The Sam Vimes “Boots” theory of socioeconomic unfairness, often called simply the boots theory, is an economic theory that people in poverty have to buy cheap and subpar products that need to be replaced repeatedly, proving more expensive in the long run than more expensive items.
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.