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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • My Dear Ebeneezer,

    It has come to my attention that in the seven years since my untimely demise, you have become an increasingly greedy and insufferable twat. I must strongly advise you against this. First, because I do not wish you to walk the earth bound by the chains of your own sins, in penance, as I have. Second, I wish to spare you the agony of sitting through three separate hour-long presentations that could have been an email. Lastly, the villagers have begun singing songs about what a bad person you are when they think you’re not listening. They didn’t even do that to me when I was still alive. Once again, I implore you to immediately cease being a greedy, insufferable twat for your own sake.

    Most Regretably Yours,

    Jacob Marley



  • Why not just use what you have until you can afford to and/or need to upgrade? SAS drives are more expensive because they typically offer higher performance and reliability. Hardware raid may be “old” but it’s still very common. The main risk with it is that if your raid card fails, you’ll have to replace it with the same model if you don’t want to rebuild your server from scratch.

    I’ve been running an old Dell PowerEdge for several years with no issues.