hottest day in what seemed like forever was here on Monday. Stayed away from studio/office as the heat was just unbearable! Im in the UK and it was around 32 outside and 35 in office as the 4-node heat generator was making a racket!

transitioning away from raid but I do love zfs for flexibility. A lot of the data I have is important for someone or somebody, so zfs and a decent backup solution is in use just to make sure. I went bananas and picked up a used Supermicro 4-node server that takes dual E5 Zeons (V1 or V2) with 2xE5-2620s and 49 gig ram in each node for £80 (I’m in the UK). Plenty of power and next is to upgrade the cpus to slightly better cpus to reduce power as it currently uses 2 nodes and I am pulling around 300 watts most of the time. Backup solution is an old Ryzen 3200G with 32 gig ram that runs truenas and has 5x3tb spinny drives in it

It was minding it’s own business and adding them… lol 😀

no issues with temps here in the UK, but the fans don’t sound happy…

Seen plenty of people who think this is a bad thing, do they just want everything to be crawled. I mean I don’t think this is the saviour but it has got to be better than wholesale theft

Not seen anything quite like that to be honest, but I do have a service running a pretty decent chat room system that doesn’t keep any data after the room is nuked. Not quite the same I know… but it works well for me!

https://chat.3dcandy.live/

to be fair I really just used my relay for myself and didn’t run into that many issues… but this IS the reality if you want to help others like you said…

Hey welcome to the fun of multiple drives. If you have the drives available then truenas (which uses OpenZFS) is better IMHO than hardware raid as it is just more resilient and you can (most of the time) move zfs data/pools around easily. I’m guessing ye olde Dell has a Dell raid card, and whilst they are ok, zfs is way better nowadays. If you value your data then parity and mirroring make for way better usage of drive space if you are careful. I mean zfs easily can support losing a whole drive (or 2 if you wish) without losing data, and the rebuild speed is pretty much 10X faster than old dell raid cards IF a drive does fail. Truenas has some great features built in for backup etc. and a decent truenas setup is way more flexible than a lot of the cheaper pre-built nas boxes as well. Of course, your mileage might vary, but I wouldn’t be without my truenas setup now. It also serves via shares to the android tv box for movies etc. I don’t even bother with plex. Whilst you might keep a single drive as a backup of the backup that pretty much wouldn’t be needed in zfs as the data is pretty damn secure with parity, but you might not agree. The other beauty of using zfs is that it is perfectly happy to use sata/sas/m.2 drives or whatever as long as they are accessed directly, though with an old dell raid card if it doesn’t support it mode or pass through for the drives it doesn’t work - zfs just needs simple access to the drive

I just installed a port of AndroidTV on mine and then changed over to an android tv box because they have a remote that just works etc. Connected to our surround sound system>projector it is just easy to do. I don’t even bother with plex anymore as the NAS box just serves files over ethernet/wifi and the box can, if needed, just download the file. You can then, of course install apps on android and do it that way if needed

I agree Wordpress isn’t cool BUT I have so many years that I still find it the quickest way to launch a site for a lot of people. Oh and the block editor is fantastic once you get used to it, I wouldn’t go back now…

Hey there are various ways to do it, but if you have a suitable bit of hardware I’d self host at home - just because! Pi 4B would be better but you can quickly get loads of traffic so if you broadband isn’t great it can slow things down! If you want to host a tor relay and self host other stuff there are means and ways to do that as well. I have run a tor relay before through yunohost for example