CIPWTTKT&GC V44 - Vega Appreciation Station - Hardware & Software

Sounds like a good deal, are they used or something?

[QUOTE=SEKCobra;52680288]Sounds like a good deal, are they used or something?[/QUOTE] Best Buy in the USA has an exclusive product called the "WD Easystore 8TB", where they stick these drives into an external enclosure and puts them on sale for anywhere between $160-180 every other week. I basically bought a dozen of them for $170, and just shucked the drives out of the enclosures. No one on earth knows how Best Buy is able to do this, considering WD RED 8TB costs like $280 on Newegg and just about everywhere else. The Easystores are literally using the same drive but costs more than $100 less, and even with an external enclosure.

[QUOTE=B!N4RY;52680295]Best Buy in the USA has an exclusive product called the "WD Easystore 8TB", where they stick these drives into an external enclosure and puts them on sale for anywhere between $160-180 every other week. I basically bought a dozen of them for $170, and just shucked the drives out of the enclosures. No one on earth knows how Best Buy is able to do this, considering WD RED 8TB costs like $280 on Newegg and just about everywhere else. The Easystores are literally using the same drive but costs more than $100 less, and even with an external enclosure.[/QUOTE] I literally just bought a 6TB drive for more than that. Gods dammit...

[QUOTE=SEKCobra;52680196]I don't understand this argument, I don't buy a car by going "This cost 15000 $ - 7000 $ I get back when I sell it", I pay 15000 and that's what it cost me. Anything I get back later is nice, and as far as I can tell with the discounts my car currently comes out at the same price as the base model after 5 years so fuck all of this dumb math.[/QUOTE] I think the idea is that you could pay 15000 for a brand new car, or 10000 for a virtually identical car that has a year or two of light use.

What do you guys think about those 1070ti rumors

[QUOTE=WastedJamacan;52680314]I think the idea is that you could pay 15000 for a brand new car, or 10000 for a virtually identical car that has a year or two of light use.[/QUOTE] Yes but it isn't true, the Fabia Combi Ambition is list 17k, reallife without negotiation 14k, a 2 year old base model (which is list 10k) is 14k list. No matter how good you might be at negotiating, this isn't paying off.

[QUOTE=Del91;52680325]What do you guys think about those 1070ti rumors[/QUOTE] Fairly likely, RX Vega 56 does pretty well against a 1070, and Nvidia has plenty of yield, and headroom to bin a die between the 1070 and 1080. It's a no-brainer for them to release something to stomp out the 56.

[QUOTE=SEKCobra;52680391]Yes but it isn't true, the Fabia Combi Ambition is list 17k, reallife without negotiation 14k, a 2 year old base model (which is list 10k) is 14k list. No matter how good you might be at negotiating, this isn't paying off.[/QUOTE] It may just be different in the US then.

[QUOTE=Teddybeer;52679978]Can we reserve a place in hell for people that make mobile websites where you can't pinch zoom.[/QUOTE] If properly made, it shouldn't be needed. Unfortunately poor developers tend to copy+paste the basic responsive design meta tags that disable zooming, then don't make a properly scaling design :/

[QUOTE=WastedJamacan;52680451]It may just be different in the US then.[/QUOTE] It's a Škoda thing, they are so cheap that it is hard to get the price even lower.

[QUOTE=SataniX;52680487]If properly made, it shouldn't be needed. Unfortunately poor developers tend to copy+paste the basic responsive design meta tags that disable zooming, then don't make a properly scaling design :/[/QUOTE] Facepunch is one of the most usable mobile sites I've used. The only issue it has is that tapping the new post link is a pain in the ass unless using Chrome.

ratings on mobile is awful too

[QUOTE=helifreak;52680548]Facepunch is one of the most usable mobile sites I've used. The only issue it has is that tapping the new post link is a pain in the ass unless using Chrome.[/QUOTE] Remember when we weren't allwed to have a proper mobile app? Everyone that ever tried got banned for unrelated reasons. :v:

[QUOTE=B!N4RY;52680295]Best Buy in the USA has an exclusive product called the "WD Easystore 8TB", where they stick these drives into an external enclosure and puts them on sale for anywhere between $160-180 every other week. I basically bought a dozen of them for $170, and just shucked the drives out of the enclosures. No one on earth knows how Best Buy is able to do this, considering WD RED 8TB costs like $280 on Newegg and just about everywhere else. The Easystores are literally using the same drive but costs more than $100 less, and even with an external enclosure.[/QUOTE] Holy fuck I need to keep an eye on this. Getting an 8TB red for $180 would be fantastic. Does the enclosure play nice with other drives, too?

