Ultimately it’s a matter of personal choice and risk tolerance.

The Z1 will be simpler and have larger capacity, but if you have a drive fail you’ll need to quickly get it replaced or risk having to rebuild/restore if the mirror drive follows the first one to the grave.

Your Z2 setup right now can have two drives fail and still be online, and having a wider spread of power-on hours is usually a good thing in terms of failure probability.

I manage a large (14,000±) number of on-site RAID1 arrays in various environments and there is definitely a trend for drives shipped at the same time to fail at roughly the same time. It’s common enough that we often intentionally swap drives out before shipping a new unit to the customer site.

On my homelab, I’m much more tolerant of risk since I have trust in my 3-2-1 backup solution and if my NAS goes down it’s not going to substantially affect anything while I wait for a drive replacement.

Top cast:

• Phillip Seymour Hoffman
• Bill Nighy

say no more, you son of a bitch. I’m in.

Thick bleach is just bleach that has already found a victim.

No, it’s was a $15/mo deal (for three months, prepaid up front, then $45/mo afterward).

Hey everyone, get a load of this fool drinking from an I ♥️ SYSV mug! Ha!

hides Lennart Pottering dartboard while everybody’s distracted

Well, at least the one star 😉

So you’re saying Rust is the TOOL of programming languages.

Point of clarification: DAC is copper, AOC is fiber.

A lot of 10G equipment will support 5G/2.5G SFPs as well, so it can still be beneficial to go 10G on the core equipment.

There’s that awful dad joke that foggy was talking about; Use it as inspiration for your exasperated sigh.

Signing every message should have zero effect for people who don’t use PGP; they’ll just have a cryptic block of text at the bottom of the message you sent.

It’s overkill to ship your pubkey with every email. Most people just publish to a trusted keyserver and call it a day since pretty much every client worth its salt can look up your pubkey directly.

omg dude you can’t just ask about white collards

alternate joke: I guess you could say it’s a white collard crime?

Username checks out.

I bet Fluke will sell you one for $900

You are describing a state of software development that has existed since the introduction of punch cards.

Practically every business I’ve worked at has had some internal library or repository of commonly used behavior that can be included in day to day projects.

There’s Finamp, a music client for Jellyfin with offline playback. I’ve not used it personally yet, but with Spotify ratcheting up prices again I’m in the process of switching to self-hosting my music library. When that’s up and running it’s at the top of my list for Android clients.

Some people water walk.

Yeah, but usually only if their 12 buddies are stressing out in a weather-weary boat

Perl is definitely a WORN language.

Write Once, Read Never

PHP is better than Javascript these days.

Fucking PHP.

The only thing JS really has going for it is ease of execution, since any browser can run your code… though the ubiquity of Python is closing that gap.

That’s a rude thing to say about your house. There’s more than just book smarts, you know.

And the magic of buying two of them!