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We shall never know. Unless they reply.

I assumed they meant $2000. Or were they trolling?

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What kind of math are you smoking.

No, about $2,500. How did you get to 2 million dollars?

Am I the one who can’t math? Stop making me second-guess myself! Unless I’m wrong, then do. But am I?! Ahh!

ngl we should probably be doing that even if gaming PCs become super cheap 😅 but gaming is too much fun dangit

Oh shit, aight. That would return me about 80% of what I paid for it, and net me about $8/month if you treat it as a subscription over how long I’ve had it.

I’m guessing now would be a good time for me to sell my old PC from 2020?

3900X, 2080 Super, 32 GB of RAM, 1 TB Samsung 970 M.2 storage. What would y’all pay for this right now? 😅

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’m here like oh shit you got a Kinder Surprise? Lemme get a bite!

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 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!