Mark Knecht wrote: > On Sat, Apr 16, 2022 at 6:06 PM Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Mark Knecht wrote: >>> On Sat, Apr 16, 2022 at 3:53 PM Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> <SNIP> >>> Maybe this is a good excuse >>>> to start working on a NAS. :/ >>> That's my vote. (For the second time) >>> >>> I'm using a FreeBSD Nas (TrueNAS) but they recently came out with a >>> Linux version which you might be more comfortable with. If you use a >>> 1Gb/S or higher network connection it's quite fast. >>> >>> You can also go the Synology route via Amazon. You can get a 2-disk >>> NAS chassis which does RAID for around $250 last time I looked. >>> >>> Good luck whatever you do. >>> >>> Mark >> Other than being another piece of equipment running up a light bill, it >> is the best way to deal with this. The way I'm doing now is a bit of a >> struggle at times. I just need to get other things done first, from a >> money perspective which inflation isn't helping on. A trip to the >> grocery story is no fun anymore. >> >> One of these days tho. I just gotta do it. >> >> Dale > I hear you about groceries and inflation. Wol pushed me to build my > first one just using an old computer. I had an old machine - case, > power supply with a bad motherboard so I purchased an i3-2120 CPU @ > 3.30GHz motherboard with 8GB memory used at a computer store for $40. > Surprisingly that's more than enough CPU & memory for basic backups. > No matter what you're going to have to pay for the drives whether they > go in your box, in external cases or in a backup machine. > > I only turn it on to do backups or to retrieve data so not much electricity. > >
I was wanting to have a NAS that also puts video on my TV. That way I can turn off my puter and still watch TV. It would be as much a media system as a NAS. I have a mobo, ram and I think I have a extra video card somewhere. I'd need a case, power supply and such. I'd also need a place to put all this which is going to be interesting. I'd want plenty of hard drive bays tho. I found a fractal 804 case that caught my eye. Can't recall all the details tho. Still, needs money and right now, I got to many other coals in the fire. Plus, I'm trying to figure out this crypttab thing. From what I've read, it is for opening encrypted drives during boot up which is not really what I want. I can boot and login into my KDE without anything encrypted being mounted. Kinda like this new setup really. I'll be so glad when fiber internet gets here. I think I'm going with the 500Mb/sec plan. Costs about the same as my current 1.5Mb/sec plan. lol Dale :-) :-)
