Memes! TrueNAS, ZFS, and related | (Share your own!) Figured it'd be fun to have a thread where we can create and share memes related to TrueNAS, ZFS, and file servers, including anything within to the overall theme of this community. :cool: Let's keep it "work-safe" friendly, and no p…

There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.

Before the AI bubble ruined the market: [Before AI bubble] After the AI bubble ruined the market: [After AI bubble]

[image] winnielinnie: Before the AI bubble ruined the market: [image] winnielinnie: After the AI bubble ruined the market: I have a love-hate relationship with this because on one hand, it made hardware purchases so expensive, but on the other hand, my stocks are making a killing.

How much longer though. I expect the AI bubble to start deflating as the cost of tokens has to be raised to start covering extant investment costs. A lot of capacity is coming online as well. Combine that with less expensive but good enough compute emerging in China and I wonder where the explosion…

Saying Winnie is just pure sarcasm doesn’t do him justice. I honestly take my hat off whenever I read his posts, when someone is in bad trouble with TN or ZFS… Though thankfully, catastrophic data loss isn’t a daily thing… so we mostly just get the monster side ahahahah :nerd_face: …

If anyone is looking for help on how to cool their HBAs without resorting to the crude methods seen in previous memes, they might want to check out this private seller: (translated for you from italian) and this is the high level custom cooling solution: [image] [image]

You laugh. The old NAS had a printed solution holding a 80mm fan over the CPU skin also. Works great. [IMG_4685] That’s arguably one of the best file-server oriented motherboards held inside likely the best 11-drive tower ever made. Thank you ixsystems for the former and eBay for the latter.

I didn’t mean to disparage good old zip ties (I’m the last person who could do that haha); it just really cracked me up how the seller hyped up that solution :winking_face_with_tongue:

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