Anything can be a feed with a bit of determination and a little knowhow ;)
MalReynolds
joined 1 year ago
The general datahoarder hive mind seems to be moving away from shucking and towards manufacturer refurbished drives, see https://serverpartdeals.com/ for example, especially in RAID where you can lose a drive with impunity and warranty is uncomplicated by shucking.
In RAID and similar strategies the redundancy comes from a parity drive, which protects against the loss of one (or more with some schemes) drive, so if you only have two drives of the same size it's just a mirror (50% of total pool) but you can have a drive die without data loss. With four drives you get to use three of the drives (75%), five you can use four (80%) etc. Classical RAID uses identical sized disks but there are other approaches that allow different sizes e.g. mergerfs + SnapRAID or Unraid, here you lose your largest disk to parity.
RAID is generally faster than the individual drives, e.g. mirroring is nearly twice as fast.
Perhaps go with another 2*8Tb which will get you 24Tb usable and use the 16Tb for offline, preferably offsite backup (remember RAID is not a backup, it protects you from disk failure, but not user error for example accidentally deleting things)
I just create a tun1 with openvpn (sudo openvpn --config yourConfigFile.ovpn ) and then set Nicotine to use it. Easy as...
Hear,hear. Sounds like an excellent use case for a (trained, open, RAG) LLM.
preferably a unionized trade, more staying power...
Line must go up!
And the techBro war on skilled wages continues...
less so with TCO considering the power budget...laptops however..
enshitification 101
Does cookie autodelete count?
I like SearXNG, I pipe it through a gluetun vpn tunnel to mix up my traffic with others. I turn off google and use a !g bang when really necessary. One of the killer features is setting up blacklists for content farms (see config file) which has helped my dev searches immensly, also bye fandom etc.