DO NOT USE REGULAR PCI-E CARDS THAT ADD SATA PORTS. Many are unreliable. What you want is called a SAS Host Bus Adapter card and you want to get one that’s pre-flashed in IT mode.

The LSI 9207 is a good choice.

Make sure you get the correct SAS to SATA cables and you are set. You can add 8 to 16 SATA drives with a single, high speed, and reliable card.

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That’s because they push the all in one container.

Funkwhale is fucking awful. It’s awful to setup, it’s awful on resource usage, it’s awful to manage with multiple users who may share libraries.

I’m not sure how they could fix it without a rewrite.

Because they’ve been told it’s federated and don’t understand that it really isn’t. My bluesky profile reads “Created a profile until you all figure out Bluesky is another Twitter.”

All I use it for is to read post from people not on mastodon and to reshare my bridged posts from mastodon.

So does Twitter.

They continue to control 100% of the relays so they can control what servers are connected to the others.

Yes, very recently Black Sky launched. Much too late to make any difference.

Because, despite being wildly impractical, it’s technically built on tech that COULD be decentralized. Only recent a new host launched called Black sky. So it is no longer just one host. But it’s been one host for so long it almost doesn’t matter because so few people will switch.

Everyone knows there’s nothing more sustainable than replacing working hardware.

Honestly no, that’s not really my use case. My PC is running over a 2.5G cable. Funny enough, my wife and kid’s laptops rarely leave the house. I have experienced some wait time if the server is down while the PC looks for it, but nothing so drastic as locking things up. That particular window will just be spinning for a bit trying to find the server over the network.

I can definitely say in the past I had similar experiences. I haven’t really had any problems with SMB in the last 5 years that I can recall. It really was a shit show back in the day, but it’s been rock solid for me anyway.

Yeah, Samba has come a long way. I run a Linux based server but all clients are Windows or Android so it just makes sense to run SMB shares instead of NFS.

Downvoted for reality.

That would be an insane amount of phone storage. I don’t think a single available smart phone could sync an entire professional library of photos. Especially considering how large each photo is.

Just out of curiosity, what’s the use case for having all your photos actually on the phone as opposed to remote access from your phone?

Thanks, I already have it up and running. Works great!

I didn’t realize they had updated. That’s great! I knew it was on the timeline but it works so well even with multiple instances I hadn’t been watching for it.

There really isn’t any decent alternative. I can run 4 Navidrome servers along side each other using less resources than a single copy of the alternatives. It just works and does almost everything you could want.

If you’re in the US prices are only going up, and the dollar is weakening. No better time to buy than now.