[ale] A modest proposal for the times

[Jim Kinney]

I like plausible deniability:) empty hard drive is an empty brain. I do
want stupid amounts of RAM for ephemeral ram disk storage for firefox
cache. My laptop hard drive is mostly just ogg copies of my music CDs and
enough system to boot.

Maybe I read 'Little Brother' one time too many.
-- 
James P. Kinney III

Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain
at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail.
It won't fatten the dog.
- Speech 11/23/1900 Mark Twain


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On Wed, Apr 9, 2025, 7:57 PM jon.maddog.hall--- via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> > > 16TB on one computer is very difficult.
>
> Actually I thought I was more than strange carrying around 4TB on my
> laptop, since laptops can be stolen,lost, etc.
>
> I just got used to storing that much data on my laptop because I would
> travel to places were Internet connectivity was only a dream.   Of course
> having the data backed up removes a lot of "stolen/lost laptop angst".
>
> Today I still do it because I am too lazy to separate out data that I need
> a lot vs data that I want to have immediately once every ten years.
>
> md
>
>
> > On 04/09/2025 7:02 PM EDT Solomon Peachy via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Apr 09, 2025 at 06:39:27PM -0400, Steve Litt via Ale wrote:
> > > The other thing is that most motherboards I've seen can house a maximum
> > > of 2 NVMes, and if you use both something or other gets degraded. So
> > > 16TB on one computer is very difficult.
> >
> > NVMe slots are effectively just PCIe in a very small form-factor; if
> > your motherboard has any spare PCIe slots you can use cheap passive
> > PCIe->NVMe adapters until you run out of slots.
> >
> > There are also PCIe adapters that can hold 2+ NVMe drives, but they may
> > require motherboard/chipset support to function properly (the cheap ones
> > rely on PCIe bifrucation and the fancier ones use an active PCIe
> > switch/router)
> >
> > Another option is to use SATA-attached SSDs; they're going to be slower
> > (and cheaper) than NVMe but still vastly faster than spinning rust. A
> > quick perusal of Newegg shows you can get 4TB drives for under $170,
> > which is still over 2x the cost of spinning rust at the 16TB mark.
> >
> > ANYWay...
> >
> >  - Solomon
> > --
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