I’m new to this, and having a lot of fun.

I started with the Blackview MP80 running Ubuntu(Minecraft server on docker and Home Assistant in a VM)

Then I bought the BMAX for 82€ and moved HA on to it so I can wipe the MP80 and play around with Proxmox and Nextcloud erc without breaking my home automations.

Yesterday I got the Hardkernel H4+ with 16gb ram and 2x 6TB 2nd hand commercial grade HDD’s (testing them now, 3 month guarantee)

Looking forward to setting up ZFS pools for the first time, ans probably move my Nextcloud AIO over to the TrueNAS app

  • Diplomjodler@lemmy.worldEnglish
    92·
    7 hours ago

    You gotta embrace the jank! Also, he’s got them in some kind of stand. That looks reasonably stable to me.

    • Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.socialOPEnglish
      61·
      7 hours ago

      I love my janky temporarily solution.

      I made a stand of old ikea plastic parts I had laying around, screwed them together and have both drives supported from both sides and connected together.

      If I directly bump the drive hard enough they’d fall, but I’m pretty confident I can shake the table really hard and they’ll be fine.

      I’m hoping to get a 3D printer to make a more permanent solution

      • GetAwayWithThis@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        6·
        6 hours ago

        Thanks for the feedback! I am doing the opposite right now funnily enough. Trying to move away from having everything on Truenas as an app because of the host-app communication limitations. I have a bridge network set up but it still has its issues.

        I’ll need to get some hardware to make this happen. At least to have a PCIe SATA controller I can pass through to a TrueNas VM so I can have everything on one physical host.

        Nextcloud is on the list to try. For now syncthing was fixed up for filesync from my shoddy implementation of it yeras ago.

        • dieTasse@feddit.orgEnglish
          1·
          20 minutes ago

          I have recently moved adguard and home assistant to raspberry pi, same reason, though the hass I have moved into docker container with host network in the end. I also installed tailscale directly to have easy setup as an exit node.

        • Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.socialOPEnglish
          1·
          6 hours ago

          lol I won’t those HDD’s are like my babies, I’m very careful with them, that temporary stand while not foolproof is solid, but I have no plans of testing it out now that the drives are in there