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Jul. 17th, 2003
Hah! Last laugh is mine to be had!
Jul. 17th, 2003 02:57 pmSo in a previous entry of the "Inkblot Chronicles" I was lamenting how the five 18 gigabyte disk drives I had purchased for my MultiPack were too large to fit into the enclosure, since the drives were 1.6" tall and the enclosure was only meant to handle 1" height disks. I fretted at length that I had just wasted $250 by not checking the physical specifications and then speculated that I would have to turn around and sell them off in order to recoup my losses.
I found a "better" way, although it's only "better" if you apply a significant amount of masculine reasoning to the solution.
To save myself from wasting those $250 dollars I went ahead and spent another $200 to purchase a used D1000 StorEdge array from a company with one for sale on eBay. The D1000's specs call for 1.6" height disks, and in fact even go so far as to specify the part number of the drives I currently have in hand if the user is looking to install 18gb drives. As an added bonus the array I'm buying comes with six 9.1 gigabyte hard drives that are 1" tall, so I can transplant those into my MultiPack array and have even more storage. Mmm, 40 gigabytes in one array, and 90 gigabytes in the other. Yeah, I know you scoff at it (so many people have 100 gigabytes or more on a single IDE drive for their PC these days it's not even funny) but keep in mind these arrays are running RAID level 5, with hot spares, and SCSI-2 drives. My performance is better and more redundant than yours! Oh yeah, these disks are hot-swappable to boot.
So to sum it up: by spending an additional $200 (not counting the shipping and handling) I have just "saved" myself $250.
Bizarre, isn't it?
Walking all the way home from commuter trains
I found a "better" way, although it's only "better" if you apply a significant amount of masculine reasoning to the solution.
To save myself from wasting those $250 dollars I went ahead and spent another $200 to purchase a used D1000 StorEdge array from a company with one for sale on eBay. The D1000's specs call for 1.6" height disks, and in fact even go so far as to specify the part number of the drives I currently have in hand if the user is looking to install 18gb drives. As an added bonus the array I'm buying comes with six 9.1 gigabyte hard drives that are 1" tall, so I can transplant those into my MultiPack array and have even more storage. Mmm, 40 gigabytes in one array, and 90 gigabytes in the other. Yeah, I know you scoff at it (so many people have 100 gigabytes or more on a single IDE drive for their PC these days it's not even funny) but keep in mind these arrays are running RAID level 5, with hot spares, and SCSI-2 drives. My performance is better and more redundant than yours! Oh yeah, these disks are hot-swappable to boot.
So to sum it up: by spending an additional $200 (not counting the shipping and handling) I have just "saved" myself $250.
Bizarre, isn't it?
Walking all the way home from commuter trains
Hah! Last laugh is mine to be had!
Jul. 17th, 2003 02:57 pmSo in a previous entry of the "Inkblot Chronicles" I was lamenting how the five 18 gigabyte disk drives I had purchased for my MultiPack were too large to fit into the enclosure, since the drives were 1.6" tall and the enclosure was only meant to handle 1" height disks. I fretted at length that I had just wasted $250 by not checking the physical specifications and then speculated that I would have to turn around and sell them off in order to recoup my losses.
I found a "better" way, although it's only "better" if you apply a significant amount of masculine reasoning to the solution.
To save myself from wasting those $250 dollars I went ahead and spent another $200 to purchase a used D1000 StorEdge array from a company with one for sale on eBay. The D1000's specs call for 1.6" height disks, and in fact even go so far as to specify the part number of the drives I currently have in hand if the user is looking to install 18gb drives. As an added bonus the array I'm buying comes with six 9.1 gigabyte hard drives that are 1" tall, so I can transplant those into my MultiPack array and have even more storage. Mmm, 40 gigabytes in one array, and 90 gigabytes in the other. Yeah, I know you scoff at it (so many people have 100 gigabytes or more on a single IDE drive for their PC these days it's not even funny) but keep in mind these arrays are running RAID level 5, with hot spares, and SCSI-2 drives. My performance is better and more redundant than yours! Oh yeah, these disks are hot-swappable to boot.
So to sum it up: by spending an additional $200 (not counting the shipping and handling) I have just "saved" myself $250.
Bizarre, isn't it?
Walking all the way home from commuter trains
I found a "better" way, although it's only "better" if you apply a significant amount of masculine reasoning to the solution.
To save myself from wasting those $250 dollars I went ahead and spent another $200 to purchase a used D1000 StorEdge array from a company with one for sale on eBay. The D1000's specs call for 1.6" height disks, and in fact even go so far as to specify the part number of the drives I currently have in hand if the user is looking to install 18gb drives. As an added bonus the array I'm buying comes with six 9.1 gigabyte hard drives that are 1" tall, so I can transplant those into my MultiPack array and have even more storage. Mmm, 40 gigabytes in one array, and 90 gigabytes in the other. Yeah, I know you scoff at it (so many people have 100 gigabytes or more on a single IDE drive for their PC these days it's not even funny) but keep in mind these arrays are running RAID level 5, with hot spares, and SCSI-2 drives. My performance is better and more redundant than yours! Oh yeah, these disks are hot-swappable to boot.
So to sum it up: by spending an additional $200 (not counting the shipping and handling) I have just "saved" myself $250.
Bizarre, isn't it?
Walking all the way home from commuter trains
... and I just finished watching one of the new additions to my collection. I had a hard choice between some the six options that I was presented with (unpacking this order was a real treat, almost like Christmas). Eventually I decided that since I was in sort of a quiet, easygoing yet melancholy mood that I should watch Cowboy Bebop: Tengoku no tobira, also known as "Cowboy Bebop: The Movie."
