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Spent a few mins operating FT8, and PSKReporter is showing 2 very distinct bands of reception reports, at approx 1200 miles and 2400 miles to the East from my location in Davis, CA:
I’m guessing the first band is propagation with 1 hop and the second band on the East coast is the second hop. It very distinctly shows how in between these two areas there’s noticeable dead zones where I’m not being heard at all. Very interesting!
I can never remember this key combo – when pasting content from a webpage to somewhere else like Evernote, it’s incredibly useful to be able to paste just as plain text. Honestly, I don’t know why this isn’t the default behavior on the Mac.
Shift-Command-V
From here.
I recently ran out of space on my Homelab ESXi running on my HP DL380 G7 server, so it’s time to add some more storage. First, I checked the list of supported drives known not to have the thermal runaway issue on the DL380 and similar models. I have a couple of WD Blacks right now, but the model numbers on those are hit and miss, some models work, some don’t, and I couldn’t find the exactly same model number on sale again (the working model I have is WD7500BPKX). I noticed though there’s a longer list of WD Blue drives that are known to work ok, and looking on Amazon I found some refurb 1TB drives for $40. Since this is just a hobby server and I don’t need to store anything critical on there, this sounded like a good deal.
I needed a couple of extra drive caddies too, here’s what I picked up:
The WD drives arrived same day from Amazon – they were in sealed bags but obviously not the original packaging as they were refurbs. They were also wrapped in plenty of bubblewrap which was plenty adequate to protect them during shipping, and shipped in a Jiffy bag:
The HP server drive caddies arrived the following Monday (ordered on Saturday). Again, packaged well, in a box and in a Jiffy bag:
Here’s the assembled drives ready to go:
And here’s the new drives going in:
Space before:
Space after – ready to go:
Just installed two reconditioned WD Blue 1TB WD10SPZX drives in my HP DL380 G7 server, and can confirm that these drives work ok without the thermal runaway issue.
Temps after first boot up:
Drives reporting ok status (2 new drives in second bay) :
After about an hour of uptime, still looking good:
