Turnkey for work.. I don't want to own it there. DIY at home... I DO want to own it there.
2 weeks ago | 4
DIY at work is something you do if you really enjoy working unpaid overtime 😅 Or, a great way to ensure some contractor in the future gets loads of money from your ex employer
2 weeks ago | 4
At work I don’t deploy a NAS. At home I have a Synology (as a semi backup of some files) that I did not get rid of because the HDDs did not match the larger storage size as the new ones in my TrueNAS that I upgraded to.
2 weeks ago | 0
I looked at both Synology and Qnap, have had both before... They didn't have anything of interest (almost) so I bought a Zimaboard 2... and a Qnap DAS... (hence the almost before) and then I installed Unraid on it, runs brilliantly and does everything I need + is flexible when I want to add more drives etc. (currently 4 from the DAS and 2 from the ZB2) so a small compact 6 drive system and can upgrade it with another 4 drives later on if I need to.
2 weeks ago | 0
I’m up to my neck in nix these days and my only complaint is that I’m not in even deeper. I don’t know if I’ve ever had as much setting anything up as I have with nixos lol
2 weeks ago | 0
Power consumption of DIY most of the time is ridiculous unless you spend a lot of time choosing particular parts.
3 weeks ago | 1
I think NAS devices should just work safe, and they shouldn't take more attention than doing a regular backup update operations. Because of this, I consider everything else than turnkey within OS update support are all just same as Linux distros*. People have a hard time to learn basics of them. I won't be getting paid for opening 101 class all the day anyways. * I mean, it's difficult to use and maintain. Jonsbo's new case finally attracted me but it's awfully expensive to setup any new PC now. Maybe after 2~3 years I may use both, non-turnkey for completely local only, turnkeys within software support as a home cloud service. Leonichelangelo? :S
2 weeks ago | 0
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Question for those that find themselves 'up to the elbow ' in a server regularly - How often does the system you use in your personal life (a DIY machine, a turnkey like a Synology or QNAP, or ancient eBay gold mind find) influence the system you recommend professionally? The answer seems pretty obviously 'yes' to me - but in reality, I know plenty of technicians, Support, System integrators and homelabbers who will widely install TrueNAS systems regularly, but their homelife is on a easy peasey setup and forget turnkey (and visa versa!). So *as I wrestle things back to the subject at hand*, which of the following best describes you:
*Important. Please resist the urge to correct me on the turtle names. I know it's tempting, I spent 10 mins mentally debating it, let's not have a bust up over this...it's so close to Christmas...
3 weeks ago | [YT] | 35