Time is merely a perspective. I’ve been doing this for 20 years.

Perhaps it is overblown, but one of the reasons I have 8 drives is because I wanted to run raidz2 for the extra redundancy. I’ve had multiple drives die before and so as disk sizes have gone up more redundancy has been important (at least I thought so).

So when my first ZFS NAS (4 disks) developed hardware failure, I decided to get more serious about it. Hence larger rack device with a proper Xeon with ECC memory and an HBA for 8 disks + 2 SSDs and the old drives that survived as a play space. I’ve also used this server now for 9 years.

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That is a really nice small form factor case. I was recently looking at Fractal’s Define 7 XL because it can hold an amazing 18 3.5" + SSDs.

Welcome. I personally found it necessary because YouTube’s algo kept giving mostly QOP nazi propaganda starting back in 2016.

Because of their contractor status they may not have any grounds to do so. Looks real shitty though for sure.

Exactly what I said

100% fresh

Considering what Google did to the jabber protocol, we can all be glad they gave up, IMO.

Something like 12 years I used Reddit, but they really nailed the coffin lid shut now.