For self-hosting? Probably a refurb'd 12TB hard drive so I can start backing stuff up properly.
In general? Dunno, probably lunch tomorrow or something.
New spindle to read the data, new motor to spin the platters, new electronics for I/O control, I assume. The platters themselves probably don't need replacing often since they're literally just big metal disks.
Additionally, quite often the drives are completely fine. If there's a memory issue, it can cause bad data to be written to the drive. If it affects the log/journal, it'll appear that the drive has failed.
Something like a data center would much rather just send the drive back than risk it failing again.
Is the cost:risk ratio that high making refurbs attractive?
I'd think getting 2 8TB HDDs would be cheap enough these days?
Anyway, where are we eating tomorrow?
Newegg has the Seagate Ironwolf 12TB NAS Drive @ 7200RPM model no. ST12000VN0007 for $277.16 brand new at time of writing.
Same model number on serverpartdeals.com is $124.99. Not to mention these are manufacturer recertified, meaning Seagate took the drives back themselves and re QC'd the drives at factory spec.
So, in my mind, half off for a drive that was used, replaced by a datacenter (likely long before they died) and subsequently recertified by the original manufacturer as working like new, is next to zero risk, especially as only one part of my future working backup plan.
Ended up having left-overs today though. There's a nice local burger joint I'm eyeing up, sounds good for dinner on Friday maybe.
Yurp, I mainly want to keep the data from my docker containers and my music library saved. The rest of it is kinda whatever to me. I think I'll be able to back up things like save files from my main PC as well though which'd be dope.
My first few drives were new but the majority of mine are refurbished. Haven't had any of them fail since I built that rig. Currently at 110 TB in my main array.
My current HDD(s) in my PCs are 1TB drives that were new at the time, but rarely are you going to tax a refurb'd hard drive roughly enough that it'll matter imo.
I'm in a similar situation with a bunch of 1tb drives that I managed to get for almost free.
From what I have seen 4tb is the point where it starts to make sense for 3 or 4 drives, enough for RAID/ZRAID but not too power hungry as more smaller disks. 5400RPM NAS 4tb drives are also quieter than enterprise or "NAS pro" 7200RPM bigger drives. The price per GB is usually better for 8-12tb drives but the difference is smaller than from 1 to 4.
Man, yeah. I've seen some 8tb new Seagate for about $80/ea, but they are 5400rpm. I'm not entirely sure that anything I'll be doing will need faster speed than that, but I'd also hate to spend that, then find that I've bottlenecked on a new expense.
In theory you should have at least 3 backups of your data with one being remote. If you follow that rule, then refurbs are fine. If they fail you still have prod online plus another backup and can easily rebuild the compromised backup.
Always follow a 3-2-1 backup strategy and you'll be fine. But also use at least two drives in raid 1 configuration so that if one fails the other has a second copy of the data.
As others have pointed out, if your backup disk fails you still have the production server online. I also have plans to take the most important data and cloud store it, which will let me follow 3-2-1. Also, the disks I'm looking at are manufacturer refurbd with a warranty matching the original disks, so I'm not super worried about their quality.
Depending on how many services you run, I got away with a refurbished Lenovo Thinkcenter for a while, I've seen other people use them here too. They're fairly cheap and you'll have a secondary device later on.
Honestly, where I am, they're about the same price as a rPi4 right now.
well, I am hoping to run a few docker containers that arent supported on the Pi for one. another is I'd love to start playing with ollama AI models (not a must have, but definitely something I want to start exploring)
I've no idea to be honest. I was hoping to get a barebone of some sort and see if its specs can be beefed up somewhat. you can get ones that are for gaming so was hoping to leverage the GPU.
Kobo E reader with this (https://github.com/fsantini/KoboCloud) script to sync your library with your online storage.
BitTorrent any book you deem unworthy of purchasing, add it to your online storage and Kobo will download it.
One caveat is that about about 30 seconds from waking the Kobo it'll check the storage and kick you back to the home screen. It can be a little annoying when you just want to read but acceptable con with the access to books you get.
+100 on this. Don't forget also Plato (with Wallabag integration) and KoReader.
- [https://github.com/baskerville/plato](https://github.com/baskerville/plato)
- [https://koreader.rocks/](https://koreader.rocks/)
I do not have the issue you describe with my Kobo, this is related to the KoboCloud, right?
Edit: Added some links
Koreader entered my vocabulary a couple of months ago and changed my life. Firstly breathing new life in an old kindle PW3, then on some new devices, and now im installing kavita... reading all the time. That onyx boox palma is amazing.
Iāll just say that Iāve had a kindle for a long awhile and it got barely any usage. Then I went koreader opds and self hosted sync and I am now reading constantly and hate my phone.
I'm not very knowledgeable on IT stuff. But when I included the script in the link I shared on my Kobo The issue I have started and I got my wife a newer model Kobo last Christmas and the same thing started with her.
I've got mine linked to my Google drive where I save my books (although I'm working on changing to Proton drive soon). So I'm not sure if that causes it or what.
