I have 4x 8TB WD Red Plus drives in my NAS. I started with 2 and added 2 later. 1 of the original 2 failed a little under the 4 year mark. I replaced it with another 8TB WD Red Plus drive. I’m happy with them. I wouldn’t say they get particularly loud unless I’m writing a bunch of data to them.

SMART Power_On_Hours (converted to years):

sda = 5.42
sdb = 1.58
sdc = 3.85
sdd = 3.85

Damn…I feel bad doing this but maybe you can cut your losses now and invest time in another project :/

https://immich.app/

I’ve been pretty happy with Kavita as the server. You can read the books directly from the web app but if you think you might end up in an area with no signal, you can download the book from Kavita, and use a separate eReader app to read the file locally.

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And file away your scanned papers separately

This^. No matter how many layers of backups I have for paperless, I’m still keeping the most important physical documents in a file cabinet.

I’m not sure exactly what you are looking for but here is my workflow:

1. Laptop - This is where I do most of the uploading to paperless. When I get an important document over email, buy something online that’s expensive enough for me to want to save the receipt, or buy something that comes with a digital manual, I download the PDF and upload the document to paperless in the browser.

2. Phone - I have an iPhone and use Swift Paperless to upload physical mail, physical receipts, or physical manuals I can’t find online.

I know I can set up Paperless to pull documents from my email automatically but it’s not very good at guessing the tags and correspondents in my experience, and because it’s not good at guessing the correspondents and tags, I have to manually edit the documents anyway so I might as well upload them myself. I’ve just got into the habit of getting a document, knowing I might want to view it later, and upload it right then or later that day. The built in OCR works great.

Edit: Oh, my behavior has changed a little because of paperless too. I now ask everyone for a receipt, email confirmations when talking with customer service, or if I’m dealing with a business that only hands me paper documents, I ask them to email them to me too. I’m pretty annoying about it. Basically, if the transaction is important enough to me, it doesn’t end until I get proof that I can upload to paperless.

Oh got it. Thanks!

How does Hetzner work? I just looked at their storage box prices, and it seems too good to be true? €40/mo for 20TB. And they break it down to €0.0651/hr. Does that mean I could run the backups only when needed and pay less than €40/mo?

I have a NAS with a couple of SSDs configured in a ZFS mirror that backs up to a Raid Z2 storage pool on the same NAS. Again, on that NAS, I run Paperless-ngx in a docker container. Finally, I use the iOS app Swift Paperless to upload documents to Paperless-ngx. All done over Tailscale.

My load bearing NAS has a lot of redundancy but no offsite backups so I still keep some important documents in the cloud. I’m saving up for another NAS that I can keep at a family members house but prices are insane right now :/

If you can follow the 3-2-1 storage rule without using the cloud, that’s awesome. However, the upfront cost can be expensive depending on how much you are storing. Just do the best you can using whatever you have available to you, even if that means using iCloud as part of your setup.

The house I bought had one of these installed already. Works great with the homeassistant ZWA-2 antenna.

That’s unacceptable and infuriating. I started going to my wife’s appointments because of shit like this. I don’t know if it’s because my wife wasn’t advocating enough for herself or if the doctor was shitty but all I do is sit there and repeat my wife’s concerns in different words when I think I need to. If I’m not satisfied with an answer, I just keep asking questions. She’s getting the care she deserves now.

This is coming from a good place and I don’t mean any disrespect but it sounds like your wife needs a mammogram. Do something about it; you only have each other.

No, you actually caught be at the perfect time, the transfer to my temporary pool is almost done. I was just curious how inheritance worked on a pool but after giving it some thought, your recommendation makes more sense; turn it on when I know I need it vs turn it off when I know I don’t. Thanks for the advice.

Let’s say I did turn on compression on root. I can’t then turn it off on a per file system basis where it isn’t needed?

Yeah I’m not excited about the write and rebuild times being slower but the read times should still be pretty good. Considering I don’t have any more space for drives in my server and I don’t know how crazy hdd drive prices will get in the next 12 months, the guaranteed 2 drive failure resiliency is more important to me at the moment. My current 1 drive failure resiliency, 2 if I’m lucky, has me worried. My backups are on shucked drives and I don’t want to be put in a situation where I have to rely on them to restore 😅

Thank you for this

Fair criticism. I just don’t have a lot of free time. I can invest in Element but I wanted to crowd source information to see if it was worth it or if there was an easier way. It doesn’t get much easier than Docker

Out of curiosity, what makes it better?

A quick search says it’s a package manger for kubernetes. Besides plex, everything I selfhost is just for me. Would you say helm/kubernetes is worth looking into for a hobbyist who doesn’t work in the tech field?

I’d love to but it’s a chicken and egg thing. Regular people don’t understand bitcoin let alone monero. On top of that, you still have fees for converting from a currency to monero and again from monero to a currency, so there’s still a middle man :/

I understand your view and sympathize deeply but there is a lot wrong in the world today and if I have to divert energy somewhere to try and change something, Patreon’s 10/90 split is at the bottom of the list for me at the moment. Regular working class people aren’t getting that good of a deal at the jobs they work at. I’m not even talking 90/10, just getting their .01% of the profits in a 1000 person org for their contribution would probably be life changing.

You are right but our frames of reference are different.

I wouldn’t say these services are nothing. Are they worth 10%? Eh.

A 90/10 split for content creators who otherwise wouldn’t know how to build and operate their own platform doesn’t sound like a terrible deal. It’s not amazing but if there were better options, Patreon may not be so popular.

Edit: I want to clarify. Patreon is a for profit company who has apparently tried raising prices already and back tracked. Eventually, Patreon will try and squeeze out more profit from the creators and the user base will be big enough that Patreon will have the leverage to do so; we’ve all seen it before. I’m not saying Patreon is a good company, I’m not saying they won’t be dicks in the future, I’m not saying the system as it is, is good. I’m only saying 10% isn’t a bad deal when so many other options are worse (ex. Apple taking 30%)