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Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
12:11 AM
@CanadianLuke their free plans do more than just DNS proxy I think - only on poer 80 and 443
so I'm doing that for everything but one service that needs a different port
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
12:31 AM
also part of the goal here is to save money soooo :D
Criggie
Criggie
If you want to save the most money.... stop doing that thing
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
@Criggie lol.
@Criggie Most of those services are stuff I use myself :D
Criggie
Criggie
ARM/Gravitons are way cheaper to run than intel, btw
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
@Criggie I'm literally running this on a small NUC on my house
paying for internet already, power is essentially 'free' to a point
and it was hardware I already had
Criggie
Criggie
yep - same here. I have an old SAN that eats the most power
Trying to find a way to move all that data "offline"
without burning DVDs
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
12:36 AM
so I went from paying ~80 dollars a month to ~45
Criggie
Criggie
USB hard drives aren't ideal but might be a better option
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
@Criggie in theory...
you could get a dock, a single large drive and just... do it
then transfer it to a lower power system
Criggie
Criggie
hang on... (checking)
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
(or a pair)
vi.aliexpress.com/item/1005001862295981.html I was running a pair of 14tb drives on one of these
Criggie
Criggie
huh I'm using less data than I thought.
10 TB in use, out of 22 TB allocated, with another 29 TB unallocated.
@JourneymanGeek Some sort of USB - sata dock thing ? For some reason, work is now filtering harder on our guest wireless network, so AE won't load
I see - yes I have something like that already, USB3 and takes two x 2.5 or 3.5" drives like a toaster
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
12:47 AM
yup
Criggie
Criggie
Just don't have the drives.
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
how big are your individual drives?
also sata or SAS?
Criggie
Criggie
1:04 AM
I have 24x 3.7 TB 3.5" SAS drives, and 20x 1.8 TB 2.5" SAS and 4x 400GB SSD SAS, all in the SAN
hence why I grabbed it from the dump
and its all 10 Gbit iscsi too
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
ow
yeaaah, consolidation would make sense
Criggie
Criggie
yeah - I grabbed everything useful that I could
there were 3 metre offcuts of I-beam I couldn't move sadly - they would have made a bomb-proof workbench
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
lol
I mean, free hardware aside
Criggie
Criggie
yeah - its not just for me either. I handed a lot of other things to other people
I have no use for a dozen mac minis from 2014, 200 i5 machines of the 6-7-8 gen, etc etc
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
lol
wait
200?
Criggie
Criggie
1:08 AM
And giving away stuff is pre-buying favours some other day.
Yeah ,... about 230 of them in the end
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
lol, and geneerally a good thing to do
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Criggie
Criggie
no hard drives, but 8/16 GB ram
My current employer issued me a new laptop ~4 weeks ago, then 2 weeks ago said we're all redundant at End of year
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
ow
Criggie
Criggie
employer has no process to wipe a mac so it will be crushed
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
.....
Criggie
Criggie
1:10 AM
apple say "delete the encryption key and the disk is irrecoverable"
employer's IT department don't accept that
So off to the shredder with ~40x M3 macbook pro and 100x dell something equivalent laptops
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
Are they being made redundant too?
owww
Criggie
Criggie
corporate is just another work for wastage
yeah ~130 people all at once, then the company gets wound up in New Zealand
The US mother ship sails onward.
no matter - enough of my whinging
though.,... I wonder if I should fold my laptop in half before returning ?
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
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