Speaking of shitty mobile sites, I absolutely love whatever Chrome Mobile does when you tick "Request desktop site" now It disables all the responsive css tags so you get a desktop version no matter what bullshit the developers are trying to pull

[QUOTE=B!N4RY;52680240]hey brt, [t]https://i.imgur.com/ZiBdC8t.jpg[/t] u jelly? [editline]14th September 2017[/editline] 96tb of raw storage :rock:[/QUOTE] Probably not streetsmart enough since i ask this, but why do you censor harddrives? Got some illegal bits on them or something?

OK I'm going through my list of old computer's I'd like to collect. I have 2 PPC Macs. Now I just want a [B]PAL Breadbin Commodore 64[/B] [B]Any Amiga[/B] [B]Acorn A3000 or above[/B] [B]An SGI Octane or O2[/B] one of more portable ones If there's like a computer swap thing for these old computers around Sydney someone let me know. Don't care much for old X86, I just use VM for that. [QUOTE=B!N4RY;52680240]hey brt, [t]https://i.imgur.com/ZiBdC8t.jpg[/t] u jelly? [editline]14th September 2017[/editline] 96tb of raw storage :rock:[/QUOTE]Well it's not one petabyte, so should he be? Also, you'd have to use half of it for backup, so it's really 48TB. I can't imagine how slow moving that much data on mechanical drives is going to be.

My 970 check arrived today after months of waiting. Might buy a pizza with the money but idk yet

[QUOTE=helifreak;52680548]Facepunch is one of the most usable mobile sites I've used. The only issue it has is that tapping the new post link is a pain in the ass unless using Chrome.[/QUOTE] You can put that down to it mostly still using tables for layout, even vB3 uses tables for everything. You can't really render tables wrong in any browser, only real issue it has is that certain buttons are quite small on mobile but because of how dated this sites design is, it actually works well with zooming unlike some. Xenforo forums are terrible to use on mobile for example, they just don't scale.

Anyone else getting SSL errors on Imgur? I'm sitting here wondering why it seems like 99% of the pictures getting posted aren't loading and come to find out that Chrome's spitting out a ERR_SSL_PROTOCOL_ERROR - but normal HTTP works fine.

[QUOTE=B!N4RY;52680240]hey brt, [t]https://i.imgur.com/ZiBdC8t.jpg[/t] u jelly? [editline]14th September 2017[/editline] 96tb of raw storage :rock:[/QUOTE] Saw it on DH. I now own eight easystores. Shucked half to upgrade my editing RAID10 to 32TB (16TB usable.) Took my previous 4TB drives and put them in my server which is now up to 64TB in the pool. Though I now have like 10TB of misc drives, which I had another 24bay JBOD to throw them in. [editline]14th September 2017[/editline] [QUOTE=RoboChimp;52680691]Well it's not one petabyte, so should he be? Also, you'd have to use half of it for backup, so it's really 48TB. I can't imagine how slow moving that much data on mechanical drives is going to be.[/QUOTE] Well total running spinning rust in my room is now 128TB, but not all of that is consolidated. Still pretty impressive to have all that space in so few drives. And with enough striping, those drives can work quick. Still figuring out if I want to stick to Storage Spaces forever. But, it's been very flexible to upgrade and expand.

[QUOTE=helifreak;52680548]Facepunch is one of the most usable mobile sites I've used. The only issue it has is that tapping the new post link is a pain in the ass unless using Chrome.[/QUOTE] Assuming you mean literal mobile site and not one of the apps, it's mostly good IMO. But it doesn't scale at all, meaning on vertical mode links and stuff can be hard to read, let alone click as you've said. Neither of which would be hard to fix honestly, it's just Facepunch layout is pretty old. Compare with Labpunch for example, just using Chrome dev tools because I'm lazy. [t]https://i.imgur.com/SodxMe4.png[/t][t]https://i.imgur.com/bvys1Ud.png[/t] IMO Labpunch goes a little further than I'd prefer in scaling everything up, but is much easier to use.

I kept using normal reddit interface even on mobile because the "official" mobile site and app were absolute thrash. Luckily a few friends showed me Reddit is fun and that is actually a fairly good app.

[QUOTE=SataniX;52681203]Assuming you mean literal mobile site and not one of the apps, it's mostly good IMO. But it doesn't scale at all, meaning on vertical mode links and stuff can be hard to read, let alone click as you've said. Neither of which would be hard to fix honestly, it's just Facepunch layout is pretty old. Compare with Labpunch for example, just using Chrome dev tools because I'm lazy. [t]https://i.imgur.com/SodxMe4.png[/t][t]https://i.imgur.com/bvys1Ud.png[/t] IMO Labpunch goes a little further than I'd prefer in scaling everything up, but is much easier to use.[/QUOTE] Labpunch is absolute utter trash lmao. Don't try to say it's better than vanilla FP on mobile. [t]https://dl2.pushbulletusercontent.com/GjQOnncYmmn4cJhvDLgCkQI0jB2IKgml/asset.PNG[/t][t]https://dl2.pushbulletusercontent.com/dOn6xzMx6RLfBvQLzH8MOnsVUM1mtzxm/asset.PNG[/t][t]https://dl2.pushbulletusercontent.com/HrPd94u1WB5JQk5zhL9AyKw5hmTvFs8U/asset.PNG[/t][t]https://dl2.pushbulletusercontent.com/SJ3WLGorWkv8EUviaPNvUxTdh8atrxIa/asset.PNG[/t] Vanilla FP is perfectly usable for me. A few issues like "New Post" being hard to click sometimes and ratings being a PITA, absolutely, but Labpunch is obviously not the solution.

I don't get why they're rolling their own forum. vBulletin is dated and shit for sure but I think there have to be better options than building your own.

[QUOTE=Sam Za Nemesis;52681259]I was working on a native FP app for mobile phones, the underlying code to parse information was terrible since there was no API but I should get back on that now that Facepunch Lab is all using ajax afaik, I was aiming to provide the same user feature richness of the web version in a mobile friendly UX[/QUOTE] Circle Avatars :nope:

[QUOTE=Sam Za Nemesis;52681409]I think I had changed it to a squircle in some of my more recent builds[/QUOTE] replacing brain cancer with liver cancer

[QUOTE=Sam Za Nemesis;52681259]I was working on a native FP app for mobile phones, the underlying code to parse information was terrible since there was no API but I should get back on that now that Facepunch Lab is all using ajax afaik, I was aiming to provide the same user feature richness of the web version in a mobile friendly UX [thumb]http://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2016/44/1478200651-ninepunch.png[/thumb] I've even made a cool logo [IMG]http://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2016/44/1478200650-ninepunchicon.png[/IMG][/QUOTE] Only available as a Debian arm package

[QUOTE=lekkimsm;52680664]Probably not streetsmart enough since i ask this, but why do you censor harddrives? Got some illegal bits on them or something?[/QUOTE] So people don't take my drive's S/N and use them to commit warranty fraud. [QUOTE=RoboChimp;52680691]Also, you'd have to use half of it for backup, so it's really 48TB.[/QUOTE] I'm most likely going to put all drives into one array with dual parity, so I'm only losing 16TB at most. 8TB if I chose to use single parity. Backups are being uploaded to an unlimited Google drive account, since I don't have the luxury to buy another set of 96TB drives. [QUOTE=RoboChimp;52680691]I can't imagine how slow moving that much data on mechanical drives is going to be.[/QUOTE] Why would it be slow? You have 12 drives working concurrently, both read and write can easily reach over 1GB/s

What sort of FS/RAID do you use? ZFS?