Tbf its not a given they don’t also do this.

That’s not where they produce their cutting edge chips though… https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-will-spend-14-billion-on-manufacturing-chips-at-tsmc-report

I googled around a bit and it seems the main concern is being seperate sowftware-wise, not mainly location wise (although thats a nice side effect). So mainly avoiding fun stuff like https://m.slashdot.org/story/112253.

I am just repeating a commonly used phrase with that tbh.

I would Imagine it comes from the fact that a backup also safeguards agains other failures by creating more distance between the Copies. If you are hit by a ransomware attack Raid wont be much good. If your PSU sufers a failure, it might cause an overcurrent/voltage in both hdds. If you accidentally delete something it will be deleted on both drives, etc.

If you go that route I’d want to make sure the cpu is at least somwewhat recent.

My first server was an old office PC I bought used as well, but I had real problems with it, because the CPU was lacking some X86 instructions which is why I could not run a specific service I wanted to as it used those. (And if you want to run jellyfin in the near future you should make sure to buuy a cpu that can also do some hardware encoding/decoding as doing that in software on a low end CPU can make the experience somewhat sluggish.

I don’t think ssds would be viable with a total budget of 500€ and the need for >=8Tb of storage.

No need for virtualization (so no Proxmox, TrueNAS, or Unraid) Run lightweight containers for web services like Immich, Paperless-ngx, Pi-hole, and custom services I’ve developed

Do you not consider containers virtulizations? Or do you plan to run your webservices in the same context? Because I would really suggest against doing the latter.

However, I’m unsure if I really need RAID since I’ll perform regular backups.

Raid is not a backup anyhow ;).

If you don’t need the capacity or redundancy of raid I would suggest you buy a single >=8Tb drive. It should be a bit cheaper (For example, I recently payed ~270€ for 16 Tb, which I’d reccomend over paying 240€ for 8Tb in total. There are probably also 8/12 Tb drives for less then 240€.). It will also use half the power as that does not really scale with capacity.

Edit: there are a bunch of 8tb drives at 180€ here for example.

The what?

Totally fair. I am just pointing it out here because it felt a bit icky when I saw it on the github page.

If it was closed source I would agree but you can check for yourself if the code is good. Even if they are crazy.

No I can not. I am not an android-dev, I am not the best dev out there and I don’t have time to thouroughly go through a big codebase. It would defenetly be possible to hide mallicious code from me, even if I have access to the source-code. For really big projects it is safe to assume other, more knowlegable people have allready audited the code, but for small ones I have to be able to trust the devs.

Tbf telegram also seems fairly popular in less problematic areas for sime reason (it’s quite populare in ukraine as well for example)

Their russian telegram channel has some opinions.

Besides a chemtrail conspiracy - reference there is a whoule channel for the ru-ukr war. I am unsure if it is in support of the war or not and translating it does not really clarify it (sentiment gets lost easily I guess).

Considering that, some clarification would be nice. Because I don’t think I would trust a software made by russian “patriots” (quote from the channel) in the current geopolitical landscape.

I don’t tgink you can create a RaidZ1 with just two drives.

But the low-cost pool would probably not have the capacity to hold my data (or not be low-cost).

Sadly I don’t have 11 Tb worth of smaller empty drives around (and not even eniugh sata-Ports, so I’d also have to buy an expansion-card).

Yeah, I don’t like the broken pool idea either, that’s why I was hoping there was a better method.

Sounds interesting, but while I have room for one more drive, I don’t want to spend money for one more drive xD (As mentioned, I have >= 12Tb drives, so another one I don’t really need would hurt the wallet quite a bit.)

But send to where?

I back up my personal data for which I have the space. I do not back up my media, as I can’t justify the costs for another drive that size and would be fine with losing in the offchance I loose two drives in my array (or my entire server fucking up).

I don’t understand why so many organizations make it so hard to donate. Why do I need to enter my name and e-mail only to discover you don’t support european banks. It cannot be that complicated to set up an eu-bankaccount and publish the IBAN to just let me wire money, right?

The maga idiots don’t really pose a theat to buisnesses, just regular people.