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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How bad of an idea is it to use computing HDDs in a DIY NAS?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks a lot, again! I think I will focus on active and backup drive (+remote for the few essentials) and only use RAID if it is easy (and cheap) to implement.

  Do you have any tips how to implement the powering on and off automatically? And would it be possible to have both in the same case or is it necessary to separate them physically?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How bad of an idea is it to use computing HDDs in a DIY NAS?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks a lot for this elaboration!

  Unfortunately, like mentioned in another comment below, Barracudas are now mostly SMR. And I didn’t find offers for Barracudas Pro which should be CMR.

  Anyways, I will most probably buy some smaller CMR drives. Take a bit more money in the hand now, lay out a proper backup strategy and only store data which can not be easily re-downloaded and I should be good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How bad of an idea is it to use computing HDDs in a DIY NAS?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So if you can use a hot spare is mainly depentend on the OS you use I suppose?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How bad of an idea is it to use computing HDDs in a DIY NAS?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  idk which naming scheme is worse: PCIe or USB. Not that I would know too much about transfer speeds but the plethora of different version surely doesn’t help.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How bad of an idea is it to use computing HDDs in a DIY NAS?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I will definitely have to do my homework on all of these transfer rates lol

  SAS drives are way cheaper on eBay and such but I don’t know if I feel confident enough to move from SATA to SAS for my first DIY NAS already. It sounds very easy with the PCIe SAS adapter but still daunting at the same time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How bad of an idea is it to use computing HDDs in a DIY NAS?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes I will definitely get a CMR drive, I read enough comments warning me about SMR lol

  Yeah I should probably get a little bit extra money in hand but buy something good instead of some garbage.

  Would you consider that better even if the backup drive is in the same house as the data drive, just powered off?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How bad of an idea is it to use computing HDDs in a DIY NAS?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Very interesting take, if only SSDs would not be so expensive right now, damn!

  But I should probably worry a lot more about my backup strategy than the drives. You are correct

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How bad of an idea is it to use computing HDDs in a DIY NAS?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks a lot for this very in depth response! I had to take some time to sit down and properly understand everything so sorry for the late response.

  I will take your advice seriously and buy at least three drives of the same size (to get this right, the model or brand doesn’t necessarily need to be the same right?). Because I don’t know if I can afford four of the size I would like to get. One question I still have is, how do you achieve the hot standby? Is this a software feature common NAS OS provide?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How bad of an idea is it to use computing HDDs in a DIY NAS?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Refurbishes server disks you mean exclusively SAS drives or also SATA?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How bad of an idea is it to use computing HDDs in a DIY NAS?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  But you need a newish PCIe connection to get decent speeds from the drives no?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How bad of an idea is it to use computing HDDs in a DIY NAS?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think there are too many technical words I don’t understand yet in this comment, but thanks nonetheless. One I want to ask specifically tough, is a hot spare a disk mirrored every now and then or what do you mean by that?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How bad of an idea is it to use computing HDDs in a DIY NAS?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What do you mean by production run? How could I check that before having them in my hands? And operating hours only applies for used drives no?

  I will do some more research on ebay but it is hard to find offers with SMART values and operating hours. The downside of enterprise harddrives is mostly that they are louder right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How bad of an idea is it to use computing HDDs in a DIY NAS?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So I could use an external hard drive for backups and only turn it on when needed? But it would be very slow as you said.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How bad of an idea is it to use computing HDDs in a DIY NAS?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I know it is a bad time but I planned to stick with my normal external consumer harddrive for another year at least. Should I wait and just hook up an external USB drive to my RPi and use it as a samba share for backups?

  I checked for used enterprise drives but I didn’t find anything with SATA for a reasonable price yet, unfortunately.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Old Thin Clients - Which CPU is fine?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think I never heard about AVX before, what is it? And is it a newer technology or why do they both don’t support it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Old Thin Clients - Which CPU is fine?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks a lot! So only for VMs?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmings, please give us your info dump.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks a lot for sharing you experience! I recently saw some people I follow on youtube talk about fibre as an alternative for ethernet cables, do you have an any experience with that?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Old Thin Clients - Which CPU is fine?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  After a rather quick look it seems like the DDR3 prices are still kinda fine. I will consider that, thanks!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Old Thin Clients - Which CPU is fine?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah power efficency should not be undervalued! But I read that the Wyse 5070 CPUs officially only support 8GB RAM so no big upgrades possible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Old Thin Clients - Which CPU is fine?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks a lot for the heads up!

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve stress again that there'll be more Steam Machine Verified games than Steam Deck ones, with "fewer constraints" in their testing programme⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I read a comment somewhere that the full controller support and the readability of the text on a small 720p screen, which are necessary for a Steam Deck Verified badge, are not necessary for the Steam Machine. Because it is more like a traditional PC this makes sense imo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Podman Linkding Issues⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This solved it when using a bind mount! The other option is using named volumes which also works without errors.

  On a different note, can I ask you where you learned about Quadlets. It seems the tutorials are still very sparse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Podman Linkding Issues⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  With the getenfore command from kumi below I get Enforcing so I guess I use SELinux.

  I now have two working options. a) Using named volumes (I’m still unsure if this is the way to go or not, generally speaking) and b) using the private label :Z for the bind mount.

  Without :Z podman unshare yields root:root for the data directory. After setting the label it is a different user alltogether.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Podman Linkding Issues⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  getenforce gives me Enforcing. And I think I have SELinux. I had a look at this tutorial www.tutorialworks.com/podman-rootless-volumes/ suggested by another commenter and after running podman unshare ls -al in the folder with the bind mount it returns root root as the owner of the directory. So as far as I understand this means for the podman namespace this folder belongs to root? Like I said in my edit using named volumes solved the issue in on way. I just tried the :Z label too and it seems to work too. So it was probably a SELinux issue?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Podman Linkding Issues⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I was unsure if I installed docker on this machine so I ran docker-compose and the help page showed up (another one than for podman-compose). Then I queried my installed packages and grepped them for docker and nothing shows up. Only podman-compose has docker in the description. So I accidentaly used that compatibility layer already without knowing.

  But one reason I consider to switch is because compose files are not really standardized I heard and quadlets are structured like systemd files so I seems more applicable. But that is still a long way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Podman Linkding Issues⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I tried to use named volumes and now everything works fine, weird.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Word.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  IIRC you have to use the “Export as” option instead of the “Save as” for a .pdf file.