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  • Also any year that someone switches their main desktop to linux is the year of the linux desktop for them personally.

    Agreed. I’ve made the same argument myself, fully on board. I had my year of the Linux Desktop two decades ago. 😄

    I just… As long as we don’t actually take it seriously that “this might be the year of the Linux Desktop” and get disappointed that it isn’t — by some unknown metric (seriously, what’s even the definition of the “year of the Linux Desktop”?) — then it’s fine. 😊👍





  • Victor@lemmy.worldtoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldNAS decision paralysis
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    Alright, cool, thanks for the heads-up regarding wiping with Synology!

    Yeah, I mean, my special case is basically only that I have a lot of data and I don’t really have anywhere to store it temporarily before installing it in a NAS. 😅 So that’s why I want to just plop them in there… But I don’t know what the best way forward would be to turn my drives into network drives. Just a small drive bay maybe.



  • Thanks for the notes on network storage access protocols!

    A big point of a NAS in my mind is to run some sort of redundancy, which means you will want to setup a RAID on the drives in the NAS

    Cool, thank you for that as well, and I was aware of that so I thought I would mention that in my previous comment. But I was specifically wondering if I could in fact just chuck them in as-is and it would be able to access the drives? Because like, they’re separate drives, right? How would that work in a non-RAID setup when accessing from another computer? Would they show up as separate drives? Is it at all possible?




  • I’m new to NAS hardware and how it works.

    If I buy a NAS, say from Synology, would I be able to just chuck my existing EXT4 HDDs full of data in there and it’ll work? Maybe even one or two with different file systems? I’m not too worried about backups or RAID yet.

    What are the limitations of dedicated NAS hardware? Can I also… “store” stuff on there? Like, say, have a “schmorrent” 🏴‍☠️ client save “data” directly to the drives from another computer on the network? Or do all services interacting with the data storage need to run on the NAS hardware?




  • https://mailfence.com/

    One more second of searching. 🤷‍♂️

    Look, I made a comment on your comment, just to be informative, and that’s a purpose that adds something. You can say it’s not all you want, but somebody might find it informative to know that those two aren’t the only options.

    It really does sound like you took it personally, I’m sorry, but it does.

    I’m just saying to anyone reading your top level comment: “other options are available”. I know this post is asking for recommendations, but recommendations should be in top level comments then, IMO.

    You’d think someone would be happy to learn that there are more options. 🙄