d-cent

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What are you doing with heat? in c/homelab@selfhosted.forum
[–] d-cent@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Close off the vent in the server room and open the door from the server room and your house. Free heating

Are there any good DAS out there? in c/datahoarder@selfhosted.forum
[–] d-cent@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Thanks! I'll check it out.

Are there any good DAS out there? in c/datahoarder@selfhosted.forum
[–] d-cent@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Most people here are the exact opposite of you and don't trust hardware RAID especially cheap implementations in a USB based DAS box. Software RAID is far more flexible and makes your setup independent of the hardware RAID cad dying.

Yeah I definitely get that. All the DAS I see with hardware raid look like shit. I mostly don't trust software raid being run on a separate machine. I have read stories of losing all the data even after shutdown properly and attaching the DAS after moving or something.

I am using a mac mini, it would be much easier if I was just using a full desktop computer, very easy build.

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Are there any good DAS out there? (alien.top)
 

I have been searching and learning a bunch but there doesn't really seem to be any good methods that I can find.

You would think more companies would be putting out DAS considering the capabilities of USB3.2 and Thunderbolt. I have been looking for a quality DAS but almost all of them don't have built in hardware RAID. I don't really trust software RAID. Mostly rebuilding if the software crashes or my hardware crashes. Even if I was ok going with soft RAID, almost every model has a huge flaw.

It feels like getting a NAS is the only real way to go and basically just using it as an ethernet DAS for my server. It just seems like a waste of a processor. Should I just build a DAS with 4 Bay Rack? Then I have to find a place to mount a PSU and tidy up one of those PCIe to 4 Sata boards and PCIe to USB board as well as a couple fans.

Is there a good cheap enclosure to just install 4 HDD, a couple boards and a PSU? Am I missing some other easy option? It just feels like the market now is to buy a NAS and use it as a DAS.

Caddy seems to good to be true? I just set it up and it works perfect, straight out of the box in c/main@selfhosted.forum
[–] d-cent@alien.top 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I would like to jump over to it. I have been struggling with Nginx and Apache and I am afraid I have made a mess of things. I am installing on an old Mac Mini with Mac OS so I don't really have a way to isolate and remove Nginx and Apache and I have a feeling if I try Caddy I will get some interferences.

Anyone using CasaOS? in c/homelab@selfhosted.forum
[–] d-cent@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

I tried it and once I got to the point where I needed documentation, there wasn't any so I went away from it.

Why is starting with Self-hosting so daunting? in c/main@selfhosted.forum
[–] d-cent@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

I am right there with you. I am a Mechanical Engineer and if we tried putting out a product with the limited documentation that these come out with, we would be taken off the project. ME projects have documentation meant to guide a 10 year old through the process and details. The documentation would fill a 3" 3ring binder.

Yet these network products are released with 1 page of upper level description of the product. Yeah I already know what the product already does, that's why I got it, how about the actual documentation?