When they fail or when the capacity becomes a hindrance. Other than that if you follow your 3 2 1. You shouldn’t lose data.

Replacing after 50,000 hours in enterprise data center setting makes sense. At home it’s not too much issue for me to have a day of downtime replicating data back across drives. It’ll just cost me my time. In an Enterprise setting it will also cost you money. Possibly even enough or more to justify retiring them at 50,000 hours. Though again if you have raid setup with spare drives etc. You can just keep on running while the raid rebuilds itself. Only replacing a drive when they go bad. Or started acting up preparing to go bad.

It all honestly depends upon your it departments budget competence and staffing. It’s not wrong to replace some after 50,000. But it could be wasteful. There are after all people like myself who buy those drives and run them for years without incident.

Vibrational mode failure is more a thing in large SAS backplane enterprise jbod rack mount deployments. Small workstation/NAS deployments with three to five drives etc. Using rubber grommets and all shouldn’t have too many issues causing failure from vibration. However a large Bay full of drives spinning up and down reaching harmonics can absolutely tear themselves apart over time for sure.

In 40+ years of using HDD I can count failures on one hand. Generally related to power issues. I have many well over 70000 hours. I recently picked up 2 used 12Tb Enterprise drives for less than the cost 1 consumer 12Tb drives to add to the mix as well. I have another 8 to 12 decommissioned enterprise drives in different systems.

You never trust your data to a single drive or single medium. Otherwise effectively you’ve already lost it. And dollar per dollar SSD simply cannot beat traditional hard drives for capacity. Just seek time and transfer rate.

Just my music library is over a terabyte of largely 320 bits per second mp3. Storage for miscellaneous videos about six times that. And then my streaming library of video. Has been traditionally large enough to make re-encoding and shrinking worth while to get more. Upgrading from divix/xvid in the late 90s early aughts. H264 in the early 2010s. H265 in the late 2010s. Currently converting to av1 from source discs etc. Some of the spinning rust I am using has seen all those Transitions and been Rewritten many times. Which would have been very rough on an SSD. LOL I may have a problem.

Regardless there’s nothing wrong with any particular storage technology. No reason to avoid one over the other as long as it does what you need. And if you’re data is small enough to fit economically on an SSD then they will suit your solution perfectly. Just remember your three, two, one.

9th Gen isn’t bad. Though I’m guessing you probably still paid 200 to 300 for it. The problem with the i-5 is no hyperthreading. It definitely benefits a server system. But still will function nicely. And you would need at least 6th Gen to run NVME.

The 8Gb actually should be fine. I run kde plasma on an arm based Chromebook tablet with only 4Gb. Still have RAM to spare. So you can have a graphical desktop and still do plenty serving. Just make sure to check out the system. Either the OEM. Or the motherboard. Find out what Ram it supports and keep an eye on eBay. All the new systems with ddr5 should see a lot of used ddr4 coming up for sale at good prices. In the near future you can probably quadruple that Ram for 50 to 100.

The storage technology that you choose to use at this point should not be a huge factor. SATA SSD or nvme SSD you aren’t liable to notice a crazy difference. Either will be way faster than HDD. But generally create the base partitions your distro will likely suggest. If you’re just starting out there’s nothing wrong with going with that. Usually a 500 hundred to 1 GB boot / UEFI partition and then a few tens of gigabytes for operating system on the same storage device on a separate partition. If you have any remaining space. That would be a good spot to create a partition for home directories which are typically where you will store all your media or you can actually have a whole physically separate device another nvme or SSD or even hard disk to use as the home directories or storage for media. You can map them in the fstab file later fairly easily with the KDE partition manager or gparted.

No worries. And honestly if you haven’t already committed to a particular Mini PC or absolutely need the form factor. I’d seriously suggest looking on eBay for some old e-waste.

I personally run an old dell business system with a 4th Gen i7 with 16Gb of ram. Cost about 100 dollars when I got it. I run a Minecraft server, Luanti server, jellyfin for movies and TV streaming, icecast/liquidsoap/libretime to stream my own private automated Internet radio, and NFS/SAMBA for NAS. And I still have RAM, CPU, and bandwidth free on a 1gbps network.

The only thing a newer system will net you is possibly a bit more power efficiency. Which depending on electricity costs where you are might make a new system attractive.

Lol but getting into homelabbing, new or old; it’s still a gateway drug. One of my favorite BSD/Linux things. At least for hardwired clients is just having my home directory on the NAS. I have a…few systems, and being able to have my downloads and documents etc all right there. Being able to wipe and reinstall the workstation without worrying about my data if I want to distro hop. It’s great. Only downside that pops up rarely is file locking. Other than that my files and app settings follow me to all of them.

Honestly 10-20 Gb for OS. 200-500 Mb for UEFI. Everything else separate. A cheap SATA low capacity SSD is fine for the OS usually. Bulk storage is still cheapest on Hard Disk.

M.2 is great and all if you can afford. But unless your network is over 2.5 gbps or you are simultaneously streaming large video streams to multiple clients. Regular SATA drives will be able to keep up fine.

I have. It was fine if disorienting at first. Hello my old friend walls. Bong bong bong zigzagging for a bit. But once you’re used to the perspective shift and start getting a feel for it. Your back gliding around corners just fine. Though it is pretty intense. And I would take breaks every few races. Everything just comes at you so fast and goes by like a blur. But like with any racing you sort of get a tunnel of focus ahead of you. Though you have to keep enough awareness when you’re in the pack.

