I have syncthing set up between my phone, tablet, and desktop. I’ve only noticed it not syncing once, but as soon as I opened the app on my phone it scanned and synced, so it just hadn’t run in the background yet.

In what scenarios have you found Proxmox to be unstable? I’ve had almost no issues with it, despite using it in several unsupported ways.

Yes. But you should generally not expose a bunch of services to the Internet. Use a VPN to access your local network if necessary.

An archaeologist would not use the pan, they would study it and put it in a museum.

If you’re buying used and want to check the health of the drive, you should run a SMART test and check the current SMART data. Most USB controllers do not support that.

I would recommend something like a Pi as well, but it looks like you’re going to have to take it down to 5v. Maybe a NUC might be better.

But if you really want 20 TB, you’ll need to buy two drives at least 10 TB, and you’ll want them to be SSDs for the low power requirement. So that means you’ll need a device with two SATA ports, because I don’t think anyone makes NVMe drives that big. Oh, and be ready to pay a few thousand for each drive. Also you’ll want to keep one drive offline, in an ESD bag in a dry bag. So maybe one will be USB.

But for real low power, I’d suggest just plain turning it off. Booting doesn’t take that long any more. Or maybe suspend to disk, if you can find a system that supports it.

But overall, I would suggest reevaluating how important these things are to you. Generally, lots of electronics and nomadism don’t go together. Have you considered books? I’m sure you can find people to swap with when you’re in port.

tl;dr: he DDoS’d all two of North Korea’s routers

Tell the ISP you’re signing up with that there’s no drop for their service, and have them run a new one to the office. Check your local laws about touching their wire or box on the outside of the house before removing it.

Also, it’s really easy to patch holes in drywall with a little joint compound and matched paint.

Otherwise, MoCA and powerline ethernet can work. Modern wifi is pretty good too, though consider walls, etc. between points A and B and which frequency you’ll be using.

Agreed. If you have real employees, as much as I hate to say it, just get something like Quickbooks. The small amount of money you spend is well worth the time not fussing over it.

If you can get cheap ones for cheap, then get a bunch of cheap ones and just replace them when they fail. As long as you’re not abusing them, they’ll last plenty long.

Also, keep regular backups in case something catastrophic happens. RAID won’t save you if something corrupts the whole array.

I myself have gotten answers along the lines of, “why aren’t you acting more like a paid IT person?” and it’s a little off-putting.

We’re all hobbyists (though some of us do it profesionally too). Wanting your service to be reliable is a fair assumption. If you don’t care if Jellyfin goes down while your girlfriend is trying to watch The Bachelor, or if you accidentally delete all your photos with no backups, then just say you accept that risk and nobody should give you a hard time.

It’s possible to convert drives to RAID in-place… but strongly discouraged.

Since OP will have a blank drive, they could play musical chairs by setting up a new RAID on the new empty drive, copy data from one drive, wipe that drive, grow the array, copy data from the third drive, wipe, grow… But that’s going to take a long time, and you’ll have to keep notes about where you are in the process, lest you forget which drive is which over the multiple days this will take.

They didn’t say USB, but they did say dietpi. I’ve never played with a rpi, but I don’t think they have SATA or SAS ports, only USB.

You can do RAID 5 with three disks. It’s fine. Not ideal, but fine.

My biggest concern is what OP is using as a server. If these disks are attached via USB, they are not going to have reliable connections, and it’s going to trigger frequent RAID rescans and resyncs any time one of the three disks drops out. And the extra load from that might cause even more drops.

Their questions and suggestions still apply.

Start of thread: https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/upgrading-pve-tries-to-remove-proxmox-ve-package.149101/

Solution: wget http://download.proxmox.com/debian/pve/dists/bookworm/pvetest/binary-amd64/proxmox-backup-client_3.2.5-1_amd64.deb dpkg -i proxmox-backup-client_3.2.5-1_amd64.deb

You’re going to want a monitor and keyboard anyway. It’s going to be pretty hard to troubleshoot a boot issue in the future without them.

Right, it requires device support. And most GPUs won’t support it. But it’s by no means impossible.

I’ve got some junk hardware at work, I’ll try next time I’m in and let you know.

Server PSUs are designed to be identical and work on parallel (though depending on platform, they can be configured as primary/hot spare, too). I’d be concerned about potential difference in power, especially with two non-matching PSUs. It would probably be fine, but not probably enough for me to trust my stuff to it. They’re just not designed or tested to operate like that, so they may behave unexpectedly.

PCIe is absolutely plug and play. Cards have been PnP since the ISA era. You probably meant hot-plug, but it’s hot-pluggable too: https://lwn.net/Articles/767885/

Any buffered data will sit in the buffer, and eventually be dropped. Any data sent to the buffer while the buffer is full will be dropped. I’m not intimately familiar with communicating with GPUs, but I imagine the only buffers are in the GPU driver (which would either handle the removal or crash) or in the application (which would probably not handle the removal and just crash). Buffering is not really where I would expect to see a problem.

That said, a GPU disappearing unexpectedly will probably crash your program, if not your whole OS. Physical damage is unlikely, though I definitely wouldn’t recommend connecting two PSUs to one system due to the potential for unexpected… well, potential. Inrush current wouldn’t really be my concern, since it would be pulling from the external PSU which should have plenty of capacity (and over-current protection too, I would hope). And it’s mostly a concern for AC systems, rarely for DC.