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by sandreas 1y ago
I think technically MacBooks are superior. Another aspect is that most vendors support their Apps on macOS while Linux support is much less common. Software development for Apples ecosystem is also much easier on Apple devices. In my case i
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Redumper – a low-level byte-perfect CD disc dumper (cross platform)(github.com)
2 points by sandreas 1y ago|0 comments
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by sandreas 1y ago
Thank you for your opinion. Well... it did not just fail. Cryptsetup mounted everything fine, but the BTRFS tools did not find a valid filesystem on it. While it could have been a bit flip that destroyed the whole encryption layer, BTRFS de
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by sandreas 1y ago
Ok, thank you. At least I'm not alone with this. However, I'm not too much into it and would not go as far to say it's not a recommendable project, but boy was I mad it just died without any way to recover ANYTHING :-)
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by sandreas 1y ago
Yeah what really made me wonder is that I thought I had incomplete and wrong manpages in the recovery sections... examples did not work as described, but I can't remember what it was, I was too mad and ditched it completely :-)
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by sandreas 1y ago
I used the default archinstall... did not check the sector size, but good to hear it works for you. Maybe I'll check again with my next setup.
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by sandreas 1y ago
Well, first of all: I'm not trying to bash BTRFS at all, it probably is just not meant for me. However, I'm trying to gain information it is really considered stable (like rock solid) or it might have been a hardware Problem on my
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by sandreas 1y ago
Isn't Amazon Glacier cloud based?
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by sandreas 1y ago
I use a cheap power meter for initial testing and a tasmota plug for having a monitoring solution as well as a second measure and a possibility ro remote hard reset in case of a freeze or something. Turns out that power supply and motherboa
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by sandreas 1y ago
I had a Samsung 960 Pro nvme fail without warning, that was even more concerning Then shortly after I had a BTRFS fail without failing Hardware on another drive Just backup your stuff with 3-2-1 strategy and you're OK. I'd recomme
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by sandreas 1y ago
For my personal purpose i would go 2 x wd sn850x 2tb RAID1 nvme(consumer) You could also go 32gb+ Intel optane Boot and enterprise SATA data, depending on your use case
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by sandreas 1y ago
Personally i find these too expensive compared to the good old N54L and Dell T20 era. The Hardware is great but >1000 bucks is pretty hard even for enthusiasts
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by sandreas 1y ago
The device I linked below ( https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005006369887180.html ) has a XEON, ECC, 2xNVMe, SATA, 2.5GBit and everything else you need in a very small box. Intel also means it has QuickSync, so you won&#
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by sandreas 1y ago
Did you consider ZFS with L2ARC? The extra caching device might make this possible...
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by sandreas 1y ago
A 80Bronze 300W can still be more efficient than a 750W 80Platinum on mainly low loads. Additionally, some of the devices are way more efficient than they are certified for. A well known example is the Corsair RM550x (2021). If your peak po
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by sandreas 1y ago
Absolutely. I don't store movies at all but if I would, I would add a USB-based solution that could be turned off via shelly plug / tasmota remotely.
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by sandreas 1y ago
My current config: Fujitsu D3417-B12 Intel Xeon 1225 64GB ecc WD SN850x 2TB mATX case Pico PSU 150 For backup I use a 2TB enterprise HDD and ZFS send For snapshotting i use zfs-auto-snapshot So really nothing recommendable
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by sandreas 1y ago
I'd almost always use RAID-1 or if I had > 4 disks, maybe RAID-6. RAID-5 seems very cost effective at first, but if you loose a drive the probability of losing another one in the restoring process is pretty high (I don't have t
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by sandreas 1y ago
Is there any (semi-)scientific proof to that (serious question)? I did search a lot to this topic but found nothing... (see above, same question)
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by sandreas 1y ago
Is there any (semi-)scientific proof to that (serious question)? I did search a lot to this topic but found nothing...
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by sandreas 1y ago
Understandable... Well, the bottleneck for a Proxmox Server often is RAM - sometimes CPU cores (to share between VMs). This might not be the case for a NAS-only device. Another upgrade path is to keep the case, fans, cooling solution and on
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by sandreas 1y ago
While I get your point about size, I'd not use RAID-5 for my personal homelab. I'd also say that 6x2TB drives are not the optimal solution for low power consumption. You're also missing out server quality BIOS, Design/St
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by sandreas 1y ago
Well, if you would like to go mini (with ECC and 2.5G) you could take a look at this one: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005006369887180.html Not totally upgradable, but at least pretty low cost and modern with an op
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by sandreas 1y ago
While it may be tempting to go "mini" and NVMe, for a normal use case I think this is hardly cost effective. You give up so much by using an all in mini device... No Upgrades, no ECC, harder cooling, less I/O. I have had a Pr
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by sandreas 1y ago
1. Focus on shipping stuff Shopping something mediocre is better than not shipping anything 2. Read (and understand) good code in many different languages Learn concepts not frameworks 3. Understand compilers and their design Understanding
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by sandreas 1y ago
Is there a reason NOT to use ZFS or BTRFS? I mean the idea sounds cool but what are you missing? ZFS even works on Windows these days and with tools like zrepl you can configure time based snapshotting, auto-sync and auto-cleanup
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by sandreas 1y ago
That's also how I do it. Great setup, understanding ZFS is totally worth it. On non-zfs+non-windows Clients (MacBook and Linux Notebooks) I use a restic cronjob.
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by sandreas 1y ago
As reference (for feature comparison or whatever) here are some tools I use to keep things in sync, some have already been mentioned: rsync - I think everybody knows this rclone - modern feature packed tool similar to rsync, but also
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by sandreas 1y ago
Besides taking care of you health (sleep, exercise, food, relax) I recently got back into reading tech books (yes, not blogs, Videos or tutorials). Good books are well researched and help you build knowledge from the ground up... Although t
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by sandreas 1y ago
Don't know if still works, but this is how I did it back in the days I had an iPhone: https://pilabor.com/blog/2022/01/access-and-recover-files-fr... Nowadays I'd use immich or ente.io, which has an

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