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priznat posted:The node 804 makes the most sense but I just really don’t want to buy another case.. I was hesitant to move the i7 into the i5 case but that’s probably the most sensible option. I thought I wanted hot swap bays. Then I realized what a nightmare the thermals are in all of the cases that support them, and realized that I didn't actually need hot swap support outside of the novelty of it. My Node 804 is nice and quiet and my drives temps are great!
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fletcher posted:I thought I wanted hot swap bays. Then I realized what a nightmare the thermals are in all of the cases that support them, and realized that I didn't actually need hot swap support outside of the novelty of it. My Node 804 is nice and quiet and my drives temps are great! They're fun in the enterprise gear I have with them, but ... I've never needed to hotswap a drive.
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I don’t care about hot swapping I just wanted to attach a bunch of drives to a computer in a case that can’t fit anymore drives inside it  Actually kind of thinking about just dangling sata cables out of the case and having the drives loose!
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Just build a disk stand.
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Ha, it feels like the overlap between maxtor drives, noctua fan, that case, the non-modular PSU and the red SATA cables is enough to date this build very precisely. (I'll guess 2006?)
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Jul 22, 2022 12:56
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All these non-cat owners sure come up with some janky setups.
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Saukkis posted:Just build a disk stand.  Is that bolted to the floor too?
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Mr. Crow posted:
It's bolted to a piece of wood that's only slightly lighter than the floor.
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who gives a poo poo your fuckin nas shouldn't be the centerpiece of your house, lol. looks fine! big piece of wood presumably to deal with the vibrations, lol. i love it.
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Yeah that’s what I was thinking of building, something like that! Need to source those rails somewhere. It’ll just live on a shelf in my basement so no one will ever see it.
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Jul 22, 2022 22:35
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Build a sweet mineral oil tank for them instead!
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CoolCab posted:who gives a poo poo your fuckin nas shouldn't be the centerpiece of your house, lol. looks fine! big piece of wood presumably to deal with the vibrations, lol. i love it. Hopefully we will get to a point where everyone's NAS is the centerpiece of their house.
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I was considering a loose drive setup a while back, but opted for a single drive, KISS setup instead.
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From the plex thread:FCKGW posted:For anyone running Unraid they're having a 30% off sale on upgrades
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Computer viking posted:Ha, it feels like the overlap between maxtor drives, noctua fan, that case, the non-modular PSU and the red SATA cables is enough to date this build very precisely. Well what do you know, the picture is from October 2007. priznat posted:Yeah that’s what I was thinking of building, something like that! Need to source those rails somewhere. It’ll just live on a shelf in my basement so no one will ever see it. They're just standard aluminum L-bars.
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So after like 7 years of USB stick boot drives on Free/TrueNAS I think it's time to move to SSD (still external USB though). I suppose buying the cheapest named M.2 SATA (e.g. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07H23ZD94/) I can find and shoving into the cheapest enclosure (e.g https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B089GV3FYS/ ) I can find would be better than the RNG-named seller externals that go for <$30? Not going to consider the branded externals at 3x the price and overkill in terms of storage. E: Actually interesting, ADATA has something in the el-cheapo range too ( https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07PKS797D ) lurksion fucked around with this message at 19:42 on Jul 23, 2022 |
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I think I'd go with the combo of m.2 and enclosure you found, since that team group drive promises to be TLC and the Q in the adata's name probably indicates QLC. I'm kinda the QLC defender normally, but not on tiny drives.
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Can anyone point me to the directory in TrueNAS where the Cloud Sync tasks live? I would like to copy/edit a few of the tasks manually.
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Smashing Link posted:Can anyone point me to the directory in TrueNAS where the Cloud Sync tasks live? I would like to copy/edit a few of the tasks manually. Seems like they don't live anywhere: "rclone config are generated from middleware dynamically in /tmp folder as temp files during execution of cloud sync jobs."
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Sir Bobert Fishbone posted:Seems like they don't live anywhere: Wow that's super annoying! Thanks for the answer though, appreciate it.
