Zeta Syanthis @zetasyanthis@awoo.space

@Felthry Plus you can go to external JBODs with SAS switches and hook up like 240 drives for cold storage to one server if you want.

@Felthry Not really, aside from the cache on the HDD. The trick is that for instance, the two mini-SAS HD ports on those boards each have 4 lanes, so you get up to 8 drives connected.

@Felthry Well, SAS3 goes up to 12 Gbit/s per lane, and you get 4 of them off each of those connectors, so not quite. That's still a lot of bandwidth for rotational disks.

@Felthry Plus, LSI/Adaptec controllers are way more reliable than the junk you'll find on little 2 and 4 port cards with Asmedia and Marvell chips.

@Felthry Absolutely. You may not realize, but SATA2 and above drives can speak a subset of SAS. It's pretty common to use SAS expanders and SATA drives for bulk storage these days.

@Felthry Managed to score one of each of these as well. :D https://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/C600/X10DRL-CT.cfm

https://www.gigabyte.com/us/Server-Motherboard/MD80-TM0-rev-10#ov

@Felthry Oh no, I was digging server motherboards out of a couple piles of e-waste and found some reels. :D

@Felthry

@Felthry That's fair. The E is actually the hard part for me. Mostly CE. :P

And the FETs are little SOT23 ones. Some of inductors are pretty hefty though. 1uH, 55A rated.

@Felthry (I'm an Electrical and Computer Engineering who does a bit of everything.)

@Felthry Well, if it's more in your comfort zone, I dug through our e-waste bin grabbing server motherboards and managed to snag a few reels of mosfets, caps, and inductors. XD

@Felthry That's fair. :P (And for the record, the kitty in the video is Suki. :P)

@Felthry This is for a major project, hence all the flying about. I'm responsible for the network infrastructure (and some of the software too) for a test system that's running factories in those two locations (in addition to several others).

@Felthry Dakota is my partner. :P https://twitter.com/DakotaSpazz/status/757681594001829888

@Felthry It hasn't been like this historically. This is an anomaly, but one fucking hell of an anomaly.

@Felthry Yes!

Don't get me wrong, I love Dakota more than anything, and I like my job, but jesus-fucking-christ-on-a-god-damned-fucking-pogo-stick make it *STOP*.

I can't even describe how badly I don't want to get back on a plane this Tuesday. >.< In the last 9 months, my travel schedule has looked like this, and I don't even know what day it is anymore, let alone what timezone. >.<

9/16-10/5 Dublin for work.
10/22-11/9 Cincinnati for work.
2/18 - 3/1 Cincinnati for work.
3/16-3/22 Tucson to see Dakota.
3/23-4/5 Dublin for work.
4/22-5/10 Cincinnati for work.
5/18-5/24 Tucson to see Dakota.
7/??-7/?? Dublin for work.

Noticed something amazing tonight. I can remember happy memories better than before, even from after my trauma. *hugs everyone*