NGL I’d love this too

Unfortunately I have no recommendations as mine have been primarily physical journals

Recent events with streaming services has really been the best argument for self hosting your own content

“Now announcing UnRAID 2, UnRAID original will no longer receive updates as we focus our resources on UnRAID 2.”

And “UnRAID 2” will only have a subscription model, and people will the OG lifetime license won’t be grandfathered into the new license.

Like Adobe and Photoshop.

I’d say it’ll happen before 2030.

But I may just be cynical at this point.

I am as well but it looks like it’s new accounts every time and they make just a single post, the spam post

At least this time the spam is just an image link to some random discord server and not CSAM

My first NAS was an old desktop that I got for $300 running an FX-6300 and a GTX 550, I slapped a couple hard drives in there, installed Ubuntu, and made an SMB share.

I’d recommend installing TrueNAS Scale on a system rather than doing what I did in part due to it being so much better than what I was doing, but you could run it on a potato if you wanted.

Hell my latest NAS upgrade is going from a PowerEdge T610 (tower server from like 2010ish) running TrueNAS Scale to a normal desktop (from 2017) running TrueNAS Scale

If anything using normal desktop hardware makes servicing it easier than using old server hardware

I’ve currently got the Meshify C (not the 2) for my main gaming rig and I’ve dug it the whole time I’ve had it; looking at the drive mounting for the Meshify 2 makes me really want it for sure as that looks really convenient

The more I looked at the Node 804 since I made this post the less I liked it

NGL I wish their North line of cases had more slots for HDDs

Simplest would be off an off the shelf NAS

Yeah it’ll cost more but there’s a support line other than you to call if something goes wrong

Which one specifically I don’t know, the Nas I have I built myself and installed TrueNAS Scale.

Currently 60 days

When the power goes out my nas shuts down and also for updates

You wouldn’t mind sharing where to look for surplus stuff would you?

You could set it up as an emulator box, I’m not sure how new of console you could go up to but you could probably run stuff pre-PS2 with it.

PS2 is pretty tough to emulate on older hardware.