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Hey everyone, I shucked my Seagate Backup Plus Slim 2TB External HDD hoping that the internal SATA to USB adapter could be used for another SATA drive I have. Picture shows the opened casing, I removed the shielding tape and used the adapter but it has a motherboard which seems to restrict it to work only with the Seagate drive.

Unfortunately, when I plugged it into my PNY 2.5” drive, nothing popped up.

Hoping that someone knows how to make it work universally? I was trying not to buy a SATA to USB adapter because it would take a few days for delivery and I want to use the PNY drive today

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I recently got a pCloud subscription to back up my neurotically tagged and organised music collection.

pCloud says a couple of things about backing up folders from your local drive to their cloud:

(pCloud) Sync is a feature in pCloud Drive. It allows you to connect locally-stored folders from your PC with pCloud Drive. This connection goes both ways, so if you edit or delete the files you’re syncing from your computer, this means that you'll also be editing them or deleting them from pCloud Drive.

That description and especially the bold part leaves me less than confident that pCloud will never edit files in my original local folder. Which is a guarantee I dearly want to have.

As a workaround, I've simply copied my music folder (C:\Users\\Music) to the virtual P:\ drive created by pCloud (P:\My Music). I can use TreeComp for manual one-way syncing, but that requires I remember to sync manually regularly. What I'd really like is a tool that automatically updates P:\My Music whenever something changes in C:\Users\\Music, but will 100% guaranteed never change anything in C:\Users\\Music.

Any tips? Thanks in advance!

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Today I was given an IBM 3590 tape cartridge by someone completely else to the person that gave me the 3592 tape cartridge but it still came from the same PGS geographical company as the 3592 cartridge which now I am very curious to see what the data is on there assuming I can decode the .TAR format into files, the person also had a few 3590 tape drives at their job which were unfortunately signed off for recycling and they are to be sent off to another country to be scrapped out which means I can’t have a single one of them :( or go to the recycling company’s place and buy one from them which is a shame as I have a video of one operating that I took before they loaded them up onto a lorry (truck for the UK people) and took them, I cried a little knowing these pieces of history are wasted, I did try to offer £40 for one but they didn’t budge on it citing the contract has been signed and not being able to go back on it.

The IBM 3590 was a format that replaced the IBM 3490 tape series and was eclipsed by the IBM 3592 which had much higher storage capacities up to 50TB, speeds and drive density as these IBM 3590 drives took up a lot more space while the IBM 3592 was a full height 5.25” drive which means it could fit inside of a PC bay provided you bend the tabs out inside (these tabs are there to help guide half height 5.25” drives into the bay as most common consumer drives and accessories are half height) to allow the full height drive to fit in the 2 5.25” bays, these types of drive were intended to be used in a mainframe application with rows upon rows of tapes that are picked and chosen by robots to be placed into the tape drives for data backup, humans aren’t meant to touch or see any of these tapes with the exception of expired cleaning cartridges which are deposited into a box to be collected and replaced with new ones, there are also calibration cartridges which are only used for when a new tape drive is put into service or in the event of a read/write error to be able to recalibrate the heads and tape mechanism.

The IBM 3590 tape cartridges came in 3 different generations which is further split into 2 lengths where one is a standard length “High Speed” data cartridge and an extended length “High Speed” data cartridge, the types are as follows:

3590-B

10GB standard length “High Speed” data cartridge (this is what I have)

20GB extended length “High Speed” data cartridge

3590-E

20GB standard length “High Speed” data cartridge

40GB extended length “High Speed” data cartridge

3590-H

30GB standard length “High Speed” data cartridge

60GB extended length “High Speed” data cartridge

Here is a video of it operating which shows the marvel of engineering that was unfortunately scrapped (16 of them D: ), it had pneumatic tubes feeding to many parts of the tape drive to keep the tape stuck to the walls as the tape needed to be tight on the heads to ensure good reads and writes moving back and forth at high speeds and to operate the arm that pulls the tape media around the mechanism and to the drive spool (you can even hear a slight hiss as the arm makes its way around the drive), the design stuck around on the 3592 and IBM LTO tape drives but was motorized instead of being pneumatic which is why it was very loud.

The inner workings of an IBM 3590 tape drive complete with sound - GIF - Imgur

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The cartridge on my wall

The cartridge up close, not shown is the very cool font used on the barcodes which I wish I could have taken a photo of before this post

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Hey everyone!

Apologies if this isn’t the right place to ask, but I need a little advice on the easiest way to go about backing up my old computer (which has developed some disk issues in recent months with both the boot drive and an internal HDD). To not bore everyone with the details, there have been error messages/indications that a disk failure is imminent and I would like to back up everything from both drives to avoid data loss since I have some important stuff on there.

