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Nogami ,

I’ve been using renewed (refurbished) 8TB drives off of Ebay - SAS 8TB for $50-60 each. Not a single failure in over a year on the dozen or so drives I’m running right now. I’m running unRAID with a combination of unRAID’s native array drives (for media and “disposable” stuff) in a dual parity config, and ZFS (with snapshots replicated to a live backup on a secondary server) for important personal stuff (and backed-up off-site a few times a year).

Even if something were to perish, I have enough spares to just chuck one in and let it resilver without worrying at all. I’m content with this as a homelabber and when I’m not supplying critical service for a business, etc.

Nogami ,

Just wish they were more affordable. The only reason for the crazy pricing is that it’s what big companies can afford to pay rather than home labbers. They’re not all that complex compared to other mass market tech.

Nogami ,

Get a controller that works with SAS drives and buy them used and cheap from eBay. Consumer devices won’t run SAS drives on SATA controllers so they’re usually cheaper.

Nogami ,

Cave paintings aren’t video or audio. They’re pictures. You can print your photos or print grabs from your videos.

Nogami , (edited )

You appear to have issues Mr. Fuck all cops. And you amuse me.

Nogami ,

The fuck all cops? Heck ya. The same people who say this run screaming for help to cops as soon as shit goes sideways. Makes me laugh.

Nogami ,

I refuse to believe that we are the only intelligent life in the universe, even though for most humans that bar is pretty low.

When I finally “die” I’ll no doubt get kicked back out into the real world and have to plug in another quarter.

Nogami ,

Storage is dirt cheap. Just add more. IT at work bugs out their eyes when I talk about adding more storage space. I have more at home than they do in the office. Lol.

I’ve been buying used 8TB HGST drives from eBay. Dirt cheap and haven’t had one fail yet.

Nogami ,

I’m a big advocate of unraid servers. Mix And match any size of drives you have available into a single large NAS with protection against drive failures. You can use old pc hardware you might have lying around. It’s commercial software but you can demo it for free. It’s good enough that I own two full pro licenses.

Nogami ,

I get what you’re proposing but I’d respectfully suggest looking into unRAID on basically any hardware that can boot an OS.

It won’t necessarily be small and cute (though you can accomplish that if you wish), but you can make it do just about anything. I bought old enterprise hardware to run my main and backup servers on. I feel really comfortable with my data safety.

Nogami ,

So you don’t know unraid has ZFS now then? Gotta keep up with the times.

And it’s worth every cent as commercial software. I bought 2 pro licenses because it’s just that good.

Nogami ,

Unraid natively supports full ZFS arrays in addition to unraid arrays since the last major release. Can mix and match both types on the same system as necessary.

All of my (easily replaceable) Plex media is native unraid arrays while my documents are all on a ZFS array on the same system with snapshots and such. It’s the perfect solution.

Nogami ,

You know what will happen? I do. Apple will leave Europe

Want side loading? Buy android. That’s your choice.

Nogami , (edited )

It is infact Graphics Interchange format. Not Jirafics Interchange format.

I know the creator pronounces it Jif, but there are lots of people in the world who pronounce things wrong.

I offer up “niche”. It’s actually not nitch no matter how many people say it like that.

Lookit all the nerds I triggered. Popcorn time!

Nogami ,

Gaza gonna be gone permanently before this is over.

Ubisoft Exec Says Gamers Need to Get 'Comfortable' Not Owning Their Games for Subscriptions to Take Off (www.ign.com)

Ubisoft Exec Says Gamers Need to Get ‘Comfortable’ Not Owning Their Games for Subscriptions to Take Off::An executive at Assassin’s Creed maker Ubisoft has said gamers will need to get “comfortable” not owning their games before video game subscriptions truly take off.

Nogami ,

Love app stores pay to play and subscription models? Coming soon to every platform as fast as they can shove it down your throat.

Nogami ,

I went down the unRAID rabbit hole.

I never came back up, I’m happy here.

Bought a couple of Exos 7E10 8TB drives, warranty status says "initially sold as part of a larger system, contact seller". It means I can't take advantage of their five years warranty, doesn't it?

I admit they were way too cheap for what they are (like 15% cheaper than same-size Ironwolf), so I gambled it haha there were no indications that these drives were OEM or similar....

