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  • Yes, absolutely. No risk of virus or bacteria, or worse...

    Grown to the size you want...

    Of the shape and type you want...

    No fat (maybe?)....

    What's not to like.

  • Somebody should create a windows executable to be placed in the WPBT that silently install Linux on first windows boot....

  • Op updated

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  • No idea, its supposed to be open for registration...

  • Hi!

    I remember I had issues in setting it up. IIRC there was a problem with a too long URL that you where supposed to copy & paste in the browser... And I took me a few tries until I figured that out.

    Beside this, I don't remember if that was the same issue...

    Maybe you can post the full trace (with redacted credentials)?

    You can pm me of course

  • My family has a junk home, not just a drawer :)

  • I purchased a firewall appliance with 4 ports and installed opnsense on it. Best decision of my self-hosted life.

    Get one with two 10gbps ports and you are set. Passive cooled, small factor, Intel atom CPU. 4gb ram is plentiful.

    On aliexpress can be found for 100€ or little more.

    Even much better than an OpenWRT, which I love and use but delegate to internal network (WiFi access points) rather than perimetral defense.

  • Has docker compose file for deployment

    Can be hosted on sub-path and not only subdomain

    Can easily be integrated into SSO lime authelia

  • That's why you should always use them as jbod and setup Linux software raid (or zfs raid? Not familiar) directly.

    Never go without a raid... Not a good idea in any case.

    As for heat, I used jbod enclosures with fan, anything with more than 2 drives should have one, or don't bother.

    I wouldn't go with single drive enclosures (even if I did for 10 years) as better not to cheap out on this matter. A 4 x 10€ cheap enclosure might be tempting, but shilling out 100€ for a nice actively cooled 4-disk jbod is a much better choice. Then go sw raid on top of it.

  • Yes there is someone talking everybody down about USB enclosures*.

    Maybe he got burned or something...

    Can say never had an issue and I replaced many motherboards over 20 years, and also many enclosures.

    Don't go too cheap, but don't worry too much. I highly recommend a raid setup anyway. And always do backups, bit this is unrelated to USB specifically

    • not referring to op or the other comment specifically, just noticed in general somebody always negative about USB on all posts lime this.
  • I used USB enclosures for my RAIDs for over 20 years. The turning point has been usb3 and then usb-c even better, but I found really no difference as in the bottleneck where the mechanical drives.

    Moved to an all internal sata setup a few months back because I upgraded the space and moved to a desktop form factor.

    Can still recommend the USB approach tough.

    BUY A QUALITY EBCLOSURE.

    I always used Linux software raid, but purchased a 4 slots USB raid/jbod enclosure to keep the number of used USB ports down.

    I never ever had issues with the setup, but I purchased a known-brand enclosure, one with also e-SATA, which unfortunately was/is more a fad than even been really used.

  • I am doing split tunnel since years without knowing :)

    Thanks, I learned something new.

  • Can you detail the split tunnel part?

  • I did ru my nas over USB for 20 years. Never had an issue. But I never had more than 6 USB drives and 2 or 3 USB network Ethernet card tough.

    All with Linux software raid.

    Switched to a full desktop case and now enjoying internal sata.

  • Wireguard or ssh tunnel with port forwards, both works.

  • Yeah, there are workarounds... And who knows, maybe its just safer than public ip... But definitely require some external fixture.

  • My latest purchase is an Eaton, hope battery are better quality ad well!

  • Ixury for people that can have public IPs! :)