[rescue] Various machines for sale

Patrik Schindler poc at pocnet.net
Thu Jan 9 04:01:33 EST 2025


Hello Dave,

Am 09.01.2025 um 06:59 schrieb Dave McGuire via rescue <rescue at sunhelp.org>:

> I do detest that term; it has never been "rust".

Well, look at older drives' platters, and you'll see that the coatings color was very reminiscent of rust, very much like the 1960's reel2reel audio tapes. :-)

> I have, and I strongly prefer spinning drives for storing anything that can't be easily replaced.  So, NVMe for system disks, arrays of spinning drives for irreplaceable (like locally-generated, not movies and PDFs that I can just re-download) data.

You can't have enough backup. — Lobsang, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Long_Earth_(series)

(From memory, actual wording might be different.)

:wq! PoC





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