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It's A Digital Disease!

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The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/munkiemagik on 2025-07-27 02:37:37+00:00.

I had an epic wally moment earlier. I seem to be all about the jank with everythign I do these days and have built a new open air frame threadripper system with a hot swap caddy to house my 16TB Exos HDD's array. As I was shoving that into the rack as best as I could. I perched the hotswap caddy right on the front edge as I miscalcualted sizes and things didnt fit how I tought they would. Well fast forward to plugging in power cables at back of new system. At least I had some sense to make sure everything was switched of and it was just cold unpowered cables going in. So nothign spinning.

But like the donkey that I am, I carelessly pushed too hard on the frame as i was pluggin in power and that nudged the HDD caddy forward off the front of the shelf and it tipped off the rack!!!

The whole thing fell slgihtly off-vertical, total drop was about 6 inches onto soft carpet. Everythign starts up fine and no errors have been reported. Did I get lucky??? Or is my day of reckoning just around the corner?

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