Sovol has been generally decent in my experience (SV08), but they're kinda positioned between the "tinker" and "turnkey" markets. What wall are you running into?
Bambu would have been my recommendation before they tried to lock people into the cloud connection. They've reversed course (for now) due to the backlash, but they'll do it again when they think they can get away with it.
At this point I'd probably say Prusa, but I don't have firsthand experience with them so that's based solely on what I've read. If you're looking for something that will "just work" you're going to need to search for what's in your price range and then read everything you can about the models in question on support forums and reddit (ew). You can also learn a lot by watching YouTube videos but you have to be really careful to see past the "they gave me this for free/paid for the video so I'm going to minimize the negatives" crap.
I kinda disagree with this, in certain contexts. There is some value in learning how the machine works by self-assembling a kit (or buying off-the-shelf parts and assembling from an open-hardware guide). Identifying the things that can be upgraded, tinkering with firmwares and nozzles, printing parts to upgrade the machine itself... all are a fun aspect of the hobby, if you're interested in the hardware side.
But if you just want to make figurines from squirty plastic, then yeah just buy a moderately-priced, well-supported turnkey printer (though probably not a Bambu, because they're sliding toward enshittification).
No, but you'll have much more overhead. I have a VM that hosts all Docker deployments which don't need much disk space (most of them)
This is a big point. One of the key advantages of docker is the layering and the fact that you can build up a pretty sizeable stack of isolated services based on the same set of core OS layers, which means significant disk space savings.
Sure, 200-700MB for a stack of core layers seems small but multiply that by a lot of containers and it adds up.
When you're trying to make it level and hit the studs with your fasteners, it's much easier with a stick than a whole cabinet carcass.
Cleats make the cabinet easy to install and remove.
French cleats have a substantial amount of bearing surface and are extremely stable as a result, even without additional fasteners.
That said, for a cabinet I would probably still drive a screw from the inside through the back panel into the cleat to eliminate any chance of a strong bump from underneath knocking the cabinet off the cleat. You know, like when you drop that last m4 nut on the desk and it bounces into the corner and you have to reach over your project and soldering iron and cup of coffee to retrieve it and then stand up too quickly in triumph and bang your head off the underside of the cabinet...
What's blowing my mind about this entire thread is the "rewrite application to support RHEL9" thing I keep seeing. What the fuck applications are y'all running that are so tightly bound to the OS that they can't handle library and/or kernel updates?
Ultimately it's a matter of personal choice and risk tolerance.
The Z1 will be simpler and have larger capacity, but if you have a drive fail you'll need to quickly get it replaced or risk having to rebuild/restore if the mirror drive follows the first one to the grave.
Your Z2 setup right now can have two drives fail and still be online, and having a wider spread of power-on hours is usually a good thing in terms of failure probability.
I manage a large (14,000±) number of on-site RAID1 arrays in various environments and there is definitely a trend for drives shipped at the same time to fail at roughly the same time. It's common enough that we often intentionally swap drives out before shipping a new unit to the customer site.
On my homelab, I'm much more tolerant of risk since I have trust in my 3-2-1 backup solution and if my NAS goes down it's not going to substantially affect anything while I wait for a drive replacement.
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Sovol has been generally decent in my experience (SV08), but they're kinda positioned between the "tinker" and "turnkey" markets. What wall are you running into?
Bambu would have been my recommendation before they tried to lock people into the cloud connection. They've reversed course (for now) due to the backlash, but they'll do it again when they think they can get away with it.
At this point I'd probably say Prusa, but I don't have firsthand experience with them so that's based solely on what I've read. If you're looking for something that will "just work" you're going to need to search for what's in your price range and then read everything you can about the models in question on support forums and reddit (ew). You can also learn a lot by watching YouTube videos but you have to be really careful to see past the "they gave me this for free/paid for the video so I'm going to minimize the negatives" crap.