maxiedaniels

Can someone explain whether or not these increasing actually means your drive needs to be replaced? I see such varied responses when googling. My drive has a raw value of 10 for Current_Pending_Sector and 1 for Offline_Uncorrectable. My GSmartControl is yelling at me constantly, but it's just those same values. Do I actually need to replace the drive? It *is* almost eight years old, so I plan to anyway, but I just want to understand and make sure I don't replace things unnecessarily.

I'm using snapraid + mergerfs and one of my data drives is showing signs of failing. What's the easiest way to move the files off of it? Should i remove the failing drive from the mergerfs config and then rsync from the failing drive to the mergerfs mount point?

I was watching a YouTube video the other day talking about hooking a drive bay to a mini PC, and he mentioned that usb cables and sata chipset are finally getting reliable recently. Something about standards improving, etc. I’m curious if anyone knows what he’s referring to, are there sata chipsets in enclosures that are better now? I always had so many issues with reliability but admittedly that was years ago.

I know quicksync is best but I’m having a hard time finding a miniPC with intel quicksync, low idle watt, with a fairly powerful Cpu.

I’ve seen the Beelink SER 5800H pop up, does it have an APU for transcoding and if so, is the idle wattage decent?

I'm planning on retiring my old snapraid beast of a server, and I'm back and forth on miniPC vs normal build. I'm backing up to my server right now but I'm thinking it may be WAY easier to move backups to the cloud, and then my server becomes really just a docker system for HA, plex+torrenting, and some random python scripts. In that case, I would just use NVME in the system.

If I do that path, is there an OS ideal for that kind of setup? I know I could use Ubuntu with Portainer for docker, but honestly it would be nice to have a low maintenance system where I don't have to deal with OS updates and complications. unRaid sounded nice but it doesn't seem like it's really meant for (or even works with) a pure SSD/nvme system.