Going on 2 years now with all 12 I have currently in my PowerEdge. I run parity and health checks monthly, and still seem to be going strong.

EDIT: 12x Seagate Exos X14 14TB SAS drives purportedly refurbed by Seagate themselves. I think that’s the key though, getting them factory refurbished.

How are the temps?

DDNS is the way. Or was, until Tailscale.

I just simply can’t and won’t ask friends and family to try it again after they experienced that.

True story: one weekend I convinced my friends and family to try Matrix instead, and within the first day of using it someone spammed them with CSAM. That was the last of trying Matrix.

The lights are barely kept on for our Lemmy instance, I don’t expect a Stoat server anytime soon…

I’d recommend Stoat because they won’t rape you for all the personal data they can.

I remember this Fisher Price playset!

I went down this route 2025 and gave up, because the latency just wasn’t acceptable for most games I wanted to play. The PC is still racked, but now I just use a long HDMI and USB-C run to a dedicated gaming monitor and peripheral hub.

Amethyst looks more mature, but I believe the key distinction is the ability to add any game you want/need in NOMM.

I installed cameras in my condo recently, and I need to buy and install a larger HDD for capture storage. I ordered a 6TB WD Purple off Amazon, only to have it arrive used (it was absolutely not marked used or refurbished.) So I returned it, naturally. I think that the safest bet is just to order it directly from one of their vendors.

Also, I need to tinker with my postgres install on my Unraid server a bit. Right now a couple other services I host on Unraid use it, but moving forward I need it available to other devices on the LAN.

A religious christian, you say?

It’s for the best.