I prefer “scaled”, which is even more like a recommendation system.

Think you missed the two other links there!

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They don’t just post OSS links, they cross post almost everything from somewhere else. This was one of those posts, although they added the link to the project (the OP didn’t, it was just an image).

Here’s a list to start with, for now. I’m sure they’ll make another account to continue to make posts like this one and freeboot content in the future, so you’ll probably want to search every now and then to be sure.

Surprisingly, Craigslist is rather active in my area. It’s still not as active as marketplace, but it makes it possible to get by without having an FB account.

Nope, it gets all of the power from the slot, no pin plug needed!

The B50 was plug and play for me. Obviously not a super powerful card compared to the competitors, however for 16GB of vram in a tiny package (with only 70W of power usage) it’s unbeatable. I did play some games as well, and it was decent enough to get me by for three weeks while my 7900 was getting RMA’d.

If this supported daylio (and the mood tracking that daylio uses), I would immediately switch.

I just randomly checked the exchange today and noticed that it went way up. Nuts.

mgtowlemmy

It feels like we’re rapidly approaching the end of personal computing.

Do you have backups? You mentioned family photos, so I hope so. If yes, have you tested them? Remember, RAID (or RAID-adjacent) is not a backup.

What filesystem are you using at the moment?

Questions aside, since you have precious photos and are using RAID, I would absolutely get a UPS. This will save you a lot of pain in the future, and you can continue to use it while you wait to upgrade. You can find them for relatively cheap on ebay, just make sure whatever you get has a new battery (frequently listed as “NEW BATT” or similar). Bonus points for a USB connection to gracefully shut down your raid array, protecting it from getting corrupted.

For the drives themselves, even if you aren’t shucking them yet (shucking meaning taking external drives out of their cases to put into a server), I would use https://shucks.top/ to find the best deals per TB. This comes with the upside of allowing you to shuck them in the future if you get a proper enclosure or chassis, and you don’t have to buy an extra case. Interestingly, external drives (like those listed on the website above) are generally cheaper than naked drives, especially when priced per TB. If you want to avoid shucking entirely, you can pick up DC rated drives for relatively good prices on https://serverpartdeals.com/

The three main concerns with this setup, in my opinion, are power, heat, and speed. With raid, you’ll want the UPS as discussed, which covers the power issue. Since they’ll be in cases, it’s definitely possible they’ll heat up quickly, especially if you ever have to do a data rebuild or otherwise hammer them with lots of writes. As long as you’re able to keep them below 55-60C during those operations, you should be fine, but it’s something you’ll want to keep an eye on. Speed, meanwhile, won’t impact too much but you’ll probably notice some slow writes compared to having a drive over SATA. Rebuilds will be pretty slow.

Apologies if that was kind of rambling. I’ve been a data hoarder archivist for over a decade. I’ve gone through several iterations of NAS and learned some hard lessons along the way. I encourage you to keep thinking about how to best secure your data from loss; it’s good to ask questions like this.

I’m aware, but it should have been part of their build system and they should have, at the very least, had alarms for this.

That’s what alarming is for.

Well, that certainly would confuse you, yes.

🤮

I suppose, it just seemed like putting the blame on the consumers rather than greedy, short-sighted executives.

Confuses them?

It’s Boost on Android.