The backup for the server at work stopped working properly some point ago, and the company decided to replace the unit instead of taking a bit of time to figure out what was wrong with it.
I was tasked to be the one to install the new backup (since I'm the unofficial on-site it), and after doing so, I found that one of the two batteries was bad. I took it to "scrap for parts", which the manager said was fine to do, and after getting a hold of a pair of batteries with a slightly higher "capacity" (because a lot of companies use amp-hours, which isn't correct), I had myself a backup power supply.
But what would I use it for? I mean, I'm at Melty when it's warm and at Mei-chan when it's cold, so connecting either of them to it would be pointless. I eventually figured the answer: put it next to my central switch and move my NAS there.
Getting it onto the closet shelf was no joke, but it wasn't impossible, and it was much nicer that the power cable has slack between it and the extension cable compared to the power cable of the switch.
The NAS was much easier to get onto the shelf, though I had to do what I could to keep the power adapter and ac cables away from the ethernet cables.
So now the NAS is at the central switch and seems to be a bit faster (probably got some AC interference when it was next to melty). I think it was also this that kinda added to the spark of making Celery Box, since Celery Box sits on top of the NAS (eventually it'll probably be attached to the back of some monitor).
The aforementioned batteries didn't have a good lifespan and I ended up having to replace them, but it wasn't too pricey to do so.
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