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Selfhosting on old MSI laptop (lemm.ee)
submitted 1 year ago by dan00@lemm.ee to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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Hello preppers! As I prepare further and further for the digital and traditional collapse of society (/s), I finally got to the point of building my selfhosted server.

At the moment I have a single bay Synology nas but it will soon find a new home (🗑️). I was thinking that instead of buying new tech I can be a conscious human being and recycle my old laptop.

My old MSI PE60 2QD with i7 5th Gen, its a very capable machine and having the battery, I think, is better for a sudden loss of power. I replaced it because the hinge and screen broke but I never thrown it away.

I wanted to wipe it and install some linux distro for selfhosting with, I think, Tailscale for access it remotely. I use it to store file, photos, music …normal cloud stuff.

Before wasting hours troubleshooting, I’m sure there are brilliant people here that can give me tips or a link to a simple guide to follow. (Please don’t make me ask the bots).

I’m sure this thread is already open somewhere and I’ll be happy to follow that and delete this, if so.

Thank you lemmings.

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[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

USB isn't good for RAID, it's unstable.

Do you currently have more than 8 or 12TB of data? Because you can buy drives that size today, no need for RAID under those capacities.

I recently purchased an 8TB drive for ~$100 on Amazon. Yes, it's used, but comes with a 3 year warranty. I'm fine with that warranty length, as drives don't last forever, and I'll be replacing drives due to growth anyway.

Don't overlook RAID 1 - mirroring. With large enough drives this is a viable first step to some redundancy (though it's really intended more for failover). Simply replicating your data locally to multiple drives, and backing it up offsite should give a lot of redundancy.

The big challenge with local redundancy is that it's not backup, so replicated bad changes can wreck all local copies. Backup, however, gives you multiple copies of data and incremental changes (if configured that way).

[–] dan00@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I should check but i think i have 4/5x 1Tb NAS HDD, 1x1Tb enclosed SSD (now plugged in via ubs to the synology). Now that I think about it yes, I should probably buy some more but all my data is just 1/2 Tb in total.

[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yea, buy three 4TB drives, one is master, the other 2 sync from master (can mirror or use a sync tool).

Then get a cloud backup service.

Shop for drives here.