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Have you ever bough an external hardrive only to take the disk out of it?

Hiya, so am looking to buy more storage and while browsing am seeing some external harddisks, such as Western Digital My Book and Seagate Expansion Desktop for cheaper than the internal harddisks themselves. Have seen this one video from KTZ Systems where he bought up multiple of these external ones just to open them up and use...

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Why create yourself a headache and still get substandard and no-warranty drive. If you want cheaper drives go for reconditioned/refurbished/used drives. Same risks, better product. Old enterprise SAS drives are cheap and many still have plenty of heath in them.

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Some diagram would help.
Are you trying to use your server as a switch?

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Do you plan to compress video ( which generally already compressed format) when saving to remote location? I do not see use case for it, as you ether use lossless compression and not compressing it in any meaningful way, or just re-encode to different format and loose quality.
Second option is simpler to achieve by re-encoding before sending out.

How much does it matter what type of harddisk i buy for my server?

Hello, I'm relatively new to self-hosting and recently started using Unraid, which I find fantastic! I'm now considering upgrading my storage capacity by purchasing either an 8TB or 10TB hard drive. I'm exploring both new and used options to find the best deal. However, I've noticed that prices vary based on the specific...

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Yes, it will. Will it make any difference for you, depends of what are you doing. I would not use surveillance drive in to server, they are way too specific. Outside of that prices is pretty much same per TB/(Warranty Year) accross the board.

I done some excessive research couple of years back on the topic. you can find it here https://blog.holms.place/2022/05/01/hdd-storage-cost-comparation-may-2022.html. I do not think situation have changed match since than. Price per TB/Year is nearly constant past 8GB size.

Also consider looking to re-certified drives, or even refurbished drives. you may save hips on them. But it depends on how much you value your data, how much redundancy in you storage pool and how good your backup strategy.

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Syncthing sync files, it is all does.

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Usually just plug/unplug couple of times is enough. No fancy chemicals.

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Look to other orchestrations solution too, like SALT. If you need to manage a lot of servers it is live saver. Setting up is only first step.

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Run long smart test on the disk and check smart data after that. Other possibility is ZFS pool is nearly full.

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Depends what are you doing. Something like keep base os patched is pretty much nil efforts. Some apps more problematic than others. Home Assistant is always a pain to upgrade and something like postfix is requires nearly 0 maintenance.

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circular dependency seems to be the case. I guess adding second external resolver to /etc/resolve.conf will help. Second entry will not be used unless first one ( pi-hole) is responding. But it need to be tested.
BTW, why do you want to send host's DNS via pihole?

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what exactly do you mena under subdomains?
Any DNS provider will support adding NS entries for subdomains if you want to host you sub-zone somwhere, And any should allow you to use names with "." in it for "fake" subzone, like
a.subzone1 IN A x.x.x.x
a.subzone2 IN A y.y.y.y

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Try VyOS. I run it on APU2 myself. No GUI no convolution.

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Open source projects need to make money somehow. I found VyOS method quite acceptable. They giving good instruction and tools to build your own stable ISO. So do not be lazy or contribute somehow. Unfortunately their paid support costs too much. I was considering trying to push VyOS to be used as virtual router at my work, but it costs more than Cisco C8000v

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nope, it is very deeply customized debian. Need to be installed from scratch.

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Very strange line from specs.
USB Driver Windows XP/7/8/10/11, Linux (driver free on Raspberry Pi Raspbian system)
Does it mean binary blob driver only? and you need to pay for it to use it on PC?

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using wildcards is really bad security practice. and at age of ACME absolutely unnecessary.

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If you still use HTTP for cert verification on ACME, you are doing it wrong. Use DNS-01 only, there is no need to allow any inbound traffic to your servers. and HTTP will not give you wildcard anyway.

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Stable is not "pay only" . Just build it yourself, all tools are available. it will take 30 minutes of your time if you have docker environment ready.

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VyOS: Debian based router + firewall. Linux makes it easier for people to pick up the CLI but I’ve heard complaints about it being difficult to follow. Currently CLI only, at least without third-party solutions, but is powerful and competes directly with OPNsense for features for the most part. Seems to be just as stable. my mistake, FOSS version is not LTS but a rolling release and needs to be compiled.

Very misleading statement. Both rolling and LTS are FOSS, they just do not provide LTS binaries for free. Want LTS? build it yourself , all tools and guides(bit outdated) is out there. It will took 30 min you your time to setup.

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Sorry, what do yo want to know? IT just a linux based router pretended to be a juniper FW. NAT/IPv6/PPPoE/VRFs are working as expected.

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No HA. Classic HA is evil, shared control plane is good way to loose both FWs. Need redundancy use 2 independent FW + routing protocols. Losing session states during fail-over is not a big problem these days.
I did in-place upgrades, but I'm running LTS and not yet done any major version upgrades. So far no problems.

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Nothing can beat bhyve for PFSence.

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All of them not equate in same league. Do you know any type 1 free supervises out there? Xen probably.

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Are you running it natively as "jail" ?

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Do not try to host outbound mail on residential IP blocks, delivery will be really bad. Cheap VPS is same story. You best bet is VPS from some not well know provider, they may be avoid to be in blacklist in M$ and Google. Inbound mail is fine anywhere as so long as you can have port 25 open. DDNS works too.

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I do not understand why everyone calling hosting email difficult? IT is like 5 RFC you need to read and implement. Sofware wise you will need mail agent, something for DKIM ( if it not build in in agent), "local delivery agent" ( probably presenting it as IMAP) + mail reader of your choice. Nothing too complex

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Can you promise a near 100% uptime? Otherwise, some email might not reach you.
Just lol. Mail get queued just fine by everyone. If you really concern , setup second MX.

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