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I said "economical expansion" not militar.
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To some, that's the same thing. It's a rather large part of that economy, innit? To invade and conquer? Largest budget to warfare?
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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#Worldle #238 3/6 (100%)
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Had to look at map. Knew which country but could not recall the name.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
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#Worldle #239 3/6 (100%)
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We were off by one.
My mathematics/CS professor used to say if your program has an error, it's just off by one somewhere.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
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I am in a time zone half-a-day ahead of you.
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"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
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I meant that my Worldle answer is for 239, whereas yours is for Worldle 238. So, I get it earlier than you.
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Doh!
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
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Off by 2
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I have lots of external, multi-TB drives I've purchased over the years, sitting in USB enclosures. Semi-retired, and for the most part, collecting dust.
Over the years, for many reasons I won't get into, I've lost faith in the whole concept of RAID. I'd rather have these drives each operate on its own rather than trying to build a big pool of drives with hardware/software that's supposed to have the smarts to rebuild itself when one drive dies and you just put in another drive to take its place. Sounds great in theory but...like I said, I won't get into this.
The problem with my collection of external drives is that they each require a power outlet and USB cable. If one drive isn't going to be used for a few days or even weeks, it's pointless to have it spinning 24/7, and external drives typically don't have a power switch or button; you have to physically unplug its wall wart. Products from Drobo, Synology, QNAP and others and not contenders IMO, and are complete overkill to me, not to mention seriously overpriced (but then, that's because they have features I don't want/need).
I found this thing on Amazon, which is essentially a 10-drive USB enclosure where each drive can be made to work independently and has its own power button. Sounds perfect to me. I really don't want anything more complicated. And being able to power on/off any drive independently sets it apart from everything else that tries to be too sophisticated for its own good.
Unfortunately it's listed an currently unavailable. Their smaller versions (4 or 5 bays) seem reasonable, but unfortunately, reading posted comments, there's no middle ground - people either rave about them, or warn about them being junk (drives disappearing on their own randomly for a few moments, Windows reporting hardware errors, etc).
Does anyone have hands-on experience with these types of docks and report their honest opinion - again, not looking for a RAID, and I would really, really prefer something where each drive can be powered on/off on its own.
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I've had one of these Yotamaster 4-bay[^] running OpenMediaVault on a RPi for a couple of years and it has been a good experience. You can't turn them on or off individually though!
PartsBin an Electronics Part Organizer is finally available for download.
JaxCoder.com
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I have opened up a few such external USB drives. Every single one has had a standard SATA disk inside, with SATA power supply and SATA data bus. The disks are certainly not 'native USB'; the enclosure contains a SATA-to-USB adapter and voltage converter to provide SATA power. (The SATA power connector carries both 3.3V, 5V and 12V - obviously, the voltage converter can be limited to those voltages that specific drive requires.)
If your PC cabinet is a large tower-type with space available for more disk, pick the SATA disk out of its USB cabinet, and plug it into a SATA cable to your mainboard. My cabinet has room for eight SATA disks. My power supply has (in addition to the standard 24 + 4 + 6 cables to the mainboard) five sockets for cables with either 4 SATA power plugs each or the old style 'molex' plugs. If you run out of SATA power, you probably have unused molex plugs; molex-to-SATA adapters are readily available. (Molex has no 3.3V, so if there are disks requiring that, they may not work with those adapters, but I have never experienced that.)
Moving the disks into your cabinet, making them SATA disks, will probably speed up access - I assume that most of your old USB disks are pre-USB3, but are USB2, which is significantly slower than SATA. You don't need any special software or configuration; the disks will appear just like your C: disk (and D: and E: and ... if you've got other disks). For the 24/7 spinning issue: Windows allows you to specify the idle period before the disk is powered down. I believe that the default is 20 minutes, but you can set it to a few hours, or 'never', if you like (but that is opposite of what you ask for!)
If you do not have disk slots available in your cabinet, I suggest that you rather buy a new cabinet with enough space and move all your stuff over to it. Maybe you even run out of mainboard SATA sockets, but if you have an unused PCIe slot, an adapter for two or four SATA units is not that expensive.
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I've been building PCs since my teens, so while this is the obvious solution, what makes it a non-starter is that the disks will then be left to spin 24/7, which is exactly what I don't want to do. Yes, Windows will spin them down after a timeout period if you let it, but any app that tries to enumerate drives, even when seeing them in that state, will cause Windows to spin them up again needlessly 50 times a day.
Not to mention that if they're just in sleep mode, the fact that they're connected and accessible leaves the data vulnerable to ransomware attacks. If they're physically powered down (and not merely sleeping), it's as good as being disconnected.
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