My friend had bad luck with GoHardDrives. I bought 6 HGST 12TB drives from a different seller a couple of years ago and it’s been pretty decent. I had 1 fail within the year and got a refund with no effort. A second failed shortly after, outside of warranty. Accounting for the 1 I paid to replace I still came in below cost of new. Plus I now have a very healthy mix of power on hours and models with RAIDZ2 which I feel good about.
The *arr naming trend for apps that have nothing to do with the original suite cannot die soon enough.
It might be hugely obvious to you, but in a generic sense “dotfiles” are just files preceded by a dot… I wouldn’t have guessed you meant a git repo but after searching it seems it’s a bit of a unixporn trend? Never heard of it until now.
I tried it first and swapped away. I know I didn’t like how Radicale required editing text files to add accounts, that’s for sure, but the main reason I swapped was that the Docker environment kept freezing and using up 200% CPU until I manually restarted it. Rinse repeat every few hours. This was on a new install with 1 user. No issues since I moved to Baikal and the web UI is much nicer.
Need is a strong word lol. I definitely don’t need as much as I’ve got as I only use 20-50GB on services (Docker and TrueNAS) with the rest being used as ZFS cache. I would not have bought this much normally but I got it as a package in a PC with an RTX 3080, Xeon Gold 6150, and the RAM for $1000 CAD (750 USD ish?). No way was I passing that up.
This survey definitely looks vibe-coded as heck lol but I hope the results will be good.
My results :)
God knows I wasn’t going to put cost as a motivation… I am actively losing money running double the storage I am using and 100+ GB of RAM on a Xeon chip, but having the headroom is certainly nice and has allowed me to expand as much as I want. Getting a good deal a couple of years back before the price explosion was a huge stroke of luck. If this server ever failed I could figure out a smaller operation with more confidence.
A lot of it is doing what other people tell you to do. This may be encouraging or not, but I consider myself fairly versed in tech and there is still troubleshooting where it feels like trying things at random rather than any skilled insight to a solution. The take-away is it’s okay to skip an app that has terrible documentation and you can’t figure out. Start with something that has good tutorials and if that doesn’t work, try something else. If you can get that up and running those skills will carry over.
Their kink is not having a kink. The whelming normality really gets them going. Sickening.
Oh no, not his approval rating! Whatever shall he do? Oh yeah, whatever the fuck he wants as long as no one stops him.
That sounds promising then, thanks for the insight!
Question since you seem to know more than the average, is Podman not harder to set up? It’s part of what has held me off from it, because I’ve heard it’s more difficult to achieve things with it than Docker. Is that wrong?
Darn. I had the same question as OP but have been working around it by combining everything into the same stack. It’s just a bit of a pain to edit the stack every time I want to test something or retire a service.
Good work-arounds though! Maybe I should move to a script-based startup… Only trouble is all my containers are tagged with
restart: unless-stoppedso Docker restarts all of it at once on reboot which would mess up the order. Hmm.