lka1988
joined 1 year ago
Edit: the soc that they are using is worse than the feature phone soc in my old Nokia from 2008. What the actual fuck.
Oh god. They invented a TV with a phone built in.
"Oh no, an issue that will only affect an extremely narrow spread of people who would already be aware of it, therefore F-Droid bad"
If you're that concerned about being surveilled, you already have bigger issues.
Except, Android users can still install apps outside the Play Store.
I am assuming each drive shows up as an independent drive that you can raid up however you want in software?
Yeah, each drive is shown as if they were individually attached the machine. RAID how you want (or don't). I've got three 4TB drives in an 8TB RAID5, one 4TB that contains data from my gaming PC that I'm working on moving to the RAID, and then a separate 8TB external drive that everything on the RAID array is rsynced to for backup (not ideal but it's something).
Man I was looking for something like this, but at the time I was building my NAS, I couldn't find something similar so I just decided to build a whole new machine with enough space to contain the drives themselves. Had I known, I might have gone with this and a NUC or something.
I'm actually going the other way and building a proper server out of an ancient HP Proliant ML110 G2 that my dad gave me. Shockingly, it's fully ATX compatible and has 8+ drive bays. I'm just reusing the case though and stuffing it with more modern components; it was originally equipped with a Pentium 4 😂 I'm not a fan of the single USB connection for all that data.
How's the performance?
Sufficient I suppose. Limited by the single USB 3 connection. The Mac mini isn't stressed at all, but the RJ45 connector has some fucky Apple weirdness about it that causes it to go to sleep periodically. There's a workaround for it that I applied a while ago, but it still drops out occasionally. But, that's an Apple-specific problem, not the enclosure. The enclosure works fine.
Drive bay I'm using is a Sabrent DS-SC4B, connected via USB3. I'm currently collecting parts for an actual tower build based on a G4560T.
Techbros reinventing older tech without realizing it
I don't necessarily disagree with this in theory, as you gotta have some reach in order to spread your message. I forget the name of the particular situation (people don't use it because it's not popular, and it's not popular because people don't use it.....etc etc)
That said, Twitter is a cesspool. Bluesky has enough users that it shouldn't be an issue reaching out via that instead.
My Zero W lives in a Geekworm case with an RJ45 port, so it's wired directly to the router. I likely won't be using it for anything else at this point. Even just opening the web UI bogs it down pretty heavy.
Thought I just realized it's still running Raspbian (11, not 12), so maybe I'll look at running DietPi.
Only one of them is compatible with Windows 11 lmao - HP Elite G4 mini with an i7-8700T. Everything else is 7th gen or 4th gen.
Bingo! I've got 4 mini-PCs (does a 2014 Mac mini count?), and one SFF. The average power draw of this cluster is barely ~90W.
Screenshot from my HASS dashboard:
Same here. I made them refund me and then delete my account. It was a small amount, but I was pissed enough that I wanted them to work for it.