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I just shucked two WD 10 TB drives out of a My Book and an Elements. They were the white label variant. To get them to run in a regular NAS, you have to break off the third pin with a box cutter (just bend it upwards, it will break off cleanly). Some people use tape to block off the pin, but breaking is easier.
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Yeah I have a few of those drives, luckily my DAS doesn't care about the pin. For large, cheap drives keep an eye on the WD EasyStores at Best Buy and act fast, because people watch those things like hawks now.
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Nov 27, 2019 18:55
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Biodome posted:Unrelated, anyone seen any good deals on larger capacity hard drives? My 8TB just died. 😭 I got a 10TB external on prime day for like $150 I am sure someone is going to have deals tomorrow and cyber Monday.
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Man I’ve been sticking to WD reds in my NAS, but wow is that WD Easystore cheap in comparison.
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The Easystores used to be Reds back in the day, now they're the white labels. My 2x 8TBs are Red, my 2x 10TBs are White. Hoping they all have good longetivity! I'm thinking of every year buying a new drive, moving the data off the oldest drive and keep cycling them like that.
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Nov 27, 2019 19:18
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Amazon has had the Elements 8TB for $125 for the last few weeks which shucks to a white label drive. If you happen to have the Prime credit card you get 15% back which makes it even cheaper. Best Buy has been putting 8TB externals on sale for $130 for the last two years if I recall correctly. Curious to see if they finally break that barrier by something significant or drop the 10TB below $160.
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Nov 27, 2019 19:31
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Yeah, $169.99 is the cheapest I paid for a 10 before tax. I paid a little more last time, I think it was on a sale just not their lowest price.
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Nov 27, 2019 19:36
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The home nas thread has a continuous boner for hard drive deals: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2801557&pagenumber=550&perpage=40
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Nov 27, 2019 19:47
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Yeah, follow the home NAS thread. There were 12tb for $180 a week or so back.
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EL BROMANCE posted:The Easystores used to be Reds back in the day, now they're the white labels. My 2x 8TBs are Red, my 2x 10TBs are White. Hoping they all have good longetivity! I'm thinking of every year buying a new drive, moving the data off the oldest drive and keep cycling them like that. That’s exactly what I do. My NAS runs unraid, so I have a bunch of random-sized drives. When I get a new one, I just replace the smallest drive. If I get a drive larger than any currently in it, I get a pair since the largest has to be the parity drive.
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Nov 27, 2019 19:54
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Biodome posted:Unrelated, anyone seen any good deals on larger capacity hard drives? My 8TB just died. 😭 Enos Cabell posted:Yeah, follow the home NAS thread. There were 12tb for $180 a week or so back. And right now: https://www.bestbuy.com/site/wd-easystore-12tb-external-usb-3-0-hard-drive-black/6364259.p?skuId=6364259
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After some initial setup woes I'm good to go on Thundernews and the speeds for me were fine on the US server anyway, I used a 40 connection limit and it's maxing out my downstream. I did a few completion tests and it seems good so far, going to cancel Supernews. Thanks for saving me a pile of money fellas!
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astral posted:And right now: https://www.bestbuy.com/site/wd-easystore-12tb-external-usb-3-0-hard-drive-black/6364259.p?skuId=6364259 I assume this is just a platter HD inside that I just tear out?
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Henrik Zetterberg posted:I assume this is just a platter HD inside that I just tear out? Yeah it's real easy, takes a few minutes. You just cut up a store card and jam it in a few places then use another part of the card to push the clips then you just unscrew a few bits and you're left with a regular drive. You'll need either a T6 or T8 torx screwdriver (I forget which one, I have both from a Mac teardown I did) to get 4 of the screws out but that's the only extra thing you'll need. The price on that 12TB is pretty solid for sure. It's incredible how big single drives have gotten.
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astral posted:And right now: https://www.bestbuy.com/site/wd-easystore-12tb-external-usb-3-0-hard-drive-black/6364259.p?skuId=6364259 There's my sign. Thanks, ordered.
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Even though video guides are usually slow as hell this was a good guide to shucking WD externals and it wasn't padded out to 10+ minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6VCQ64DkfM If you keep the 3v3 pin and the external case you can even ship it in for warranty replacement if it dies early. I used a little piece of kapton/polyamide tape over mine.
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I can download stuff so fast these days I've rather given up caring about saving movies or TV series in any meaningful way By the time i get round to wanting to watch something again it can usually be got in the time it takes to make a pizza or whatever If anything I need less storage than I did a few years back with h265 releases being more common and not having to save stuff 'just in case'
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cr0y posted:There is a sweet spot when it comes to connections and it depends on your line speed. Throw a big file in your queue and go plus or minus a few connections to see where you max out at. Ive found that some providers max out my 50mbit at 10 connections and others at 20. I think it depends on how long it takes for the teardown/setup of each one Each article basically has a bit of overhead that doesn't use much traffic so you want a bunch of extra connections running while that's happening, but too many will start oversaturating your link (or stressing your computer) and reducing overall speed.
