Yeah, I'd certainly take it over this:

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1618911-REG/synology_...

It looks like you can put 2 nvme drives in it, for caching.

While that's the ARC, I would be surprised if they blocked you from building vdevs with SSDs.

Looking at the specs: https://store.ui.com/us/en/category/network-storage/products...

Hard Drive Capacity

(16) 2.5/3.5" HDD / SSD support

(2) M.2 NVMe SSD support

(2) Expansion ports support

I think you're right we only get two SSDs on NVME as the cache, but it looks like we can run the rest (16) as SATA SSDs, which is often fine if you primarily care about random IOPS and capacity over pure throughput.

Would you consider that a dealbreaker?

No I think it's perfectly fine, if I'm accessing files over a network I don't expect them to be blazing fast anyway.

FYI: you should upgrade to 10gbe if your network is slow. It isn't that expensive these days: https://ben3d.ca/blog/home-network-lessons

Not sure if you've looked into this but you can ditch Bell's router with one of these:

https://store.10gtek.com/1-25g-media-converter-sfp-slot-with...

Or a non-copper equivalent in your case. You just need to use the VLAN IDs that Bell expects, see https://www.reddit.com/r/bell/s/uUltTdyqFC

I did end up ditching the modem since I wrote the article. I ended up using a TP-Link 8411 router though. Having everything TP-Link has its benefits for observability and maintenance.

That's still only 1/3rd of a single U.2 or a 6th or single U.3 drive... and the IOPS over SMB/NFS is significantly lower than a local drive, even with a big ethernet pipe.

IME those sub-$100 Chinese IP cameras have you at the mercy of whatever firmware they cut from the master branch the week they shipped it. People don't buy UI because they win on specs-per-dollar. They buy it because they win on results-per-dollar.

> Imagine never using HN and then posting a show HN.

There's three green accounts on the front page of /show right now

It all depends on the particular situation as to whether there is elasticity of supply or demand.

In this particular situation there is a bit of inelasticity of supply because it takes a long time to spin up a DRAM factory and if people believe it is temporary they won’t make the investment

There are many ethical reasons to bypass restrictions. Colloquially, we just call them exceptions.

There are many valid ethical exceptions for evading anti-bot detections. For example: you are a white hat actor scraping a black hat site. There are hundreds of other plausible examples.

You didn’t look because you subconsciously know you don’t need to. AWS has a solid track record, and the certifications and audits to back it up. and that’s why everyone trusts them including the most extreme of regulated industries.

Bedrock in fact does not train on your data. It was a big deal when it was announced that they share data with Anthropic for Fable, but even then it was gated away where you’d have to explicitly allow it.

Yes, there aren't any 35B models that are beating frontier models at just about anything generalized

> can you imagine how awful it must be to regain lucidity outside of your control and then lose it again for the sake of an experiment like this?

I would imagine the losing it again part is typically somewhat similar to how someone remembers a surgery under anesthesia -- they don't.

I always find it strange that being a "jobs program" is said as if derogatory, especially when talking about military equipment of all things. The free market optimizes for handling normalcy, not exception handling, like wartime. The reason to artificially these jobs is so that you have the factories and expertise to make these things when you need them.