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What did I miss?

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>>109245244
built an opnsense router out of a lenovo m90q. still have to configure it

Any of you guys installed Hermes Agent? Worth it?

>>109245244
>i226-V NICs are bad for servers
Why?

>>109245244
wtf is that trash

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>>109246243
chinese stores chinkshit peddlers know this too so they recycle these nics into every noname cheapo minipc for years now.
and people spend weeks troubleshooting some minor or major connection drop blaming it on everything except those nics because some indian told them "i226v works on my machine saar FenshuiChinkbao minipc best saar"

a rule of thumb is: are there actual server motherboards using that nic? if not then it might be shit (and even if they use i226v they dont, it's actually i226-IT or i226-LM aka improved non-pleb versions)

>>109245554
isnt this insanely overpowered for a dinky router? why waste it just for that?

have any of you girlies ever used a usb 3.0 2.5 GbE adapter? are they reliable?

>>109246364
The meme?

>>109246453
I cannot find a recently updated verdict on the I225-v. in particular the HP Flex IO V2 2.5GbE M74416.
It seems impossible to tell what I225 NIC revision these flex boards use, is it even worth the hassle.
does any anon use this NIC flex board and have any recent experiences?

>>109247097
I'm using one for Synology to get 2.5gb it's a plugable brand

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hey anons is there something that acts similar to samsung gallery but the files are stored on server? i tried out immich but it wants to mash everything in a single timeline which i am not a fan of. something that treats folders as albums would be good.

>>109247097
Nope. All of my USB NICs are 1G.

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>>109245244
my friends have been using my server more and more recently, and I've realized that the 15 year old 2.5" laptop drive i've been running proxmox off of won't cut it any more. I don't really need speed, and I also can't afford to get more than 1 drive at $current_year prices...
any recs? are amazon drives generally safe?
would it be worth it to splurge for 2 of these (in raid) wd blues (cmr drives, cheapest per tb per diskprices)? they come to 4 hundo in ausfailia
https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B0FY2MVB6D?th=1

>>109248087
For a proxmox server you can get away with no raid. As long as you're okay with losing all your data and rebuilding it when the time comes, so use a backup system.

For server use I would still recommend a WD Red or Seagate Ironwolf. I saw some 4TB listings for about $315 the other day.

HDDs would be fine but if you can stomach halving your total TB some Data or gen 3 name SSDs would be so much better.

I would strongly suggest setting up a mirror though.

>>109248087
>any recs?
I just buy the best TB/€ drive that I can find. Pretty much every time it's been a WD Elements from Amazon.de.

>are amazon drives generally safe?
So far I've bought the following from Amazon.de:

- 10 TB WD Elements in early 2020
- 4 TB WD Red in mid-2020
- 4 TB Seagate IronWolf in mid-2020
- 12 TB WD Elements in early 2021
- 2x 12 TB WD Elements in late 2021
- 2x 22 TB WD Elements in mid-2026

The 4 TB Seagate IronWolf died in 1.5 years, and I got a refund for it from Amazon. I'm using the 10 TB Elements and one of the 12 TB Elements as backup drives. The other 12 TB Elements have been shucked and are inside my NAS. And the new 22 TB ones have been burned in with no issues and are currently awaiting for me to get off my lazy ass and start building a new server.

So yeah, I do generally consider Amazon drives safe. Obviously mileage may vary if you buy from third-party sellers, buy used drives, or just have shitty luck in delivery. It's possible that the IronWolf died not because it's a Seagate and Seagate makes shitty drives, but because it was not packaged in the greatest of ways. Thankfully it failed within the warranty period, so I got a fairly hassle-free full refund.

>would it be worth it to splurge for 2 of these (in raid) wd blues (cmr drives, cheapest per tb per diskprices)?
Looks like the 8 TB ones are the cheapest ones, so I'd just get those. And yeah, I'd RAID them and then have separate backups.

>>109248222
>just buy the best TB/€ drive
i am NOT buying seagate

>>109247236
Yeah

I have a Linux home server with 7 SATA drives.
What's your guys' strategy for lowering power consumption in scenarios like this?

I'm thinking in removing the GPU now that it's installed and SSH is confirmed working.
Bad idea?

>>109249040
I am simply not responsible for the power bill.

