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I jumped on a VPN pointed at USA and pasted https://www.gog.com/redeem/freedomtobuygames into a new window. It worked.

Should be fine, but not from this seller and not from Amazon unless you like dealing with shoddy packaging and cushioning for your drives.…

I bought one of these years ago and it's still going strong today. 5kg? monitor hanging from it. I would buy the same again if I needed a…

I know it was a joke, but if someone was serious about accessing their home Plex from their travel router securely (without the usual…

That seems like the primary use of this for remote workers, provided that you have a VPN’able router at home too. Connect your devices…

I currently (Synology) keep all of my docker files and databases on SSD. I'm planning on following that philosophy with my new DIY NAS too:…

I was eying the 18TB too. I’ve already got some 16TB tho, so it’s more flexible to stick with that size unless I’m certain to create…

Thanks, I've been checking the prices multiple times per day. They finally dropped from $293ish to $285ish today. That's not as low as the…

RaidZ1 vs mirrors is the same debate I'm having. It's worth noting that in ZFS, you can remove a vdev from your pool so long as all of your…

That's unfortunate. I was led to believe that the HC550's are some of the quietest enterprise drives out there (in comparison to Toshiba…

While you’re checking, what about the spare parts store?…

That’s some good insight. @plague69 @botchie have good comments too. It’s not as clear cut as I’d thought. I did a bit more reading…

Interesting discussion on these drives here:…

That $361 device is better than this one. Tri-band vs Dual-band WiFi 7. 4 antennas vs 3 antennas. You can compare their specs here:…

I don’t think the 14TB is good comparatively. It’s an earlier model HC530 and so older than the HC550s. The bathtub curve is a real…

It looks like the Flint 3 is not yet released except to beta testers if I’m understanding correctly.

This has a 10Gbps WAN/LAN port and the other 4 ports (1 x WAN/LAN and 3 x LAN-only) are all 2.5Gbps. No cheaping out with 1Gbps ports.…

I recently bought 4 drives on sale from Amazon UK (16TB Toshiba) and the box arrived two days ago looking like it was delivered by Ace…

I picked up 4 hdd from Amazon UK. Arrived yesterday. The parcel looked like it’d been used as a soccer ball for a pick up game. The…

This model does work well with software RAID. But many other JBOD enclosures do not. You have to research each one. Check if they work well…

How are you storing your drives in your NAS? Do you have them in your NAS PC over SATA or is something fancier going on? Asking out of…

Good point. I'm looking at a DAS as one part of a storage solution, and you're looking at it as the entire storage solution. High speed…

I'd prefer a DAS like this one over the QNAP you mentioned. It doesn't interpose a RAID controller or anything else between the host PC and…

Adding up the costs? Oh no! Expensive hobby alert, hahaha. The problem with the Lenovo Thinkstation is it's overkill for a NAS. If you're…

Promo code has expired. Tried on iOS from Telstra phone app and then in Safari. Expired code error on both

All of your answers to your questions were correct. You’ve done good research. I am going with a custom build myself using mix of new and…

The 7060 Micro seems like a neat machine, but doesn't really have a good way to attach a DAS. You could use USB, but advice from other NAS…

I didn’t mean to say that you “need” 32GB just that it’s a good amount to have. And better if it’s ECC. This Terramaster NAS is…

Ouch. I’m also building a non-ECC NAS because my cpu and mobo (proprietary Dell with very little documentation) don’t support it. I…

You need to be able to store all of the hdd and power them and have sata ports for them. You also need ram, 32GB is an okay amount for ZFS.…