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by ggm 495 days ago
Guilty as charged. Running a home-brew NAS which was fun to build and a spaghetti wire mess which has to be replaced before I die, or my non tech partner loses the entire family archive.

I'd add 'sending work staff on long flights in economy expecting them to hit the ground running and work straight away' but I have sympathies with companies facing 30%+ rises in travel costs.
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Joel_Mckay 495 days ago
Makes sense up till about 23TiB/month, then the colo un-metered servers + CDN start to make economic sense over cloud options again. =3
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ggm 495 days ago
Want on prem. Corp grade screwless entry PCs now look pretty good as generic home store devices. TrueNAS and zfs, she's good. I went wierder, card from here, secondhand PSU from a market in bangkok, random SSD, cables, a zimaboard.. 3D printed parts. Great fun. Unmaintainable.
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Joel_Mckay 495 days ago
In modern environments most equipment is often already treated as ephemeral. There are few major upgrades in maintenance cycles, but rather the whole rack is replaced periodically... and the data store repairs the distributed volume. =3
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