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He doesn't own it anymore. It's now owned by PetSmart. Not sure how good PetSmart is though.

I do this already. In the process of degoogling. I shop at Costco a lot and farmers markets It's frustrating talking to Americans these days. It's like talking to a brick wall. People that are on Trump's d*** think he can do no wrong and don't see the hypocrisy.

Man, why can't the people of America be more like this. We fucking suck

That sounds like a really good idea. You basically get the best of everything.

The cool thing about ZFS is the pool information is stored on the disks themselves. You can just plug them in and import the pools.

I decided instead to use ZFS. Better protection than just letting something sit there. Your backups are only as good as your restores. So, if you are not testing your restores, those backups may be useless anyway.

ZFS with snapshots, replicated to another ZFS box. The replicated data also stores the snapshots and they are read-only. I have snapshots running every hour.

I have full confidence that my data is safe and recoverable.

With that said, you could always use M-disk.

Any reason why that board? Not 100% sure what you are trying to do, but it seems like an expensive board for a home NAS. I feel like you could get more value with other hardware. Again, you don't need a raid controller these days. They are a pain to deal with and provide less protection when compared to software raid these days. It looks like the x16 can be split on that board to be 8/8, so if needed you can add an adapter to add 2 nvmes.

You can just get an HBA card and add a bunch of drives to that as well if you need more data ports.

I would recommend doing a bit more research on hardware and try and figure out what you need ahead of time. Something like an ASRock motherboard might better in this case. The epyc CPU is fine. But maybe get something with rdimm memory. I would just make sure it has a Management port like ipmi on the supermicro.

1. You don't need zfs cache. Stay away from it. This isn't going to help with what you want to do anyway. Just have enough RAM.

2. You need to backup your stuff. Follow the 3-2-1 rule. RAID is not a backup.

3. Don't use hardware raids, there are many benefits to using software these days.

With that said, let's dig into it. You don't really need NVMe drives tbh. SATA is probably going to be sufficient enough here. With that said, having mirrored drives will be sufficient enough as long as you are backing up your data. This also depends on how much space you will need.

I just finished building out my backup and storage solution and ended up wanting NVMe drives for certain services that run. I just grabbed a few 1 TB drives and mirrors them. Works great and I do get better performance, even with other bottlenecks. This is then replicated to another server for backup and also to cloud backup.

You also haven't said what hardware you are currently using or if you are using any software for the raid. Are you currently using zfs? Unraid? What hardware do you have? You might be able to use a pice slot to install multiple NVMe drives in the same slot. This requires bifurcation though.

Just rename the model like they renamed gulf of Mexico.

What are you talking about?

The same thing happened with me. This was probably going to be my last year anyway, but i noped out real quick after the increase. Only reason I still had it was because I had some stuff in OneDrive that I was slowly backing up elsewhere. That just gave me the motivation to take care of it finally.

Huh? This is per carat. Also lab diamonds are perfect and much better than what you would find. They are now trying to market diamonds that have flaws as better than a perfect diamond. It's really fucking stupid. Before, it was the less flaws they have, the more value. Now with lab diamonds, you need to have some flaws.

Most of the jewelers in town where I live have closed shop. Lab grown is definitely having a huge overall impact to the cost of diamonds as a whole. Hopefully diamonds will be a thing of the past soon and we can use them for other applications.

Was this in the Bible or something? Why is it immoral?

Let me ask this. Imagine 1 person owned many farms of food. They sell their food and they own a huge house on top of the hill. There is more than enough food to feed every person in town. The only way for anyone to get food is to buy it from this one person since he owns all of the farm land and if anyone tries to farm their own food, he uses his money to push them around and makes them stop.

A family is struggling to find work. The father asks the farm owner if he could get some food to eat. The farm owner obviously says no. Pay or no food, he says. The family ends up starving to death.

Would it be wrong for the family to steal food in this case so they can survive? Or is that immoral? Is the farm owner immoral for not helping them? He has plenty of money to last him 100 lifetimes, his belly is full, but he keeps eating. Who is wrong here?