You can’t trust any company.

Can’t argue with that.

And enables modular workflows and flexiblity.

https://www.amazon.com/Computer-Windows-Support-Bluetooh-AIOEXPC/dp/B08G1CCWN5?source=ps-sl-shoppingads-lpcontext&gQT=1

I wonder how well it supports Debian, etc.

Just like they did after the Hawaii fires.

I wouldn’t think so. 5400 rpm drives might last longer if we’re specifically thinking about mechanical wear. My main takeaway is that WDC has the best. I would use the largest number available which is the final chart which you also point out. One thing which others have also pointed out that there is no metadata included with these results. For example the location of different drives, i.e. rack and server-room specific data. These would control for temperature, vibration and other potential confounders. Also likely that as new servers are brought online, different SKUs are being bought in groups, i.e. all 10 TB Seagate Ironwolf. I don’t know why they haven’t tried to use linear or simple machine learning models to try to provide some explanatory information to this data, but nevertheless I am deeply appreciative that this data is available at all.

Backblaze reports HDD reliability data on their blog. Never rely on anecdata!

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-q1-2024/

Ah, thank you for explaining. I understand where you’re coming from. Nevertheless, from the point of a view a small NAS, RAIDZ1 is much more space and cost efficient so I think there is room for “pets” in the small homelab or NAS.

Do one thing and do it well. Oh well…

Good questions. I don’t know, but it’s unlikely that Rust will be included in the base system anytime soon. It is of course available as a package.

Got it, but it seems like Newsflash may have a memory leak issue?

Stop using Newsflash or submit a bug report?

Same could have been said of the 70s, and the 00’s. I guess every 20 years or so we get significant instability. But I guess that wouldn’t make a sexy headline for media man Ezra Klein.

I get that. But I think the quote refers to corporate infrastructure. In the case of a mail server, you would have automated backup servers that kick-in and you would simply pull the rack of the failed mail server.

Replacing drives based on SMART messages (pets) means you can do the replacement on your time and make sure you can do resilvering or whatever on your schedule. I think that is less burdensome than having a drive fail when you’re quite busy and being stressed about having the system is running in a degraded state until you have time to replace the drive.

We have a all-in-one keyboard and mouse. Labeled function keys to start streaming services with Chrome in kiosk mode. Obviously, mouse to navigate is in some ways more work than a remote, but actually much faster. Similarly, typing for a search is way faster with keyboard. Side benefit is that it’s larger size means it won’t get lost in the couch cushions.

The corporitization of linux continues. I jumped to BSD. Just linux at work now.

I have a low power nuc that I use to watch TV. All streaming services + KODI or whatever. I don’t know why I would use some proprietary dongle. I prefer FOSS.

I mean if it’s homelab, it’s ok to be pets. Not everything has to be commoditized for the whims of industry.

I like this, will have to check out the novels for my kids too!

Great points here! I also worry that after all this time that people in the food deserts have had their palate altered so even with the availability of fresh food it’s unlikely to take off. This would require serious community investment. I don’t know if this is too paternalistic.