Birdout: Paradise

@SomeEgrets

disaster bird

he/him
egrets.ca/

i can't go to hell - i'm all out of vacation days. i watch space rocks and yell at computers for my day job. probably too old for any of this

i think i might be burned out on internet social. it's hard to keep doing it. it's hard to even maintain the amount of attention i'm already giving it

i am the cause of most of my own problems

furthermore, capitalism must be destroyed

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🌎 Ontario, Canada

webbed site

egrets.ca/

blog + rss

chirps.egrets.ca/

Birdout: Paradise @SomeEgrets9/30/2024, 5:51 AM

so hey a bunch of people are talking about NASes in the Last Days of Cohost Valley so i figure i'll ask while we're still here

i need to do a hardware & storage refresh on mine soon. it's so old. undecided if i'm in the market to buy a commercial unit because i don't have energy to dealing with more computers in my life...

but if i was to DIY it, anyone got a good chassis for these things that won't break the bank? i don't exactly make tech industry money here. but like, i'd still like some nice-to-haves like accessible bays[^1] and... not an actual SFF footprint, but like. small-ish? i don't wanna stick another full ATX tower in here

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Vlad @v-raze9/30/2024, 6:27 AM

How many drives? We ended up with a Fractal Design Node 804 for our latest rebuild, since the case we'd been using couldn't fit all 8 drives for the new arrays. It can hold up to 10x 3.5" drives + 2x 2.5" in a surprisingly compact microATX form factor with good cooling support. It's a nearly-decade-old design at this point, so aspects of it are a bit dated, but it's still sold new at not-entirely-terrible prices

I have a couple pics of ours here: https://cohost.org/v-raze/post/7839072-weighted-storage-cub

Birdout: Paradise @SomeEgrets9/30/2024, 6:35 AM

oh, i don't have a solid number! but since i'm reaching the end of life on what i already have, and cost/TB is so much better now, i'd probably only be starting over with a couple and growing from there. but if you've got ten in that thing, i think that's more than i'll ever need by at least a factor of two, so that'll definitely handle it!

Vlad @v-raze9/30/2024, 6:39 AM

Cool cool! If you do decide to get one, the only major issue I ran into during build was the little metal drive sled/support doodads- all of them had just a little too much paint built up in the holes on the rounded end, so I had to run a drill bit through em gently to make the screws fit through. You only strictly need those if you're mounting drives that only have 2 holes on the sides instead of 3, so it may not matter (and also it might just have been a bad batch, idk)

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