• bdonvr@thelemmy.club
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    Well I have a VPS to run lemmy just because I don’t want something that public near my home network but I haven’t found the limit to my little i7 HP mini PC… Yet

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      No redundancy? No high availability? No clustering? What are you even doing man? One server? Those are rookie numbers. You gotta bump those numbers up.

      /s, obviously. You do you, and whatever works for your needs/budget.

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        Yeah I’m trying not to fall further down the rabbit hole at the moment. Want to get a big raid cluster going so I don’t have to be so skimpy on my Jellyfin library but I have to stop myself everytime I start pricing parts out lmao

        The call of the upgrades will claim me one day though

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        I’m addicted to raspberry pis and have six of them for various purposes. Hard to say no to 5 watts when you wanna spin up another thing.

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          Are you able to easily attach spinning rust hard drives to those? If so, how? I think those things use more than 5W on their own. Biggest question I have before planning a horizontal raspi setup. Currently I use old x64 PC boxes for self hosting.

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            I’ve used a 2.5" hdd on a rPi before using a usb-to-sata adapter (powered from rPi’s USB port). I’ve used a 3.5" hdd using an hdd enclosure that’s externally powered.

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              Ahh, externally powered. Thanks for the info! I’m gonna look into such external HDD enclosures…

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            I attached little portable USB SSD drives to them when they need the storage; otherwise I have been using raspikeys. Though I am excited about the new m2 chips on offer nowadays from RPi.

            Currently my pis are used as:

            • Two separate pi holes
            • Shakenet
            • Birdnet
            • Homebridge
            • Torrent client
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              Yep those m2 hat things look pretty useful. Thanks for the info! Portable USB drives are something I’d overlooked.