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No name computer parts, esp. RAM
Absolutely willing to get cheapo stuff like monitors and screens, mice, keyboards, etc that are no name -- but invest in good guts, cuz otherwise you get weird segfaults and shit
Used cars, esp. Dodge models, was also a bad call. Got a Tacoma and never looked back
Never cheap out on digital storage. There's so much crappy storage media out there, but it will randomly stop storing your data and then you're screwed.
Not if you use ZFS. But then you'll need an extra drive for parity data
ZFS won't save you the expense of having to replace crappy storage.
Without ZFS, when a drive starts making mistakes, it starts to corrupt some of your data, so it has to be replaced ASAP.
With ZFS RAIDz1, each transaction is double-checked and errors are corrected, so you don't need to replace any drives until one of your drives is almost completely unusable.
Yeah, but the point of this post is to not have to replace the drives frequently in the first place. I run ZFS myself but I'm not about to buy cheap drives just because I can get away with it.