The last thing you spent money on

[Anton Phibes]

RED BULL

[AndyFish]

Its the day after Thanksgiving and the wifey and I are making lunch and our refrigerator (built apparently in 1997) starts making funny noises and we pull the lettuce out of the crisper and its frozen nearly solid.

"I guess it's time for a new fridge." Says she.

"On black Friday??!!" Says I, holding the frozen lettuce in my hand.  "Ok."

So we head out, on the way to the nearby Home Depot I'm yammering on how I'll go as high as $500 and she's laughing at me reminding me it's not 1997 any more-- we wait for some help and with specific measurements (and I get her to agree on a cool BLACK fridge) I walk out of there after paying $513!  WOOOO!

[Kidagain]

A Christmas light tester.......guess why? And yes I said Christmas not Holiday light tester!!!!!!

[Wolfman]

Anthony Perkins autograph & a new shower. No relation. Seriously! lol

JP

[Sean]

Gifts for my office secretarial staff.

[long live kong]

Trash Can Trolls trading cards (ebay). Had the first series (well, almost) when I was a kid. The artwork on these are top notch, and up there with the best Garbage Pail Kids series imo.

[Sean]

Pizza.

[Paul L]

Burritos

[Sean]

5W-20 motor oil

[Sean]

Hershey Bar with Almonds

[Sean]

Some new Christmas Lights.

[ChristineBCW]

Saturday, we received a 7-pack of 12tb drives and late last night, I put 6 of them in a RAID5 start-up to format them.   I'll be home after lunch and that should be done, then I'll pull one and replace it with the 7th and format that one, then start a long, long copy job to fill about 30% of the disk-pack.  Then pull one and replace it with the original "pulled-but-formatted drive" and let a rebuild occur.  I'll time all of those and compare to our 8tb RAID5's. 

The 12tb's are still a POOR value at a 75% price increase over the 8's (50% more capacity, 75% more cost - NOT a good value).  But our wholesaler made the best offer and this is good enough for testing purposes. 

I'd much rather spend money on 100% gains in capacity than these measly baby-step gains.  I don't see why they don't make me the 24tb drives at $139.  I've been asking for that for a couple of years - what are they waiting for?!!  They could sell TONS of those (and just to me, too).  With 6-drive RAID5's  (about 120tb of total capacity but only about 70-80tb efficiently usable, I could keep our five RAID towers then, and load on quite a few more DVD file-sets.  Boy... that's gonna take a LOT of menu-building, though!  Oh well - that's why God invented child programmers!

[Sean]

LEGOs

[Sean]

Steakums

[Sean]

X-Mas tree stand