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Stupid question time (I apologise, the OP is 10 years old it seems at this point?). I picked up a nice Synology DS218Play recently because I just want a nice little file setup and not have to worry about my various aging Windows devices dying with a load of files on them. Networking stuff isn't my strong point so please excuse if any of this stuff is basic basic. It's sat on my network at home directly plugged into the router, it has a log in for me etc and I can see it, use it. I'm just wondering how vulnerable it is as a device sat plugged into the piece of kit that's connected to the entire planet. I've seen lots of talk about VPNs etc (it comes with Tailscale as a downloadable in the software centre) but is there anything I should be doing if it is indeed pwnable? Thank you.
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Usually by default a consumer router will act as a basic firewall as well in that it won't allow connections initiated from the outside to reach devices on the inside. Unless you've punched a hole in the firewall by configuring port forwarding or something like that to allow you to reach the Synology from outside, an attacker on the Internet will only be able to reach the router itself via your global IP address. As long as the router is secure you're fine, and if it isn't then the Synology isn't your only problem.
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Olympic Mathlete posted:Stupid question time (I apologise, the OP is 10 years old it seems at this point?). I picked up a nice Synology DS218Play recently because I just want a nice little file setup and not have to worry about my various aging Windows devices dying with a load of files on them. Networking stuff isn't my strong point so please excuse if any of this stuff is basic basic. It's sat on my network at home directly plugged into the router, it has a log in for me etc and I can see it, use it. I'm just wondering how vulnerable it is as a device sat plugged into the piece of kit that's connected to the entire planet. I've seen lots of talk about VPNs etc (it comes with Tailscale as a downloadable in the software centre) but is there anything I should be doing if it is indeed pwnable? Your router should be providing some protection -- they have basic firewalls built in, so random traffic trying to get to devices on the other side will be denied. As long as you don't put the NAS in the DMZ* or use port forwarding to punch a hole in the firewall, it should be good. If you want to access your files from outside your home, there's a Synology app to set that up in a secure way. *a "feature" that I think most home routers don't even offer anymore, because it just led to people being pwned Also, Synology runs linux and can be set to auto-update. I'm not sure what the default is -- you should check during setup. Auto-updates are sometimes a problem because they can break the add-on packages like plex etc, at least until the add-on updates. But if you want security above everything else, you should do that. A VPN won't help at all. At least not an easy off-the-shelf setup like you see on every youtube video sponsor ad. Following the basic instructions for VPN services will put software on your PC to use the VPN, and won't affect / protect anything else on your home network. VPNs aren't really
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OP hasn't been active ITT for almost a decade. I know mods/admins seem to be working on re-creating megathreads for some of the forums, so I'm wondering if it's time we got a new digital packrat thread?
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I think a new thread is probably a good idea and has been for a while, it would just take someone doing the work to put a new first post together.
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Eletriarnation posted:Usually by default a consumer router will act as a basic firewall as well in that it won't allow connections initiated from the outside to reach devices on the inside. Unless you've punched a hole in the firewall by configuring port forwarding or something like that to allow you to reach the Synology from outside, an attacker on the Internet will only be able to reach the router itself via your global IP address. As long as the router is secure you're fine, and if it isn't then the Synology isn't your only problem. Klyith posted:Your router should be providing some protection -- they have basic firewalls built in, so random traffic trying to get to devices on the other side will be denied. As long as you don't put the NAS in the DMZ* or use port forwarding to punch a hole in the firewall, it should be good. If you want to access your files from outside your home, there's a Synology app to set that up in a secure way. Thank you, much appreciated. No port forwarding has been done and I'll check my router firewall later when I get home to be sure.
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BlankSystemDaemon posted:I know mods/admins seem to be working on re-creating megathreads for some of the forums, so I'm wondering if it's time we got a new digital packrat thread?
