LazerFX

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

As "three dead trolls in a baggie" famously sung... "Every OS Sucks".

As true today as when it was first penned.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

No worries... It's a pretty obscure math joke anyway :⁠-⁠P

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Maths - sin, tan and cos are all factors of the rotation of a circle, hence pi being on there. I'm not a mathematician, I just watch standup maths and can recommend his book, "love triangle" to explain this sort of stuff.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

The ICO in the UK is pretty good... I used to work on their CRM system and it was an eye opener how little, and also how big the things they investigated were.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

I'm in the UK. I'll never brag about our train system, not after Twatcher privatised them, and further back the horrific Beeching cuts.

The rest - yeah, worth it.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago (5 children)

This is illegal in UK and Europe...

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago

Getting 1 star on GitHub

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Well, now you've called it out, I've got to updeet it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

According to the man(8) page, it will avoid touching any blocks that have the chattr -f flag set, which is XSR_XFLAGS_NODEFRAG... So I think if the docs are still accurate to the code, yes.

A lot of ifs in that assumption.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I understood that XFS automatically mounted SSD's with XFS_XFLAG_NODEFRAG set? Is this not the case?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (4 children)

That's because the drive was written to its limits; the defrag runs a TRIM command that safely releases and resets empty sectors. Random reads and sequential reads /on clean drives that are regularly TRIMmed/ are within random variance of each other.

Source: ran large scale data collection for a data centre when SSDs were relatively new to the company so focused a lot on it, plus lots of data from various sectors since.

 

So I'm looking to build my own CM4-based NAS appliance. I figure that I've got the time to build it, and it'll be cheaper, more powerful and more capable than an off-the-shelf appliance (such as a QNAP or Synology device).

I'm looking to use it for self-hosting, probably 2 - 4 SSD's to run it (Happy to spend the money on the drives, as I can spread that out over time)... will likely start with a relatively cheap 2tib 2.5" SSD like the Crucial BX500 and scale up as I go...

I'd like a relatively neat box - something like the Argon EON. I'd like to use the CM4 because it's got the PCI-E so you can use a relatively full-speed ACPI interface to the SATA ports, which rules out the Argon EON (Except, possibly, as a donor case). I don't have a 3D Printer, but I'd be happy to purchase a printed model from a makers group or similar. I'm happy to actually build up a unit (setting up fans, etc.) but I've no soldering experience whatsoever.

Software-wise, I've already got a RPI4 which I've been playing around with... Seems pretty good, and I had pi-hole running on it for a while (until SD card unreliability took it down).

Does anyone have any experience with a build like this? Any advice on what cases to use, what hats for the PCIE-to-SATA work best? Anything at all, really, that you'd advise?

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