quieter, and uses way less power.

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Even if you are wrong this is a hilarious characterisation

Doing hentai addicts and dogfuckers dirty

Your asrock option should be good, you are concerned about power draw but the manual asks for 90w adaptor with 2 HDDs.

The Odroid has a more specific ask

– DC 19V/7A power adapter is recommended if you use more than one 3.5” SATA HDDs together

Your 90w may be underpowered in either case hard to tell.

Proxmox would still be useful for container management.

Does your budget include the drives you mentioned, or do you already own those? Do you have an esata dock or something already?

Oh I never looked at the two bay specs, good idea.

Synology specifically can run a bunch of services. Plex server is in the package manager. I use WebDAV and added it as a media source on the VLC app on my nvidia shields

The thing that you will struggle with, doing a roll your own NAS is that rolling your own is only going to be as reliable as you are.

I had a seadrive Linux server set up and I had a bunch of issues with accessibility and software upgrades because it stretched the bounds of what I was capable of. If I went back to that solution now, I would not struggle nearly as much and I would probably run two concurrent instances and transfer files between them instead of trying to upgrade the one live instance.

But I need something consistent for my wife and friends, so I did pick up a Synology 4 bay and loaded it with 4x 8tb drives.

With this thing, extra services beyond the Synology apps are much more simple to configure. Authentication is more consistent, even though I am not using the Synology sign in service.

The server hardware that was hosting Seadrive still has containers and VMs for a web proxy, pihole, my security camera server, qbittorrent-nox. I have a mikrotik router that feeds traffic back and forth.

If none of those things make sense to you even if you look them up, you should use a prebuilt. If you can make a guess how I’m using the things, you might be able to roll your own.

He’s literally extremely privileged and still suffered from a for profit system, so yes people with less means have it worse.

He did suffer, but he never became homeless, lived in fear day to day, or had to ration life-saving medications like insulin.

Pfff current I was brain-dead, yes.

There’s smart plugs that measure current, I have some Emporia plugs at home.

You mean parallel right

No but I want to

Happy about this. A scant few hours ago I had an over the fence conversation with my neighbor and neither of us were wearing shirts. It’s the ideal way to live.

He was too busy being good to everyone around him to have time for anything else.

Some people are built different.

“with AI” fuck off I want the unpredictability of human opponents

https://youtu.be/EdzDCkFaskc?si=F8FB0Xn28YeZ9N90

I’m doing this and it works great.

When my server turns off everything stops working which is interesting.

For the first one sure, if you are running a pi already. For the next ones, the cost of a pi plus a pi camera is more than the rest of this per channel.

For switches, new POE should be under 12$cad per port, 5mpx poe camera can be gotten retail 50-100$

Wire is still a significant cost if you aren’t terminating your own wire, so look around for cheap long patches.

A pi would be cost of the pi, case plus power supply plus camera each, you could do wifi so you might be able to get away from the cost of the cable. If you do that you should upgrade your wifi AP.

I’m a milestone dealer so I’m running essentials which is free up to 8 camera channels at my house. Enterprise VMS is the only place I would go other than open source options just because any of these cloud connected retail options can SAAS your shit up at the drop of a hat.

I should spend the time to figure out zoneminder just because the windows server I have is a reject proliant and takes too much wattage for what it’s doing.