All form of storage rot, just at varying rates and likelihood of failure after X years. Keeping the data active and checked is the only way to guarantee it will survive over time. But multiple copies across formats will probably be good enough for 99% of cases.
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It's for encryption and decryption so only valid for VPN tunnels initiated by pfsense. Not a needed feature by any means if you don't selfhost stuff and want to setup VPN tunnels and run a lot of traffic through (like say media through Jellyfin)
Sure but I meant small form factor stuff, which I haven't seen any board with more than two slots and thus 64 GB cap.
"I specced up an equivalent NUC and there wasn’t a lot of difference in price, and the M2 is really fast."
You must be putting a lot of stock in the CPU and 10G Ethernet. Because the pricing on storage and RAM, which are much more important resources in most self-hosting scenarios, differ an extreme amount since you can't upgrade the RAM in the M-chip Minis. They also cap out at 32 GB which isn't bad but half of what say AM4 can do. Power Efficiency is of course also great on the M-series chips which is worth something.
If we're purely talking Intel NUCs then the i7s and i9s do get expensive but so does the M2 pro. M2 is absolutely faster than i5 and i3 but I can't really imagine a use case where that would matter for self-hosting?
Quick search for a product that satisfies your use case that is available in my region:
https://www.westerndigital.com/products/mp3-players/sandisk-clip-sport-plus?sku=SDMX28-016G-G46B
There's bound to be a plethora of cheaper and more expensive alternatives. And probably a lot on the used market as well.
I think you're over thinking this a lot. Why not buy a cheap MP3 player with Bluetooth? It's bound to be infinitely more usable and stable for an older person. Physical buttons is king for the elderly.
Ah, cool, quite expensive (I see prices in my area around $20 USD / 100 GB) but uses no electricity.
Thanks for informing me. If you have TBs of data it's not a sustainable solution unless you're really into indexing. But for family photos and other long term archival its pretty great actually.
Discs aren't very suitable for long term storage. Really the only thing truly suited for long term storage of digital media is archival tape. Which isn't cheap or accessible. The only accessible solution is to keep it alive in a raid and keep rebuilding as disks fail over the years.
Lol, Google translate is wild
Try telling Docker its rw explicitly:
- /mnt/photos:/photos:rw
It should be rw by default but I can't see what else could be happening. What account runs docker? What account runs nextcloud inside the container?
I have a Nihilist joke, but I don't care
You beat me to it... Talk about tone deaf