[rescue] Various machines for sale

[Dave McGuire]

On 1/9/25 04:01, Patrik Schindler via rescue wrote:
>> 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. :-)

   Of course.   [/me glances at DEC RK05 drive]

   But...I pooped a few minutes ago.  It was brown.  I would not call it 
rust. ;)

   I am drinking coffee...it is brown...

>> 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.)

   ZFS at one level, up from there is another ZFS array in the same 
rack, up from there is another ZFS array in another building.

              -Dave

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA