[ale] A modest proposal for the times

[Jim Kinney]

What's the battle cry of the hoarder?

That has value and it's mine!

<facepalm/>

-- 
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, 8:18 PM Jeff Lightner via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> Q:   What is the mating cry of the pack rat?
> A:   I might need that some day!
> 🤓
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ale <ale-bounces at ale.org> On Behalf Of jon.maddog.hall--- via Ale
> Sent: Wednesday, April 9, 2025 7:57 PM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
> Cc: jon.maddog.hall at gmail.com <jonhall80 at comcast.net>
> Subject: Re: [ale] A modest proposal for the times
>
> > > 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
> > --
> > Solomon Peachy                              pizza at shaftnet dot org
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> >                                       @pizza:shaftnet dot org   (matrix)
> > Dowling Park, FL                      speachy (libera.chat)
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