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yeah that would own, honestly. I kind of gave up and need to take another crack at it, in particular links to good guides to do even the relatively basic command line ssh access and setting up keys so you can connect remotely, open ports etc
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necrobobsledder posted:There's a lot of spillover from the homelab thread in terms of content and discussion but at the same time this thread is intended as a more accessible thread meant for people that just need to store their Linux ISOs and family photos somewhere other than a cloud provider that can go poof anytime. An OP with updated recommended models of prebuilt NAS options and NAS software RAID options should be sufficient enough for newcomers.
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BlankSystemDaemon posted:Plex is, when you think about it, not that far away from being something that could be called a scam, in that you're paying money for them letting you use code already built into the program using an API from Intel that's freely available to anyone who cares to look it up. you’re paying for something that’s in active development, has apps for everything, has a host of features built up over years, and will probably be here in 5 years unlike the flavour-of-the-month OSS project du jour maybe i’d have an issue if they took away the lifetime option because gently caress another subscription at this point, but as it stands i’m not averse to paying for software
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I decided to redo my Drive setup for the billionth time because a big raidz2 pool had poo poo iops and subjects me to the noise of all my drives thrashing at once and the unRAID user share doesn't do posix ACLs. Now I decided to split my big mostly WORM data (like media) into a MergerFS with snapraid. And my smaller more active data into a zfs mirror. Snapraid has some big upsides and big downsides compared to something like unRAID, but hopefully splitting the data like this will be good for my use case.
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Saukkis posted:Just build a disk stand. NSFW that poo poo. Yuck!
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Generic Monk posted:you’re paying for something that’s in active development, has apps for everything, has a host of features built up over years, and will probably be here in 5 years unlike the flavour-of-the-month OSS project du jour I think you're biased because you already have a lifetime pass, which is fine. Plex was fine / good for a really long time. Its slow as poo poo lately with medium+ sized libraries and has a bunch of anti-consumer dark patterns these days and jellyfin is subjectively better except in the "available on all platforms" department. That said it (jellyfin) runs great on android and android is ubiquitous so its a hard argument to make. There is absolutely no reason to pay for a media server these days. Mr. Crow fucked around with this message at 16:11 on Jul 29, 2022 |
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pitch me jellyfin over plex, is it more resource intensive? do i need to run it in a container or whatever, is it user friendly?
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CoolCab posted:pitch me jellyfin over plex, is it more resource intensive? do i need to run it in a container or whatever, is it user friendly? I haven't gotten around to installing it yet, but have been meaning to run it side by side with plex for a while.
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CoolCab posted:pitch me jellyfin over plex, is it more resource intensive? The opposite in my experience, i have a medium-large(?) sized library of several TB and at least a few years ago plex was extremely slow to tab through my library to find something to watch, same with search. Jellyfin is as you expect and basically instantaneous. Its basically an identical UX from the admin side, has containers you can use or not, lots of plugins etc. I dunno how easy or not it is to share with other people outside my domain as mine is for household only but it seems easy enough? I watch it when traveling through a wireguard tunnel and i have a firestick thats basically fully configured so i don't have to do any setup, i just plug it into a hotel TV or whatever, join the wifi and off to the races. I will say getting wireguard working on the firestick was a bit of a pain but you could throw a proxy in front of jellyfin and just connect to it directly if thats your jam, I'm always a bit uncomfortable doing that. Also I watch / transcode 4k content just fine (e.g. barely) on my old as poo poo CPU on the media server, some 10+ year old xeon with none of the modern CPU/GPU hardware encoders so I'd be surprised if anyone had issues there. Mr. Crow fucked around with this message at 16:58 on Jul 29, 2022 |
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The one thing I can add regarding Jellyfin is that the Windows server has problems that the Linux server does not. The ‘resume watching’ feature would completely fail from Windows and it worked fine from Linux. I joined the Discord server, asked around, and ended up buying a machine to dedicate to nas and Linux sever duties. The devs are all running Linux, so MacOS and Windows servers are the bastard children. Works great now!
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Is it pretty easy to run Jellyfin alongside Plex? Can I keep my plex DB/Media going while trying out Jellyfin for my personal use?
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