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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

thanks chatgpt

Yes, the seller is Newegg, but they’re a marketplace like Amazon. Check who fulfills the order.

rattling around unprotected in their boxes

If they’re in OEM packaging (cardboard box and formed clamshell plastic for individual drives, I assume, since you said “boxes”) that’s totally acceptable. If you put a shock sensor in the box at the origin, you wouldn’t see anything particularly bad even if the box fell off the truck. F=m*a, and with small m (a few drives) and small a (not falling very far) then F is going to be pretty small too.

Why is your router doing TLS termination? Stop that.

Yeah, this is hyped for clicks. This requires the target device to already be paired and requires privileged access on the local system to install the custom driver. NVD rates the exploitability of CVE-2025-27840 as 0.3 out of 10.

$400 is nothing for businesses. At my job, purchases under $10,000 don’t require any approval.

You haven’t said who you’re actually buying from. Any actual retailer selling new drives should be shipping them in the OEM packaging, and WD and Seagate should be packaging them just fine.

But really, hard drives aren’t that sensitive to shock. If the drive is off, the heads are parked, there’s not much that can happen unless they get absolutely slammed against something and directly impacted. I run plenty of used drives shipped in a single layer of bubble wrap with few issues. Where I do have issues (connector damage, excessive bad sectors, failed short/long/conveyance SMART tests), those I replace.

But, if this is critical data, you should always be prepared for drive failures with hot spares. Even an apparently healthy drive can suddenly stop working.

What are you using to create the boot media? Try Rufus, and make sure it’s BIOS and MBR.