So cute!

I can attest that it’s quite straightforward and well documented! Toughest part for me was clearing out all that crap under the sink!

Nice, I thought it was a Hermit Thrush but then saw you were across the pond!

Beautiful!!

Fascinating! Where do you order the lenses? I’m in the US and I can’t find a place that is cheaper then Zenni where I can get my lenses and frames for <$20.

btrfs or zfs send/receive. Harder to do if already established, but by far the most elegant, especially with atomic snapshots to allow versioning without duplicate data.

Haha, still counts. Is this close to the Trader Joe’s nearish the Presidio?

I got a water test kit for free from Home Depot and sent it in. Never got an answer. This inspires me to try again.

Finished insulating my copper radiator pipes. I think it’s worth it as our rooms seem to be getting a lot hotter.

I wouldn’t think so. 5400 rpm drives might last longer if we’re specifically thinking about mechanical wear. My main takeaway is that WDC has the best. I would use the largest number available which is the final chart which you also point out. One thing which others have also pointed out that there is no metadata included with these results. For example the location of different drives, i.e. rack and server-room specific data. These would control for temperature, vibration and other potential confounders. Also likely that as new servers are brought online, different SKUs are being bought in groups, i.e. all 10 TB Seagate Ironwolf. I don’t know why they haven’t tried to use linear or simple machine learning models to try to provide some explanatory information to this data, but nevertheless I am deeply appreciative that this data is available at all.

Backblaze reports HDD reliability data on their blog. Never rely on anecdata!

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-q1-2024/

Ah, thank you for explaining. I understand where you’re coming from. Nevertheless, from the point of a view a small NAS, RAIDZ1 is much more space and cost efficient so I think there is room for “pets” in the small homelab or NAS.

I get that. But I think the quote refers to corporate infrastructure. In the case of a mail server, you would have automated backup servers that kick-in and you would simply pull the rack of the failed mail server.

Replacing drives based on SMART messages (pets) means you can do the replacement on your time and make sure you can do resilvering or whatever on your schedule. I think that is less burdensome than having a drive fail when you’re quite busy and being stressed about having the system is running in a degraded state until you have time to replace the drive.

I mean if it’s homelab, it’s ok to be pets. Not everything has to be commoditized for the whims of industry.

I get older, and the to-do list only grows in length. Condolences about your relative.