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[brutal]

Yup.
Even Walmart and auto shops sells suitable led now.

All the sub $200 stuff seems to be getting terrible reviews, including the one I linked.

[brutal]

Picked up these mostly free Coleman Xtreme cooler off of Craigslist today. Cat for scale. Also got a Save Phace welding helmet for $10.

I have two ancient (for plastic coolers) Coleman 5-day Extreme. they're great coolers for the price.

[Irving]

My RTIC cooler isn't as great as I thought, so I'm interested to see how these Colemans perform as I've heard great things about them. I actually picked these up from someone else, so I'll have to experience them second hand.

[brutal]

My RTIC cooler isn't as great as I thought, so I'm interested to see how these Colemans perform as I've heard great things about them. I actually picked these up from someone else, so I'll have to experience them second hand.

Let us know how many cats they hold.

[Great-Kazoo]

That is more of a Kavorkian mushroom than hallucinogenic.

That will do the job.

[Grant H.]

My Lacie NAS just died too so I decided to upgrade a little bit myself (not as powerful as yours, but its just a simple media server). I got tired of risking losing data so I'm going RAID this time (thankfully my NAS died slowly so I was able to get one good backup in hours before it gave up the ghost).




3TB doesn't sound like a lot but its more than I need right now and by the time I need to grow into more I can just swap out the drives with bigger ones.


Yeah, but its more photogenic.

My current build is 18tb raw, with 11tb usable, and as I rebuilt, I'm targeting going to 64tb raw, but changing to Raidz3, so roughly 36.5tb usable.

This is my home NAS for personal docs, media, etc, but I have recently become the offsite backup for our company email, cloud, and everything else.

It's getting built into a 3U rack chassis, and then stashed in my rack.

[Zundfolge]

This is my home NAS for personal docs, media, etc, but I have recently become the offsite backup for our company email, cloud, and everything else.

Yeah, that'll fill up faster than you think. For me its just local docs and media (mostly movies, TV and music for my Plex server) so I'm not too worried about it getting full. I'm only using about 1.4TB of space now and I could probably stand to delete some stuff I'm never going to re-watch.

[Grant H.]

Yeah, that'll fill up faster than you think. For me its just local docs and media (mostly movies, TV and music for my Plex server) so I'm not too worried about it getting full. I'm only using about 1.4TB of space now and I could probably stand to delete some stuff I'm never going to re-watch.

We've got the email backed up on my home nas currently, and it doesn't take that much storage (100gigs or something)...

The nextcloud instance takes some extra space, but at 36.5tb usable, I don't expect to have any space constraints for quite a while.

[Jer]

Didn't realize you could just buy LED headlights now. Don't need to mess around with an HID conversion and making sure you have a focus lens and all that. Under $30 delivered on Amazon. The LED cooling fans don't appear to interfere with my radio or CB either. I hear that LEDs don't run hot enough to melt off snow and ice though so I guess I'll find out next winter how big of a deal that will be.



The camera is picking up more light than the eye. In person the focus point of the LED is almost exactly the same size as the standard bulb on the left.

From this photo I'm guessing you have a reflector housing given the cut-off line or lack thereof. I would HIGHLY suggest removing those as you'll be blinding oncoming drivers. Dropping LED replacement bulbs into a reflector housing is dangerous as these LEDs don't have a pattern like the Halogen bulb does which the reflector needs to have a proper cut-off. You can get away with it in a projector housing if you aim properly after installation.

That being said, your performance will be worse. There was a guy who was some sort of industry expert who did a big write-up on these LED drop-ins and the summary is they're trash for many, many reasons. They don't throw light as far which is the important part of a headlight and not how well it lights up your garage door from 2' away. They also have dead spots and hot spots and aren't uniform at all. Lastly is the life span: not good. Generally LEDs have a longer service life compared to halogens but these cheap Chinese (and even the more expensive ones) bulb replacement units do not have that same attribute. While it's true that the business end doesn't make much heat (LEDs by nature have less heat byproduct than halogen) the driver side makes an obscene amount of heat which is what causes them to fail in many instances more frequently than halogen bulbs.

So in the end you pay more money, get shittier light output and shorter lifespan plus you blind oncoming drivers if you put them in a halogen headlight housing.

[Jer]

Picked up these mostly free Coleman Xtreme cooler off of Craigslist today. Cat for scale. Also got a Save Phace welding helmet for $10.

That's a score. Most tests put those at about 95% the performance of the high end YETI, RTIC, etc. coolers at a fraction of the price. I've been thinking of getting on but haven't yet. Not sure how you got three of them for nearly free but if you end up needing only two, let me know!