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nopersonalspace , 1 month ago

This isn’t exactly an answer, but something like Baserow or NocoDB could be helpful. They’re self hosted versions of Airtable (if you’ve ever used that). Basically it’s a very fancy spreadsheet that can be used to do a ton of custom logic. If you can’t find software that fits your exact needs, chances are you could set something up with one of these! Good luck!

nopersonalspace OP , 2 months ago

Yeah, I have one of those and it's great but I need very little storage for this system (64g max) so I didn't feel like it made sense in this case.

nopersonalspace OP , 2 months ago

Yeah, sadly it does have a M.2 slot but it's not SATA or NVMe, but instead SDIO. Someone out there has actually made an adapter that lets you put an sd card into that slot, which is super cool. But probably no better that a flash drive realistically, and much more expensive (you have to get the adapter manufactured)

nopersonalspace OP , 2 months ago

Yeah seems like sandisk ultra is the way to go. Do you know, is there any disadvantage to using the "Ultra Fit" line of smaller drives that sit much more flush to the case? Those look nice, but IDK if there are performance issues with the smaller package

nopersonalspace OP , 2 months ago

How would I check that?

nopersonalspace OP , 2 months ago

Okay I'm trying out seafile and it seems awesome, so maybe that will be the way to go.

It stores them in a custom format in blocks, which is the only real downside because that means it can't interop with things like FTP or SMB

nopersonalspace OP , 2 months ago

This sort of thing works fine for me, but falls apart a bit with non-technical users (aka my family). Even syncthing is actually pretty difficult to use IMO (compared to google drive or the like). I’d have to manually setup and maintain this on all their devices basically

nopersonalspace OP , 2 months ago

I run Tailscale which is basically the same a ZeroTier, so I theoretically could do this, but I’m not super enthused about having to put family members onto my VPN. I’d have to do some complicated networking stuff to keep things secure (aka make sure “normal” users don’t have access to machines and systems they shouldn’t). That said, I should look into it because if there is an easy way to do that, then this could be the simplest way

nopersonalspace OP , 2 months ago

Oh this is huge. Just tested that out and it’s very cool. I need to figure out how to host it properly behind my reverse proxy though. Seems like it has nginx build in but that’s conflicting I think with my traefik that I put everything behind…

nopersonalspace OP , 2 months ago

Still having trouble, but it might be because the service itself is unhealthy because I cant connect even directly with the ip. Something I've learned already about Seafile that I don't love: debugging it is a massive pain. Why TF are the config files spread out across like 15 different python files lol. Seems like a crazy setup to me.

nopersonalspace OP , 2 months ago

I was thinking that too! I've basically never heard of anyone using it, but everyone here prompted me to check it out. Turns out they have a new version that's a re-write in go which is neat. Just tried it out and.... It's not exactly good. UI at least is pretty broken haha

nopersonalspace , 3 months ago

You could try getting a Chromebook and installing whatever distro you want on there? I know it doesn’t avoid the pre-installed spyware, but at least it’s free so you’re not loosing money paying for a license. And Chromebooks these days are made in a wide range from very inexpensive to sorta-premium.

nopersonalspace OP , 4 months ago

I have the nas connected to a UPS that reports it's power draw and it sits at about 100W at all times. There are one or two other small devices connected to it usually, so the nas itself is probably using a hair less that that at idle, but still it's quite high.

nopersonalspace OP , 4 months ago

I guess that's a good point, but then is the right move to just get the lowest power CPU possible? I really don't need it to do all that much and rn it's hogging power.

nopersonalspace OP , 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago)

I specifically had to set things up in the BIOS so that it would never enter any efficient power/sleep states. It's a bug in the OS I'm using that was forcing me to do it, otherwise the whole thing would lock up on me.

That said, I have some smart-plugs that do power monitoring. I can try hooking up the nas to one of those just for kicks, it should be accurate enough for this sort of thing.

Edit: Just measured and looks like I was about right: 100W under load and around 80W idle

nopersonalspace OP , 4 months ago

Okay that's good to know. Right now I'm only using ZFS for the ssds so it's only like 2TBs, but I eventually want the ability to migrate the main array which will be more like 40TB (raw capacity, so some will be used for parity)

nopersonalspace OP , 4 months ago

It's not that easy sadly. The entire NAS runs on Unraid and the issue is with that OS. I can't switch without totally restarting from scratch which would be a huge data migration, and a massive PITA configuration-wise.

Eventually I'd be open to switching to something like TrueNas Scale, but for now I need Unraid's unique ability to run a RAID array with differently sized drives

nopersonalspace OP , 4 months ago

Yeah good point. I've been slowly working to move away from Unraid for those reasons, and have been having fun trying NixOS.

Anyway, I just made a post on the official support forums so hopefully I can get this looked at. Since I initially had the problems many updates have come out, so maybe it's not a thing anymore. I just can't risk testing that for myself!

nopersonalspace OP , 4 months ago

Okay maybe I can mess with that. I think when I initially was having problems I just nuked everything I could related to power states just to get things working again. Maybe I can try turning some stuff back on.

I'm only running 3hdds at the moment, and they're setup to spin down automatically which does save some power for sure.

nopersonalspace OP , 4 months ago

Oh interesting, that sound plausible. I'll check out the bios and see if I can find that setting. Thanks!

nopersonalspace OP , 4 months ago

I would, and I plan to someday, but my whole storage system is setup on it and migrating would be an enormous pain. Also right now I rely on it's ability to create a RAID array with differently sized drives. Next time I upgrade, I plan go get homogeneous drives, so maybe then would be the time to move away from Unraid.

nopersonalspace OP , 4 months ago

Yeah, the power supply is absolutely too big. I think I used it for a gaming pc before this, so it's in the ballpark of 800W. I also doubt it was a particularly efficient one to begin with, since I don't care much if a gaming PC is effecint since I don't keep it on.

I'll look into getting a lower-power one for cheap and see if that helps. Thanks!

nopersonalspace OP , 4 months ago

Oh yeah these are super cool. Seems like they've gotten pretty expensive lately though, I can't seem to find a good deal on Aliexpress

nopersonalspace OP , 4 months ago

You're right and that's exactly my plan! I'm going to get 2 20TB drives the next time I need to upgrade, that way I can keep the number of drives low.

With my current power usage and energy prices I'm paying $280 per year for this server alone, so I'm pretty well incentivized to replace parts (particularly since I can sell the parts I'm replacing to offset even further). With my current plans I'll see a positive ROI within a year almost guaranteed

nopersonalspace OP , 4 months ago

I've thought about that before, I've used proxmox in the past and liked it. The hope I guess would be that proxmox is better able to handle the physical hardware than Unraid is, and the Unraid can blissfully mismanage it's vCPUs all it wants! I don't love the overhead of having a hypervisor, but maybe it would be worth it in this case.

nopersonalspace OP , 4 months ago

I've done a whole bunch of things but the problem is that the issue w/ the OS locking up was intermittent, so really between every change I would have to wait and see and risk downtime.

nopersonalspace OP , 5 months ago

How do you manage your services on that, docker compose files? I'm really trying to get away from the workflow of clicking around in some UI to configure everything, only for it to glitch out and disappear and I have to try and remember what things to click to get it back. It was my main problem with portainer that caused me to move away from it (I have separate issues with docker-compose but that's another thing)