Time is merely a perspective. I’ve been doing this for 20 years.

Perhaps it is overblown, but one of the reasons I have 8 drives is because I wanted to run raidz2 for the extra redundancy. I’ve had multiple drives die before and so as disk sizes have gone up more redundancy has been important (at least I thought so).

So when my first ZFS NAS (4 disks) developed hardware failure, I decided to get more serious about it. Hence larger rack device with a proper Xeon with ECC memory and an HBA for 8 disks + 2 SSDs and the old drives that survived as a play space. I’ve also used this server now for 9 years.

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That is a really nice small form factor case. I was recently looking at Fractal’s Define 7 XL because it can hold an amazing 18 3.5" + SSDs.

Welcome. I personally found it necessary because YouTube’s algo kept giving mostly QOP nazi propaganda starting back in 2016.

Wow, that didn’t used to be that way. I guess things have changed over the years.

Because of their contractor status they may not have any grounds to do so. Looks real shitty though for sure.

Exactly what I said

100% fresh

Considering what Google did to the jabber protocol, we can all be glad they gave up, IMO.

Correct

You’d be surprised at how many folks take it personally…

That’s why I posted kekw But seriously, it would be great.

Nice. What case is that. Hard to zoom in my phone.

Depends on the type and age more I think. I just picked up another pair of rdimms for the xeon that runs my nas. They used to be super expensive but pretty cheap now. Heh

Anyone that has a production postgres deployment. For backups.

Thanks for sharing this, is extremely interesting

I’m not sure what you mean. It’s true often setting up openwrt on some hardware can be difficult. Some though are not as hard, I had ok luck with some Asus routers; there is a list of hardware and features on openwrt website.

Unfortunately, as I said, there are no wifi 6 routers supported by openwrt. So I’m not using it anymore.

How do you have more than one device wired to your WAN? Most ONT only provide a single physical out line…

Have had the TP Link Deco units installed for a few days now.

They are pretty good. I’m basically able to suck up the entire bandwidth of my 500/500 fiber line directly over the wifi.

On top of that, the mesh support has been good, connecting me to the best node and passing mobile devices between nodes well.

They also have two modes BTW - normal gateway mode and just AP mode - for those who want to park them behind a pfsense router.

The janky things about them are their setup encourages you to setup via their app with an account, which many here will find at best distasteful.

Yes. And the devices also should be able to pass you between nodes for optimal reception.

This can be done by openwrt too, with the right hardware.

Sounds legit to me