492: A New Challenge Approaches
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X220 Laptop - Is That Really a Good Idea?
Brent: I've had this like janky Franken NAS thing going on with this X220 laptop that I have connected a few USB drives into. It turns out the 19 year old hardware was giving me a lot of problems and I couldn't find a power connector for the graphics card because it was sold. And so in this spirit of like reusing equipment and changing it and modifying it, I took it from one case that wouldn't accept very many hard drives at all through it in this 20 year old case. So I got my modern hardware out, which was only 12 years old,. But I built this thing. Brent: As a NAS, it is completely an acceptable reuse of what
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