Okay, so now that my little experiment with a bunch of scam nvme drive from amazon is done and over with and I got my money back from amazon. Where do I look for some cheap and semi decent 4tb nvmes? Adata used to by my goto budget flash memory, never had any problems with any of their drives. But they're not so inexpensive anymore... Team group seems like they have good prices but how reliable are they?

Is prime day or boxing day even a good time to buy drives?

Is there any 4tb nvme under $300(CAD) even worth looking at?

Again, I'm just farting around and experimenting but any suggestion will be greatly appreciated and win you imaginary internet points from a stranger sitting on a porcelain thrown as he writes this.

So i'm testing one of the drives I got on amazon using an old computer. It started off promising, didn't get any errors when formating the drive, write speed using a usb adapter at 25mb/s... Then it dropped off to 7mb/s and the expected time shot up from 40hours to 156h🤣

I'm going to let it run over night and see what happens in the morning. If I can get it to show 4tb without error I might still keep them to test out my geekworm pi nas, otherwise back to amazon you go!

Scouring through amazon for random stuff yesterday, saw these "generic brand" nvmes for $65 a pop. Figured I's give it a shot for my little geekworm pie nas. 4 for the raid and 1 for backup if something goes boogers up. 20tb for $325 was too good to pass up, worse case scenario they are either 1tb each or they fail after a few months. We'll see whats up when they get here in 2 weeks.

I recently got banned from a dating subreddit and discord for people over 30 and all the admins will say is that I made some people uncomfortable. I've been trying to figure out what I did that could have upset people and the one 2 things I can think of was one incident when somebody mentioned I should try dating another male member of the discord server since we had so much in comment and I jokingly explained that I could never date another man because I don't like the sight of my own genitals so I doubt I would want to see or touch another man's. That seemed to spark some controversy with some members because I brought up genitalia. I get that I probably could have said it in a classier way, but in a server for people over 30 looking to date, I would assume this wouldn't exactly be taboo or warrant a ban.

We're garment decorators and my bossed asked me to come up with a logo for our new web portal, he wanted me to incorporate a dinosaur in the logo since the portal is named imprintzilla. Here are a few designs I came up with. Would love any advice to comments on what works what doesn't what I can do to make these better.