I don’t need support for RAID at all to begin with I think. I just need to make my existing drives network-accessible. 😁

I do not have backups at all. This is just… warez. Nothing too important to backup, really. It would just be annoying to download again.

Ah okay, thanks. Had to look up his name. I only saw what he does for a living right now and that was enough for me lol.

Super misleading title?

At first I was like, this is fake. Anybody can just type something and take a screenshot of it as if it’s a real source.

But it just seems overly careless, like weirdly so. I dunno.

Who is this Shlomo?

I’m very curious about the typing cursor at the end of the text, there… 🤨

Ooh, okay, definitely sounds cumbersome at first glance.

Alright, cool, thanks for the heads-up regarding wiping with Synology!

Yeah, I mean, my special case is basically only that I have a lot of data and I don’t really have anywhere to store it temporarily before installing it in a NAS. 😅 So that’s why I want to just plop them in there… But I don’t know what the best way forward would be to turn my drives into network drives. Just a small drive bay maybe.

Yeesh, okay, I see.

Then maybe some kind of compact drive bay would suit my needs better for now, that I would just connect to a mini PC of some sort.

Thanks for all the info!

Thanks for the notes on network storage access protocols!

A big point of a NAS in my mind is to run some sort of redundancy, which means you will want to setup a RAID on the drives in the NAS

Cool, thank you for that as well, and I was aware of that so I thought I would mention that in my previous comment. But I was specifically wondering if I could in fact just chuck them in as-is and it would be able to access the drives? Because like, they’re separate drives, right? How would that work in a non-RAID setup when accessing from another computer? Would they show up as separate drives? Is it at all possible?

I’m new to NAS hardware and how it works.

If I buy a NAS, say from Synology, would I be able to just chuck my existing EXT4 HDDs full of data in there and it’ll work? Maybe even one or two with different file systems? I’m not too worried about backups or RAID yet.

What are the limitations of dedicated NAS hardware? Can I also… “store” stuff on there? Like, say, have a “schmorrent” 🏴‍☠️ client save “data” directly to the drives from another computer on the network? Or do all services interacting with the data storage need to run on the NAS hardware?

That is a very good outcome indeed! 👌

That’s what’s up

Yeah, the one in the image here. Sounds absolutely brutal when you look it up.

challenging

Yeesh, they weren’t kidding

I hope so. 🫢

At first glance I had “black booties”.

TIL about this plant. Holy moly.

We have nettles native to where I live but those are like a couple of/a few hours of pain. And the pain is just mildly intense itching. Enough to make a child cry, kind of.

But this… 😳

Bet you they still broadcast it nonetheless. Sitting in front of cameras in the dark, no camera has a red light turned on, reading from a black teleprompter.

“No blackout. Actually whiteout. Power surge in cables. Please turn more device and appliance on for consume all excess power.”

More than 4 hours?

We had a storm in northern Europe/Scandinavia a few days ago that put tens of thousands of people without power for more than a day. Thousands are still without power even now, four days later, in the dead of winter.

Four hours is a minor inconvenience for a people used to the cold and darkness of winter. It’s barely enough time to pass between two meals, lol. Barely enough time for the stuff in your freezer to start changing temperature.

Come on, hit 'em harder! 💥