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I was under the impression, that for most (popular) chip families, like RockChip, Allwinner, Amlogic, some assorted Broadcoms, .. the Mainline linux kernel support has mostly been sorted for, and it's only the stragglers like Hisilicon, Huawei, Most Broadcom, Qualmcomm where mainline support is not on their priority list?
Does Raspberry Pi fit your definition/mental model of a straggler? It doesn’t have mainline support either!
The Cheapest NAS
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#152Everyone is an expert at storage as long as everything is working great. It's when stuff fails that you feel like an idiot and wished you had one extra hdd in your RAID array or a secondary NAS you were backing up to or one extra site you offloaded your data to. I don't do cheap any more. But I can see the appeal.
Yes. When it comes to data, don't cheap out.
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#153When people set up these NAS's, how are they accessing the files? NFS? SFTP? And how are you accessing it when away from home? A VPN that you're permanently connected to? Is there a good way to do NAT hole-punching? Syncthing kind of does what I want, in that it lets all my computers sync the same files no matter what network they're on, but it insists on always copying all the files ("syncing") whereas I just want t…
Samba and tailscale.
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#154The image builder for this board looks dodgy af: "The distribution builder is a proprietary commercial offering as it involves a lot of customer IP and integrations so it cannot be public." Seems like a supply side injector to me!
Impossible, they even put “libre” in the name!
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I second that wholeheartedly, and I also run two 19" Synology NAS units, one at home and one at the office. All smooth sailing so far. A colleague uses a QNAP instead, which he claims is better price/storage ratio at the expense of lesser software usability, and I'm okay paying a bit more of my own money (at home) as well as taxpayers' money (at work) on better usability, because it will likely pay off by saving time…
https://www.reddit.com/r/synology/comments/zhwif2/my_new_nas...
It seems a bit weird they’d disable the SMART fields just because the drive is not on their list. Those fields should work perfectly fine…?
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I've had non-ECC NAS systems for over 20 years and I've had exactly zero cases where memory corruption was an issue. It's OK for corporate systems, but complete overkill for personal setups.
> It's OK for corporate systems, but complete overkill for personal setups. My personal files are ultimately a lot more important to me and much more irreplaceable than any files at work. I'd never run a NAS without ZFS and ECC.
I don’t think I’ve ever had ECC, and have never had any issues. What kind of problems would you expect to see?
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#157My NAS is just my old gaming PC - I swapped out the GPU with a more basic one, and I add another hard drive or two every time storage gets low. It works great and costs me very little in both money and time. I'm currently at 46TB or storage, and I recently threw in a 2.5Gbps NIC when I upgraded the rest of my home network. (Mine certainly uses more electricity than the one in the article, but I pay $0.07/kwh, and run…
That's basically my setup. I used to have a dedicated gaming PC and a desktop server but haven't used them in a few years. They both have something wrong with them so I'm just going to frankenstein them together into something pretty good. A 10 year old core i7, 16gb of ram, and an old Nvidia quadro is more than enough to run a bunch of apps and Plex transcoding on top of basic file serving.
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#159My secret protip: old Fujitsu desktop/nuc PCs. At least in Germany (Europe?) they are cheap on ebay since a lot of businesses use them and upgrade on a regular schedule. If you care about power consumption like I do, you can Google "$model energy consumption white paper" which contains very accurate data about idle usage, for example https://sp.ts.fujitsu.com/dmsp/Publications/public/wp-energy... In one case I had a…
Years ago there were auction houses specialising in selling off business recycled PCs and bankrupt stock - it was great fun to go and mooch around and see if there was a real bargain not spotted, but they seemed to vanish under the onslaught of eBay and frankly for second hand tag I struggle to trust ebay
I’ve had good luck recently (sample size: 2) buying small form factor PCs off of ebay. Way more powerful than even a new raspberry pi, and a 4 core/16G RAM/256 ssd machine can be had for less than $60 if you are patient.