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This is what I did once I found out about it. Got a Pixel 8 Pro, and immediately loaded Graphene on it. Been some learning, but I enjoy the fact that only what I want runs on my phone, when I toggle the camera and mic off, they're actually off, and any Google Apps I run are sandboxed and only...

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This. I've been avoiding upgrading to 11 on my own machines like the plague. I already used Classic Shell/Open Shell to be rid of the weird stuff 8 introduced and 10 continued, and now that I'm having to upgrade work machines to 11, I'm learning that 11 doesn't let you move the taskbar from the...

Add me to the "been using CyberPower and haven't had any bad experiences so far" group. Stuff happens, things fail/break unexpectedly.

Samsung FIT Plus drives are pretty good and fast, and on sale on Amazon right now. The 64GB is only $13.99, 128GB is $17.99. $26 for 256GB. I bought a couple 256GB ones last year, they read/write pretty fast, and only get a little warm when pressed. Larger than you're wanting, but at this price...

Yeah, to be fair this point I make is probably a wee bit pedantic. If this is how ZFS do, and it's been like this for as long as ZFS has been around, then the performance probably isn't that bad. No idea when it comes to Btrfs. Probably about the same.

Short stroking has entered the chat No, RAID is not stupid. Not in the slightest. It did/does have risks, and those risks were always clear and understood. RAID levels beyond 0 along with nested RAID and battery backed cache were attempts at reducing the risk of data loss. The power of more...

Yeah, the Btrfs doc basically says that for RAID10. Not sure what, if anything, there is for ZFS when it comes to making sure data is written equally. Software RAID is fine for the most part, it's just that it seems Btrfs and ZFS in particular seem kinda lazy with RAID10, namely in the 0 part...

Hrm, reading the part about RAID1/10 not being optimal is a little off-putting, but not game breaking. I know ZFS seems to have stuff in place for more even spreading of writes, but in the end it too is not really RAID10. The RAID5/6 stuff is definitely problematic. It'd be nice of these files...

I'll have to look into that. I'd only seen mention of some "write hole" issue with RAID5 and 6 but didn't dig to find out more. iSCSI is actually very interesting to me and has been since I learned about it. I don't know that I actually have a serious use case for it, but being able to boot a...

I believe this was what I'd read regarding Btrfs on DSM after the fact, which was a real head-scratcher since that's basically removing the point of having/using Btrfs in the first place, and is more or less exactly the trouble I've had: I get errors regarding CRC mismatch and it wants a backup...

Yeah, I linked to something similar though a few years older that does this. If I try it, the newer one you've linked is what I'll try. I will say I am not married to the use of ZFS. It just seems to be the current sweetheart file system (and many of the NAS OS/softwares are BSD based and...

I could have it use all of the drives, yes, but then none of that storage would be available for anything else. The boot_pool always uses all of the drives it is given, and none of that is available for anything else. That's the obstacle koala was talking about. I went into this not knowing that...

100% agreed on the obstacle, and it seems to bug a lot of people, but they don't seem intrerested in budging on it. I stated the majority of my use case in the first post, but I did forget to mention that I will eventually also add A/V streaming to it, mainly for when I'm not at home. I'm so...

Currently not using any of the PCIe slots, but I will be using one for a 10Gb NIC, haven't decided if I am going to bother with a GPU or not. I had started looking at cards for m.2 drives and saw they generally aren't cheap, unless I get one that utilizes bifurcation (which this mobo does, but...

I agree, but I went into it a bit blind, assuming I'd be able to use that space in a fashion that doesn't appear to actually be allowed. I'd need to look into the install process, I've only done it twice now and don't recall seeing anything during the process where I could set the partition...

I have consumer grade 250G and 500G SATA SSDs available if I wanted them, and the boot drives are 500G SATA SSDs in a mirror, but I had no intention of spending the $$$ to build an SSD pool for general use. This is what it seems like is being said overall with the exception of the...

So as noted here I have come into possession of a Supermicro 4U 24 bay unit. The final upgrade build was: Supermicro X10SRH-CF Xeon E5-2660 v4 4x64GB LRDIMMs Backplane upgraded to a BPN-SAS3-846EL1 15x HGST 10TB Data Center drives (14 for RAID10 or the ZFS equivalent and 1 spare) I have...

Noted, just means I have a bunch more research to do to make sure I meet the needs while minimizing power usage. I haven't looked at what the current rig uses idle/in use, so I'll need to check that for a baseline as well. That's kind of what I was figuring, but I also know I don't know enough...

Indeed, it can be had here from AliExpress, the shipping time seems to have gotten much shorter so I'll probably just get it and be done with it.