>>109249040
Removing the gpu could cause the pcie id for your nic to change. Change the nic id name so it doesn't get automatically set.

>>109249073
What are you talking about? Are you replying to the right guy?
Why should I care what my NIC id is? I just want to lower power consumption.

>>109249068
I have solar panels, so I don't pay for power, but the less heat, the better.

>>109249105
Did you read my post? If your nic's id changes, the "ens18" or like name, then you won't have any network, because the config is relying on whatever that id currently is.

>>109248087
Proxmox with nothing data-sensitive?
Cheapest HDD $/TB. A WD Blue or Green would be fine.
Server with data you don't want to lose? Get a NAS or Enterprise drive.
Amazon is safe enough. No worse than any other online shop unless you're dumb enough to buy from zero-rep sellers.

I'd personally run a Raid1 or Raid5 on a server just because I have the money and would rather downtime be kept to a minimum. I the choice came down to getting a single 4TB or two 2TB drives (and 2TB would be enough) I would get the two and mirror them like another anon said.

I see a 4TB WD Red Plus for $240 (only another $38 than your linked WD Blue) and I would take that every day of the week for something that'll be on 24/7 or close to it. Every day of the week.

Holy shit man, I hadn't paid that much attention to hdd prices nowadays but 8tb is $350??? Wtf man

>make benign change to server
>reboot
>ssh won't connect
>no POST lights left on
cyka

>>109248087
>buying some blues is now considered 'spluring'
thank you nigger faggot trump and your vantablack coal kike'd out economy

>>109249179
What config? Don't most Linux distros auto-configure network by default on boot?
I don't have any fancy network configurations. But thanks for the head-up anyway, anon.

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HDD specialist anons, I have a question:
How do you guys do a thorough full-disk check?
I have a bunch of old disks and I want to see which ones are still 100% reliable.

>>109250476
badblocks + extended SMART test

>>109250476
It's not the most thorough, I don't think, but I just run a long SMART test. This can take over 24h on large HDDs, so keep that in mind. HDDs would then normally go into my RAID and adding them to that involves the entire HDD being written anyway, so if it doesn't fail the long self-test or the RAID add it's probably good.

Still I've had a drive that failed after 1 month of service, a brand new 16TB Toshiba. Had another one of the same fail after 4 months too, click of death both times. I don't know whether there's any heuristic to determine if a drive is prone to that sort of failure, I think not since SMART didn't report any problems on either of those drives before they died spontaneously.

>>109250458
Are you using a static ip? Or did you reserve the ip in your router's dhcp settings?

>>109250614
It's reserved it on the DHCP settings, but I use it's hostname to connect to it, so I very rarely have to worry about which IP address it has.

But why do you ask? DHCP attributes IPs based on the MAC address, so why does the NIC id matter?

>>109250614
Also there's always going to be a config, just because the os made it for you doesn't mean that it doesn't exist.

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>>109250483
>>109250533
Thanks for the input, anons.

>>109250645
yes, but it's auto-generated on every boot, I believe
I just have to plug in the Ethernet cable and all the rest is automated

>>109250639
Your nic gets a name based off of it's pcie id. This pcie id can change when you remove or add pcie devices. This then changes the nic's name. Your computer has some service managing your nic, which will be like

ens18
      DHCP enabled

If the name of your nic changes from ens18 to say enp11s0 or whatever, it will no longer have a valid config because the config is still looking for ens18. You now have no network.
>>109250659
What os are you running?

>>109250738
Sure, but DHCP will be enabled by default unless you specify otherwise, won't it?
So it will be enabled for any NIC id.

>What os are you running?
Mostly Arch, Debian and Fedora.
I don't remember ever having to specify "DHCP enabled" anywhere.

>>109250768
The default option in the installer will be dhcp. But no it wont just set everything to dhcp. Unless you, manually, or through some streamlined installer configured a nic, it wont't work.

>>109250826
That's interesting. Thank you for the heads-up anon.
I will keep that in mind when removing the GPU.

>>109245895
I'm looking at Pi, but it seems I need to harder and configure a bunch of fuckcing shit. Hermes looks more interesting by the hour.

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Anyone got a torrent-friendly router recommendation for gigabit? My old Linksys EA6300 seems to be a bit of a bandwidth bottleneck.

