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Network upgrade! in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I think my first hub was in a transparent plastic case.

I reckon I might still have it, but alas I currently live 10000 miles away from the attic the hub might be in.

Couldn't afford the power bill anymore so I adapted and overcame. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Personally I wouldn't want to virtualize pfSense. It needs to be it's own piece of hardware so it isn't affected if you need to take the main server down.

WD drives. Do I really need to buy the NAS-specifix drive? in c/[email protected]
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WD drives. Do I really need to buy the NAS-specifix drive? (alien.top)
 

Hi. I'm in Australia and Amazon have both the 6TB WD Blue Desktop and WD NAS drives available, but the latter is 100 bucks more than the former (280 vs 190). They're both 5400rpm and have 256MB cache.

I run UnRAID at home, with the computer on 99% of the time. The drives are set to spin down after 15 minutes and I reckon at least a couple of my 8 drives spin up a handful of times a day.

What am I getting for that extra 100 bucks? What would I be missing out on if I bought the cheaper ones? I'd be thinking of buying 2 as one of them would be my new parity drive.

Thanks for any advice.

How much do you spend on maintaining your data hoard? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

As little as possible. Almost everything in my NAS is hardware from other systems that I've upgraded.

UnRAID is great in that you can start off small and grow at your own speed.