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  • realtimesave @ realtimesave:
    if I was going to do NAS I'd just get a dedicated nas box of some sort, rather than building out a pc or server I think
  • realtimesave @ realtimesave:
    @K3Nv3 I have 3 RGB usb 3.0 docks, they luckily work fine
  • K3Nv3 @ K3Nv3:
    5.25" caddys are getting cheap also
  • wolffangalchemist @ wolffangalchemist:
    i use openmediavault , i intended to set it up for personal cloud access but haven't had the down time to do it,
    so for now just move stuff over local network wen needed.
  • realtimesave @ realtimesave:
    I'd be better off using nas for movies above anything else
  • realtimesave @ realtimesave:
    then I could share the movies to every device in the house
  • K3Nv3 @ K3Nv3:
    I miss 5.25" bays on cases
  • K3Nv3 @ K3Nv3:
    But still it's one of those things that's like all you really need is 3 USB ports
  • wolffangalchemist @ wolffangalchemist:
    before i was using the M720q i was usinf a second gen wd my cloud with a extra drive plugged into it running custom debian install of openmediavault made my some russia guy i fould in a forum post i could not read. sure it was safe lol
    +1
  • Sicklyboy @ Sicklyboy:
    @wolffangalchemist, nothing small time about those Lenovo tiny PCs though, those things are stupid powerful for how little power they consume. I'm running pretty much my entire homelab stack on one m920q right now, it's sipping like 50w at load and replaced a box that was idling at >200w
  • Sicklyboy @ Sicklyboy:
    I had/have two custom built rackmount servers that I was using for my proxmox cluster but they just take up so much space and power. The only downside to these tiny PCs is RAM constraints, so I've offloaded some services to docker containers on my NASes instead since those aren't doing too much to begin with.
  • realtimesave @ realtimesave:
    I had some really old AMD server dual CPU with enormous heat sinks but it didn't have modern features such as virtualization support so I scrapped the entire thing
    +1
  • Sicklyboy @ Sicklyboy:
    I also had one of those WD MyCloud things or whatever my version was called. I had root access on that too, whatever stripped down ARM based debian build it was. Was cool but I couldn't really rely on it for server-ish stuff
  • wolffangalchemist @ wolffangalchemist:
    @Sicklyboy facts, i have a se
    cond one set up to stream to our bedroom, we have a not smart tv in there but even if it was a smart tv i would still do it that way.
    +1
  • realtimesave @ realtimesave:
    I considered mycloud but didn't get one
  • realtimesave @ realtimesave:
    man my old 42" TV nic and wifi don't work right. I replaced the TV with an oled set, it is spiff
  • realtimesave @ realtimesave:
    48" OLED display :)
  • Sicklyboy @ Sicklyboy:
    @wolffangalchemist, real, smart TVs are so ass :( I have a smart tv in my living room and still have one of the Android TV chromecast dongles plugged into it
  • wolffangalchemist @ wolffangalchemist:
    @Sicklyboy, yeah the my cloud was neat but really left me wanting more useful features. like the ability to add more than 2
    drives later.
  • wolffangalchemist @ wolffangalchemist:
    and boy was it slow
    +1
  • Sicklyboy @ Sicklyboy:
    Oh my mycloud thing was just a single self contained unit like the WD mybook/elements external disks. Same shape but it had an ethernet port XD
  • wolffangalchemist @ wolffangalchemist:
    yeah mine has a single usb 3,0 and the network port.
  • wolffangalchemist @ wolffangalchemist:
    and if i didnt plug in the external drive a few soconds after booting it just didnt show up at all so it was pretty temperment if you have a power outage.
  • Sicklyboy @ Sicklyboy:
    oof that's inconvenient
  • K3Nv3 @ K3Nv3:
    I could probably makeshift a decent usb nas from my old hp laptop if I wasn't so lazy
    K3Nv3 @ K3Nv3: I could probably makeshift a decent usb nas from my old hp laptop if I wasn't so lazy