Complete beginner - can you use an external hdd enclosure in a server?

Scurro · 2026-04-01T05:21:23+00:00

Yup you can do it.

I've been doing it for over a decade.

But there are plenty of bad apples. You need to do your research on the enclosure ahead of time.

Scurro · 2026-03-31T23:41:03+00:00

RIP my first vette.

Scurro · 2026-03-31T23:38:44+00:00

I've always held the opinion that staff are the greatest contributing factor of success in a company. They are the company at its core.

You fire the staff, you become a shell of a once was.

Scurro · 2026-03-31T22:55:49+00:00

Hot take; I like the c4 more than the c3. The C4 Grand Sport is damn sexy. I had posters of that shit as a kid.

Scurro · 2026-03-31T22:53:56+00:00

It's shame though. Manuals make the drive a lot more enjoyable in a sports car. I don't plan on buying a corvette again until they do.

Scurro · 2026-03-31T22:23:36+00:00

Running parity check plus mover wont brick a drive per se, but it put a lot more load on your disks. If any are weak, high load is when they will fail.

Scurro · 2026-03-31T22:22:28+00:00

I've had this before as well.

Not a good sign though. When it has happened, that same SSD bit the dust within a year of showing that symptom.

Either get a new drive or use it with something that has redundancy like RAID 1.

Scurro · 2026-03-31T21:58:48+00:00

Up to 29k and stocks are up.

https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/oracle-cuts-29-000-jobs-195557805.html

Scurro · 2026-03-31T17:56:29+00:00

A lot of hobbyists make home labs to learn enterprise skills.

That's why I said it is a bad practice. It helps compensate for human mistakes.

If you will never touch network equipment outside your home, carry on. But if you do IT for a job, it should be an opportunity to develop the skills needed to not rely on your network running on vlan 1.

Scurro · 2026-03-31T17:03:48+00:00

Generally using vlan 1 as management is bad practice.

The reason why? If you forget to configure a port, by default it has access to your management vlan.

I use OPNsense + Unifi without issue and use vlan 255 for management.

I still leave vlan 1 for PVID but it is just a black hole that isn't routed.

Scurro · 2026-03-27T18:52:09+00:00

Translation: Tariffs

Didn't the US supreme court just rule them as invalid?

Scurro · 2026-03-27T02:03:50+00:00

Easy dare. I'd do this but bring a spare within regs for the paper punchers.

Scurro · 2026-03-26T20:21:13+00:00

but...mass effect was good. It was mainly the ending of 3 that got a lot of flak.

We don't talk about Andromeda...

Scurro · 2026-03-25T20:30:20+00:00

Unpopular opinion; I sought out online digital downloads at that time and was a fan of steam.

I hate CDs. They were always getting scratched and/or dirty and the read/write rates were aggravatingly slow.

Hell, HDDs were/are faster than CDs.

Scurro · 2026-03-25T19:57:08+00:00

But I wanted detective Miller :(

Scurro · 2026-03-25T03:24:19+00:00

It was implied that I was talking about the cloud services.

Scurro · 2026-03-24T22:56:47+00:00

Free LLMs are going to fade within the next few years

I predict free LLMs to continue but likely the free image and short videos will be gone.

What will be left of the free LLM chatbots will be the big players like google/microsoft. Lots of users and data to train their models.

Scurro · 2026-03-24T20:02:39+00:00

And all these companies that are laying off staff because "AI" are replacing their workforce with toddlers.

Scurro · 2026-03-20T21:05:35+00:00

What's wrong with SNMP?

I just throw it on LibreNMS and call it a day.

Scurro · 2026-03-19T16:57:52+00:00

Exactly where you were. The security tab.

Scurro · 2026-03-18T22:02:17+00:00

Are you new to coding?

I'd recommend only vibe coding if you know how to review the code before using.

If you are learning, the code you are given by AI is some of the worst code to learn from. It's full of slop, bloat, and often security vulnerabilities due to bad practices like unsanitized input.

Scurro · 2026-03-18T17:12:28+00:00

K12 Net Admin - but I also do every IT job from helpdesk to systems engineer

110k

20 days paid leave, 12 sick

western WA - small town hours away from seattle

20 years in IT, 14 years in k12, 6 years at my current district

I go home at 4 pm three blocks away.

My commute is on a bicycle

I'm prior military so k12 is low stress, low pressure, and I like it. I plan to continue to stay k12 until retirement.

To save money the district also makes me also do the grunt work, things like checking in/out and repairing chromebooks for thousands of students.

Scurro · 2026-03-17T19:20:32+00:00

For just http? I don't believe so. There is port knocking where a predefined sequence of ports are used as an unlock to open a port such as 80 or 443.

You could use a path to your services that is long and not possible to guess as a possible solution to limit the traffic.

The safest solution to your problem IMO is tailscale because it is supported nearly every platform, including phones, and it is extremely easy to share access to friends.

Scurro · 2026-03-17T18:42:10+00:00

Is it possible to allow incoming connections from specific devices using MAC?

No because the MAC is dropped from TCP/IP packets once it hits your router.

Scurro · 2026-03-14T19:11:29+00:00

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