Mainly, I’m wondering if I should migrate /home/ to my RAID array, or leave /home/ where it is and create a new directory on the RAID array.
Leave home where it is. Symlink to important directories on RAID.
Makes it easier to mess with the RAID if it doesn’t make logging in hard.
For roll your own, FreeBSD and ZFS on any old desktop with 4 SATA ports is pretty nice and cheap. Built in encryption, NFS, SMB services. Navidrome has install directions for serving music. Pretty secure by default.
I like reminding people that with every new technology, the old one is still around. The new gets most of the attention, but the old is still kicking. (We still have wire wrapped programs kicking around.)
You are all good. Spend your limited attention on other things.
“Easier” and “simpler” are in the eye of the beholder.
A different way to approach it is to limit the failure domains. If this breaks how sad are you?
I would separate storage from the rest. Networking stuff together may be fine. Home assistant depends on how dependent on it your household is.
I have not had an issue mixing and matching drives in a hardware or software RAID. Just needs to be at least as big as the previous.
I have had issues with non-vendor drives in Dell and/or HP systems.
(I am a pro, but not your pro.)
Yes! It is great.
Any more I reencode for local streaming to my TV.
Google has laid off their Python Foundation team and asked them to train their replacements who will be in the Munich office.
There was a nonfederated one. Elk talk, or Oxes. Anyway, most useful on college campuses. Pointing this out for reseach.
Sounds great!
Edit: It was yikyak!
Have you tried a restore? A non-differential smap snapshot should be fine, but differential snapshots would make a restore difficult to impossible.
A zfssend and zfsrestore with a differential snapshot would be more traditional. If one put mbuffer in the middle, it would even be fast.
Thank you. That was very clear. I look forward to seeing the results of the developments.
Sure, but not one of those is a reason to use it.
Please give me one example of how sublinks is better than lemmy currently for use.
(I don’t understand why new software instead of improving lemmy.)
Kinda related: what if I install something like Debian/Ubuntu on it? Can I still use the NAS hardware in the same way?
This question confuses me. Debian and Ubuntu can be setup to be NASes.
NAS is a description of a mid-level function that various software provide a part of.
Various file systems and volume managers can provide snapshots and rollbacks. To aid your research LVM, ZFS, and many others support snapshots.
There are various ways to then expose the formatted space to the network. To aid research NFS, SMB, and iSCSI are options.
Anyway, I hope this is helpful to someone.
I had not, but I don’t read the names. I will endeavor to notice. Thank you for the heads up.
I wonder if the specifics of the hack would make backing up elsewhere fail. Possibly by spreading the hack to new machines.
In any case, testing backups is important.
Also consider rubber feet.
Does the sound correspond to the power draw?
Power at idle and with Home Assistant running. I assume the noise is when the power draw is higher, but that is unclear.
To me, it sounds like the HDDs. What is anything is using them? Often raids will scan then entire disk at initial setup.
I tend to buy two at a time. Some are months old, others three years old.
Professionally, I have seen drives over 10 years always on at low utilization without issue. (The data was easily replaceable.)
Heat is a killer. Check them regularly.