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Stop questioning her!
 
kek when the banter finally cracks the egg...

lol it's not an "argument," janitor, it's a fact. It's the people insisting it's a girl who are "arguing." I don't get these fucking idiots. You can easily reverse image search Fit"girl"'s profile/avatar pic and it's literally just some foreign actress. No woman on this green earth would ever be as autistic about compression and archive transfer rates as Fit"girl." There's a reason "there are no girls on the internet" is traditional (and still completely accurate) wisdom.

Nobody really cares. It's only ever mentioned to piss off the usual suspects, and mod freakouts like this prove it still fucking works.
 
tbf i dont give a shit what parts fitgirl has in they pants. i just want my repacks of vidya and thats enough for me to focus on
see, this is what all those retards fail to see
if you are really good at your job, and your job is a genuine service/product that improves life for consumers, people are usually very willing and tolerant when it comes to letting eccentricities and mental illnesses slide
 

>some of you are too insecure to admit a woman is providing the service you rely on

Using an actress's picture and calling yourself a gorl on the Internet still works, fellas. There is literally a 0% chance there is some woman out there that is into compression, into piracy, and an Audrey Tautou fan. Have any of you ever told the women in your life about WinRAR or 7zip? What about qBittorrent, rTorrent, or Transmission? Are they interested in your private trackers that have porn torrents on the home page by default?

Even my wife clocked FitTranny when I had to walk her through torrenting and reinstalling Hogwarts Legacy on her PC while I was out of town. I asked her if she thought an actual woman runs that website and she said absolutely not.
 
What about qBittorrent, rTorrent, or Transmission?
Nope. But I told her how my media is acquired and how people do it for free. She’s been fed up with subscriptions for years so she doesn’t mind it. And she encourages me to get whatever is new that isn’t in our subscriptions.

I torrent Amazon because fuck paying them a few more bucks when I already pay for their regular plan
 
whats the appeal of dealing with these private trackers
think of specialized private trackers as communities of autists constructed around a particular medium

most general private trackers like iptorrents track The Scene to varying degrees, with eg. torrentleech being a more faithful track than ipt; ipt's kinda unique because they give users lots of leeway to do uploads
 
I claim the throne, amateurs, until someone greater seizes it from me in kind.
I was going to say you have me beat by about 15TB.

Synology DS2419+
Synology DS1825+
But if it's all locked up in overpriced proprietary horseshit with anemic hardware, does it really count? If synology decides your devices are "legacy" you better pay up and this time they might be enforcing their branded disks! If the government mandates that synology needs to scan all their customer's devices for copyright infringement CSAM, you're SOL. And their SHR or whatever their raid is called is just a bastardized version of btrfs with a bunch of out of tree patches so you can't moved those disks into anything else, you're locked in already.

And a DS1825+ is over $1100 dollars?! For 8gb of memory and a quad core embedded cpu?!

A used 60-bay disk shelf is like $300 and any trash picked system is going to dunk on this thing in performance let alone what you could get for $700. You need to return that shit and get a disk shelf.

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But if it's all locked up in overpriced proprietary horseshit
The volumes are btrfs under the hood. The disks can be mounted on a different (generic) host and mounted with a bit of scripting. Synology units aren't too hard to recover data from if they barf. On the other hand, you're absolutely fucked if you have a QNAP go tits-up.

And yeah yeah, blah blah, I've heard it all before, "build your own is cheaper." Bullshit. By the time you've got the chassis, disk controllers, motherboard, CPU, memory, banged it all together and shoved it in the cabinet, you haven't saved all that much money. You've also pissed away a few hours better spent filling the fucking thing with pr0n to begin with :story:. The disks are the big spend anyway. As far as "anemic specs," I'm using the fucking things as filers, not a high-performance compute cluster.

Also, btw, find me a used 60-bay disk shelf. Any price. Best I can find is a bare Dell MD3060 for about $600 plus $150 shipping. That's neat. $750 for a metal brick. Now add trays and power supplies. Now you're at an even grand before you've even started putting any electronics in it. Also, how's the sound level? My shitty anemic Synology NASes sit quietly on a shelf in the den. Will a 60-bay shelf do that?
 
