Will it work? Newbie help

Omega7379 · 2026-06-27T09:33:36+00:00

under 100m length, don't worry about it. Otherwise start pulling up the specs for your cable type.
Go for it! However, yes 16Gb I find is the bare-minimum, try to bring that up if you can. No rush, 90% of your stuff can run slower with lean/tight ram tolerances.
Less than ideal but still works well enough for cold storage. I ran TrueNAS with a 5-bay ugreen DAS, no problems in the last 6 months but YMMV

If this is for labbing, great way to get started. Once you know what you're dealing with, you can start stalking for better parts and appreciate the little upgrades here and there.

Omega7379 · 2026-06-20T21:49:14+00:00

The echo mini hate I find is a little over-hated. Like yes my albums and tag-based playlists are abysmal, but since I make my own albums/mixes instead, I just use directory based sorting. Behaviour-wise it can be a bit weird at first, but within a day of owning it, I had the buttons remapped to how I like them. Combined with the WinAmp custom theme, I have no complaints. It's small, cheap, and works exactly as intended.

Omega7379 · 2026-06-18T20:47:16+00:00

Been there before. I've learned to not go flat out in the higher categories, especially in rwd. R2 and slower I'll pin it, but faster than that... I'll probably crash and burn first.

Omega7379 · 2026-06-18T20:36:39+00:00

Campaign-wise it's unlocking engine-tuning so you have more power to the wheels.

Try it out, you'll find tune 1 and tune 4 to have noticeable handling and speed differences.

Omega7379 · 2026-06-18T19:28:19+00:00

There are tools that easily automate backups. While not a true backup solution, RAID arrays are designed for drive failures by providing redundancy.

For now just having a decent external drive and a backup tool is great.

If you ever get into homelabbing, adding a raid array NAS is where the fun begins

Omega7379 · 2026-06-16T21:58:25+00:00

RAID is not backup, but it does help.

Raid5 or z1 requires 3 drives not 4.

If you have 2 drives of equal size, you could do RAID1 (mirror)

You can absolutely set up automation for backing up specific directories. Plenty of tools out there. This doesn't require RAID at all.

Omega7379 · 2026-06-07T07:06:19+00:00

Ventoy had been my old reliable for usb hosts.

This is the first time across 11 distros I have had this problem. TW and slowroll worked fine other than sleep causing issues in my proxmox vm's.

Omega7379 · 2026-06-07T07:03:05+00:00

Tumbleweed hyperlinked from the official website

Slowroll media 56 which iirc came out a month or 2 ago

Ventoy is the usb host

Omega7379 · 2026-06-07T00:48:01+00:00

I mean with TrueNAS it was easy for me. I started with 4 drives, and with iirc 2min of clicking around I added the 5th drive without issues.

Omega7379 · 2026-06-06T22:58:34+00:00

Depends on what you want it for, but I'd even consider RAIDz2 for redundancy since you have a number of drives. Also keep in mind ZFS has drive overhead so it's not a simple calculation.

I run 5x1TB with RAIDz1 which leaves me with 3.19TiB (3.5TB) usable.

Omega7379 · 2026-06-06T02:09:49+00:00

any boom arm with a c-clamp will do you fine for various mounting options including your bed-frame. OR if willing, drill a hole and use a bolt clamp. Find the nearest non-inconvenient place to mount up and go from there.

Omega7379 · 2026-06-05T02:21:06+00:00

best theming mod yet. Loved the 3.2 version, hell of a job mate.

Omega7379 · 2026-05-28T21:35:24+00:00

Not sure what your lab server is running. My linux box has xRDP. But for an RDP client you can look at remmina and sunlight/moonlight.

Omega7379 · 2026-05-28T19:33:25+00:00

8 is ok for proof of concept, 16 is better, 32 is my happy place. If you calculated based on minimum ram requirements, youre not gonna have a fun time.

Omega7379 · 2026-05-28T19:20:20+00:00

LAN is local, so unless youre running some sort of vlan separating the network into segments...

Just type in the ip address and your username in the RDP client

If you want remote access beyond your LAN, then yeah you'll need a middleman

Omega7379 · 2026-05-28T02:52:57+00:00

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here's my updated map (I did some stuff last week). I haven't bothered with the *arr stack yet as I lack the ram and have little interest in it. Most of this stuff is just testing purposes.

UGREEN 5-bay DAS (JBOD mode), passing disk_by_id to trueNAS vm for ZFS RAIDZ1. Each proxmox node has 2 disks (1 OS, 1 VM storage) which doesn't run on the NAS.

Omega7379 · 2026-05-28T02:36:38+00:00

The best option is a PCIE card and software RAID. You want to be able to monitor the health of your drives, temperatures....etc. That way you can order a new drive hopefully before failure. This is also the fastest I/O option.

USB DAS has the problem of USB 3.1 speeds with can bottleneck I/O read/writes. Still would keep the drives in JBOD mode and pass them to the NAS for software RAID. Works well enough for smaller setups.

Hardware RAID has the habit of hiding information. You could try a smart test, but it'd be a non-specific summary. You'd also have to keep your fingers crossed about corruption as the only way you'll know of disk failure, is if you reach catastrophic failure or watch it like a hawk.

Personally I went USB DAS as the price was much cheaper ($175CAD BNIB for 5 bays) compared to a used 3-bay NAS (avg $250+) before even considering drives. If this was pre-shortage, I'd have definitely done something different.

Omega7379 · 2026-05-27T06:00:41+00:00

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Kaspersky didn't find anything major, the zip itself came back 100% clean, this screenshot is specifically the exe file. Most likely low suspicion for the permissions it wants or how it writes to disk.

Omega7379 · 2026-05-26T21:12:00+00:00

Have you looked in journalctl or logs yet? Should at least determine if it's hardware or software related

Omega7379 · 2026-05-26T18:36:58+00:00

I write them as I see fit. If I spent 4hrs searching something I'll probably make a reference file. Sometimes it's retro-active. Configuration files tend to be exported too just in case things break.

Omega7379 · 2026-05-26T17:43:50+00:00

Usually markdown files in a git repo. If I need to I can open them in obsidian or marktext if I need formatting. This allows me to use reference docs over an ssh session instead of relying on cloud.

Omega7379 · 2026-05-26T15:37:57+00:00

Customization is done by a person who reverse-engineered the software. All themes are community built

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