>>109252390
My Unifi Cloud Gateway Ultra is fine with torrents, although my speeds are bottlenecked by a VPN.

>>109252390
My MikroTik CCR2004-1G-12S+2XS works fine, I've seeded many TB. Probably overkill, but their lower end offerings are also quite nice, I've never hit a routing/switching bottleneck with any of their hardware.

>>109245554
Overkill. I have an N150 Mini PC running Opnsense just for hobby purposes, even that thing is overkill for home user. I have ~20 devices at home, $200 mini pc just runs Qos and fiber gigabit internet connection just fine.

>>109249462
Found out what the problem was. Linux package updated, new initramfs generated, but it didn't write to disk fully before it returned because initramfs is on a USB, so when the reboot command in the playbook arrived it wasn't fully written and the write was interrupted. Found a 0 byte initramfs file on there and some .REC files on there with the first half of my initramfs on them... but no key files after looking with xxd.
That initramfs contained my keyfile to decrypt my machine, so machine ded.
Solution: use the sync flag when mounting an important USB drive that cannot suffer failed writes.

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>use same proxmox same vm for a year straight, update nothing, never change any configs
>vm has "start on boot option"
>always started on boot everytime
>today didnt start on boot
>lookup vm settings
>start on boot [ ] (unchecked)
>why?
>who knows

>>109248111 (nice trips)
>>109248222 (nice trips)
>>>109249213

Guess I'll splurge for 2 of these. 4TB will be plenty.
https://amzn.asia/d/04FcApTe

When I get home I'll post the smart data from my current drive, hopefully some anon can tell me just how close to the edge I'm living

>>109250354
Insightful. Think Sammy boy would give me a discount if i let him rape my sister too?

>>109246453
My X540 doesn't have this problem, The only problem is that it runs hot and doesn't do 2.5G or 5G

>>109253412
>because initramfs is on a USB
anon...

>>109245895
I just installed it recently. So far I've only used it as a glorified bitch to investigate issues with docker containers etc It's way more user friendly than openclaw imo especially if you don't have time to tweak every little thing.

guess i'm gonna install debian lxde on my box

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>>109254542
here's my smart values. I can't really make heads or tails of this stuff, but it doesn't look like anythings failing... I figure it should hold out while I waitfag on disk prices

>>109254761
get WattOS, same thing but just works
Debian Lxde installed by yourself is janky af

>>109255508
It keeps failing to install, I feel retarded. Maybe I'll try WattOS tomorrow. Does WattOS's installer include ZFS? Debian's doesn't unless it's named something else (still feeling retarded). It's not like I'm running this on an old computer, but I figure the less overhead for a server the better, it won't have a monitor attached. Do I just go for Ubuntu Server?

>>109255508
>wattOS is a fast desktop Linux distribution
How is this relevant in /hsg/?

>>109254718
NTA, but I know my shit and have the time but god OpenClaw is such a miserable pain in the ass to configure. It's like they rounded up the smartest engineers in the world to create the most broken and incoherent settings UI ever, and all the documentation only talks about the config file as if it doesn't even exist. Why even have the UI at that point?
I'll have to check Hermes out then.

stuck behind DS-lite/CGNAT. is there a non-pozzed alternative to tailscale for serving jellyfin to friends and family? ideally without too much hassle on the client side.

>>109248087
Cheapest$/tb are the 16tb golds

>>109245244
>Builds a server at home
Now what?

>>109256137
add me to your wireguard uwu

>>109256123
Depends where you are.

>>109256080
Host your VPN on a VPS.

>>109254649
Yeah?

>>109253949
Sorry I snuck into your house last night and turned it off.

I kinda regret using hydrus. It's decent and I do think tags are the way to go, but now I feel locked in.

I feel like upgrading my X250 server ram is kind of a worthless thing to do since I should probably just be buying an N100/N150 server. How much are prices running for good hardware these days?

Anyone have experience with this project?
>hpsahba - tool to enable/disable HBA mode on some HP Smart Array controllers.
>https://github.com/im-0/hpsahba
I'm a noob and don't know if this affects any bay expansions too.

>>109256846
how are you locked in? your images are still there if you need them.

what have you vibe coded that you find legit useful for your home lab that didn't already exist?

>>109256919
templeOS raid support

>>109245244
Webm source pls?