I think we would have been better off had it stuck around as well. But I also think that we’ve somewhat arrived at the best of all situations. Where access to Media is much more democratized. You don’t have to rely on a big wealthy owner Etc allowing your Viewpoint to be heard. The modern problem is AI generated fire hoses of disinformation. They can output so much more misinformation through seemingly so many more Outlets than an actual person can. So it’s going to rely on a lot more word of mouth and Trust. People finding good journalists and presenters like coffee Zilla for instance and sharing them with others to help build up trusted networks of Representatives.

I think a lot of people assume that had it stuck around it would have eventually been applied to cable. But cable was a big new thing at the end of the 1970s early 1980s. Specifically because it didn’t have a lot of the regulation and restrictions that broadcast did.

I think a lot of people would have also assumed that the ERA would have been ratified by now. Or that a woman’s right to abortion would have been enshrined in law by now. But that didn’t happen either. So it’s never good to assume.

And then the real rub, what actually constitutes a Viewpoint worthy of being heard. Yes the fairness Doctrine was supposed to give other viewpoints air time. And it did. But not all of them. Fox News in fact was really good with this formula. Early Fox News often tried to provide the appearance of that sort of balance. Toe-headed Sean Hannity did not have his own show for a long long time. Granted the show was his in all but name. But for a long time he was saddled with a limp wet noodle Democrat. Who was little more than a foil for Sean to stomp over. But Alan Combs did provide some token Democrat views and pushback.

The equal representation was only as good as the honesty and the sincerity of the people behind allowing it. Which was often quite dubious itself.

While removal of the fairness Doctrine was a horrible thing. It would not have impacted Fox News in the slightest. It may have had some impact on am talk radio, or Sinclair propaganda. Which would have been a good thing. But zero impact on OANN or similar ilk. Not even CNN or MSNBC or any of the others would have been affected either. It was strictly broadcast only.

Last I saw deepIn wasn’t far off. But it’s always been a similar project to KDE in many ways. (QT based, complete ecosystem including desktop and apps) Though they have had some rather staggering refactors between versions.

That you cheerlead worst of the wealthy. And then disingenuously say that like it wipes away everything else you’ve done. People can clearly see you’re disingenuous.

You mentioned it because they were rightly calling out your obvious bias and misrepresentation. And that was tiniest smallest shred of anything you could push back on. No more no less. And to this point you have still not defended your possession in any way shape or form. Simply playing off imagined sexism and bigotry pretending to be the victim. Just like you’re pretending that Ukrainian isn’t.

Because our psychotic monkey brains have been groomed for Millennia and longer to worship power and wealth. You or I might feel that someone holding a position based on the merit. Should be because of their expertise and experience.

Your average psychotic monkey brain however only views power and wealth as the only metrics for merit. Fundamentally ignoring and disregarding the fact that no one achieves those levels of wealth and power without being supremely disqualified for leadership and adoration. That sort of wealth is only generated from immoral unscrupulous exploitative systems. Even for example Taylor swift. You may like her. Think she does better than a lot of celebrities. And she may. But all that wealth that she has. Whether or not she did it herself was amassed through exploitation and manipulation.

That said. Unlike most others. I think Swift is aware of just how unqualified she is as influential and looked to as she is. Trying to do her best in moderating her influence. Trying not to cause more damage. But for everyone like her there are tens if not thousands of others who would gladly exploit anyone looking up to them for more wealth and power.

Lol

Oi. I remember them. They definitely came in extra hot. Clashing with a culture they had no experience with. And then wondering what everyone else’s problem was. 🙄

That’s specifically why I’m against BRICS and US hegemony. The euro zone is far from perfect. But it’s a pretty different beast from those two.

Eeeeh, not really. I’m not particularly for a global currency. But a Global Currency that wasn’t controlled by oligarchs or a Vanguard. But instead by the global community. In a truly Democratic and representative way. Would be just fine. Though it’s not feasible In Our Lifetime our children’s lifetime or their children’s lifetime even at the very earliest. If ever.

Replacing the US with China and the dollar with the yuan. Is at best a lateral move. And is still going to see just as many people if not more exploited. Remember China has spent the last 50 years exploiting their own population hardcore. And are now expanding into doing it internationally just like the United States did. Worse when these two groups who are all at least starting to stagnate right now by the way. Decide that they want to send innocent proletariat to die in the name of their hoarded wealth and power. It will absolutely be worse for all of us.

If it’s bad for oligarchs and the Vanguard it’s good for the world. They’ll use whatever currency they want it doesn’t have to be the dollar. That said the world shouldn’t be dependent on a currency they don’t control. Whether it’s the dollar or the. yuan.

So you’re saying they should hit the rubout button?

Absolutely. Anyone posting about Biden, Harris, or Democrats committing genocide etc. Especially still now. Is either just virtue signaling or trying to sew discord, and not actually interested in helping anyone but themselves.

It was a disingenuous claim from the start. It really downplays what genocide is. I say this as someone who’s family has been subjected to various forms of genocide by the US government as recently as my grandparents.

The US government as a whole has been enabling genocide in Palestine for at least a half century. And that’s shameful enough without false accusations. Well, they might become true now. But even then it’s not about any one person. Even Trump. He couldn’t do much without the craven, spineless and bigoted Republican party. And even they would struggle with out all the self-interested Democrats on the dole as well. The system is the problem. Swapping out any individual won’t even make a dent. And anyone who implies or acted like it would should have been ridiculed from the start.