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Disks, too. I waffled on replacing the 2TB spinning drives in my NAS with bigger SSDs, wish I'd done it last year...

That sucks.. I've considered buying a bigger spinning drive for my secondary PC.

I did some cleanup work and freed up about a terabyte of space. I'll be
OK for a while. I think I have 2.6 TB used out of a 7.2 TB array now.

I had backups of my media in 2 places on my NAS - that was easy to free
space.

I had all of my media stored locally on my desktop and mirrored to my
NAS on the RAID filesystem using Resilio Sync. The NAS also serves as a
media server. I realized that about half of my media I don't want to
stream on the TV - I took those files out of Resilio Sync <-> RAID and
copied them to a different folder, which I sync to an external USB on
the NAS - they don't need to live on the RAID since I have them in two
places.

My NAS backs up to a 10GB USB external. I have an old NAS chassis and
some older drives, I'm tempted to make it into a backup target.

If I ever get around to moving to AT&T fiber, I'll sync it all to the
cloud with the backup app on the NAS. For now, I bring an external to
work and sync it with OneDrive.






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Re: Re: macOS 26
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Nightfox on Fri May 08 2026 10:16 am

That sucks.. I've considered buying a bigger spinning drive for my
secondary PC.

I did some cleanup work and freed up about a terabyte of space. I'll be OK for a while. I think I have 2.6 TB used out of a 7.2 TB array now.

I did some cleanup too, so I'm okay for now. But I'll probably eventually need more space. I have a PC that I use as a media server (using Plex Media Server), and a few years ago I bought an 18TB drive for it (although those are a bit expensive, I figured it would be good to have the space for movies & TV shows). I've been slowly filling that up.. I started to actually get fairly low on free space on that drive recently, but I realized there was a lot of temporary stuff I had on it which I removed to free up space.

Also I've considered whether it might be a good idea to buy a new drive as NAS rather than being inside one of my PCs.. But that PC is sonething I always have running anyway (since I also run my BBS on it).

If I ever get around to moving to AT&T fiber, I'll sync it all to the cloud with the backup app on the NAS. For now, I bring an external to work and sync it with OneDrive.

I've considered whether I want to do that, though I still feel a bit old-school on that - I feel like I'd rather buy my own external hard drive as a backup rather than paying a recurring subscription fee for an online backup service. But then again, having an offsite cloud backup can be a good thing.

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Nightfox wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

Also I've considered whether it might be a good idea to buy a new drive
as NAS rather than being inside one of my PCs.. But that PC is
sonething I always have running anyway (since I also run my BBS on it).

Definitely - they're expensive, but it's worth mirroring or running
RAID 5 on it for resiliency, and most NASes also act as DLNA servers,
allowing you to stream media to TVs in your house.



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Re: Re: macOS 26
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Nightfox on Sat May 09 2026 11:29 am

Definitely - they're expensive, but it's worth mirroring or running RAID 5 on it for resiliency, and most NASes also act as DLNA servers, allowing you to stream media to TVs in your house.

I already run Plex Media Server on my secondary PC, and I bought their lifetime subscription for it several years ago (pay once & get the premium features forever). One of the premium features I use with it is its DVR features to record over-the-air TV broadcasts (for shows like Jeopardy & a couple others). Would a DLNA server in a NAS have DVR functionality?

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Nightfox wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

I already run Plex Media Server on my secondary PC, and I bought their lifetime subscription for it several years ago (pay once & get the
premium features forever). One of the premium features I use with it
is its DVR features to record over-the-air TV broadcasts (for shows
like Jeopardy & a couple others). Would a DLNA server in a NAS have DVR functionality?

No, it just lets you stream existing media. I'd love Plex, but I'm on
the coast - we only get a few stations over HDTV, and they're not of
interest.

It would be interesting to look at a combination of something like
Jellyfin with the arr suite - torrent search and streaming tools that I
could run on my homelab.



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