>>109256913
Yeah but they're completely unorganized because it uses its own file structure.

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>>109245554
>>109247092
>>109253086
NTA but i think an overpowered router would be perfect for hosting additional services, namely AdGuardHome, web services (either apache or uhttpd), forgejo, openldap (managed with phpldapadmin), minio/aistor (local AWS) and Hashicorp Vault, and maybe even a mail server (personally i have a fake mail server that completes the EHLO handshake and redirects what would be emails to a flask api, but this is only to support automation of legacy devices, decade old networked cyberpower equipment in particular)

I think if you did something like that it would justify having such a beefy router

I have a bananapi r3 mini that runs all of that with the exception of aistor and hashicorp vault (I have those hosted on a much beefier server) and it manages to get by with a mere 2gb of RAM but especially with AdGuardHome, its really pushing it to its limits especially when I enforce it as the authoritative DNS server

If i ever wanted to replace my fortigate 60f, i'd likely do exactly that (including your choice of using a lenovo m90q), and decommission the r3 mini in the process. Docker supports dedicated hardware passthrough, kubernetes doesn't, but microk8s supports it as well, so id likely have opensense deployed as a container (using microk8s), pass the NIC to it, and use traefik and cilium for internal service routing. If you want to get a bit more advanced (and secure), its incredibly easy to acquire a gmail app password and authentik supports MFA and you can encorperate it into an OIDC flow to access *most things*

FYI opensense, forgejo, aistore; all support OIDC login flow. AdGuard, however, does not (same applies for pi-hole)

You may be able to hit two birds with one stone and have aistor host a bucket as a static landing page but i havent tested this personally, but i know that this would not support phpldapadmin, at the very least that would require uhttpd with php8 support.

Sorry for rambling lol

>>109256864
>How much are prices running for good hardware these days?
$$$$$

>>109257175
Directory structure for images is overrated since you mainly wanna organise them by tags.

>>109256919
Nothing. I've written everything myself.

>>109256919
If by vibe coded you mean AI assisted programming:
prototype DBFS that was supposed to get windows support but I ditched it because my remaining windows workstation will be migrated to linux so now it's basically just a fancy fork/clone of existing overlay filesystem with search integration into dolphin and some features I really wanted for myself

>>109257175
were they not already unorganized? that's the whole point of using hydrus.

any of you run game servers? Would somethhing like a persistent project zomboid server add much overhead processing or is it a nonissue?

https://fi.pcpartpicker.com/list/w6FPfp

Opinions on a home server build?

>>109247711
>something that treats folders as albums would be good
That sounds so useful. I also want this.

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>>109257223
>beelink Mini Pcs with N100/N150 are all $300

Jesus fucking Christ

>>109247711
>i tried out immich but it wants to mash everything in a single timeline
I'm so, so tired of Immich. Fell right into the retard trap of throwing more and more and more tech and complexity at a problem, then dynamiting everything every six months because /!\ /!\ breaking change, /!\ /!\ make sure to 3-2-1 backup everything :^)

>>109257667
>Opinions on a home server build?
it depends, what do you intend to use it for?

>>109254542
>Insightful. Think Sammy boy would give me a discount if i let him rape my sister too?
Isn't he literally and unironically married to a man

>>109257506
>any of you run game servers
use case?

>>109259896
Media storage/streaming, torrenting, other downloads, home automation, and other general stuff like that. I have about 33 containers running on my current NAS and was thinking of virtualising Home Assistant once I have a new server up and running.

>>109262060
nta, but fuck bro almost 2k euroshekels for streaming/automation?

If you just need media get a reputable miniPC with iGPU and a whole JBOD for the storage.

If you need LXCs and VMs you can spend maybe 500 on an older 15h or 16h Opteron with 300+Gb of DDR3 that would work completely fine for homeserver.

Obviously I can see that you already have the NVMe sticks and RAM, but you could just use the DDR5 on your daily PC and still get an older NVMe compatible server blade for cheaper still. The PSU price also seems insane to me, but that could be your region too. JP has tard pricing, but even then it's not that crazy.
In the end, get whatever you want it's a hobby, but that doesn't seem the best value to me.

>Estimated Wattage
PCPart retards have never read AoE clearly.

