John <nopam@nospam.com> wrote:
Yeah, still checking in periodically. With the demise of GG, it’s a lot less convenient, as it’s now a “go launch an app” instead of having a webpage interface.
Meantime, I’ve been starting to debate getting a new NAS, versus taking an underutilized Mac mini I have and load it up with some external HDDs and sharing them.
-hh
John <nopam@nospam.com> wrote:
Yeah, still checking in periodically. With the demise of GG, it’s a lot less convenient, as it’s now a “go launch an app” instead of having a webpage interface.
Meantime, I’ve been starting to debate getting a new NAS, versus taking an underutilized Mac mini I have and load it up with some external HDDs and sharing them.
On 2024-02-28 18:34, -hh wrote:
John <nopam@nospam.com> wrote:
[-hh wrote]
Yeah, still checking in periodically. With the demise of GG, it’s a lot >> less convenient, as it’s now a “go launch an app” instead of having a >> webpage interface.
Meantime, I’ve been starting to debate getting a new NAS, versus
taking an underutilized Mac mini I have and load it up
with some external HDDs and sharing them.
Would you really save much by reusing the Mini?
On 2/29/24 5:35 PM, Alan wrote:
On 2024-02-28 18:34, -hh wrote:
John <nopam@nospam.com> wrote:
[-hh wrote]
Yeah, still checking in periodically. With the demise of GG, it’s a lot >>> less convenient, as it’s now a “go launch an app” instead of having a >>> webpage interface.
Meantime, I’ve been starting to debate getting a new NAS, versus
taking an underutilized Mac mini I have and load it up
with some external HDDs and sharing them.
Would you really save much by reusing the Mini?
Probably some. First, the Mini is currently doing nothing important,
so it is "free" vs buying a Synology NAS (probably the DS1522+ ($700);
for its storage pool, I have a decent number of external HDD's that I
could technically reuse .. for the drives to go therein, I have a huge
stack of "small" (under 8TB) capacities.
Probably the big technical question is given the age of some of theseHonestly, there is a hassle factor that I would be trying to avoid as
legacy HDD cases, they could have max drive capacity constraints
which would prevent me pulling their existing small 1-2TB drives and replacing them with 10TB's to reuse the external drive cases. A
"short list" example to look into first are a pair of ~ten year old
USB/FW400 NewerTech dual HDD cases.
On 2024-03-01 05:31, -hh wrote:
On 2/29/24 5:35 PM, Alan wrote:
On 2024-02-28 18:34, -hh wrote:
John <nopam@nospam.com> wrote:
[-hh wrote]
Yeah, still checking in periodically. With the demise of GG, it’s a >>>> lot
less convenient, as it’s now a “go launch an app” instead of having a
webpage interface.
Meantime, I’ve been starting to debate getting a new NAS, versus
taking an underutilized Mac mini I have and load it up
with some external HDDs and sharing them.
Would you really save much by reusing the Mini?
Probably some. First, the Mini is currently doing nothing important,
so it is "free" vs buying a Synology NAS (probably the DS1522+ ($700);
for its storage pool, I have a decent number of external HDD's that I
could technically reuse .. for the drives to go therein, I have a huge
stack of "small" (under 8TB) capacities.
Ah! That changes the equation quite a bit.
If both the "brain" of the NAS and the drives are sunk cost, the yeah,
the Mini will save you.
Probably the big technical question is given the age of some of theseHonestly, there is a hassle factor that I would be trying to avoid as
legacy HDD cases, they could have max drive capacity constraints
which would prevent me pulling their existing small 1-2TB drives and
replacing them with 10TB's to reuse the external drive cases. A
"short list" example to look into first are a pair of ~ten year old
USB/FW400 NewerTech dual HDD cases.
well. You might save a few dollars by reusing the Mini, but doing all
the research to see what your drive enclosures can support, and manually configuring a RAID...
...how many hours do you want to spend?
On 28/02/2024 02:32, John wrote:
Hello John! 🙂
I've just popped in to say "Hello"!
I use Thunderbird to read Usenet messages - it works REALLY well nowadays!
https://www.thunderbird.net/en-GB/
It's free - although contributions are very welcome!
David Brooks <applefanboy@btinternet.com> wrote at 08:27 this Monday (GMT):
On 28/02/2024 02:32, John wrote:
Hello John! 🙂
I've just popped in to say "Hello"!
I use Thunderbird to read Usenet messages - it works REALLY well nowadays! >>
https://www.thunderbird.net/en-GB/
It's free - although contributions are very welcome!
Hiya! There's still plenty of people around!
On 25/03/2024 15:20, candycanearter07 wrote:
David Brooks <applefanboy@btinternet.com> wrote at 08:27 this Monday (GMT): >>> On 28/02/2024 02:32, John wrote:
Hello John! 🙂
I've just popped in to say "Hello"!
I use Thunderbird to read Usenet messages - it works REALLY well nowadays! >>>
https://www.thunderbird.net/en-GB/
It's free - although contributions are very welcome!
Hiya! There's still plenty of people around!
Good news! 🙂
I don't recognise this fella ..... https://i.ibb.co/TtjVBqX/BBCF4-CED-C0-CA-4-F21-9954-1784904-F8-D8-E-4-5005-c.jpg
Who or what is he/it?!!!
On 3/2/24 2:18 PM, Alan wrote:
On 2024-03-01 05:31, -hh wrote:
On 2/29/24 5:35 PM, Alan wrote:
On 2024-02-28 18:34, -hh wrote:
John <nopam@nospam.com> wrote:
[-hh wrote]
Yeah, still checking in periodically. With the demise of GG, it’s >>>>> a lot
less convenient, as it’s now a “go launch an app” instead of having a
webpage interface.
Meantime, I’ve been starting to debate getting a new NAS, versus
taking an underutilized Mac mini I have and load it up
with some external HDDs and sharing them.
Would you really save much by reusing the Mini?
Probably some. First, the Mini is currently doing nothing important,
so it is "free" vs buying a Synology NAS (probably the DS1522+ ($700);
for its storage pool, I have a decent number of external HDD's that I
could technically reuse .. for the drives to go therein, I have a huge
stack of "small" (under 8TB) capacities.
Ah! That changes the equation quite a bit.
Indeed.
If both the "brain" of the NAS and the drives are sunk cost, the yeah,
the Mini will save you.
Well, the mini is a sunk cost, as is also the existing NAS, but buying another NAS (for more storage capacity) isn't a sunk cost. Question is really if using the mini for this purpose is reasonable or not. Answer
to that comes down to the potential cost of external HDDs that I already
have which would be 'free', as opposed to buying new HDDs for filling a
new NAS.
Probably the big technical question is given the age of some of theseHonestly, there is a hassle factor that I would be trying to avoid as
legacy HDD cases, they could have max drive capacity constraints
which would prevent me pulling their existing small 1-2TB drives and
replacing them with 10TB's to reuse the external drive cases. A
"short list" example to look into first are a pair of ~ten year old
USB/FW400 NewerTech dual HDD cases.
well. You might save a few dollars by reusing the Mini, but doing all
the research to see what your drive enclosures can support, and
manually configuring a RAID...
...how many hours do you want to spend?
Ideally, zero :-)
But I'm figuring that a few hours is okay, especially since it would
need to do an inventory all of the HDDs that I've accumulated over the
years, and verify my redundant data backups, which I'm quite delinquent
in having done anyway, so a chunk of this touch labor is notionally
being "paid for" by this other existing 'maintenance overhead' task.
-hh
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