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 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?
Well that’s comforting. 🙂👍
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?
I see, thanks for these insights!
I hope this isn’t what happened here.
They must’ve agreed to this though, right? You can’t just steal shares. (?)
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?
Ah okay, so it’s kinda just for aesthetic reasons mostly? I’ll take that explanation home any day 😄
Is there a technical advantage to using a 192 network vs a 10 network like you described? I would’ve thought they’re just addresses, still IPv4 as well.
I tend to use hostnames where possible. Maybe that’s not viable for your situation?
moving task bar to the center
control panel vs Settings app
I didn’t mind these. But it’s not important what I think as I don’t use Windows anymore.
What are the mini PCs people typically recommend?
Maybe plans were made after that statement.
🤷♂️
connexion
I’m imagining you saying “connex-yun”, and it reminds me of Stewie saying “cool-hhhwip”.
Just like half of YouTube these days. God I hate those AI narrators.
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.