I've never used Wi-Fi on a PC but circumstances are forcing me to and I need a wireless card. What's the deal with some cards only supporting certain motherboards or CPUs? What should I get for maximum AM4/AM5 compatibility if I want 6GHz?

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YOU USED TO CALL ME ON MY VOICE OVER IP ALL THE TIME

>>109262303
>nta, but fuck bro almost 2k euroshekels for streaming/automation?
Not gonna lie, it's perhaps a bit overkill, but a lot of the pricing comes down to the fact that memory pricing is fucked.

>older NVMe compatible server blade for cheaper still
Sorry, but this is gonna be in my home and I don't wanna go deaf.

>The PSU price also seems insane to me, but that could be your region too.
It's a bit high, although maybe not for its 80 Plus rating, but I wanted something that supports expanding my drive array, and the PSU has 13x SATA power connectors. Efficiency doesn't hurt either (apart from initial investment), since it should be able to run fanless most of the time and not push even more heat into my box.

>In the end, get whatever you want it's a hobby, but that doesn't seem the best value to me.
Yeah, it's definitely not a value pick. Probably can tell from how many Noctuas I am throwing in it. I do have my little NAS box already, but it had some issues recently and I decided that it's time to replace it. The fact that it's not using standard PC components also made fixing hardware issues that much more hard. Having my server offline for hours also pointed out how dependent I am on it.

>>109245554
>fuckoff powerful modern CPU
>waste it on something that needs 2 cores of 800mhz Fucking MIPS, realistically
Why?
Put proxmox on that sucker

>>109246453
>meanwhile RTL8125 justwerks
lmao can intel do anything right anymore
>>109254640
>X540
yeah no shit this is back when intel was still king

>>109256846
>>109257175
If you want to get out, use the export with tags as directory and file names.
It's hard to know which tags to use as directories, true, but that's the whole reason you would use tag-based in the first place.

First impressions this Seagate Expansion 28TB kinda sucks?
Its running at fucking 70C before I put a fan on it which gets it down to around 60.
Its pretty slow (250MB/s but it constantly takes like a 10 second break every 20 secs or so copying a 100GB file).
Also its still writing constantly at 15MB/s long after the copy finished, and that finished for sure so not sure wtf its doing, nothing else I have it automatically access it.
SMART doesn't work unless you fuck with the USB drivers.
Im not gonna do a badblocks on this as I usually would, doesn't seem like that would do it much good, Ill put some stuff that I have backups of and non-important on it for now and come back to checksum it in a month, if it works fine ill just offload my unused stuff on it and keep it unplugged even when not needed, this is not gonna be my new main drive at least not in this shit case.

>>109263818
shuck it

router suggestions

my isp now supports 5 gigabit for home users (not that expensive)
but they don't offer routers that can manage it
i have no real choice of XGS-PON i have to use one from an authorized list
authentication is dhcp

but what router do i get if i want to use open-wrt or opsense
the banana bpi r4?

I'm setting up sonarr for the first time and it feels like a big nothing. Do I really need any of this shit over the basic rss downloader?

>>109264654
No.

>>109262679
Intel ax210 for amd ax211 for Intel. Intel builds the processing of the wifi into its cpus and amds need it to be in the card

>>109249040
hd-idle - 1hr to spin down disks
I keep running 25W CPU(amd 5350), but it barely handles nas/jellyfin & minecraft server. Would upgrade to something modern at 35W, but currently low on cash.
getting rid of useless gpu is no brainer.

>>109264654
The main value I get from Sonarr is its ability to put stuff in properly organized folders with metadata for Jellyfin to pick it up reliably. If you use an RSS downloader it'll just use the torrent name which usually works, but sometimes the Retarded.Naming.Scheme.2026-REPACKED.GaYn1663R-R3L345EGR0UP.WEB-DL fucks it up. Less of a problem with well organized private trackers, more if you're on public stuff or more than 1 site with different standards. If you don't use JF or are happy with how you organize stuff already it may not be worth.

>>109265203
Yeah I'm using Jellyfin but pretty much exclusively for anime. There's a metadata manager called Shoko that works a lot better for anime because it's pulling from Anidb and not TVDB.
I heard that I can give people access to sonarr and let them pick what they want to watch and approve the download, but haven't figure that one out yet.

