Anything that needs a lot of data. Same reason you’d download something to your PC instead of streaming it.

Also for local processing before upload. If you have a huge data set that compresses well, it’s much better to compress first, then upload to Earth.

That’ll work until the supply for beans really starts drying up.

It’s called caching and it’s been mostly solved for decades (except invalidation).

I don’t understand the purpose of this post

I did. They bought on Newegg, which is a platform. Some items are shipped and sold by Newegg, some are third-party, just like Amazon. OP did not confirm who actually fulfilled the order in the post.

Yeah if it doesn’t even boot something as basic as freedos it’s probably not a configuration issue. You can try resetting the BIOS and pulling the battery, and of course try a different USB stick if you haven’t already.

But if it’s not even booting a previously good OS it might be that the board died.

What is this world coming to, even Mom™ is being privatized

Read the article.

The local party later posted a video in which one of the soldiers’ mothers awkwardly thanked the party for the gifts and confirmed that she had asked for a meat grinder because she needed one.

This is yellow journalism. The Guardian should be better than that.

What’s wrong with the word “content”? What word would you use to describe the things shared in places like Lemmy?

Once in a while I skim the communities list. Other users make recommendations too.

That should be correct. What desktop is it exactly? Are you using the current OS versions? Does it boot from USB if you try older ones, Windows 7, or even freedos?

What kind of server? Dell’s caddies have adapters, and I’m pretty sure some have screw holes on the bottom so you don’t need an adapter.

Call me blind if you will, but I don’t see anywhere you’ve said exactly how they’re packed. One place you said “only air bubbles”, but another place you mentioned boxes. All I’m asking is that you bring all the complete relevant information to the table in the first place.

Edit: okay that’s not all I’m asking. I’m also asking for test data on the received drives, so that we can determine whether the packaging was fit for purpose.

If you rejected the drives out of hand, then it’s impossible to say the packaging was obviously faulty.

You also did not answer my question about how exactly they were packaged. The plastic clamshell is generally fit for purpose and I doubt WD, Seagate, etc. would continue using packaging that resulted in high rates of failure. If you wish to contest that assumption, prove it with data.

I’m sure they can and do. I have never received a defective drive purchased new, through I don’t even know how many desktops, servers, and storage systems. Even drives preinstalled in desktops with no extra packaging have run perfectly well for years. I can count on one finger the number of hard drive failures in those desktops I’ve seen in the last decade.

Yes, I read and understood what you said. If the packaging was obviously faulty, that means the drives were rendered unfit. If the drives were determined to be fit for purpose, that means that packaging was sufficient and not faulty. Hard drives are not eggshells, they are designed to survive FedEx punting them onto your porch.

If you want to play the combative game and accuse each other of disregarding each others’ comments, I will ask again the question you did not answer: do the drives not function, or do they fail any SMART test? If you are accusing your suppliers of being inadequate, please, support that with data.

Why do you say “obviously faulty”? Do the drives not function, or do they fail any SMART test?

I guarantee all off those have components from manufacturers that a government could pressure for a backdoor.

This can be done wirelessly, if the custom driver has been installed.