The volumes are btrfs under the hood. The disks can be mounted on a different (generic) host and mounted with a bit of scripting.
is just a bastardized version of btrfs with a bunch of out of tree patches so you can't moved those disks into anything else,
I know it's btrfs but as I said they've added a bunch of shit to it that's not in mainline. I hope you have a copy of ubuntu 18.04 lying around and that they haven't made any underlying changes since 2018 if you have problems.
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Also, btw, find me a used 60-bay disk shelf. Any price.
Now add trays and power supplies.
I literally just put the model number from the level 1 video I linked into ebay. $315 OBO. It doesn't need trays and comes with the power supplies. Plus you've only got 32 drives so you could go smaller if needed. https://www.ebay.com/itm/206202019087

And for the actual computer a supermicro X10 board, x5650 cpu, 96gb of DDR3 ECC, PSU, and an external SAS controller shouldn't be more than $300.
 
I literally just put the model number from the level 1 video I linked into ebay. $315 OBO. It doesn't need trays and comes with the power supplies. Plus you've only got 32 drives so you could go smaller if needed. https://www.ebay.com/itm/206202019087
$315, plus $300 shipping. Plus the cost of building a PC with a SAS card and cables (which aren't cheap btw -- that shit ain't SATA), and besides, you're being autistic in ignoring my stated preference for "it's pre-built and working and quiet and doesn't suck much power and runs well and works."

But fuck it, let's be autistic. Supermicro X10 board, $400. x5650 CPU, $15 (lol that's gotta piss Intel off a bit :story:), I found 128GB of DDR3 ECC for $200, SAS controller I can find for about $50.

Now we're up to $615+$400+$15+$200+$50 = $1,280, plus a chassis and PSU (we'll assume I can find an old beater for $100), so a total of $1,400. For a pile of used gear to drive a 60-bay disk shelf that'll blow out a wall in a fucking living room or side office where my other stuff lives. With no warranty or support. Come the fuck on, lad.

To be completely honest if I'm going to be throwing around old beat up hardware just to get a pile of disks mashed together for storage, I'd much rather build out a Ceph cluster using dirt-cheap systems with a couple disks each (one OSD per disk) and a couple beefier systems for the monitor and MDS for CephFS. You can run a functional Ceph cluster (with a filesystem, S3-like object store, iSCSI support, etc.) on just three hosts of minimal specs, and it scales infinitely. Ceph is neat and if anyone says otherwise I'll cut you :P

I fucking hate this argument anyway. No matter how you choose to store your data, some faggot is always going to come along and tell you how you've done it wrong and you picked the wrong gear ("lol you bought pre-bought? Pffft loser you can built it yourself for only [4-digit final price] and [2-digit hours count] after waiting 10+ days for shipping, corporate overlords suck and warranties are for suckers anyway" vs. "lol you built your own? Pffft loser you can buy [insert product here] for [ultimately about the same price] and be up and running in thirty minutes, WTF you gonna do if that pile of used garbage you bought goes tits-up in a week?") and they've done it way better, etc.

Fuck off. What I have works, works well, and had had zero issues in the six years it's been online (the 12+12 unit anyway; the 8-bay unit is new but behaving itself nonetheless). I liked the original enough to buy more of their gear, and that's even after they decided to be cunts about disk brand snobbery (which they backed down from after people slapped them upside the head enough about it), so obviously they're doing something right.
 
Are you intentionally picking ridiculous prices or what? I am spending a couple minutes to find these. Just sorting by lowest price and scrolling down.
Supermicro X10 board, $400
$135 OBO. https://www.ebay.com/itm/287311471628

I found 128GB of DDR3 ECC for $200
$108 OBO. https://www.ebay.com/itm/306901778586

so a total of $1,400.
So with just the two I checked, this is now $1040. Cheaper than just your most recent synology. If we were being fair we would include the cost of both of them + the expansion and even then it's still 32 drives to 60.

doesn't suck much power
The power honestly isn't going to matter much with that many drives because the system power is going to be small compared to 32 spinning disks.

It's cheaper, has double the disk capacity, sixteen times the detail ram, three times the threads at +50% clocks, you get mainline ZFS or btrfs instead of some proprietary special snowflake version, it's a single system... the only benefit from the synology is a 3 year warranty which as far as I can see doesn't even cover data recovery.

you're being autistic in ignoring my stated preference for "it's pre-built
If one of your requirements is literally that it must be prebuilt then yeah, I guess you got me there. But spare me the "Come the fuck on, lad" as if I'm so unreasonable to think dropping $1200 on an 8 bay NAS from a company that's tried to enforce branded drives is a bit dim when you could get a 60-bay system with much, much better hardware for less used.

"lol you built your own? Pffft loser you can buy [insert product here] for [ultimately about the same price] and be up and running in thirty minutes, WTF you gonna do if that pile of used garbage you bought goes tits-up in a week?"
I don't think I've ever seen anyone get shit for building their own system.
 
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