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  • catloaf@lemm.eetoLinux@lemmy.mlBroken SSD - Disaster or not
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    10 hours ago

    RAID is not backup. RAID is to keep running until you can replace a drive with the spare on hand.

    Software RAID is totally fine if that’s what you want to run, no need for a raid controller.

    Personally, I don’t bother backing up my desktop systems, I only back up my server VMs. You might want to look at using Ansible to automate system deployment. I use Windows on my desktop, so I use group policy to configure a bunch of settings to my taste.







  • catloaf@lemm.eetoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldFirst Home Server
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    1 day ago

    drop back and punt with my old i5-4590 tower

    This one. It’s old, but with RAM and a GPU you’ll be able to handle streaming/transcoding.

    The problem with Dell/HP/Lenovo etc. PCs, especially smaller form factors, is that they’re non-standard, as you found. And not just the motherboard mounts, but also the power supply connectors, and often other stuff too. And any feature found on a typical board, but not used in that particular model, will be missing, like multiple SATA ports, again as you found.

    You could probably get a newer desktop for not much money, too.


  • Yeah but it’d be fucking insane to build a state highway to each and every destination in every hamlet, just like it would be for rail.

    And it’s not just cost of initial construction, it’s also cost of maintenance. If the ground shifts slightly under the road, it’s a bump. If it shifts under a railway, it’s a derailment for the first train that finds it and a couple million dollars in recovery and repair, plus the downtime while that section is out of service. And that doesn’t even start to account for overhead like signal operation, whereas on a road you just use a stop sign.

    I like trains more than the next guy, but you absolutely cannot just replace every road with a railway.