>>109265362
Sonarr is weird with anime (has its own options) but it has worked for me so far, I don't watch much tho.
Idk what access control Sonarr itself can provide, but I toyed the idea with giving my mom a trakt and using that for Sonarr to pull shows. In practice I already have enough stuff that she just watches that, and the one odd show I don't have, she just texts me and I add it.

I have opnsense on bare metal that's overspec'd and I need a box to move it to while I turn that into proxmox so I can actually use all the ram and disk that the fw does not.
recently resurrected my old i7-2600k rig as a pve host which I can try using, problem is the 2600k has no VT-d for passthru of a NIC to use as the WAN port, and bridging seems like it would invite trouble.
Is it worth swapping for another lga 1155 xenon or something just so I can do that? old xenon chips seem pretty cheap like $30.
the alternative is to live with bridging in the interim while I recommission the metal to pve and put the fw back on it.
really just wondering if it's actually worth investing a little $ and time for passthru or nah.

>>109265494
yea go for it

>>109265539
k
should be a fun learning experience if nothing else

>>109264123
i dont wanna destroy the case and warranty, at least not yet

>>109265494
Do you really need internet for the hour that takes?

>>109265933
realistically no but I do host services for friends and family I would like to keep accessible, and it would probably take a little more time for me to execute the switch (or roll back if I fuck up royally) given the unknowns and my relative inexperience. I also like the idea of having a redundant fw I can start back up whenever

I'm considering rebuilding a home server of sorts. At the moment I'm looking for the "core" of it. Its primarily and first going to be used as my general home server / NAS box, and then whatever other local hosting or other experiments I may want to use with it I'm trying to decide on
>AM4 Ryzen platform - 5950X + Asus Crosshair Dark Hero + 32GB DDR4 3600mhz
If I go this way, I'd probably try to get a 64GB 3200-3600 dual channel kit online somewhere and DDR4 is a little cheaper than 5 currently.
>AM5 Ryzen - 7950X3D + Asus ROG Crosshair X670E Extreme + 64GB DDR5 6000mhz
If I partially rebuild my main rig and upgrade to a 9950X3D2 + Crosshair 2006 / Glacial / Edition 20 (the latter is just stupidly overpriced it appears even more so than the other stuff) I can take the 7950X3D and X670E Extreme and add that to my server. I got a 'deal' on a 64GB 6000mhz CL38 kit of TForce Delta (not what I usually use. Main rig is using GSkill TridenZ Neo CL30 SKhynix) but its SKHynix and I've been told that it should be easy to drop to CL30 or at least 32.
>Supermicro H11SSL-i Rev 2.0 Socket SP3 Motherboard with EPYC 7302P Processor and 2U Cooler Combo + A bunch of DDR4 16GB 3200mhz RDIMMS
There's a reliable seller selling a kit with the above and the option to pack it full of up to 8 RDIMMS 16GBs. His price does seem a bit higher than some of the others who seem to be selling stuff on Ebay though, at least for the combo. I know that this stuff is way more "server-y" but I think these are Zen 3 based? Also looking online the 2.0 versions of these SM boards - these have only 1 socket though not room for 2 - and used with the listed EPYC (which I think is a 16c/32t proc) do they have PCI-E 3.0 or 4.0 capability? Buying "older" tech like this I'm not sure if its worth it or not. Also it has only gigabit NICs so I'm sure I'd need to add a NIC, and maybe some other cards.?

>>109262841
I feel you on the noise aspect for sure, I have my rack right behind me so people can mire when they walk in the room.

I've been using old supermicro boards with aftermarket cases so I do the cooling by water or just noctua mini-fans and then monitor the temps.
It has worked pretty well so far, and I don't notice any crazy thermal runaway with all my VMs going.
When I said blade, I should have specified not using the stock power/cool solution necessarily. It is nice to have the all-in-one option though.

>considered doing a rack
>all my switches and shit are undersize and would need adapters
>all my pc hardware would need to be transplanted to rack cases
>just pile the shit on a shelf in the closet instead
>duct tape fans onto stuff that needs it
>works fine if a bit messy
shelfchads where we at

>>109266300
That was me until I got a free rack. Although it's very shelf core. A lot my equipment is non rackable so I stole some 1u and 2u shelves from work to put out my stuff on.

