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Cake day: November 25th, 2025
  • spinning-down hdd’s when they’re not in use

    I’ve just been through this recently. I decided to have my 2 backup HDDs spin down when not in use (99% of the time). I ran into an issue though where I needed them to wake up for SMART tests (which SMART didn’t trigger). Tried a few things that didn’t work so just set them to spin all the time. There’s about a 1-2w difference when they’re spinning all the time. So it’s just not something worth worrying about IMO (In the UK with high energy costs that comes out to 1.3 pence per day roughly).

  • I’ve been floating between lots of games in my library the last month or so with nothing really keeping my interest.

    Something has finally stuck though… having my 2nd go at Atelier Ryza, enjoying it much more this time. First time through I wasn’t so keen on the crafting but this time I’m leaning into it and it’s far better as a result.

    Playing Forza Horizon 4 on the side. I really love the setting but damn are the NPCs annoying constantly talking at you and taking control of the UI away as they do. It’ll be much better once I’ve unlocked everything and they shut up!