My granddad had this bottle of milk for around 40 years. Now I've got it.7yr ⋅ stormcomponents ⋅ r/WTF
This little guy has been at the bottom of a canal for 5 days, and now a fire. Still works.3yr ⋅ stormcomponents ⋅ r/DataHoarder
My storage grew another 24TB (RAW) recently. Nothing too exciting - just a backup SAN.4yr ⋅ stormcomponents ⋅ r/DataHoarder
Beauty shot of my pride and joy. old spec now, but I still love it.3yr ⋅ stormcomponents ⋅ r/watercooling
I spent an hour or so making and printing some cable clips today. Nice and tidy!3yr ⋅ stormcomponents ⋅ r/homelab
I needed a cheap and quick way to get a load of SAS drives into a tower as a make-shift backup...4yr ⋅ stormcomponents ⋅ r/DataHoarder
Pro-tip: If you've got to melt the plastic away around the DC jack, you're using the wrong adapter.10yr ⋅ stormcomponents ⋅ r/techsupportgore
I opened it up but it looked too complicated so put it back together9yr ⋅ stormcomponents ⋅ r/techsupportgore
Customer fixed their own DC jack, then wondered why it didn't boot. Think I found the issue.9yr ⋅ stormcomponents ⋅ r/techsupportgore
He said he spilled a drink, but it looks like it was found in an ocean...7yr ⋅ stormcomponents ⋅ r/techsupportgore
It's not much, but I try to keep them neat. Be gentle, first submission to this subreddit.7yr ⋅ stormcomponents ⋅ r/cableporn
It's been a bit warm in the UK so I added a fan to my router.7yr ⋅ stormcomponents ⋅ r/techsupportmacgyver
A little screen cleaner goes a long way. Fantastic stuff (better than iso) to clean this shit off.6yr ⋅ stormcomponents ⋅ r/techsupportgore
I'm only having one spinning disk in my new build (7 SSDs), so I wanted to make it a good one.6yr ⋅ stormcomponents ⋅ r/DataHoarder
I bought a second hand server on eBay and the coolers looked like this o_o10yr ⋅ stormcomponents ⋅ r/techsupportgore
Did a little cable management today, it's getting hard to keep it looking nice though!7yr ⋅ stormcomponents ⋅ r/homelab
I've had a really old motherboard about for years, decided to pop the hood and see what CPU was on it.10yr ⋅ stormcomponents ⋅ r/techsupportgore
First ever liquid-cooled PC, wish me luck - an hour into leak test and so far so good.6yr ⋅ stormcomponents ⋅ r/watercooling
Just started a new business, this is the office battlestation11yr ⋅ stormcomponents ⋅ r/battlestations
Working on my home setup this weekend. Thought I'd share a vanity shot.6yr ⋅ stormcomponents ⋅ r/ServerPorn
Pretty damn ugly, but worked brilliantly. All 4 pads had been ripped off.9yr ⋅ stormcomponents ⋅ r/techsupportmacgyver
I left a keyboard in my garage, causing it to grow mould anywhere that wasn't covered up.11yr ⋅ stormcomponents ⋅ r/techsupportgore
Anyone else keep track on what their hobby is costing? I've just finished the left side table.8yr ⋅ stormcomponents ⋅ r/homelab
Not everyone's cuppa, but here's my latest. 30h into new play-through with heavy use of Factorissimo2 to keep it compact.1yr ⋅ stormcomponents ⋅ r/factorio
I know this subreddit sees a lot of this, but this is the most perfect dust-doughnut I've ever seen.11yr ⋅ stormcomponents ⋅ r/techsupportgore
I got a free MicroServer today. It's going to be a little baby FTP off-site backup.8yr ⋅ stormcomponents ⋅ r/homelab
Someone brought a laptop into the shop today with STILL WET VOMIT on it from the night before.11yr ⋅ stormcomponents ⋅ r/techsupportgore
They're only 300GB, and only 10k not 15k, but I really like these drives.8yr ⋅ stormcomponents ⋅ r/DataHoarder
I knew the R9 290 runs hot but I didn't know it could do this...10yr ⋅ stormcomponents ⋅ r/softwaregore
I keep getting blue screens Aaannnndd motherboard was shorting on the case. Bad picture, sorry.11yr ⋅ stormcomponents ⋅ r/techsupportgore
As a PC Repair technician, this is my WTF. Spent £2500 on a gaming computer, then never clean it.11yr ⋅ stormcomponents ⋅ r/WTF
It's getting to a point where I don't even know what to do with them all...7yr ⋅ stormcomponents ⋅ r/Amd
I thought it was just a standard DC jack replacement. Nope!10yr ⋅ stormcomponents ⋅ r/techsupportgore
Two years ago I posted this computer full of paint, now this is how it looks. (more in comments)8yr ⋅ stormcomponents ⋅ r/techsupportgore
I wasn't able to get my rack setup for my cakeday, so here's an insight to what I'm building.9yr ⋅ stormcomponents ⋅ r/homelab
