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Megane Top Gun
@dauragon.com

One laptop down...

Megane Top Gun@dauragon.com

I have a bunch of old laptops and I'm starting to have a crazy idea wrt salvaging some old laptop hdds to make the worlds worst NAS

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mega
@rageovens.xyz

btrfs is really good for this purpose by the way. it handles unreliable drives really well. raid-1 with a bunch of different-sized disks works great.

Megane Top Gun
@dauragon.com

I have no idea what im gonna do with that laptop ram but it wasnt doing anything in that old xps so might as well yoink that out of there too

oishi47.bsky.social
@oishi47.bsky.social

I've been trying to find something to do with all of my old DDR4 and from what I can tell the DDR4 tax hasn't hit sodimms as bad but if you want a board that uses DDR4 dimms, it'll be twice the price of the DDR5 version. Still some cheap options for ITX NAS boards, Mini PCs, etc that use DDR4 sodimm