@codyvme
Criminally under-subbed channel. Keep up the great work!
@midnightmythos
Amazing work as always, you always seem to make videos on things right as I'm coincidentally getting interested in them (linux on thinkpads, making a NAS, etc)
@nagi4966
I love you so much , i stumbled upon your channel recently and being the poor student that i am i definitely needed this.
@johnm9767
āLike a god damn hot pocketā earned an instant subscription and like. šš
@stefanfun3
I came for the tech videos, i stayed for the self reflection awesome videos, keep it up!
@caleballen1330
Hey! Just found your channel and love that you have similar interests to me - can't wait for your main server video!
@robertpiper6860
If you have the money then use it for good drives and hardware. If you donāt have the money, you have nothing to lose. Long live (hopefully) cheapskate used hardware!
@destronger5313
this is where i started. iām currently switching over to a terramaster 4 drive with UnRaid. iāll be moving from my Frankenstein HP with TrueNAS Scale. iām doing this to lower power use and to simplify my set up. i have a ProxMox HP too which i can use the Terramaster as well. my main uses are a samba, plex, and possible minecraft. if this terramaster doesnāt work out for the minecraft i plan to get sff pc for proxmox later.
@AndehX
I'd actually recommend something like an HP Z230 over the Optiplex. It has a Xeon CPU, which allows for ECC memory, and more room for storage. I got one on ebay last week for Ā£75 I'd say that if you decide you want, let's say, 12TB of storage, I'd recommend buying 4 4TB drives instead of 2 6TB drives. This will give you options for redundancy. with 2 drives, you basically have no option for redundancy, unless you sacrifice half of your 12TB of storage. If you buy 4 4TB drives, you can use one of those for redundancy, and still have 12TB of storage. Just make sure if a drive starts to fail, REPLACE IT IMMEDIATELY, otherwise you could risk losing your data. Sounds dangerous, but it's better than running only 2 drives with half the storage space. or basically no redundancy... Also, you bought the exact same SATA HBA that I got! Still waiting for it to arrive.
@samsinclair3001
You should move the blue HyperX RAM DIMM to the #2 slot (your motherboard labels it as #1). Right now your PC is running the RAM in single channel mode, not dual channel. You'll notice a performance increase after you change it.
@Benjamin-hv7vz
I love these kinds of vids!
@edwardfletcher7790
For anyone thinking about DIY NAS. Do your research about avoiding SMR Hard drives before you buy !!
@snowflakezzonPC
I built a home file share server for my wife and I. It cost me nothing because I got the pc for free and repaired and sold old laptops to fund the parts. It is a fully upgraded Dell Dimension 9200. Intel core 2 quad Q6600 quad core cpu, 8gb ddr2 667mhz, GT 710 2GB GDDR6 (yes, that version exists) and two WD red 4TB drives in RAID1 mirrored for redundancy. The system kicks ass at processing and move files and is only bottlenecked by my home network speed limit of 100MBPS. All running on W10 on a 128GB $20 SSD. Totally worth it!
@Kennephone
I'll never forget when I legally downloaded thousands of hours of old tv shows and let my Aero 15 (before it was stolen) go for like 3 days transcoding everything down to 480x360 at 372kbps h.265 with 128k mp3 audio (this was before I discovered how good aac and opus are). The quality is actually better than you'd think, being only a little worse than a good dvd, keep in mind though, a lot of it started out as standard def anyway, and I intended to watch it from a tv tray on a 15'' laptop screen.
@rdsii64
I only run Exos drives in my media server. I buy new when I can, used when I have to, but only Exos drives!
@trashtronics1700
Used drives are fine and much more robust then people claim I have multiple 20 year old drives still going strong
@Napert
12TB for $100? meanwhile my local listings: 4TB for $100 and if you want cheaper all you'll get will be broken "for parts" drives (used ofc)
@CodexSan
I might make myself a server in the future, Thing is, technology in Brazil is so hecking expensive, nothing is produced locally, everything is imported, and since the Brazilian currency is so devalued, and import fees are astronomical, getting electronics is pretty hard. I managed to throw together a first gen Ryzen in 2019, and that's what I'm using since. But yeah, like, I'm still running mechanical drives for everything, one of them failed, and I had to go for a 5200 rpm notebook one, and there's where my system is installed. Most of the parts I used came from China, including the motherboard, (by a brand called Colorful, which makes decent Intel boards, mind you, but their "venture" into AMD territory caused my system instability) I do shopping from China since they can literally declare any value on the receipt, (Import fees can go as high as +78% of the product price, so NewEgg and eBay are just no go) so yeah, I committed tax evasion just to get a pc running. I saw my first SSD not long ago, on a new notebook, the boot times with Garuda on it looked kinda nice. I'm pretty accustomed to 6 mins boot time. and now I'm planning on getting one in the coming months. I might use an old pentium that I have lying around, throw some mechanical drives from China, with the proper HBA, (those things runs IDE after all) just so I can stream my "Modified" *Wink Wink* software to my computer. "Modified" software in Brazil is legal, as long as it's used for personal consumption. Let's not employ the P word here, since YouTube, being a US company, is subject to DMCA, and they usually delete my comment when I employ that word.
@giovaanflores7019
I still have my WD HDD from 2003 lol ,still works no issues .
@aChairLeg