No one in 2025 has read all of that article.

What’s your stereo you’re connecting the record player to?

Who do you think I am?

If you want people to pronounce your project name correctly you should spell it that way. Having a FAQ on pronunciation means you’ve messed up and lost already. Want it to be called “Engine X”? Call it “Engine X”.

My favourite is SAP not wanting people to call it Sap but to spell it out S.A.P. Well sorry, but it’s a CVC word, literally the first kind of word everyone learns.

I still maintain that Emby is better than Jellyfin. I try it again maybe once a year and every time I end up back on Emby. It just runs better, works pretty flawlessly and doesn’t lose my libraries every so often. Music playback is better by far on Emby and that’s my main usecase.

Hardware decoding would be nice, but I don’t have a system I could use this on for either and I’ve not had trouble without it.

I really only used it for syncing photos from my phone so I went to Syncthing. The NC web interface I found far too slow to be any use, so I just mount network shares over NFS.

And that is why I no longer run Nextcloud

Been running EndeavourOS for a few years now and it really is the best desktop OS I’ve ever used. It’s up to date, fast, always works, looks beautiful and an update is just a yay away.

RAID does not work today with any disks you may have: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l55GfAwa8RI

.The only sane option is ZFS with zRAID1/2.

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An HBA with the SAS cables should run to about £50 used.

Sounds like a good plan to me

I’ve switched to restic for my backups and have been very happy with it. Very fast, encrypted and snapshot history.

RAID gives you greater uptime. That is all. You should also have backups. So how much uptime do you need?

Who has more chance of a single disk failing today: me with 6 disks, or Backblaze with their 300,000 drives?

Same thing works with 6 vs 2.

Seagate “raw read error rate” is a terrifyingly big number if everything is hunky dory.

They’re in a drafty garage. This time of year I keep them spinning to stop them freezing 🤣

Yeah flat out spinning is definitely better for reliability.

The reason I went RAIDZ2 in my current setup was because of the number of disks increasing the chance of multi failures. But with fewer disks that goes down. I’m not at all worried about data loss, as I said I have good backups so I can always restore. So if the remaining disk dies during a rebuild, that’s unfortunate, but it only affects my uptime, not my data.

So a year ago you spent over 3k on disks?