lazynooblet

1U form factor, 4 disks, using 7w whilst idle, decent enough CPU to run 1 Linux VM

I bought an RS822+ for as a veeam Linux repo.

I can’t make that myself, or I don’t know how.

It was stupid expensive and if it wasn’t the business paying I would have probably put a bunch of disks into an HP elite desk.

Ah okay. When I used Plex it had hardware acceleration. But I’d been a Plex Pass lifetime pass user for years so forgot the distinction between that and non pass. Thanks

no local hardware accel

What do you mean by this?

If you want free, there are alternatives. Plex is a business, with employees. Plex pass is their business model.

I think locking remote play is entirely enshitification however, but I get it. Plex model has them provide authentication and relay services. They are now trying to push their own streaming services which I expect is a real money sink.

What does the pixel have that an S24 doesn’t?

This is more about familiarity than difference in ease of use. I’ve used both, they are both super easy.

If you are the only user then use seafile pro. It’s free for up to 3 users.

I recently decommissioned my old poweredge T620. Beast of a thing, 5U heavy af. It had 8x10T drives and was the primary media server.

Now that it is replaced I bought 2x Synology RS822+ and filled them with the old disks. Using SHR2. They are mixed brands bought at different times so I’ve made sure each NAS has a mix of disks.

Lowest is 33k hours, highest is 83k.

Isn’t your use case exactly what Ceph is for?

In 2010 I self hosted a Xen hypervisor and used it for everything I could. It was fun!

I had a drive failure in my main raid 5 array so bought a new disk. When it came to swap it out, I pulled the wrong disk.

It was hardware raid using an Adaptec card and the card threw the raid out and refused to bring it together again. I couldn’t afford recovery. I remember I just sat there, dumb founded, in disbelief. I went through all the stages of grief.

I was in the middle of a migration from OVH to Hetzner and it occurred at a time where I had yet to reconfigure remote backups.

I lost all my photos of our first child. Luckily some of them were digitised from developed physical media which we still had. But a lot was lost.

This was my lesson.

I now have veeam, proxmox backup server, backuppc and Borg. Backups are hosted in 2 online locations and a separate physical server elsewhere in the house.

Backups are super, SUPER important. I’ve lost count how many times I’ve logged into backuppc to restore a file or folder because I did a silly. And it’s always reassuring how easy it is to restore.

It’s been a while since a power cut affected my services, is this why?

I remember having to troubleshoot mysql corruption following abrupt power loss, is this no longer a thing?

Does jellyfish not transcode on the fly?

Can someone explain the benefits of LXD without the opinionated crap?

My dude. Even 4K video is ~50mbps, you don’t need to worry about this as much as you do.

How is that annoying and how else would you expect that to function?

If the data is local doesn’t it still stream over http?

Monitoring is the key. I use Zabbix, but essentially you want to gather metrics and report on issues.

Once things are set up and working, even with 10s of VMs and applications, it’s quite reliable. The biggest things that catch you out are updates breaking functionality, updates requiring additional manual steps, running out of disk space or expired certificates.

I find I get a spurt of energy to recreate or implement a new system every few months but things just tick over in the meantime.

To take your analogy, it could be someone hosts a collection of material in your yard and invites all the pedos to use your yard to see and share other material.

There are mini pcs running atom or celeron with impressive specs and Gbit capability that use <15w