Oh, ok, thanks… Too bad I can’t 4x my budget to buy a second drive and build another pc or get a prebuilt nas, I laid out my options to avoid these “choose the option you don’t have” scenarios, but I did want to see general discussion too so I’ll take it as that.

So instead I should aim for a barracuda or a wd black or blue?

Thanks! I’ve been trying to read on people’s experiences and discussions on the topic, I don’t consider my knowledge to be extremely reliable so I wanted to hear opinions and discussions on the matter. The models I’ve been looking into say they’re 24dB and 30 dB, but I’ve read some wd red models are crazy noisy too. From reviews I could find they validated these being quiet and generally more pleasant noises but, again, I couldn’t say for certain.

I am having second thoughts on my plan, so I’ll keep listening for discussions here.

Interesting, Hadn’t really read anything like that before, since nas drives have extra features and functions that seems like a thing they would set as an extra flag or something (if it’s running on raid, then give up sooner).

What I meant by reliability was more about running the drive 24/7, as far as I could see they’re the only ones intended to be used that way (besides surveilance drives). They are intended to run at all times, spin more frequently and sustain more vibrations from nearby drives as well as heat, I feel like there’s more to it than that but can’t say myself.

Do you mean that the drive will say it’s dead if there are errors?

As far as I could find, both of the drives I’m considering are CMR, I guess for my purposes it doesn’t matter that much since I’m not going to do too much writing beyond a regular drive, as I mentioned my main reasoning was reliability and always on operation.

I intellectually understand the thing about drives dying every few years and have accepted that fact, but I can’t shake the feeling of that being wrong because I have other three regular hard drives with more than a decade of working fine.

I feel like I’m doing something wrong by just using smb, what fratures do everybody use and need from cloud storage other than a folder you and your apps can access? File sync aside (I don’t think I need it and if I did I know how to use syncthing)

I tried it but I get the following error

Cliparr could not open any playback stream. Preview stream failed: Cannot decode avc video in this browser. Cannot decode aac audio in this browser. Source stream failed: Cannot decode avc video in this browser. Cannot decode aac audio in this browser.

I’m honestly unsure of how to troubleshoot since I don’t really get what the problem is, the browser works fine with jellyfin, tried a handful of videos and in both firefox and chromium. I’m not knowledgeable enough to solve it.

The only one of those that I’ve tried is cyberpunk, but besides being a really good and fun game for what you’re looking for, I want to add that I found it easy to get off or back on, which you might want

I recently switched to it because I wanted to finally have a good try at wayland with a distro made for it, and wow was I blown away, cachy is the closest I’ve ever been to a “it just works” OS (including every windows version I’ve used, from 98 up to 10), just a couple hardware specific issues that I have fixed (except for one). I also really like plasma, I’m mot committed to it but it was nice to come back to it after using mint for a while. I still wouldn’t recommend it to a newcomer but damn, it’s good.

Are there dedicated desktop wireless headsets with noticeable latency? My shitty hyperx cloud flight have no noticeable latency and I even played around with some audio settings (on linux, windows audio drivers are very limited) and got it to the point where I could use them to monitor my usb mic in real time (which, for anyone who knows, is a very latency sensitive use case).

Afaik the latency thing is a problem with bluetooth.

I Have a hyperx cloud flight (the first ones), very light, in arch based distros the range is pretty big (in mint and pop, for whatever reason, the range is abysmal), they work with no caveats on linux (though no battery report, there’s a script or two floating on the internet to have it with no hassle). I’m sure there are better options these days (better battery and sound quality), but these are the ones I have experience with.

They’re not my first choice in audio, but they did so much for me when I had my kid, you can drop in and out of your pc without needing to remove your headphones, they don’t block much so you can even listen to the baby crying if you’re at a low volume (or you can just have one ear out), you can hang out in calls while holding the bb, etc.

For any new parents out there, can’t tell you how much they did for me, in particular the combination of

• being for PC (no latency, being able to get in and out of your gaming sessions or whatever you do without even having to take them off)
• having a decent quality microphone next to your mouth (you don’t need to raise your voice and can be heard easily despite background noise, good signal to noise ratio)
• not being that good at blocking sound, this is crucial when you can’t compromise your full attention but can have most of it.
• being light weight (I know there are some wireless headphones that are bulky and not that light).

• A udev rule that won’t work in my new distro (cachyos) for no apparent reason when it worked fine everywhere else

• Obs using way too much cpu for no reason even in a clean setup at idle

• Having to select what window will be captured to the obs canvas every time

• Having to swap active audio outputs until volume stops being too low at every restart.

That’s about all of it, I think.

I assume that you’re thinking of recent infantry-oriented first-person-shooter stuff.

I misread “stuff” as 💩 and was already reaching for my popcorn.

Have seen similar comments on that specifically on mint before, does mint have a particular problem with it? I used timeshift to restore manjaro a couple of times and it was very confusing but I assumed it was just me.

Thanks, I have my important files manually backed up every now and then on two different drives in my desktop, this idea is part of moving away from stressing so much and I’m probably going to abandon the raid idea for the near future and instead do scheduled backups (and maybe checkups?). I’ll keep in mind all that stuff about temps too when I do get an oportunity to make a suitable raid array build (without individual usb controllers between the drives and the server).

I have checked my data recently, haven’t found any issues. I appreciate all the info and help!

Didn’t know about this, it is at 8 GB of ddr3, couldn’t find a bigger stick and it doesn’t have more than one slot. I’m updating the post to address other responses. Thanks

Haha I see what you mean, I meant as in changing from one to another, not using snail drives for a swap partition.

They don’t know that, if they sell cheap enough it might be worth it for a random office somewhere to order a hundred and use them as work computers with no intention to ever buy a game in them. Also they aren’t going to be locked, nothing prevents you from getting one and run games purchased in every market under the sun that isn’t steam (and/or pirated games).

I don’t think they have any certainty that they’ll even make decent money on them. I am hopeful that this will be good for everyone but can’t exactly see how at the moment.

Not exactly, mine is kinda borked because of the browser, it performs like crap, something to do with Nvidia drivers, I think, I’m not bothered with choppy scrolling but choppy video and super laggy overlay and big picture are annoying as hell.

I had the same problem in manjaro plasma kde as I have in mint cinnamon.

That would be terrible in the long run, they said it would be competitive with pc pricing, not consoles (it’s a pc after all), so it would just be used as precedent to skyrocket console prices