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Nov 27, 2019 23:48
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Skarsnik posted:I can download stuff so fast these days I've rather given up caring about saving movies or TV series in any meaningful way I haven't actually done a survey but I'd bet at least 50% of stuff I download is DMCA'ed off of usenet shortly after it gets uploaded.
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Thermopyle posted:I haven't actually done a survey but I'd bet at least 50% of stuff I download is DMCA'ed off of usenet shortly after it gets uploaded. Sure, but then by the time you actually want to watch it again and its dropped off the DMCA radar? Downloading anything over a year old is easy
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Skarsnik posted:Sure, but then by the time you actually want to watch it again and its dropped off the DMCA radar? Hmm, my experience has been that if you pick a random older movie and want to watch it it's going to be missing too many parts. But, again, that's just a feeling based on limited experience in going back for older stuff. Anyway, I mainly horde stuff because I don't expect the usenet easy DL'ing train to last forever.
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I dunno, maybe it's because I've got a decent spread of block accounts across all the providers but I've only really had issues with super recent stuff Anything older and someone will have re released it and its available. And there's always a torrent if not E: I'm not saying i delete stuff as soon as i watch it, but anything more than a few years old? There will be a better version out there by now i can download in under 10 minutes Skarsnik fucked around with this message at 00:38 on Nov 28, 2019 |
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Thermopyle posted:Hmm, my experience has been that if you pick a random older movie and want to watch it it's going to be missing too many parts. But, again, that's just a feeling based on limited experience in going back for older stuff. I experienced that lately too. Turns out it was my lovely provider. A better provider doesn't have that issue with 10 year old posts.
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With Newsdemon, I don't think I've missed yet when downloading an older post of a movie. Really the only issue I've had is with a kids show I recently tried to download. I guess Cartoon Network is better than the big studios at DMCAing stuff.
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What are the good free indexers? Looking to supplement to my nzbgeek.
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I like DrunkenSlug. They're also doing a BF deal where if you pay for a year of VIP you get another 6mo free.
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For those who went with Thundernews, how long did it take you to get your login details. I got the receipt almost immediately, but I'm still waiting on the subsequent email 18 hours later.
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Submit a support ticket. They have a category for not receiving info. My 2 tickets have been responded to and resolved within 30 mins each time.
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On the flipside, I have still not received my login info since payment two days ago. Support ticket sent yesterday and they haven't responded. I'm close to doing a chargeback.
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Bulknews (Abavia) 6000GB block for €15 with code bfcm19 Regularly €140 https://www.bulknews.eu/en/usenet-block-6000-gb/ Newshosting (Highwinds) $35.88/year unlimited https://controlpanel.newshosting.com/signup/index.php?promo=exclusive-bfcm-2019-sale UsenetPrime (UsenetExpress) $3/month unlimited | $30/year unlimited | 3x500GB block $10 | 3x1TB block $15 https://usenetprime.com/black-friday/ UsenetNews (Usenet.Farm, UsenetExpress, Uzo Reto) $9.99/month "unlimited" (2TB monthly limit on Usenet.Farm, unlimited on the others) Gives you access to three backbones https://cheapuse.net/holidays/ NewsDemon (Highwinds) Deals start at 7am Eastern https://www.newsdemon.com/Usenet-Black-Friday.php sedative fucked around with this message at 02:16 on Nov 29, 2019 |
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We'll, my astraweb just mysteriously re-activated. Didn't do anything but they decided to turn it back on. My download queue cleared itself overnight (although my xsnews free account did a champion job at not getting it too far behind). Guess I'm buying a block. EDIT: No it didnt... but not sure what did? Rooted Vegetable fucked around with this message at 17:17 on Nov 29, 2019 |
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e: nm
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I have the $40/yr plan with newsgroupdirect but have been noticing tons and tons of incomplete downloads lately. Which of those block providers would be a good supplment, or more than one? Willing to buy a few here, they're pretty cheap and should last a while as backup sources. Follow up question i havent looked into this in ages, should i not be on NewsgroupDirect at all?
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charity rereg posted:Follow up question i havent looked into this in ages, should i not be on NewsgroupDirect at all? They changed backend in the Summer, and back when they changed over it was abysmal with virtually no retention. It might be better now, but it was enough for me to jump ship.
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Newsdemon won me back in the end.
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Heners_UK posted:Newsdemon won me back in the end. uh they currently have $30 for 14 months reocurring $2.15 a month  ok yeah i'll do this. and maybe pick up a block from Abavia
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charity rereg posted:uh they currently have $30 for 14 months reocurring $2.15 a month I'm asking them to pricematch thunder news $25/12mo = $2.083/mo... IMAGINE WHAT I COULD DO WITH THAT 7 cents!? EDIT: Solved my reappearing service mystery. Astraweb really has stopped my account actually working, but it appears I had a Blocknews block I had completely forgotten I had. Rooted Vegetable fucked around with this message at 18:32 on Nov 29, 2019 |
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Fun fact: If you have a super fast internet connection and use direct download in sabnzbd and are using an external USB drive sabnzbds cache will fill up and your speed will go to poo poo because the entire thing can't keep up due to the additional disk access direct unpack causes. You can probably remedy this by having your incomplete folder on an SSD but I don't have the space on my little intel NUC i am using for my home theater setup 
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