One-to-one mirror for every drive might be excessive… just a 1 or two drive parity system should be fine for most home use cases.
You should have e a backup after all
One-to-one mirror for every drive might be excessive… just a 1 or two drive parity system should be fine for most home use cases.
You should have e a backup after all

Oh sorry, must have missed that part.

Was it you that I have asked if you were the same Dark Alex from the PSP custom firmware scene?
Are you surprised? It was trumps idea.
For me that was literally the first unsponsored Amazon find for the term “router UPS”
Search for “router UPS”
For example there is one from APC “# APC Back-UPS Connect 12V DC 36W - CP12036LI”
Sounds interesting, do you share the project progress somewhere?

+1 on the zfs replication. That’s what I use as well with a 3 node cluster. Gives redundancy and high availability without building a ceph cluster (which needs 4 nodes if I remember correctly)
12th Gen is definitively neat, but overkill for what you are doing. 8th or 9th gen is fine. 16gigs is fine, 8gig would also work
I really like the Lenovo m720q line of mini pcs (used/refurb) but they will not fit an hdd.
/edit: I mean an 3,5” HDD. They will fit one 2,5” HDD fine.
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