It’s surprising an experienced deep sea explorer would go along on something like this.

When I first read about it, it took me less than 5 minutes to discover many, many reasons it was a bad idea.

Wow, I hadn’t thought it through like that, but yea, you’re right.

One or the other. Pick.

Ah, OK.

Yea, not sure if these units can yet support expansion of a data set.

BTRFS and ZFS technically have the capability (from what I recall) in the latest versions, the question is does the device you’re looking at support the capability? I haven’t looked into enough of them to know for sure.

That said, my ancient Drobo can do this, but… It will only see the new size once you upgrade all the drives. It will resilver with a new larger drive but until all drives are upgraded it won’t use the extra drive space of an added larger drive.

(And yes, Drobo is garbage, this one was free, I had some spare drives and I use it as a third local storage device, kind of a spare I don’t really trust).

Oh, cool, that’s slick. I didn’t know this existed!

Plastics may degrade, but (as others have mentioned) if a plastic one lasts 10+ years, so far, where’s the value in a glass one?

Plus you could buy 4 plastic ones for the cost of 1 glass that could far more easily break.

I’m all for glass in a LOT of stuff. I even kind of like it here (for the reasons you’ve stated), I just can’t get behind the cost.

I tend to go for better/best quality in most things, I hate buying stuff twice. But there’s value in being able to replace a less robust device for 1/4 the cost of the “higher quality” version.

Agreed.

Delonghi does some magic to make a cheap espresso machine actually produce sufficient pressure for a fast brew.

Their old machine, circa 2005 worked, but not well.

The newer ones have been tested numerous times and produce the pressure they’re labeled to, and maintain it across the brew. Mine is always done in just under 20 seconds, and when I’ve (intentionally) over-pressed the coffee into the portafilter it may take 30. The old one couldn’t even handle a we’ll-pressed puck.

The new steamer works far better too. I never did like their old “steam assist” trickery. The new one uses an actual wand inside the “assist tube” . If you take off the assist, it works just like an actual wand. I’m not even sure why the assist tube is there.

Everyone I’ve made an espresso for has been surprised I didn’t pay $500+ for a machine.

For the typical home user, you really can’t beat a Delonghi, given it’s at most $150.

What do you mean by “possibility to upgrade storage other than just replacing drives with bigger ones”

That’s pretty much all you can do with a fixed number of drive slots.

Today’s NAS’s use some form of ZFS/BTRFS, so they’re really good at handling new drives. Though I think dynamic expansion is just coming on line in the latest versions, and may not be in production just yet

I can’t speak to NAS, I’ve always “rolled my own” because no one makes what I want, let alone in a price point I can manage (I like to use 2.5" drives with a moderately powerful system as a media center/home server, etc, for compactness). My current box is an old small-form-factor desktop that maxes out at 3 drives, though I have 5 shoved into it.

For photos I use Syncthing (specifically Syncthing-Fork as it has more flexibility) on my phones to sync the DCIM folder to an always-on machine at home.

My DCIM folder syncs to a folder in my user profile on the server, other people sync to their respective folders. I permit this sync job to run in any network, with any power (AC or battery), so I never lose pictures I take.

This has a benefit of enabling me to manage photos from a pc, and those changes sync back to my phone (I generally move the photos out of the synced folder to somewhere else, this has the effect of removing them from the phone). Just don’t use the built-in photo backup sync job, which only syncs photos from phone to PC.

Nice thing about Syncthing is you can sync anything anywhere however you want. Windows, Linux, Max, iOS (using Möbius).

I currently sync hundreds of gigs between several phones and several PCs. I have about a dozen sync jobs (folders in SyncThing terms). I also sync other folders from phones, to enable file management from a PC, since changes will be synced back with two-way sync jobs.

And even where it’s a factor, local code will (slowly) reflect actual capability.

Ive lived in several states, a few which get snow, even the heavy wet kind. Even there code permits up to 3 layers, depending on how the roof is constructed.

Pixel is clean, from a battery saver perspective, so that’s probably not your issue.

Not sure what to do next. I’ve used it for about 10 years now, and keep gobs of stuff in sync with it.

I do recommend Syncthing-Fork for Android, it moves the sync conditions into the individual since folders, so you get finer control.

Do you get any errors on the desktop console? On Android, if you launch the web client you get much more info and configuration capability (Menu - Web GUI). Once there, click the gear at the top right, and open Logs. Maybe there’s something there that can help.

SSD only?

Look at Mr Moneybags over here. That would increase my cost about 400%

And no, I wouldn’t recoup that in energy cost reductions, as my oldest NAS with ancient drives only draws a few watts 97% of the time.

Yea, I like Resilio, but it’s a battery and ram hog.

Syncthing should work fine for you.

Does your phone have some custom battery management? Some vendors do that, and it causes issues.

Fork works much better on Android, largely because it moves sync conditions into the individual sync jobs (what ST calls folders).

I keep multiple phones in sync, with hundreds of gigs synced every day.

I’ve never once had pasta sticking together in the pot, regardless of what I do.

I thought it was age

What heights?

I don’t see any heights mentioned.

The maintenance on those buildings at this point would be major. Probably not worth the investment.

I still don’t get it