjtr1962 replied to the thread Something Random.It could be worse. He could have thought you were running an escort service.
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Mercutio replied to the thread Something Random.My internet service was out most of the weekend and a Comcast tech couldn't come look at it until Sunday. Turned out that wasps had...
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sedrosken replied to the thread Something Random.Walmart's house-brand makes generics of the Outshine bars for a couple bucks cheaper per box, and you get a couple more bars in each box...
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sedrosken replied to the thread Something Random.Thanks for the insight into the era, Merc. You'd be surprised to hear it but it's not an era a lot of people talk about -- the late 90s...
