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5 months agoah, yes, prejudice
ah, yes, prejudice
You can do it. I use a powered USB hub and a raspberry pi, and 5 hard drives.
It is a mess of cables but was simple enough.
I also sprang for a UPS because most filesystem’s I tried like zfs and btrfs didn’t appreciate random brownouts from running 4 drives off the pi itself.
Right now they’re xfs and used for a minio install and torrent storage
wait, what?
I don’t get it
It would be fixed capital regardless of the interior design and chairs?
I grew up in a small town in the rockies and one of the developer outfits had a fancy office with this decor
Dirt cheap.
Cost = maintenance + servers
Engineers always underestimate the cost of their time.