I made the right choice. The music is perfect, the story superb and the art just as good as I remember it from my copy of the series box set. It was good to see Spike, Faye and Jet again on my TV... in a way it was sort of like coming back to the town you grew up in and seeing familiar faces. On some primitive, simple level it just warms your heart.
Right now I'm converting my new CDs to MP3s and chatting a little bit with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
jingle on FurryMUCK. It's nice to see the Jinglecat again as it's been quite some time since we've talked. It does feel a little weird, we've each gone our separate ways over the last two years. Heck...so much has changed since then. Let's see, in two years... Jingle's gotten married and I've ended a relationship, landing firmly back at square one as a single guy. Jingle has bought a house, and I've moved from one apartment to another as I prepare to buy a house. They're small things in some cases, and not so small in others, that make it hard to find a common point to start a conversation from. How do you start when each of our lives have changed so much? Still it's nice that we got a chance to talk, stilted or otherwise, even if it was only for a few minutes. I don't talk nearly enough with my friends, and I rarely realize it until they've long gone. I wonder why that is.
At this point I'm two CDs down, and have one left to go. After I'm done converting my new Flaming Lips CD to MP3 I think I'll strap on my braces and give my wrists a rest before I go to sleep.
Is it woman, is it man?
I made the right choice. The music is perfect, the story superb and the art just as good as I remember it from my copy of the series box set. It was good to see Spike, Faye and Jet again on my TV... in a way it was sort of like coming back to the town you grew up in and seeing familiar faces. On some primitive, simple level it just warms your heart.
Right now I'm converting my new CDs to MP3s and chatting a little bit with
jingle on FurryMUCK. It's nice to see the Jinglecat again as it's been quite some time since we've talked. It does feel a little weird, we've each gone our separate ways over the last two years. Heck...so much has changed since then. Let's see, in two years... Jingle's gotten married and I've ended a relationship, landing firmly back at square one as a single guy. Jingle has bought a house, and I've moved from one apartment to another as I prepare to buy a house. They're small things in some cases, and not so small in others, that make it hard to find a common point to start a conversation from. How do you start when each of our lives have changed so much? Still it's nice that we got a chance to talk, stilted or otherwise, even if it was only for a few minutes. I don't talk nearly enough with my friends, and I rarely realize it until they've long gone. I wonder why that is.At this point I'm two CDs down, and have one left to go. After I'm done converting my new Flaming Lips CD to MP3 I think I'll strap on my braces and give my wrists a rest before I go to sleep.
Is it woman, is it man?
... and I just finished watching one of the new additions to my collection. I had a hard choice between some the six options that I was presented with (unpacking this order was a real treat, almost like Christmas). Eventually I decided that since I was in sort of a quiet, easygoing yet melancholy mood that I should watch Cowboy Bebop: Tengoku no tobira, also known as "Cowboy Bebop: The Movie."
I made the right choice. The music is perfect, the story superb and the art just as good as I remember it from my copy of the series box set. It was good to see Spike, Faye and Jet again on my TV... in a way it was sort of like coming back to the town you grew up in and seeing familiar faces. On some primitive, simple level it just warms your heart.
Right now I'm converting my new CDs to MP3s and chatting a little bit withjingle on FurryMUCK. It's nice to see the Jinglecat again as it's been quite some time since we've talked. It does feel a little weird, we've each gone our separate ways over the last two years. Heck...so much has changed since then. Let's see, in two years... Jingle's gotten married and I've ended a relationship, landing firmly back at square one as a single guy. Jingle has bought a house, and I've moved from one apartment to another as I prepare to buy a house. They're small things in some cases, and not so small in others, that make it hard to find a common point to start a conversation from. How do you start when each of our lives have changed so much? Still it's nice that we got a chance to talk, stilted or otherwise, even if it was only for a few minutes. I don't talk nearly enough with my friends, and I rarely realize it until they've long gone. I wonder why that is.
At this point I'm two CDs down, and have one left to go. After I'm done converting my new Flaming Lips CD to MP3 I think I'll strap on my braces and give my wrists a rest before I go to sleep.
Is it woman, is it man?
I made the right choice. The music is perfect, the story superb and the art just as good as I remember it from my copy of the series box set. It was good to see Spike, Faye and Jet again on my TV... in a way it was sort of like coming back to the town you grew up in and seeing familiar faces. On some primitive, simple level it just warms your heart.
Right now I'm converting my new CDs to MP3s and chatting a little bit with
jingle on FurryMUCK. It's nice to see the Jinglecat again as it's been quite some time since we've talked. It does feel a little weird, we've each gone our separate ways over the last two years. Heck...so much has changed since then. Let's see, in two years... Jingle's gotten married and I've ended a relationship, landing firmly back at square one as a single guy. Jingle has bought a house, and I've moved from one apartment to another as I prepare to buy a house. They're small things in some cases, and not so small in others, that make it hard to find a common point to start a conversation from. How do you start when each of our lives have changed so much? Still it's nice that we got a chance to talk, stilted or otherwise, even if it was only for a few minutes. I don't talk nearly enough with my friends, and I rarely realize it until they've long gone. I wonder why that is.At this point I'm two CDs down, and have one left to go. After I'm done converting my new Flaming Lips CD to MP3 I think I'll strap on my braces and give my wrists a rest before I go to sleep.
Is it woman, is it man?