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10 Jan
2:13pm, 10 Jan 2025
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rf_fozzy
larkim wrote: If you're looking at £500 for drives, then how does the rPi solution come in at under £400? The sata drives were far bigger (seemed to be more like 10tb and ~£500) and far more expensive than the external SSDs. I have to build two of these systems, so even £100 saving is useful |
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10 Jan
2:15pm, 10 Jan 2025
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rf_fozzy
Also no way I'm going for a HDD these days - mechanical spinning drives far more prone to failure
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10 Jan
2:26pm, 10 Jan 2025
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larkim
Far more prone, true. But if you're mirroring one HDD to another HDD the realistic chance of failure is pretty insignificant. I've built pcs and small servers for home / family since about 1999 and I don't think I've had a single HDD fail in all that time. Plus HDD based PVRs for recording TV. Maybe mix and match to keep costs down. A SSD as the primary drive and a traditional HDD as the mirror (or vice versa?) |
10 Jan
2:27pm, 10 Jan 2025
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Sam Jelfs
Cheapest 4TB internal SSD on scan is a Crucial drive at £220: scan.co.uk The USB version is £260: scan.co.uk £80 cheaper for the internal, and that's without taking into account the price of a good USB hub. |
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10 Jan
2:28pm, 10 Jan 2025
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rf_fozzy
That's more expensive to than I've seen. I've seen 4tb SSD external for £170-180 |
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10 Jan
2:29pm, 10 Jan 2025
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rf_fozzy
Although cheaper for the internal. The prices I was seeing were closer to £400
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10 Jan
2:31pm, 10 Jan 2025
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larkim
Does yours or your mother's router support a usb smb connection? My old router did, would solve the issue in that you can just hook up a usb drive to the router and it appears to be a nas. Again, just an alternative / cheap solution to consider.
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10 Jan
2:38pm, 10 Jan 2025
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rf_fozzy
That's worth considering. Didn't know you could do that. There'd be an issue with mirroring though if I wanted a backup of the drive. |
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10 Jan
3:45pm, 10 Jan 2025
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larkim
Some routers have two USB ports on the back so you can (presumably!) call one H: and one G: and simply copy between the two. I *think* the only downside of that might be that when using Windows to copy from one network drive to another the traffic is routed through the PC that is doing the "instructing". I may have one lying around, only a single USB port but I think I had it in a mode which meant it was just hooked onto the network without doing any DHCP stuff, but still allowed the basic functionality of USB NAS to work. ASUS RT-AC51U is the model number. |
12 Jan
8:44am, 12 Jan 2025
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controversial
Just a bit of my experience re RPis. I have been running 5 of them (3 at my mums in Paris and 2 at home in London) as Pi-hole DNS servers + cloudflared DNS encrypted client. I can definitely say that the SD cards in those RPIs fail very often! Which is a right pain, specially when it fails in Paris as I can't physically replace it until I'm there (go every couple of months) hence having 3 there for redundancy. But in general I get an SD card failure once a year. |
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