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I notice we just passed 15 million members! Congratulations Bob! ![Jig | [Dance]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/jig.gif)
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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My estimated date for 15,000,608 rep points is the 4th September, 2070.
I have doubts about myself, this site, and society in general actually making it there ... 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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OriginalGriff wrote: I have doubts about myself, this site, and society in general actually making it there ...
Still time to program an AI to answer questions in your particular style. Though the questions may be more like "how I can I boil potatoes over a fire?", the answer for which will have to include how to find the flint to start the fire. 
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Have 8 points to speed you on your way... 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: to speed you on your way...
out?
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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No, to the goal of 15,000,000, obviously. Context is important!
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Actually, there are only 500,000 members. 14.5 million accounts have been closed for spamming the site.
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And 90% of those are sock puppets! 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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That is actually the number of active accounts. There are a whole other lot that have be sent to Purgatory.
"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."
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Yes, I was being cute. Based on the latest member number, a bit over 330K accounts have been closed, either voluntarily or for naughty behavior.
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Suddenly, it came sooner than I thought
Congrats Chris ...
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It did have a pair of 640GB WD Scorpio Blue drives, but now it's just got a 240GB C: drive and a 500GB D: drive.
Mind you, the C: is an SSD* and the D: a 7200rpm hybrid, which does help things along a bit. 
The shrinkage is not an issue as I only use it for music streaming and the occasional video. The real issue is what to do with the multiplicity of currently redundant laptop spinners collected over the eons from previous upgrades. I have at least a dozen, not including the four I use for regular backups.
Anybody recommend a nice NAS cage for a miscellany of 2.5" drives ranging from 320GB/7200rpm to 1TB/5400rpm? I get soooo depressed seeing them all sitting there idle in a desk drawer.
* ...which came from the No. 1 laptop when I upgraded that.
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Thanks for the link, but I am thinking more of a small RAID NAS that could take a minimum of four drives, and preferably one dedicated to 2.5" drives. The only things I can find out here are already loaded with drives, and Amazon don't seem to have anything appropriate, although one of my ex-colleagues had a nice RAID 10 enclosure that could be loaded with at least half a dozen spinners.
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You might try YOTTAMASTER Store[^]
I did the same, had a couple of STAT disks and an SSD and stuck them in one of these inexpensive enclosures. Mines not set up for RAID though but they do sell RAID ready enclosures.
The less you need, the more you have.
Even a blind squirrel gets a nut...occasionally.
JaxCoder.com
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Thanks for that - they do some interesting stuff, and more to the point, I can get it in Europe via Amazon!
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Welcome
I have the 4 drive, non-raid version hooked into a RPi 3+ running OpenMediaVault. It's not a NAS but it Works really well as my backup device.
The less you need, the more you have.
Even a blind squirrel gets a nut...occasionally.
JaxCoder.com
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Extra backup drives.
Useful when you realize your backup includes that already-corrupted version of the file you really, really wanted.
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I already have backups of my backups. If I build a RAID NAS then I will have backups of my backup backups. 
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That is a very bad way to think about that. RAID is NOT backup. That is a very, very important thing to remember. RAID just gives you redundant media so the MTBF is better but it is NOT backup.
To repeat myself because this is important : RAID is NOT backup.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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We have used Synology's with good luck. Got a 4 banger that has been solid for several years.
I just took an old workstation and converted it with Truenas. Supports RAID. SFSG.
As those drives got old, hard to rely on them. I just bite the bullet and drill a hole in the platters and discard in the electronic waste bin at the local haz. waste place.
>64
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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I'd buy some cheap USB enclosures and use them as additional off-line backups.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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I've been using a Drobo5N2 for about 4 years now. Well there was a gap in the middle. The drive held my ripped collection of DVD's that I could watch on Plex and some backups.
The gap came from an issue after a firmware upgrade. I couldn't mount the drives anymore. The unit was out of warranty, so I tried several steps on my own and could not get it to recover. It sat for over a year mocking me.
I don't remember everything I did to try and recover, but near the end I know I pulled drives trying to get it to rebuild, which it did, but still would not mount. When I got back to it I did another firmware upgrade, still no love.
So I decided I would pay for a support call. Turns out they never charged me nor even ask for a credit card. One of my drives may have caused an initial problem that was exacerbated when the firmware update rebooted the box. I didn't see anything in the later firmware notes, but I assume there was something that was fixed later.
Drobo support was able to point me to some publicly available tools to get things working again. The support was done over their support messaging system. It took a couple of days of back and forth, but was very helpful and ended in success.
My point to all of this is that I expected to have to start over with an empty Drobo. But even with all of the drive pulling I did when I figured I didn't have anything to lose, the system maintained integrity. I didn't loose any data.
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Rocket For The Ceo - Dilbert[^]
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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