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Yep. There was an assumption 20 years ago when common switches were 100Mbps and running cat5e that you’d have to upgrade cable to get the next speed tier, 1Gbps.

It propagated wildly, but was always incorrect. Cat5e was very much capable of gigabit Ethernet by design.

It was only beyond gig that you’d need cat6, and even then at short lengths 2.5/5/10Gbe has a good chance of working on cat5e anyway (but don’t do it).

High quality cat 5e would have done the job.

Original cables must have been faulty.

All of this skills the point. This is a second drive that failed, it was the replacement for an earlier drive that failed.

That’s what the article is all about.

A high, unexpected and unreasonable failure rate.

My pending or existing projects.

A software defined radio server. Lives up top of an antenna mast running off PoE with an RTL tuner connected.

ADSB receiver, similar to above, but on a fixed frequency.

The above 2 could be virtualised in theory, but there is an advantage in having the cable to the antenna short and thus the sbcs live up antenna masts in an enclosure.

MMDVM hotspot for ham radio (this might not count as it HAS TO use the gpio pins on the pi, this can’t be visualised even with a USB port passed through.

As an audio server that would bitstream 24bit/96kHz to an amp.