As always, I got the username wrong…

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Cake day: June 24th, 2025

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  • I used to run my nas from a raspberry pi with an USB to Sata bridge, but I found that USB cables are as always super unreliable and keep disconnecting and eventually I get filesystem errors, had to format and restore from backup.

    I ended up repurposing an old i3 computer as nas. Which worked well for few years until I was scrubbing the harddrives this summer and one of the harddrives died, when I took it off it was super hot. So I learned that having front fans blowing air directly to the hardrives is important so they don’t overheat. I’m not sure if external cases have enough air circulation.

    So maybe you could consider the overall reliability of the system and temperature of the harddrive, electricity can be expensive but an 8TB harddrive surely is more. Also you say you want no fan, so that makes things harder, maybe you can use the raspberry pi just as a client and have a big noisy NAS made from some old computer somewhere else in the house? And maybe have it so it wakes up on LAN when it’s being used and powered down when it’s not to safe power?



  • That reminds me of the baseball game episode, the worse and the single bad episode of the series, good thing I skipped through all of it. I rate it 0/10

    I can’t imagine people watching it on TV back in the days without being able to skip watching the entire thing waiting for something good or plot relevant to happen just to waste an hour of what seems 5 hours of nothing.

    Apart from that I loved DS9.