Windex007

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[–] Windex007 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

Depending on how power hungry the drives are, and if your PSU has enough spare power, you can get cable splitters. I had some spare molex ports which I plugged a cable from Amazon that split it into 5 SATA power connectors.

You don't want to infinitely split cables though, as tempting as that can be, because there are real electrical limits to doing that. Also just because a power supply is rated at X watts, that's the total. Hard drives will use the 5V and 12V rails and usually there are individual limits on each rail.

Upgrading the PSU is another option. Probably the cleanest easiest best solution IMO. But even then, you probably can't find a PSU that'll give you 12 SATA connectors out of the box so you'll probably need some splitters in there anyways.

In my case specifically, I've actually got a second power supply (because i already had it and it was otherwise just gathering dust) powering the extra drives. It's a bit more complicated to get set up but, it's an option as well.

Edit: also if you're asking yourself where can you physically PUT the drives, I 3D printed these and slapped some fans on them:

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4875498

[–] Windex007 16 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

No, so they can restaff w/ H1B

[–] Windex007 1 points 2 weeks ago

My grandmother died in a Siberian labour camp for being an academic.

[–] Windex007 21 points 2 weeks ago

Technically there is a land border betweenen the EU and Canada, so makes sense.

[–] Windex007 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I don't think it's a cheap pivot at all. If you want to say "look at all these places where the people there wanted freedom!" While completely ignoring that they were violently surpressing those same scenarios within their own annexed territories? That's just willful blindness.

[–] Windex007 3 points 2 weeks ago (11 children)

Did they support liberation movements in Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Poland etc etc?

[–] Windex007 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

If they want a libertarian technocity they can build the floating one off Cali they've been pitching for like 20 years. Why do it in the fucking Arctic

[–] Windex007 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

So his defense was that he was merely intending to humiliate people who find issue with the gesture?

[–] Windex007 46 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

Cunningham's Law demands I point out this is perhaps better attributed to Hanlon's razor.

[–] Windex007 17 points 2 weeks ago
[–] Windex007 39 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Long story short, PP refuses to get his security clearance because he doesn't want to be "gagged".

He was offered a special pathway to getting the briefings that didn't involve a mandatory security clearance.

But, after finding out that he still would not be able to share classified information with others, he's backing out again.

[–] Windex007 15 points 2 weeks ago

Not for a moment did I believe the comment was made in jest

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