Might I suggest Server Part Deals for drives? Excellent track record and very responsive. They are my goto for refurbished enterprise drives and have never let me down.
humancrayon
joined 1 year ago
Came here to say I had something similar happen with my NAS a year back. Thought it was the drives, then the controller it was attached to. Turns out it was some crappy blue breakout cables causing the drives to error out and disconnect.
Ordered new breakout cables of a different brand and have zero errors since.
I do have a fair amount of music on there. I am able to get to white zombie using the arrows on the side to scroll through the list of artists.
I’ve been using it and have had zero problems so far. Just scrolled down to find White Zombie the other day.
Unfortunately I have no solutions for you. All I can tell you is that I’m running the latest version of PLEX, and iOS 17 on an iPhone 13 mini, and I plug into CarPlay using the USB to Lightning Plug cord. Not sure if any of that info is helpful for comparison.
Things always get worse, before they get worse.
Nothing to hide, but also nothing I want to share either…
Latitude 7280. They pull the ram and m2 from it. 16gb ram and a new drive are cheap for that thing. New batteries are around $80. They are great daily drivers.
If you have a spare still, I’d take one. Got a laptop from the e-waste pile at work and was going to clean it up for a family member.
Only 40 hours per week? Can’t let him off with an unrealistic work week. 50+ hours or bust.
Second the upgrading of storage. If you think you need 512GB, get 1TB. If you think you need 1TB, get 2TB (if possible). You always need more storage than you think you need.
This is the way.
This is the one I use and it’s awesome. Allows you to upload to nextcloud or most other providers.