Victor

Good luck with your eventual transition to Linux! Check in with Lemmy communities if you want help with anything!

Fully within your right. First impressions matter.

Alright, bro. I didn’t pick my own name.

Read what you will into whatever, it’s just my personal opinion.

Consistency doesn’t cancel our the immaturity for me, sadly.

What do you mean it checks out? That’s just as immature of a project name.

I can’t take this project name seriously. Like it’s made by weebly pimply teenagers or tweens.

Dude you’ve made more in 6–8 months than I had the ambition to accomplish for over a decade now, and I haven’t even started. (Two kids, there’s just no time or energy.)

You’re doing great!

Yeah, on multiple computers. Linux I feel will just happily hand out memory on loan like a bank rather than from what’s actually available. Then when it runs out, the next request for more memory will just freeze the system. ☠️

It’s just that the system freezes for me when I used to run out of memory when I had only 32 GB of memory. Then I couldn’t do anything and had to hard reset the computer with its reset button. Then it would be nice to have a little bit of swap to kill some stuff before literally everything just stops working.

I had a feeling they were talking about polyamory, but I wasn’t sure since it felt a lot like over-sharing. But I guess it’s good to announce any and all use cases for something like this, why not. 👍

Pardon my ignorance but what is a poly group?

I don’t need support for RAID at all to begin with I think. I just need to make my existing drives network-accessible. 😁

I do not have backups at all. This is just… warez. Nothing too important to backup, really. It would just be annoying to download again.

Alright, cool, thanks for the heads-up regarding wiping with Synology!

Yeah, I mean, my special case is basically only that I have a lot of data and I don’t really have anywhere to store it temporarily before installing it in a NAS. 😅 So that’s why I want to just plop them in there… But I don’t know what the best way forward would be to turn my drives into network drives. Just a small drive bay maybe.

Yeesh, okay, I see.

Then maybe some kind of compact drive bay would suit my needs better for now, that I would just connect to a mini PC of some sort.

Thanks for all the info!

Thanks for the notes on network storage access protocols!

A big point of a NAS in my mind is to run some sort of redundancy, which means you will want to setup a RAID on the drives in the NAS

Cool, thank you for that as well, and I was aware of that so I thought I would mention that in my previous comment. But I was specifically wondering if I could in fact just chuck them in as-is and it would be able to access the drives? Because like, they’re separate drives, right? How would that work in a non-RAID setup when accessing from another computer? Would they show up as separate drives? Is it at all possible?

I’m new to NAS hardware and how it works.

If I buy a NAS, say from Synology, would I be able to just chuck my existing EXT4 HDDs full of data in there and it’ll work? Maybe even one or two with different file systems? I’m not too worried about backups or RAID yet.

What are the limitations of dedicated NAS hardware? Can I also… “store” stuff on there? Like, say, have a “schmorrent” 🏴‍☠️ client save “data” directly to the drives from another computer on the network? Or do all services interacting with the data storage need to run on the NAS hardware?

Cool, thank you so much for the info, mate!

Ah, nice. Very cool, very reasonable.

And you can do this all with a consumer grade router maybe? Or do you need to have like a small PC-like device running special software that acts like a router, that handles this?

Going back a little bit, you mentioned advantages to “segregating into vlans”?

Would you like to elaborate on some of those advantages?

😁 “Maaaybe”