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  • I have many well over 70000 hours.

    At what point do you consider replacing a drive?

    When I worked at a data center, I would notice drives would die around 50k hours. Some last a lot longer but when your testing hundreds of drives you start to see the patterns. So when my drive get to 50k I replace them preemptively just to not have data loss. I might still glue them km a redundant backup or something like that.

  • I was running the numbers in my head and realized that if hosting media like music and video files where it's just written to once and read from a lot, a large 2.5 inch SSD might be a better buy than a HDD (especially if size limited to a 2.5 inch HDD). My reasoning is that a HDD needs replacement after around 50,000 power on hours. But an SSD needs replacement depending on how often the entire drive is overwritten. For a media server that should mean that the HDD will be replaced much more often than an SSD. And that's without considering vibration related issues of having multiple drives in the same server or if you experience frequent power outages (both of which would make a better case for an ssd.

    So what I do is I use an M.2 SSD for the OS, and the largest 2.5 sata SSD I can find which will fit my storage and backup solution. (recently bought 4x 8TB SSDs). For the m.2 drive, try to get the best value size as I've never heard anyone complain about having too big of a drive.

    For all SSDs (m.2 and data) make sure that it accurately reports SMART data for you can keep tabs on their health metrics.

  • IronFox is pretty good. My only gripe with it is that my password store doesn't recognize it as a web browser.

    For example, in Firefox if I go to gitlab.com and sign in, my password store does a lookup for passwords that have gitlab.com in the path. But with IronFox the lookup is for IronFox, which is similar to what happens if I use a qr code reader app to open a link in webview. But I have webview disabled so I think it's just something proprietary in Firefox that was striped out.

  • Well again, the claim was that somehow passkeys would stop Lemmy from being flooded by bots.

    So in that situation, we aren't talking about hacking. We are simply talking about if a login could be triggered programmatically. So if Lemmy required passkeys to be used instead of passwords. And if the passkeys required scanning a QR code to sign in. I imagine It would provide minimal disruption to an automated login.

    Now if the passkeys somehow enforced a real human to do something that only a human could do, then yes it would stop an automated registration/login. However if it's possible to automate then it wouldn't stop bots.

  • Oh I don't know what it is, sorry I thought I made that clear. But a quick search on the internet said it was basically 2fa with a qr code and since the issue was how it would protect Lemmy from bots I just thought it wouldn't be hard for a bot to read a qr code.