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As #HDD tech change over time and the market is full of shit drives, using slower and less reliable tech to increase data density, I'm a bit lost. I used to use WD Red (the cheaper consumer version), but they fucked that whole product range up (with SMR I think?) and tried to pull a fast one on their customers so I don't trust WD at all anymore. I'm looking for NAS drives to use in a storage pool. What's a good resource to use for finding proper, good quality drives?
#computers #TechSupport

Hey all--looking for career advice.

I'm trying to become a Scrum Master or a Project Manager and am currently a "Technical Support Analyst I," which in my case means that I do a combination of Manual QA Release Testing and ticket queue work. However, I've been leading daily Stand Up and I help track the status and progress of various items the Development team is working on. I have had my current position for 2.5 years--I had one job before this, also in tech support, that lasted 1 year. So, in total, about 3.5 years of experience.

I have a Scrum Master certification (Certified Scrum Master) from Scrum Alliance. Now what? Am I ready to apply for jobs, and if so, WHICH jobs? Do I apply for Scrum Master/Project Management roles, or should I be applying to something else as a stepping stone to get there? Do people even hire Scrum Masters anymore? If not, should I be focusing on Project Management instead, and if so, how do I pivot to Project Management?

If it helps, I have a bachelor's degree in Computer Science.

Please boost! I have no idea what I'm doing. All I know is that I'm trying to make enough money to survive and we're just not there yet.


#career-advice #jobs #scrum #agile #project-management #scrum-master #IT #tech-support #technical-support #getfedihired

Hate browser Notification requests when visiting a website?

Did you know you can stop them from even asking? (I did not haha)

Verified on both Chrome and Firefox

Settings->Privacy and Security->Permissions->Notifications

there will be a checkbox or radio button to prevent future notification send requests.

#Schwiemu's lawnmower broke, so she's in a right panic.

Luckily a few years ago I repaired the historical Yamaha she had sitting in her shed and that is working as backup mower.

Now she wants me to fix the other mower. I said ok, no problem, bring it here. She sends me a picture of a broken gearbox. I say ok, that will need some parts, which model is it?

"The orange one" 🤦‍♂️

Sorry, no remote mower support, pack it in the car :old_man_yells_at:

More help… Media and file server filesysyem advice.
I’m now investigating mergerfs, which apparently just sprays regular files across standard file systems and then presents a single view.

A failed drives loses all its data, but mergerfs-tools seems to have a script feature that will “keep at least 2 copies of files”, while still presenting a single merged directory structure across multiple disks.

Help with file storage required…

Serious question, anyone who runs RAID 5. Has it ever saved you?

I am provisioning a household NAS and I’m trying to decide on RAID vs JBOD (with scheduled sync of important directories).

I ask because I have run probably dozens of RAID configs since the 90s, in different environments from personal to enterprise and in almost every configuration and it has always been a useless pain in the ass (for anything other than speed).

I accept the risk of RAID-0. That’s fine. But, for backup I have run RAID 5,6,10 and they’ve all screwed us at some time.

Other than RAID 1 (mirroring) it has never been anything other than a pain in the ass. Almost every serious failure we’ve ever had has been raid controller related, or sometimes file system related, which resulted in an unrecoverable spray of crap across many drives.

I have been out of the game for about 10 years, so does anyone have experience with modern RAID-5 that has actually been positive?

If so, what controller/devices/config?

Thanks.
#techsupport #tech #nas #server #selfhosting