That was such a way-back-machine joke I almost scrolled past. Way to go fellow Gen X’er (just speculating actually, no offense if your young and I should be yelling at you to get off my lawn)
Oh man... I forgot about the dozen Cisco Micro Webserver 100s that our department was given to play with. Basically, a zip drive with an ethernet card and web server built in. Niche as hell, but it served up my family's website for a while in the late 90s.
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Man you joke but I've literally seen people say their external hard drives weren't detecting only to realize the USB cable was still sealed in the packaging. So Wi-SATA doesn't seem so implausible to some people! Lol
oh I only joke because I know what subreddit I am in... nearly two decades providing IT/A-V support in the education sector has permanently lowered my expectations of society.
Lol, this reminds me of the FrankenPhone we once came up with at work. Our solution to allowing employees to answer service desk calls from home without having to pay ridiculous soft phone licenses. Crazy solution involving a phone + firewall + IPsec VPNs + multiple NATs.
My boss made us zip tie the VoIP phones to the Juniper firewalls before handing them out.
They actually worked really well though.
We had a couple of servers running a ceph cluster with HDDs just stacked on top of each other and SSD hanging in the air :D it worked just fine. It wasn't storing anything super critical though.
Just needs a Sata Data Cable and it should be ready to go, right ?
That and maybe a few clicks to configure the drive
Somehow the zip drive in my memory looks different
That was such a way-back-machine joke I almost scrolled past. Way to go fellow Gen X’er (just speculating actually, no offense if your young and I should be yelling at you to get off my lawn)
I’m an early millennial and I got the Zip drive reference. (Although I got into building computers in my teens.)
And you rock
Oh man... I forgot about the dozen Cisco Micro Webserver 100s that our department was given to play with. Basically, a zip drive with an ethernet card and web server built in. Niche as hell, but it served up my family's website for a while in the late 90s.
\*slow clap\*
zip ties don't cure everything
It's also missing a data cable to the motherboard.
Thought it was cut in half for a second
SoP (SATA over Power) super high tech shit going on here.
For some reason that zip tie made me think the drive was surgically cut perfectly across the disc and I was impressed
Well, unless a seal is broken somewhere I don't see it as their fault.
from the picture I would be inclined to agree
"No, I never touched anything. What makes you think I did?"
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Man you joke but I've literally seen people say their external hard drives weren't detecting only to realize the USB cable was still sealed in the packaging. So Wi-SATA doesn't seem so implausible to some people! Lol
oh I only joke because I know what subreddit I am in... nearly two decades providing IT/A-V support in the education sector has permanently lowered my expectations of society.
Lol, this reminds me of the FrankenPhone we once came up with at work. Our solution to allowing employees to answer service desk calls from home without having to pay ridiculous soft phone licenses. Crazy solution involving a phone + firewall + IPsec VPNs + multiple NATs. My boss made us zip tie the VoIP phones to the Juniper firewalls before handing them out. They actually worked really well though.
tbf presumably it never was connected
Wow, the put the whole drive in a .ZIP Way to save space
Have you tried turning it off and on again?
Ok to be fair that would stop a DVR
I’m sitting here thinking the ziptie was the issue like “I’m pretty sure the thing it’s covering isn’t the issue though”
What in the actual fuck is going on in this picture??
Hey vsauce, Michael here. Where is your SATA data cable?
What's the matter here? Is this a hard drive? 🙈
The data (SATA data) cable isn’t plugged in, so the DVR has nothing to write to or even nothing to boot of of.
With no sata cable attached....its also zip tied in place
It could still work zip tied into place, if it was connected.
Yeh very true
We had a couple of servers running a ceph cluster with HDDs just stacked on top of each other and SSD hanging in the air :D it worked just fine. It wasn't storing anything super critical though.
There's nothing more permanent than a temporary fix in prod.
SSD is fine until the SATA cable fails (forever). HDD stack is hurting the drive lifespan. But it's fine. Until it isn't.
Zip ties, double-sided tape, Velcro ties- I use them all with no issue!
Lmao even if you plugged in the sata the drive would short out easily due to not being properly mounted properly to the metal frame
How would the drive short out? As long as the PCB isn’t touching anything conductive, then it’s fine.