u/Mr_Enemabag-Jones — reddlx

Beware of the Valero gas

SDRS balancing for independent disks is disabled by default. Which is really annoying in some cases where you may have a lot of them in a cluster.

I found a KB that provides a setting that enables vCenter to balance them.

Has anyone enabled this setting in their vCenters? Any issues with it?

It has been a while since I did a full water analysis. But here's the report for Holly Springs water from Ward Labs.

Figured other home brewers may find this useful for their water chemistry calculations.

Test date is 6/22/26.

Sorry about the formatting, it is copied from a PDF.

pH -- 7.9

Electrical Conductivity, mmho/cm -- 0.35

Cations / Anions, me/L -- 3.2 / 2.9

Total Dissolved Solids TDS Est, ppm -- 208

Sodium, Na -- 41

Potassium, K -- 6

Calcium, Ca -- 18.2

Magnesium, Mg -- 4

Total Hardness, CaCO3 -- 62

Nitrate, NO3-N -- 0.10

Sulfur, SO4 S -- 19

Chloride, Cl -- 30

Carbonate, CO3 -- < 1

Bicarbonate, HCO3 -- 50

Total Alkalinity, CaCO3 -- 41

Total Phosphorus, ppm P -- 0.40

Iron, Fe -- 0.01

No idea how these guys aren't way bigger than they are. Their last EP was amazing

The previous albums were fantastic too. But this EP seems like a big step forward.