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Google Wallet/Zelle/etc preferred as PayPal fees add up. Will also entertain trades since I like new toys and rotate through hardware regularly, though currently not in need of a whole lot. I think my reputation should help: Heatware Local pickup available in Phoenix. Will ship internationally...

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Google Wallet or USPS money order preferred. PayPal fees have been adding up. I think my reputation should help: Heatware Local pickup available in Phoenix. Pretty self-explanatory as per the title. It's in excellent physical condition and will ship in the original box. Has the reference...

I think a lot of people forget that hard drives have workload limitations too, which are considerably lower than even a QLC SSD. Both Seagate and WD rate their consumer hard drives at 55TB per year, and unlike SSDs, that's combined reads and writes. SSDs have effectively unlimited reads and are...

Then balance the loads so that they're similar or get a bigger UPS. You're making this unnecessarily complex and trying to spend money on things that could be put to say another UPS.

You're worried about UPS load with a 60W PSU and actual draw that's a fraction of that? If you need more runtime, get a larger UPS or expansion units for it if yours supports it. How many hours do you really need for a router when everything else is going to be dead long before it manages to...

You want an automatic transfer switch, not some frankenstein attempt at hooking up two ATX PSUs.

Large 2.5" drives are 15mm thick and have never fit in a laptop. Either get a high capacity SSD or USB hard drive.

Your backup drive doesn't need to remain perpetually connected. I only plug mine in when performing a backup.

Unfortunately the CacheCade feature isn't supported on the newer tri-mode (9400/9500 series) HBAs so far as I'm aware. Any tiering would need to be done through software (like your Storage Spaces implementation).

If your backup drive dies, you don't lose data. You still have it in the original location. If you're moving the data to an external drive, that's not backing anything up.

They didn't get scammed. They just overpaid due to their ineptitude. I think there's quite the distinction as the former has some component of maleficence. I think as we've established that the OP is dissociated from reality and won't listen to anyone, this comedy thread should be more...

There is no demand for high capacity 2.5" hard drives.

SLC isn't used outside of niche industrial applications these days. Most people greatly overestimate how much they will write to a disk on any given day, so you probably don't even need an enterprise SSD. Are you going to be writing (not reading) multiple TB every single day for years? If not...

M393A2K40CB2-CTD and KVR21R15D4/16 are both registered RAM and won't work. You need ECC unbuffered.