Looking at the price of that Ugreen DH4300 (in the UK) it’s about 30% more than I paid to build my own server (Ryzen 5 3400g /w 16gb ddr4). If you can get second hand ddr4 for a decent price it’ll probably still be a cheaper option and allows you to do your own maintenance/repairs in the future.
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5·7 days agoI have Seagate Barracuda drives in my NAS because I didn’t know about CMR vs SMR before I bought them.
2 of them are backups, the other spins all the time. The bulk of my storage is video files with infrequent adding of new stuff. The active drive has qBittorrent seeding from it 24/7 so it can be a bit noisy.
Other than that, you’ll see lower transfer speeds from SMR drives but nothing to worry about if it’s small writes or infrequent copying of large video files. It also takes an age to run a long SMART self test - 18hrs on an 8TB HDD that is 75% full (this’ll get worse as it gets closer to full).
So SMR drives aren’t ideal but they’ll do the job for a “write once, read many times” style of storage. I wouldn’t buy them at all for a RAID setup. If you can, you’d be better buying refurbished enterprise drives but I have no idea what availability there’ll be where you are.
50w… holy shit!
My server with 1 SSD, 3 HDDs running multiple docker containers doesn’t usually pull more than 35-40w.
My router tops out at 8w and my wireless access point at 5w IIRC.
18·22 days agoMade
I think you mean stole.
Idk about that but there’s horror synthwave…
Speaking of enshittification… why just post a youtube video with zero explanation of the content?
My server is usually between 30w-40w (that’s about 20-25p per day electricity cost in the UK at 25p/kwH).
That’s with the aforementioned processor/ram, a Gigabyte A520M motherboard, 1 case fan, the stock cooler, a 120gb 2.5" SSD, 2 4TB 3.5" HDDs and 1 8TB 3.5" HDD (all drives always spinning).
It’s running OpenMediaVault as OS and 5 docker containers 24/7 (Flatnotes, FreshRSS, Kavita, qBittorrent and RecipeSage). Other than that I use it for media access from a MiniPC running Debian w/ Kodi accessing it via SMB (the server doesn’t transcode).