Yep, and an especially fun fact is that people with high-end equipment prefer MP3 over lossless.

But did they use oxygen-free copper (OFC) wire? Because otherwise the results are skewed as regular copper sounds just as bad as a banana stuck in wet mud.

Interesting! Thank you for that insight. I might adopt some methods for when I finally replace the Synology with a new NAS (which will definitely not be another Synology device!).

How often do you change your storage setup? I’ve configured everything once like 5 years ago and haven’t touched it since. I can add larger disks in pairs and the Synology does some LVM-/mdraid-magic to add the newly available free space as RAID1 until I add a third larger disk and it remodels it to RAID5.

How do you handle parity with MergerFS? Or are all your storage partitions mirrored?

Hard drive storage is pretty cheap.

Not really - especially, if you’re looking for CMR drives. And any storage increase needs at least 2 disks with basically no (ethical) way to get any money back for the old ones.

Agreed. However, mirroring the remaining disk onto a new one makes it more likely for it to fail, too, I guess?

I think the more important rule would be to not buy two disks from the same batch. And then go with whatever tickles your fancy.

Rebuilding parity requires processing power.

That shouldn’t be an issue with any NAS bought in the past decade.

the rebuild stresses the drives

You can tweak the parameters so the rebuild is being done slower. Also, mirroring a disk stresses the (remaining) disk as well. (But to be fair, if that one fails, you’ll still be able to access the data from the other mirror-pair(s).)

It all results in management overhead

I’m not seeing that. Tweaking parameters is not necessary unless you want to change the default behaviour. Default behaviour is fine in most cases.

In comparison […] RAID is a headache.

Speak for yourself. I rather enjoy the added storage capacity.

Now mostly you either use striped mirrors

How is rebuilding an xx TB mirrored disk faster than rebuilding an xx TB disk that’s part of a RAID? Since most modern NASes use software RAID, it’s only a matter of tweaking a few parameters to speed up the rebuild process.

For #1 a quick search spat out this.

For #2 have a look into XPenology.

They’re doing test rides already.

micro?

64 containers in total, 60 running - the remaining 4 are Watchtowers that I run manually whenever I feel like it (and have time to fix things if something should break).

But if they’re doing it half-assed as most services (send photo of passport, take a selfie), it won’t be a challenge for AI to generate random IDs and a matching avatar for photo/video verification. The only way this could work is if they’d verify your ID by reading the NFC chip inside the passport or ID card.

A hacky solution would be to copy all images into a directory on the other server and sshfs-mount that to where WordPress expects it on the current server.

TerraMaster F4-423 and then replace the internal USB drive with a fresh one and install OpenMediaVault or TrueNas or whatever.

INWX seems to offer .at Domains as well as an API.

This probably won’t help you much, but Apple Mail has this feature regardless of the server.

I hope you’ve edited and then deleted all your comments before closing the account? There are nice scripts for that and it’ll devalue Reddit if there’s less useful information on there.

Check out GL.iNet products. They’re all based on OpenWrt with a more beginner-friendly GUI on top. (LuCi can be installed via a few clicks.) And very affordable. Some can be flashed to vanilla OpenWrt as well.

I did it for a while but my system was constantly busy and there was this controversy about the image cache and possible CSAM which then prompted me to switch to using the flagship instance. Haven’t tried any of the alternatives, though.

This GitHub and the README in there say otherwise. Also the fact that I’ve got it running locally. 😉