>>109266093
>general home server / NAS box
this tells us almost nothing about your requirements. set a budget and put hard requirements for capacity and throughput first. ask yourself questions like am I transcoding media? how much storage am I attaching and in what configuration? how hungry for ram is the software I plan to run? how much am I willing to trade redundancy versus resiliency? your choice may change drastically based on these factors. if you were a gamer building a rig you'd be asking yourself what frames you want on what games at what res. define your workload first. spewing a list of random brand and model numbers plus deals you found online is shit nobody but you has time to care about.

Anybody excited for the Flint 4?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YAwnVM0JhM

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>>109245244
>have junk parts for an el cheapo old xeon e3 v2/ddr3 era build
>scoop up cheap supermicro motherboard
>plug everything in
>no ram detected beeps
>i forgot to read the fine print and my 64gb of ddr3 RDIMMs are not compatible, mobo requires UDIMMs
i fucking did it again bros, i just assumed my ram would work and completely forgot about rdimm/udimm/lrdimm
i need to do something else with my life. this is not an expensive mistake because 8gb udimms aren't that much considering ewaste status, but what a fucking stupid oversight.

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Anyone was able to get plex remote streaming working without plex pass using tailscale or something like that? I tried to, but it didn't work. Did they patch it?

My second solution is using Plezy, since the block is made on the client side not the server side, and plezy is just a different plex client. The problem is that it could be patched, and probably will.

My third solution would be to use "TAP mode" with openvpn or a "local bridge" with softether vpn, this should be guaranteed to work right? My router itself will think that my device is actually on the local network, and assign it a local ip.
And there should be no way for them to patch it unless they remove local streaming altogether and force you to pay even for local streaming.

Before I spend a couple hours learning and configuring this thing, I'm asking here to see what you guys think, and if there's a better alternative. Maybe tailscale works but I'm retarded and wasn't able to make it work?

>>109267325
btw for tailscale I did use my server as exit node, which is why I'm confused that it didn't work. I also added the tailscale subnet in the plex settings to tell it it's local. What am I missing?

>>109267325
>>109267357
My brother in Christ, why are you fighting so hard to unfuck Plex. It's bad software, from a bad company, and it's only ever going to get worse as it's squeezed by private equity. Install Jellyfin and Tailscale on the same machine, point your laptop at 100.xx.xxx.xxx:8096, never have to worry about data harvesting or subscription plans again.

>>109250476

smartmontools

>>109267363
I know I should, but I just like plex's UI, and my family are all used to it. Also, plex has AbsluteSeriesScanner+hama agent which is amazing for anime. From looking around, jellyfin doesn't support it because it doesn't support scanners in general. Also, I'm not too thrilled about migrating my entire library. I've spent a lot of time just making the library look like I want it to with all the special artwork/collections/naming that I want. I'm sure it could all be transferred, and I saw a plugin that apparently helps with it, but I'm sure it won't be seamless.

I've just sunk too much time into plex, and the fuckers at plex know it.

>>109267437
I understand, the family-acceptance factor is always a headache. Still, I'd listen to yourself,
>My third solution would be to use "TAP mode" with openvpn or a "local bridge" with softether vpn
and bearing in mind the time you're currently spending janitoring stuff like 'keeping remote streaming working', versus the effort involved following a clean break from all that.

(not demanding you flush everything down the toilet, just be mindful of the time you're spending working on the plumbing. or something like that, anyway)

>>109267513
Yeah that's true. I guess I want to give it one last chance trying to keep everything working as it is. If they do pull some new bullshit requiring me to buy the plex pass, I'll be done with them.

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>>109267325
>>109267357
>I also added the tailscale subnet in the plex settings to tell it it's local. What am I missing?
instead of doing that and assuming plex doesnt have something going on in the background to fuck over tailscale users, why dont you just enable subnet routing for a device in tailscale settings and instead of advertising your whole subnet, you just advertise the /32 of the plex server.

And FYI if anybody wants to get grafana to work with tailscale, since grafana only lets you configure a single URI this is how you could access grafana from tailscale as well

>currently 110-120 degrees because desert in July
>server in the garage
>fans are SCREAMING at full blast
>cpu is 90c at ~30% load
>hdds are 40-45c
>little warning light on the disk shelf was blinking that it was too fuckin hot
>put a box fan in front of it which seems to have helped
[nervous laughter]