Completely agree, I was trying to avoid the “well actually” response.

I’ve had a number of items get held by FedEx (or whoever) because of import duties over the years and I’ve had to pay the delivery company to get it released.

This is a well worn path, and kudos to this one to warn you that new tarrifs are in place, the customer would be subject to them, and giving them an option to decline it.

Import duties are not always part of the agreement.

They didn’t change the rules, there is now a charge by the government on it getting delivered, not by the company.

Are you claiming that people condemning invasion of Ukraine are bad then?

Because “the entire west” does not condemn true socialism, or communism.

Vocal mouthpieces do.

The UK general election in 2019 had 40% of seats go to Corbyn, vs 42% going to the Tories. There is work to be done, but the reported numbers don’t get the profile of reality.

Not sure what you are talking about.

No one condemns Jews for being Jews, people condemn trapping people in walled camps, denying them food and aid and then blanket bombing them. Regardless of the perpetrator.

The Nazis are the ones supporting it.

That’s weird that there are several ways to get access to the Quick Guides, and some seem to want an email.

However it doesn’t use it and takes junk (I just used a@b.com which was accepted), but sad that the form you found needed it.

But to answer your question, no I missed that link and went to “downloads” which also has the guide but doesn’t appear to require any email.

I just did a websearch and first result was a download link on their US website too which didn’t require registration.

There seems to be a lot of nonsense on here.

Err, you mean the piece of paper that came in the box, or is available to download on their website as a link without having to register?

https://www.terra-master.com/us/d6-320.html?page=menu&mid=1336

Update your DAS? What are you talking about?

The brand that runs their OS off of a USB stick inside the device

Are you alright?

If you use a reputable brand, such as TerraMaster you’ll avoid all of the scare stories you hear.

Almost everything bad seems to be along the lines of

I bought “off brand” XzzYyG from Amazon/EBay/Wish and it failed

Something like this:

https://www.terra-master.com/uk/products/homesoho-das/d6-320.html

It’ll be faster than your spinning rust anyway, as long as you have high speed ports on your mini PC.

I’ve had “trash controllers” in Orico units which rewite the drive details which makes them annoying to work with but I’ve never heard of

your drives will vanish in the middle of a write, and corrupt themselves

That sounds likes its underpowered and when the draw is up the supply can’t handle it, which could happen for internal drives if your supply isn’t up to powering enough drives.

Use a reputable brand like TerraMaster and you’ll not have those sorts of problems.

This is completely untrue.

You can get plently of performant arrays over USB. You do know how much USB 3.1 or 4 can transmit?

Enclosures often don’t cool as well so heat may degrade your disks faster as well.

DAS enclosures can do a great job of cooling by separating and not sharing the air inside a single case.

Regardless of how “clean” ReactOS is they cannot legally reverse engineer Win10 or Win11 due to the EULA (which Microsoft would enforce in court)

How would they prove the developer signed an EULA? I know I haven’t been made to use Windows since the Vista era. And even then, that was a work computer so I never agreed to anything.

The rest I agree with. Windows is trash, why bother cloning it? Wine exists to run applications that are desired but don’t have Linux equivalents.

Yep, completely agree that its an Intel limitation.

I didn’t see that about USB3 (my Intel system provides USB 3, and still has the 50 endpoint/25 device limit), I’ll take a look, however it sounds like AMD is just generally better.

It’ll be a shame to lose Quick Sync, but it’ll probably be worth it.

However this reiterates my thoughts about USB4, since it is a Thunderbolt derivative, and as mentioned in your link Thunderbolt doesn’t have these same limitations.

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That sounds absolutely gross.

I’ve tried to respond to everyone who have given their opinion of my set up in a top level comment to try and keep it on topic. You can respond there if you feel like you have anything to add.

https://feddit.uk/post/21088443/13862900

I’ve tried to respond to everyone who have given their opinion of my set up in a top level comment to try and keep it on topic. You can respond there if you feel like you have anything to add.

https://feddit.uk/post/21088443/13862900

I’ve tried to respond to everyone who have given their opinion of my set up in a top level comment to try and keep it on topic. You can respond there if you feel like you have anything to add.

https://feddit.uk/post/21088443/13862900

I’ve tried to respond to everyone who have given their opinion of my set up in a top level comment to try and keep it on topic. You can respond there if you feel like you have anything to add.

https://feddit.uk/post/21088443/13862900

Citation please? The spec is fine with it, its just Intel that put in artificial limitations.

It’s unfortunate that the conversation has been derailed by people advising me on “better” implementations, so should probably summerise my journey that has got me to this point.

I started home labbing and self-hosting over 25+ years ago, with a large HDD connected to my home PC, HDMI to the TV and ripping DVDs. The disk was probably PATA back then. Yeah, single disk and it probably died at some point making me realise I needed backups in future. I replaced it with a dedicated server I build in an ITX case. A four disk CHENBRO ES34069, back in the good old Athlon days. Each one of those disks was SATA directly connected to the motherboard. And it did the job, except for getting extremely hot and I had a number of disk failures over the years.

Looking back, I can’t guarentee that it was the heat from the system that caused premature failures rather than 2008 era disks just not being as reliable as they are now. But it was hot, and that could not have helped and I had a number of disks over the years that failed in various ways.

I learnt about RAID, and ADM on Linux making arrays and generally not losing any data any more.

My upgrade on that was required as I find that storage requirements outpace what I have, so it ultimately was replaced with a full tower system. A Zalman MS800. At this point I tried to go the whole way. SAS controller cards! Silverstone SAS/SATA hot swap drive bays! RAID disks!

This is when I learnt that I don’t like large RAID arrays, when scrubs took several days and either extending/upgrading/replacing a disk took forever and started using 4 disk arrays in parallel with mergerFS overlaid. Honestly that was the best discovery and its not lost me anything in over a decade.

But SAS became a hassle. I had a controller card fail at one point, so I picked up a replacement which turned out to be a fake, and I’ve had to replace an 8087 cable a couple of times. Its hot, I’ve gone through a few replacement drive bays and they’ve all had small cheap fans on the back of them that over heat, make noise, and don’t do a great job of shifting heat when its part of the same case as the rest of the computer. So I’ve investigated alternatives.

The current solution has evolved to now have 4 “TERRAMASTER D4-300” external storage devices. These are probably the best I’ve come across, they fully expose the disks to the hosts including SMART and even the full correct serial numbers. The speed is absolutely not an issue and I find the benefits of SAS have been completely overstated when dealing with 5/10GB USB connections. I can do a full scrub of a 4 disk RAIDZ over night. These have large fans on the back, and I’ve never had disks this cool when dealing with internal storage, SMART is much happier. You are allowed to have your own opinions, but honestly I’ve been using this setup for a long time and I have no regrets. It is much simpler, and the limitation is very much on the speed of the storage device rather than the type of cable.

The only issue is older Intel gimping the USB enumerator to only allow 50 endpoints, which is 25 devices (less if you have hubs), and even on newer systems they only doubled it.

Let me know why you think my set up is wrong, and I’ll explain how I’ve probably tried your way and I don’t care for it.