pendell

Current Hyperfixation: Wizard of Oz

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I use outdated technology just for fun, listen to crappy music, and watch a lot of horror movies. Expect posts about These Things. I talk a lot.

Check tags like Star Trek Archive and Media Piracy to find things I share for others.



exerian
@exerian

that when monsanto finally does succeed in creating zombies we're fucked. it's completely over. your nuclear holocaust bunker and stash of guns really isn't going to save you.

unfortunately, those that most need to hear this message will never receive it because the gunfire destroyed their ears ages ago.


NireBryce
@NireBryce

see, the thing about preppers is they fill an important niche. They post where their guns are stored and how many of them, how many people will be in the bunker, and the filtration specs, meaning you can smoke them out of their soon-to-be weapons cache when you actually need them, just by checking the internet archive


nys
@nys

today we will be scavenging this defunct server farm in search of pepper posts. intel has identified these 3 racks as potentially related to a prepper forum and this area may have hosted a popular subforum.

i do not want you pulling those drives without grabbing the raid devices and recording the order they are plugged in. you have label makers, use them dammit. the techies have enough on their plate decrypting and compiling data without having to piece together the raid configuration because you didn’t label your drives and hba devices properly.

if you find a server with a suspected software based raid, mark it, let a team lead know and the field techs will see what they can do.

the scout teams show we probably have 40 minutes once the sweepers get rid of the walkers in the area before the walker density begins to re-equalize.


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in reply to @nys's post:

iirc it’s still pretty commonly used in enterprise/datacenters still as it’s designed to be relatively plug and play which keeps maintenance simple (most hw raid cards store config on disks then read it, so if a controller fails slotting in the same model typically just picks right up), provides a layer of separation (from other hardware failures cascading & just of storage/compute for upgrading), and allows for hw offloading that only really matters at hyperscale. also modern hw raid controllers are better at passing along information though there’s still a disconnect.

i don’t think any consumer, prosumer, or smb should do hw raid and am confused by people doing it for homelabs for sure. “yes i would like more proprietary shit i can’t fix myself and have to pay insane amounts for if it breaks”