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Cake day: March 28th, 2023
  • unsaid0415@szmer.infotoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•Can I build a NAS out of a desktop? [Request]English
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    11 months ago

    Yeah. That’s what I used to do when I started out.

    The simplest thing to do is install Debian on the computer and create partitions. You have 4 HDDs and 2 SSDs so it’d be stupid to create 6 separate partitions for each drive.

    See in the BIOS if your motherboard supports software RAID1, so you are protected against drive failure somewhat. This will allow you to get something barebones running that’ll use at least 2 drives with redundancy. I assume the mobo RAID1 is stupid and only allows for max 2 drives, so the other drives will be just laying around useless. If that’s the case, probably use the 2 SSDs first. I see other posters recommending higher orders of RAID, but I only have 2 HDDs so I never really delved into that :P Perhaps that’s sound

    With a system like that you could probably set up some small NFS for sharing your files by configuring it manually from the terminal.

    Note that going with raw linux is “simpler” in the sense that it’s perhaps easier to wrap your head around or tinker with, but TrueNAS or Unraid have GUIs that will allow you to create e.g. the mentioned NFS share with a few clicks, rather than having to do it from the terminal. Depends on what you’re looking for. You could move up to TrueNAS or Unraid once you’ve played with raw Linux enough for example.

    Once you have that,

    I only ever dealt with ZFS and TrueNAS. ZFS will allow you to create a “partition” (pool in zfs terms) from many drives at the same time, so you’d be able to use more drives than just the two from RAID1.

    The drives that you have are probably shitty SMR drives whose write speed dramatically slows down once you’re writing to them for a longer time. Consider buying CMR drives in the future, or just going all-SSD if it fits your usecase. ZFS hates SMR drives.

  • unsaid0415@szmer.infotoWorld News@lemmy.ml•Joe Biden wants more people to start living in empty officesEnglish
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    1 year ago

    If the average Joe now has more money from the government, wouldn’t that drive the property prices up? Polish govt has a program where a mortgage is guaranteed to have 2% interest rate, while in reality the govt pays the difference between the 2% and the actual bank’s interest rate, and that just made the prices of housing increase.

    The only way not to give money to already rich developers is to have the govt build houses on its own to compete with the developers themselves, which is I assume unthinkable in the US. That would literally be communism

  • unsaid0415@szmer.infotoTechnology@beehaw.org•Gitlab working on ActivityPub for Merge/Pull requests
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    1 year ago

    I have a self hosted Forgejo instance with disabled user registration. The problem is as you mentioned ,- nobody wants to create yet another account. What’s more, it’s not possible to create PRs using e-mail.

    I’d have to give out my e-mail somewhere on the git page then say “send patches here”.

    It’s somewhat wise to disable user registration because users can freely fork your repos within your instance then change the fork to host whatever they want.