Bigun

I just printed the parts out, and it didn't fit, I'll try contacting support.

It looks like the right part (the 6mm length variety), however AliExpress didn't have the stock I needed. So using the near exact description as a search query, I found the exact same item on eBay with a large enough stock to handle what I needed - thank you.

See picture below. I have no idea what these are called, but I'm going to need to buy a handful of them and I'm approaching google fatigue trying to find them. The fit standard 3.5" hard disks, with a shorter shaft than normal, and have an extremely flat head to as to go flush with the mounting hardware. Any help is appreciated.

I got a few 3d printers, this should work.

Like maybe 5. If these aren't sold anywhere, tempted to draft a design in CAD. But yes, it's a Cooler Master case.

None of those, standoffs go into the board and assist with mounting the motherboard typically. This is almost like a plain post and it goes into a rubber grommet in the case.

What are these called? Looking to buy a few. They go into 2.5" drives and go into my case and holds the drive in place.

I've got a EliteRAID ER208I+B (used off of government surplus site), and I've got to say - For the price, it ain't bad. My only real complaint is that it's LACP/NIC bonding/NIC teaming/802.3ad capability is very poorly documented and doesn't seem to work well. The internals seem to beg for an upgrade, but I can't bring myself to justify a DDR2 memory upgrade for an old piece of gear like this. For a home server setup, it's perfect. Anyone else using newer models? What's your mileage?

I need some clarity: Are they just using JBOD cards or a RAID controller in JBOD mode? Phenomenal work guys, it was great to witness the death of hardware RAID.

mdadm?

Oh, got it. I guess Linus shouldn't have had his data on those bad disks, problem solved. Also, define incremental backups and explain with mental gymnastics how it's any different from what you're proposing. Also, now that the convo has devolved into ad hominem, I'm done responding to you. Have fun!

A couple of random clicks yielded results (@ 1:51): *edit* Strike all of that, misunderstood you, but I'm sure they do. Also having the source video to edit it how they want is important. It's their IP after all.

No they do, just not very often. Unless I missed the sarcasm.

"We crashed? No worries, we can restore from tape. Grab literally every tape we got..... yes, even the ones that we first wrote about 4 years ago. What do you mean one went bad? Can't we just ignore that one tape and restore? We can't... then are we... hosed?... Oh... oh no" This ---^ Cycling through the tapes roots out the bad ones and keep the full tapes updated - decreasing the RPO. I get your point, save on infrastructure and time backing up. However, keeping the full tapes up to date on a monthly (or regular even) basis will save on recovery times and the potential of tapes going bad. Take no chances. Now if your arguing that infinite incremental tapes won't increase RPO, then we're going to have to agree to disagree.

That still doesn't address RPO. Even if you keep just two months of full incrementals and allow one set to expire, your RPO significantly drops. With Just one full backup and 2 years of incrementals, you will have to load up **ALL** of the tapes (The one full and two years of incrementals) to do a full recovery - that's not even including the prayers that every single tape in the chain is good or testing recovery. You would have to test the same set of tapes at least twice a year. Call it preference if you want, but two two months of cycling tapes, your chance of recovery doubles. *edit* and dramatically increase your chance of finding bad tape in case 2nd law dips his head in.