I was thinking I could maybe back up both drives onto a single 4TB HDD. However, I am unsure how feasible that would be as one of the drives has a Windows installation and the other is additional storage. What do you all think the best solution would be? I have important project files on both drives so I’m at a bit of a loss for how to best go about this.

Thanks for reading! :)

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Hey folks! First time contributor here looking for some insight into a backup need I have.

My current backup situation is a single USB SSD that stores my active projects, which I backup to a Hard Drive. It's not exactly a full backup at the moment, as non-active jobs are only saved onto the backup drive. I'm hoping to get a second drive to RAID 1 with the main backup once I have a bit more money.

Onto my issue- I'm looking for a backup software on MacOS that will only add and replace existing files on the backup, not delete ones that don't match. That way I can keep moving files from the working SSD onto the backup drive, while still being able to clear off space on the working SSD.

I think that makes sense? Let me know if I need to clarify better!

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I'm looking for a box or case for internal hard drives (1TB, 2TB, 4TB, 6TB) when I'm not using them. Which models would you recommend ?

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What the title suggests. I mean, I've already looked for some server simulation games but haven't found any first-person ones. Well done, something like "viscera cleanup detail"—I'm not talking about anything like Cisco or a network simulator—could be an interesting project to create a game like that.

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Good morning!

I've been using Proxmox for many years now. Currently, I'm running an Intel 11400 CPU (12 threads) with 64GB of RAM—a rather modest setup (OPNsense, Paperless, Plex, Pi-hole, Joplin, and similar services, nothing too resource-intensive), but it works well for my small home lab. This isn’t the first machine I’ve used to host my services, and I fear it won’t be the last...

What's the problem? I tend to get anxious when I see that the number of threads I have (12) equals the number of vCPUs I've allocated to my VMs. That’s when I start thinking about upgrading my processor.
I know, it's probably an unfounded and somewhat silly concern. Every time I check my VMs, they are mostly idle. Sometimes, my firewall uses more resources when traffic is heavy—I’ve assigned it 4 vCPUs, and even then, it only reaches a maximum usage of about 40% in those moments.

Can anyone give me some advice on this? Right now, I have around 20 vCPUs assigned in total, and everything seems to be working fine. But when I see so many people in this group with powerful, high-thread-count processors, I start to feel a bit uneasy.

Best regards, and thanks in advance!

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I got my 5 node Pi cluster finished last night. Each Pi is a 8Gb Raspberry Pi 5 with a PoE hat so it is powered over Ethernet with a M.2 hat booting off a NVMe SSD drive. I have it running docker swarm and running a dotnet application I wrote years ago that is a web UI front end to a mongo database of all the billboard top 100 hits from 1946-2024. Just for giggles I did a docker service scale replicas=200 and it handled it just fine!  Next I plan to install Pi-Hole, Paperless-ngx, homebridge, and ???

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Stuck a 6U in an unused space above my refrigerator.

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Hello!

We are facing a problem that we have not been able to identify the cause of for some time. Maybe you can help us.

The server simply restarts or freezes when using virtualization.

We have already tested and/or replaced:

• RAM
• Disk IO
• Processors
• FCP card
• Ethernet card

We have even replaced the entire server. We replaced it with another one and the problem persists.

We think it may be something related to the rack, or position in the rack.

The temperature is monitored and does not increase so much that it shuts down the machine. When we run the memory test, the temperature increases and the machine does not shut down, so it must not be the temperature.

In the rack and in the cluster, we have 3 exactly the same servers, and this is the only one that has a problem. And it is the server that is in the middle.

In Linux, the only log we have is the one below:

kernel: {1}[Hardware Error]: Hardware error from APEI Generic Hardware Error Source: 0
kernel: {1}[Hardware Error]: It has been corrected by h/w and requires no further action
kernel: {1}[Hardware Error]: event severity: corrected
kernel: {1}[Hardware Error]:  Error 0, type: corrected
kernel: {1}[Hardware Error]:   section_type: general processor error
kernel: {1}[Hardware Error]:   processor_type: 0, IA32/X64
kernel: {1}[Hardware Error]:   processor_isa: 2, X64
kernel: {1}[Hardware Error]:   error_type: 0x01
kernel: {1}[Hardware Error]:   cache error
kernel: {1}[Hardware Error]:   operation: 0, unknown or generic
kernel: {1}[Hardware Error]:   version_info: 0x0000000000050657
kernel: {1}[Hardware Error]:   processor_id: 0x0000000000000047

Yesterday I installed Gigabyte GSM to have a second option for monitoring BMC.

The following messages appeared in the log events:

Gigabyte Event Logs

If you give us any tips, I will be eternally grateful.

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I posted my rack a long time ago but college was demotivating me so I took a break from the project. But now I've got the motivation back and I finally bought a patch panel off FB marketplace. Took 9 hours to get it installed and all the cables crimped but it was worth it. I'm currently recreating my college capstone project on my homelab to make it easier to complete at school on classroom equipment.

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