On an unrelated note a set up my first home server. Uhhh wasnt easy but now that its set up, also unrelated, I canceled all my streaming services.
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I'm just going to leave this unrelated gif here.
1 million tabs open. Having finished it doesnt seem to hard now but fuck me if the how to guides were ever so helpful.
Jeez, I've been a cook this entire time following a recipe having no idea what im doing and why im doing it while the chefs have been like step 1 make a Souffle, make the Souffle.
Having fun now though.
Welcome to the journey. It’s a never ending venture and you’ll keep adding to it.
I just started using docker containers and I keep finding new containers to add to my setup. Even transferred PiHole off being a standalone service to being a container and setting up a second docker instance and now going to set up a redundant PiHole on my first docker setup.
I hope to get the last components for my first server at home after christmas.
I need:
2x 8TB HDDs
2x 2TB SSDs
1x SFP+ NIC
1x SATA controller card
1x Intel GPU
Hey, what's the advantage of a mix of SSD and HDD? Do you have some raid/cache setup? I'm.. I mean a friend of mine is still a beginner and using a single 1TB disk which is filling up fast. And they are trying to understand next steps.
I think it’s mostly price per TB so you get a couple for storage that doesn’t require faster access speeds
Well, yeah, but I think for long term storage I would just get all HDDs anyway. Don't they last longer? Or is that no longer the case?
My plan for my server is to run 6x 8TB HDDs in a ZFS raid with two parity drives, use one SSD as an L2ARC cache and one SSD for use as a storage container for server apps, say like PiHole, Bitwarden, Home Assistant and Jellyfin.
This will give me 32TB of storage with two disks redundancy and a 2TB cache.
I currently have about 6TB of media across two drives, about 2TB of which are my personal photos.
Thanks for the details! Would you ever consider getting 2nd hand hard drives if you're running a raid5? I saw some for sale, but not sure I can't trust them.
Since I can afford them, I have only considered new drives.
I would consider refurbished drives for a less critical application, say if I ran several several redundant several redundant servers.
I would not use general 2nd hand drives for anything other than experimental/homlab use, with refurbished drives you will at least have some knowledge of the general reliability of the drives, with simple used drives, that is not the case.
I have already had bitrot ruin a few of my personal photos, witch is why I want double protection on my storage, I am considering having my NAS run read verification of all files two times a year, if data get's corrupt, the NAS can use the double parity data to restore the lost data, running it twice a year should be enough to deal with my stuff, while not adversly affect the lifetime of the HDDs in any meaningfull way.
They aren't telling you how Netflix started operating without licenses, essentially profiting from piracy without paying a dime to creators. In a capitalist society where creators are often paid only for their time and don't receive a share of the profits, some argue that it's more ethical to pirate content to prevent companies from exploiting workers. Instead, it's better to support indie content, where your money actually ends up in the creator's pocket.
Spotify used pirated music when demonstrating their service to investors and music labels
Exactly why I signed up to dropout.tv despite a bunch of trouble signing up. For some reason, my card kept getting declined, and I spent over a month going back and forth with my bank figuring it out. In my part of the world, paying YouTube to become a member of their channel and get all the same content would have been way cheaper and WAAAAYY less hassle, but fuck if I'm gonna give YouTube money when I can give it directly to the creators.
Instead, it's better to support indie content, where your money actually ends up in the creator's pocket.
Reminds me to start my annual crowdsourcing support via Startnext, where I use the money I saved by pirating instead streaming, to support the projects of Newcomers (mostly Musicians).
Bandcamp is a good way to get music files you keep forever from artists who deserve the dough as well.
malware, scams, security vulnerabilities, and potentially compromised devices or personal data.
Malware/viruses - Linux on a dedicated computer.
Scams - preloaded credit cards are a thing. Have been for a while. "Oh no they drained the $9.40 left on the card."
Compromised devices- Linux on a dedicated computer. If it does happen, popping out the hard drive and re-imaging the OS doesn't take long. I have had to do that a few times anyways for the occasional "whoopsies my bad, I shouldn't have done that" anyways.
Personal data - Linux on a dedicated computer with zero personal data.