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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.
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@zetasyanthis Dublin as in Ireland‽
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@Felthry Yes!
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@zetasyanthis Wow, they send you all over the place don't they
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@Felthry It hasn't been like this historically. This is an anomaly, but one fucking hell of an anomaly.
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@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).
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@zetasyanthis that sounds hard and aaaa.
honestly though just mention doing anything networky or softwarey and it sounds hard to me
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@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
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@Felthry (I'm an Electrical and Computer Engineering who does a bit of everything.)
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@zetasyanthis we're officially ECE but functionally EE because C is hard
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@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.
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@zetasyanthis I'm sure it's not 1μH at 55A though, you need some really expensive fancy stuff if you want constant inductance over wide bias ranges.
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@Felthry Oh no, I was digging server motherboards out of a couple piles of e-waste and found some reels. :D
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@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
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@zetasyanthis that's a lot of sata ports and also a SAS port? is SAS still used?
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@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.
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@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.
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@zetasyanthis these are brandsd I don't recognise at all!
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@zetasyanthis I thought SCSI was completely dead, honestly!
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@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.
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@zetasyanthis can any spinning rust even saturate SATA 3 though?
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@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.
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@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.
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@zetasyanthis ah yes, for when you need a few petabytes of storage
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@Felthry The customers I'm working with are buying that as though it it's nothing, so yeah. :P
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@zetasyanthis fun stuff! Delicious ferrite. *gnaws on it*
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@Felthry Found the picture! Was actually full reels that were just partially used!
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@zetasyanthis oh nice!
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@zetasyanthis oh! I thought you meant you desoldered stuff, not that you found cut tape rolls