hperrin

Just because you don’t get fired doesn’t mean there won’t be consequences.

Oh no, what a surprise!

I’m from San Diego, and we always called it baño here.

¿Soy un baño?

Lo siento, no habla español.

Wait, that’s not obvious?

Look, man. I have a large body. There are many folds and crevices. I’m not proud of how much effort it takes to keep myself clean, but I’m proud that I’m putting in that effort.

HDMI and a mouse, maybe?

It’s so surprising that this experiment had the same result as all of the other experiments. 🤯

Yes, you have to put in different hardware. (Almost definitely the same brand, maybe even same model.) It’s inaccessible until you get that hardware and replace it. I didn’t mean permanently. A software RAID will work in any system.

I’d recommend ZFS or Btrfs over mdadm. They both have data repair if something goes wrong, and mdadm doesn’t.

Why use a hardware RAID? If your controller dies, your data is inaccessible. Software RAID with something like ZFS or Btrfs is safer.

If your concern is which motherboard will perform well, you can go with any. NAS applications are incredibly easy to run. Basically no resources required.

Your biggest issue will be narrowing it down based on port requirements. Then just go with whatever is cheapest. I’d still recommend AM4, because AM5 is still expensive af. It does mean you won’t have any upgrade path, but for what you’re doing, you shouldn’t need to upgrade ever.

If you’re planning on transcoding the media you’re serving, then you may want to think about throwing an A310 in there to handle that.

You could conceivable even just get a used desktop second hand and harvest the parts.