Swapped two screaming MSA50s for an MSA70. Best (albeit small) upgrade I've done so far.7yr ⋅ stormcomponents ⋅ r/homelab
Playing with my new server today. Sorted the DL380 for £115 inc delivery.9yr ⋅ stormcomponents ⋅ r/DataHoarder
Video rendering station slowly coming together. 24 Thread, 48GB RAM.8yr ⋅ stormcomponents ⋅ r/homelab
I bought a brand new and fairly expensive external enclosure, this is how it arrived?11yr ⋅ stormcomponents ⋅ r/techsupportgore
Any love for smaller drives? 2TB Constellation ES for £25 a pop refurbs.7yr ⋅ stormcomponents ⋅ r/DataHoarder
Weeks after a spilled drink, the wifi shorts out and released so much magic smoke9yr ⋅ stormcomponents ⋅ r/techsupportgore
She's a little scuffed, but should keep my desktop and where I manage my rack, safe.8yr ⋅ stormcomponents ⋅ r/homelab
I got my last server plugged in today. Time to get filling them drives!8yr ⋅ stormcomponents ⋅ r/DataHoarder
Attempted data recovery. It brought the stick back to life, but the chip itself had died unfortunately.7yr ⋅ stormcomponents ⋅ r/techsupportmacgyver
I've never seen RAM this bad, and yet still allows OS to boot for around 10 minutes.11yr ⋅ stormcomponents ⋅ r/techsupportgore
My office computer, now with 100% more tape. Just a BRXL Suitable drive to go, and most media forms are covered.8yr ⋅ stormcomponents ⋅ r/DataHoarder
Finally got some big (but little) drives for my DL380. £32 each with 4,000 hours on them.7yr ⋅ stormcomponents ⋅ r/DataHoarder
Correct me if I'm wrong here, but is there any Intel single-CPU setup that could offer me what TR4 will?6yr ⋅ stormcomponents ⋅ r/realAMD
An Amstrad ALT-386SX I'm selling. Quite a nice unit, but holy sponge-keys batman, I couldn't type on that for long!7yr ⋅ stormcomponents ⋅ r/vintagecomputing
Outlook ran slow. Bought program to speed it up. Now everything looks like this...9yr ⋅ stormcomponents ⋅ r/softwaregore
This is why when someone says make sure you seated it correctly you actually listen to the advice.11yr ⋅ stormcomponents ⋅ r/techsupportgore
Epic build with pictures/videos coming soon. Blocks arrived today, and just had to share with this sub.6yr ⋅ stormcomponents ⋅ r/realAMD
Added another little pool of drives (Storage2 + 180GB Cache) so here's how it currently looks...7yr ⋅ stormcomponents ⋅ r/DataHoarder
Every ounce in my body wants to strip and rebuild this machine, but it'd be unpaid work so I've just got to leave it.11yr ⋅ stormcomponents ⋅ r/techsupportgore
Motherboard failure on a laptop. I wonder if hundreds of ants all over it might have been the cause...9yr ⋅ stormcomponents ⋅ r/techsupportgore
Just upgraded my screen space, to a glorious 16,127,998 pixels (-2 dead pixels included)8yr ⋅ stormcomponents ⋅ r/battlestations
It came in for water damage. He didn't mention the fact the whole thing is curved.7yr ⋅ stormcomponents ⋅ r/techsupportgore
Almost 13 years, never cleaned. Still works fine, albeit a little warm.9yr ⋅ stormcomponents ⋅ r/dustypcs
I needed some roof fans for my server rack. Details in comments.8yr ⋅ stormcomponents ⋅ r/techsupportmacgyver
I've got another for you. PSU has completely failed. Opened the case - found this.9yr ⋅ stormcomponents ⋅ r/techsupportgore
Storage controller getting too warm in Proliant = Internal USB powered 5v laptop fan. Works wonders.8yr ⋅ stormcomponents ⋅ r/techsupportmacgyver
This is seriously all that was left of the DC jack. It doesn't seem to be charging any more.11yr ⋅ stormcomponents ⋅ r/techsupportgore
[UK - Midlands] Found this bad boy outside, haven't seen many like this, this big (around an inch arse to leg?)6yr ⋅ stormcomponents ⋅ r/spiders
Not exactly gore, but I thought for a manufacturer's job this looked pretty poor...9yr ⋅ stormcomponents ⋅ r/techsupportgore
Somehow this DC jack had all 4 wires fall off it, regardless it's held in place by the chassis and can't move!?10yr ⋅ stormcomponents ⋅ r/techsupportgore
I've had this guy living by my bins for weeks, caught him prepping dinner the other day...7yr ⋅ stormcomponents ⋅ r/spiders
Never in my life have I witnessed such a messy laptop design. This DC jack is going to take forever :(11yr ⋅ stormcomponents ⋅ r/techsupportgore
[x-post] Too much dust stopping a laptop from booting, sure, but a desktop? First time for everything!11yr ⋅ stormcomponents ⋅ r/dustypcs
This computer had bugs, hair, sand (somehow) and of course, dust. This was the CPU cooler.10yr ⋅ stormcomponents ⋅ r/dustypcs