Nogami ,

I’ve been buying used 8TB HGST SAS drives on eBay for $50USD each, so far no issues but I really don’t care if they die. Basically disposable at that price point.

Nogami ,

If you’re in it for the long haul buy a “cheap” used server off of eBay and upgrade it.

If you want something more inexpensive buy the cheapest case you can find with the most HD mounting points. Then get yourself a SAS controller from eBay and connect everything up.

Then go look at installing unraid. Done.

Nogami ,

I have 120TB in my unraid server so far and it grows every year.

Running a supermicro chassis now which is amazing if power hungry and a bit loud.

And at over 100lbs, a thief is gonna blow out their back trying to steal it.

Mixed device household - Needing help with storing photos and backups

Good afternoon all, I have half-assed my backups for 15 years, and it is not sustainable, and I need your help! I have the following setup: 1x Raspberry Pi 4 with a WD USB3 MyBook 4TB as a NAS target using OpenMediaVault. This works well enough, but is not in my mind a long term viable solution. 1x Apple Airport TimeCapsule...

Nogami ,

Look into unraid.

One upon a time I might’ve suggested FreeNAS/TrueNAS but now that unraid supports ZFS there’s not a really compelling reason except if you can’t afford the license fee (which is very reasonable $59-$129 for a lifetime license depending on the license you want. If you don’t want ZFS you can run a standard XFS file system that can be accessed by basically anything. Parity expansion and all the good stuff.

Just saw your additional comment. You can run dockers for Plex and more or full VMs.

They also sometimes do Black Friday discounts to buy a basic license and fully upgrade it).

Look at videos by spaceinvaderone for some examples of what it can do. I have two pro licenses and it’s easily the best computer purchase I’ve made in the last two decades.

Nogami ,

Sanoid works great. Very easy setup and no issues.

Re-using an 8 bay Synology NAS case

I have an old Synology 1819 NAS that was the unfortunate victim of the Intel Atom/Clock bug. I would like to repurpose the case as I like the compact form factor. Has anyone tried replacing a synology mobo with something else (ex: an ITX board or a Raspberry Pi), and using an alternative operating system?

Nogami ,

This might mean a failing capacitor. I had a MB that was similar. If it was a cold start it would not boot properly. When it was already warm it would boot first time no issue.

Nogami ,

Calling it Autopilot was always a marketing decision. It’s a driver assistance feature, nothing more. When used “as intended”, it works great. I drove for 14 hours during a road trip using AP and arrived not dead tired and still alert. That’s awesome, and would never have happened in a conventional car.

I have the “FSD” beta right now. It has potential, but I still always keep a hand on the wheel and am in control of my car.

At the end of the day, if the car makes a poor choice because of the automation, I’m still responsible as the driver, and I don’t want an accident, injury, or death on my conscience.

Nogami ,

Please link that. I’d like to see it.

Nogami ,

Cool ty. FSD is still beta for now. Maybe when it’s final. Fingers crossed.

Nogami ,

Where are the magnets in an SSD?

Nogami ,

It’s nice that it’s out in the open now. Let’s China know it’s place and that everyone is tired of their shit.

Nogami , (edited )

Since some easily ruffled $0.50 mod erased my post let me explain. Anytime someone does something China doesn’t like they immediately cry racism about it.

It’s all bullshit and we all know it.

It’s long past time for the world to stop putting up with China’s crap and let them know they’ll be entirely cut off from the world if they can’t learn to play nice.

Oh look, I’m being brigaded by downvote bots, it’s just so pathetic.

Nogami ,

It’s also being made into a news item now instead of just a sale between nations. They’re definitely using this as a non subtle warning to China.

Nogami ,

I’ll wear a kilt in a heartbeat!

Nogami ,

Yup, they did a great job at driving away people who cared. Now they’re left with shitposters and spammers. The downside is they’ll still make a killing selling the free content everyone gave them to train AI models. But they’ll get no more from me.

I don’t want to wish misfortune on Spez, but i certainly don’t want to wish fortune on him either. What a colossal idiot.

Nogami ,

Look up Japanese Kintsubi - Repairing with gold.

It’s never going to be the same as before it was chipped, so accept that and make it better by making the damage part of the story beautifully.

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