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NAS is so damn expensive, I'm still planning on building a PLEX media server myself and using it was way. Those QNAP things pushing 2500 for the 4k transcode things it's like OK at that point I can build something myself that has way more of the features I'd want and have way more customizability.
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My point is regarding writes specifically. A HDD can typically survive longer than a SSD if they were both to receive the same amount of writes over time. SSDs use flash memory cells, which have a limited amount of writes you can do to them before they start to fail. Compared to magnetic disks in HDDs that don't have a finite lifetime of writes. If you are mostly reading data, then no worries, probably won't affect y…
How often do you move or delete your backed up photos?
Sure, if you upload 10 photos a week and never do any other reads, go with a SSD for all I care, it'll last long enough.
This looks great and the self hosting instructions are fine too. But I think the Apps don‘t support using your own server yet, right?
Currently you've to pass build time flags[1] to modify the endpoint.
Providing an option in-app to change the endpoint is under discussion[2].
[1]: https://github.com/ente-io/ente/blob/main/server/RUNNING.md#...
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This is awesome to see, congratulations from the Immich team on building an amazing app!
Thank you! We're fans of Immich!
Do you backup changed photos in iOS?
How do you backup a slow motion video on iOS? Synology exports, meaning your 240fps video becomes a 30fps video.
Immich retains the 240fps.
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What exactly would you want? Would you be willing to pay for it? How much?
Set up a software on a vps that uses s3 backend. People would upload, backup, share their photos and media. Its not in a single place so I can't use local sync and stuff.
Out of curiosity I checked Dropbox:
https://www.dropbox.com/plans/storage
9 USD per month gives you 2TB storage (vs. 500GB here)
I don't really get what justifies the 4x price (some of the features look like what you can get from a Gallery app like Aves) So it's looking kinda DOA to me.
The intersection of people that care about open source and people that want to backup their photos also seems really minuscule. If Dropbox goes rogue and you need to switch providers.. that doesn't seem like a big deal? It's nice here that you can in theory selfhost and keep using it.. but that doesn't seem like "a big win" either. Most people that back up their pics in ~the cloud~ won't have the technical skills to do self-host
EDIT: There is a comparison: https://ente.io/compare/ente-vs-dropbox/
It seems like the added feature boils down to automatically encrypting files. With Dropbox I guess you could accomplish the same, but you'd need to encrypt manually. Maybe for people with a lot of dick pics or illegal material this product is worth the 4x price
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> A cheap SSD might reliably last five years, a nice one, about ten years, as far as I know. Solution: a RAID system with 5 reliable disks and you replace 2 of them every 5th year, and the other 3 in the following 4 years.
This works great, until you have coordinated failures, e.g. due to a firmware bug that's dependent on the uptime of the disk ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32031243 ). RAID is only useful as long as you don't suffer more simultaneous disk failures than you've provisioned for (where "simultaneous" is dependent on your time-to-repair, since if it takes you a week to replace a dead drive, then two failures in th…
I don't really get the business model. An open source stack makes sense for products targeted towards programmers. Out of curiosity I checked Dropbox: https://www.dropbox.com/plans/storage 9 USD per month gives you 2TB storage (vs. 500GB here) I don't really get what justifies the 4x price (some of the features look like what you can get from a Gallery app like Aves) So it's looking kinda DOA to me. The intersection…
And that's probably better for them, because it's much easier to lose data from your own NAS than it is for a cloud storage provider to do so.
Kudos on the Ente team!!
Does it do background sync on iOS?. There are so many alternatives to Apple Photos, all with this handicap. “Leave the app open for it to sync” Photos are the only reason I pay for the 2 TB plan on iCloud. I don’t need all the photos on device all the time. If I can _reliably_ stash them in remote servers and have a way to access them on-demand on the phone, I can take the money I give Apple and pay for the app that…
Apple is the reason. They make it impossible to compete, their apps have permissions no one else can have.