Yea, Damn! I didn't look at the extended forecast. It's going to drop again on the 28th, the 29th has the low at 2 above. But we are good until that time lol.

 

Does that thing have 2x3 walls or whatnot lol? What made the largest difference on the trailer was installing reflectix on the windows. When I shoot the walls with a laser they will be at 40* or so. I shoot the windows and they're quite a bit warmer, in the high 50's. The actual window frame is like 30's lol. The walls are R7 so I figure the windows are now a R10 vs a R1 before treating.

Home depot has these cool little heaters that plug right into the outlet, no cord. They're 28 bucks apiece and really kick out some heat. You can set the temp on them. Thing is for me anyway, I'm not there and don't dare leave anything like that plugged in without being there.

 

And you don't have any freezing issues? Are you still in the trailer or did you move back to the house, you were renting out the nice place if I recall ?

Well, when we were getting -30 wind chills the fireplace went out, it's just an insert. Anyway, I pulled it out and all the wiring behind it, TV, power antenna and stereo had a coating of frost on them lol. No kidding, the space behind the fireplace was at 15*, the floor was less. This sits in the slide out which isn't insulated all that well. It wasn't , is now lol.

The kitchen sink has it's own tank, that's froze, well might not be now, doesn't get used so it doesn't have much water in it, probably why it froze lol.

Since it's been in the high 30/40's, the thing is just sipping the propane now, after all the insulating anyway. But man, if it gets below 15, shiii freezes up.

 

Ran it through the WD program, and this time it found no bad sectors. Threw it back in the case, and same thing. So, with that said, I changed my order on Amazon. I am going to just use a regular external drive and run it out of my router. I've got an old 400GB plugged into it right now that I can stream movies off of.

Anyway, after this BS, I want to have NTFS on the new drive so I can easily do anything I need to with it. So I ordered just an 8TB external drive, and a 3 year data recovery warranty for a few extra bucks.

This is what I got:

Even with the issues I've had with this WD drive, I still prefer them. Seagate's I have had horrible luck with, Maxtor.... yuck. I like Toshiba's, but they are not very popular. Don't even know if IBM still makes Deskstars?

 

I'm down to 3 WD Blacks, WD's I started using them quite a bit, then quit sort of abruptly. They would fail rather quickly. I had two of them replaced under warranty but only use them for storage now. I won't use them to run a system anymore, they wear to quickly. I've been using Samsung's for maybe 5 or 6 years and having good luck with them so far.

 

I'm running my OS and programs on my desktop off of a Sandisk SSD. I back it up on a 1.5 TB WD Green. Also have a WD Blue in there for additional storage. Might need to try the Samsung drives. I definitely am a Samsung fan. I love their TV's and phones.

 

BTW, Sandisk and WD are in cahoots somehow on the SSD's. When I called WD about my drive, they had an option to talk to support about WD or Sandisk SSD's.

LOL.... decided to Google it. Somehow I missed this merger of the two companies.

https://www.sandisk.com/about/media-...age-technology

 

I'm using Samsungs, 840 and 850 series SSD's. The SSD I'm fighting now is an older one, not Samsung. It's a , what is that, hangon lol...it's a OWC Mercury Extreme. Had that in my MAC at one time, it's kind of ***** drive, it's been around lol.

That Amazon set up looks nice. Hope you have good luck with it. The WD's that failed on me were SATA.

 

Wow... Old World Computing. Pretty sure that's what the old Macintosh Classic II's we had in High School ran. Seems like they were awful tiny too, like 80mb.

 

LOL, you had SSD's in high school, you must be an infant lol ? Nah it's Other World Computing....not Old World lol, I'm sure that was a joke. Good one lol.

It's 120GB. Older than I thought 2013.