I'm still not convinced most people I speak to at work are sentient.

That would have been great. We could have got that shit out of the way so we could have had something decent during my childhood.

Don't split up a bonded pair, it's cruel. How would you like it if you got locked away from a life partner and could never see them again?

Given that the other HDD manufacturers lack the tools to even identify the fraud (FARM), but Seagate drives do, this is actually a reason to buy Seagate.

A NAS, an SBC eg a raspberry pi, and NFS shares are the basic setup. Everything else essentially builds on this.

I miss Baconreader, another refugee from the API purge here

That's the joke.

The bigger problem, and this isn't in the mainstream news yet, is that all integrated care boards have been told to reduce head count by 50% in December. I just got off an all hands briefing earlier today.

It's probably good, except there will be no quality oversight and private providers will be able to run riot, as there will be no one there check they are doing what they are paid to do.

Just so you know Seagate barracuda 2.5 inch drives are SMR and should not be used with ZFS file systems. https://www.seagate.com/... https://www.truenas.com/...

I'm not paying 50 grand for a car that should be 30 grand at best, I'll keep on running what I have now thanks.

It's not like we could offer one to the King of Canada.

If I were doing this all again I'd use Victron inverter kit with the self build batteries (Fogstar do a decent kit), for an entirely self hosted control system, and whatever panels fit the roof space best. But 180W is nothing to worry about. More important to find a second area for another array.

Oh, and you will want a hell of a lot more than 5kWh worth of battery storage. I have 14kWh and run low in winter when the panels make naff all (charge on cheap rate power to last all day)

I'm running a Define 7 XL as a Truenas server. Over 100TB of storage, maximum utility and my wife likes how it looks. It does everything, even the cooling is decent.

I'll only buy Fractal Design cases.

Do not use a raid controller with Truenas. Use a HBA such as an LSI 9300 or 9207 (old but fine for HDD). Truemas manages the drive itself and any barrier to that (like device managed SMR drives and Rains controllers) means Truenas does not know where the data is, and you are likely to get data corruption at some point.

Does retirement planning count as "Thinking of quitting work?"

Check the quote which should state which battery is supplied, then one of the general suppliers, itstechnology, bimble solar etc.

A battery installation should be zero vat, so a single 4.8kWh US5000 Pylontech battery is like £720 ex vat These are 15 cell batteries and they are essentially plug and play. Some batteries are 16 cell batteries so have a little more power stored but seem to cost a lot more. Can't mix and match batteries of different numbers of cells.

The batteries should essentially be supplied at cost, there is zero work to install more.

Decent price TBH. Should pay back in 5 to 8 years with the bigger battery and the right tariff (I think the best tariff is Intelligent Octopus Go and the fixed export tariff, ~15p/kWh export, but 7p/kWh cheap rate import, and need an EV)

And here I am rocking an A71 that still works fine...why spend the money?

Do you mean one of the intros to malcolm in the middle S03E06 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AbSehcT19u0

And what if I was?

Do they only need a PCIE 4.0 x8 slot? The card length makes it look like a x8 in a x16 slot..m