I know it is a bad time but I planned to stick with my normal external consumer harddrive for another year at least. Should I wait and just hook up an external USB drive to my RPi and use it as a samba share for backups?
I checked for used enterprise drives but I didn't find anything with SATA for a reasonable price yet, unfortunately.
What do you mean by production run? How could I check that before having them in my hands? And operating hours only applies for used drives no?
I will do some more research on ebay but it is hard to find offers with SMART values and operating hours. The downside of enterprise harddrives is mostly that they are louder right?
I think there are too many technical words I don't understand yet in this comment, but thanks nonetheless. One I want to ask specifically tough, is a hot spare a disk mirrored every now and then or what do you mean by that?
Thanks a lot for this very in depth response! I had to take some time to sit down and properly understand everything so sorry for the late response.
I will take your advice seriously and buy at least three drives of the same size (to get this right, the model or brand doesn't necessarily need to be the same right?). Because I don't know if I can afford four of the size I would like to get. One question I still have is, how do you achieve the hot standby? Is this a software feature common NAS OS provide?
I will definitely have to do my homework on all of these transfer rates lol
SAS drives are way cheaper on eBay and such but I don't know if I feel confident enough to move from SATA to SAS for my first DIY NAS already. It sounds very easy with the PCIe SAS adapter but still daunting at the same time.
idk which naming scheme is worse: PCIe or USB. Not that I would know too much about transfer speeds but the plethora of different version surely doesn't help.
Unfortunately, like mentioned in another comment below, Barracudas are now mostly SMR. And I didn't find offers for Barracudas Pro which should be CMR.
Anyways, I will most probably buy some smaller CMR drives. Take a bit more money in the hand now, lay out a proper backup strategy and only store data which can not be easily re-downloaded and I should be good.
Thanks a lot, again! I think I will focus on active and backup drive (+remote for the few essentials) and only use RAID if it is easy (and cheap) to implement.
Do you have any tips how to implement the powering on and off automatically? And would it be possible to have both in the same case or is it necessary to separate them physically?
Thanks a lot for sharing you experience! I recently saw some people I follow on youtube talk about fibre as an alternative for ethernet cables, do you have an any experience with that?
Thanks for the detailed opinion! Especially that some people find too many "Thank you" comments weird. And I mostly hesitate to paste links because I was unsure how much context is necessary. Next time I have a link with a short summary, maybe I will post it into the appropriate community.
Sometimes I see the same post cross-posted or even of the same community multiple times in my timeline and I am annoyed too. But I remember that this is just because there is not enough posts so that's why I am here asking these questions!
But a lot boils down to being nice, curious and a bit active.
I think I have some niche interests but I am mostly getting started so I don't have too much insight. Maybe some early findings or noob questions but I think most users will not enjoy that.
Confusion being the reason more often than trying to be mean is a good heads up for rookies like me. Don't take it too personal, it's supposed to be fun after all!
And don't feed the trolls, a classic but often neglected technique from ancient internet times.
Yes maybe I should just give it some time and try some things out.
And like some else pointed out, sometimes you might feel uncomfortable in a certain community and you might have to look for an alternative on another instance.
Some communities don't like clumsy or simple questions I had to learn. I was wondering why my question was getting no answers like usual and then the post was just gone without explanation or notification.
And thank you, I will try to be available for a few hours after posting but will not force it on me.
The whole point is to post or interact with posts. It would be very quiet if everyone would only post but never comment. I think will try to create one medium to high effort post instead of a few low effort posts.
I was unsure if I installed docker on this machine so I ran docker-compose and the help page showed up (another one than for podman-compose). Then I queried my installed packages and grepped them for docker and nothing shows up. Only podman-compose has docker in the description. So I accidentaly used that compatibility layer already without knowing.
But one reason I consider to switch is because compose files are not really standardized I heard and quadlets are structured like systemd files so I seems more applicable. But that is still a long way.
getenforce gives me Enforcing. And I think I have SELinux.
I had a look at this tutorial https://www.tutorialworks.com/podman-rootless-volumes/ suggested by another commenter and after running podman unshare ls -al in the folder with the bind mount it returns root root as the owner of the directory. So as far as I understand this means for the podman namespace this folder belongs to root? Like I said in my edit using named volumes solved the issue in on way.
I just tried the :Z label too and it seems to work too. So it was probably a SELinux issue?
With the getenfore command from kumi below I get Enforcing so I guess I use SELinux.
I now have two working options. a) Using named volumes (I'm still unsure if this is the way to go or not, generally speaking) and b) using the private label :Z for the bind mount.
Without :Z podman unshare yields root:root for the data directory. After setting the label it is a different user alltogether.
I checked the tutorial and setting the private label :Z worked when using $HOME/... as bind mount. For named volumes from podman itself that was not necessary, it worked out of the box.
Like I said the dev used bind mounts so I sticked with that but he was probably using docker so he didn't have this problem.
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Yeah that's why I was asking lol. But for that use its perfect to have it directly hooked up to the PC. And yes, sometimes it can be nice to have a big screen for some random apps.
I didn't know my current one could be mounted so I always thought I have to buy a new one before I can even think about an arm. But now trying the arm first with what I have sounds more reasonable.
But idk which arm to buy now lol. I think two separate arms with gas springs are more flexible but it might look weird if I end up using only one. Using a vertical tube allows attaching arms as you need but I think it restricts the vertical alignment more than two separate arms. Anyway, I have to figure that out somehow. Thanks a lot!
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