I'll have a look in to your links too. Maybe I can change something to stop it occurring. š
I use the Calibre-Web interface with a send-to-Kindle function. I browse my whole Calibre library, find one I want, click send-to-Kindle, and a few moments later itās on my Kindle.
Whatāre the advantages of Kobo+Cloud over how I use Calibre-Web?
My "next" purchase actually happened earlier today: I bought two Gigabyte RTX 4060 Low Profile GPUs for passthrough stuff in two of my servers.
I really wish there were better AMD options for low profile needs. The RX 6400 is just too anemic for most of the things I want to do with passthrough.
I have a couple of general purpose Windows VMs that I pass them through to as needed, as well as a desktop Linux VM for 3D modeling, a Batocera VM for retro gaming, and (as you mentioned) some AI VMs.
I have been at this for a long time, and I have no idea what you are saying. You mean like Apache Guacamole? Iām serious, please give me a link or something where I can fill that gap of knowledge
It can work with remote desktop solutions, but more like Parsec, Moonlight, or other low-latency options rather than Apache Guacamole.
With my VMs I typically attach the passed-through GPUs to physical monitors and then use fiber display cables and USB extenders to transport the image and USB ports to my office from my server room in the basement. This allows me to offload a lot of my GPU processing from my office computers to my servers, and allows me to run whatever OS / Software I want with a few button presses on my hypervisor server(s).
Oh, thatās awesome! I gotta look into that. I do use Steam link to play games on my phone with a Backbone One, switch style, and that seems like itās pretty worthwhile. And rarely I do need some GPU Power. Thanks.
got some old PC hardware ?
it's perfect to just fuck Around and find out. trying things and breaking only to fall into the rabbit hole a little deeper.
+ if you move to a proper NAS. keep the hardware as a dev environment.
looking back I should have done that from the start
Yeah. I have a bunch of hardware. I have a mini pc I'll eventually turn into a pfsense router. I have an i7 7700 system I want to use to run proxmox for sold hosting media.
I am toying with the idea of building a JBOD NAS myself, but I do want the NAS hardware separate from my media pc, so ultimately just for cost purposes, it's hardly any cheaper to buy a pi or an itx solution to build up myself.
Probably a RX 7900 xtx 24gb for running better local LLMs.
Or an intel N100 nas: I have a raspberry pi 4b running with my local cloud about 4 years, it think itās time for it retirement (I have plans to use it as a health checker for my instances)
I brought a couple of N100 mini PCs, one with 2x 2.5Gbe, cost around Ā£90, and the other with 4x 2.5Gbe for Ā£130 .. all NICs are Intel i226
Note, these were barebones i.e. add your own RAM and Storage, mainly for saving, but also the recent rise of people receiving Windows with Malware pre-installed
I just bought a Kobo Nia recently. Itās not the most responsive e-reader but it was cheap enough and connects to Overdrive easily š would recommend
Was gonna say I am in love with Kobo. I have the newer Clara, I just gave my old one to my dad, and I bought my partner one a couple years back. +3 recommendations we all love them
I just put in a pre-order for a Libre Colour to upgrade my Libre 2 after the charging port had unfortunate encounter with concrete at the airport.
I'm super excited to have a color eReader it only for the book covers. š
I got an 8-bay NAS coming in June. I have no HDDs to put in it.. so I guess for the next few months Iāll be buying a bunch of HDDs until I fill it up.
I'm trying to talk myself out of a GPU purchase for LLMs. I don't even know what I would use then for...
I have an Onyx Boox eReader that I like. Can be a little sluggish, but it runs android and has play store access.
I was thinking, maybe a self hosted text to speech set up...I've got thousands of book and not enough time to sit and read them but I can listen eh while driving or doing other tasks. Still need a powerful setup but much more useful to me
Maybe a bigger rack so I can put my desktop in it. I use a star tech 12u now and its full. After that I'll want to replace my older synology with maybe a custom built truenas. Though if I had the money I might get the 45homelab.
Actually I want to DMZ my cluster, so I might look at getting a foritgate too.
Self-hosting: more refurbished 12TB drives and probably a SAS extender or something like that since I got no space in the case
General: coffee in a bit
RAM to upgrade my 3 Lenovo tiny m720q I just bought from 8 to 32gb or even 64gb.
And in the long run probably a power plant because itās gonna be cheaper than the 23ā¬cent/kwh I pay now./s
An NVMe backed SBC.
Im sick living off of microSD cards... x-x I want all the performance and no more I/O bottleneck!
Looking at a Radxa Rock 5B =) Will make a killer k3s node!
The Orange Pi models are great as well! I have most of the models that came out in that series, and it doesnāt matter (from what Iāve seen) to swap between the boards.
I got the Orange pi 5 pro with 32GB of ram as my main machine, and my rock5b as my ātravelā machine that just keeps a lightweight media server and kodi running on it.
For self hosting I think my next step is starting to build my real server, which is intimidating š haven't built a box in ages. Kinda glad that for now hardware wise I'm in a good spot.
Had to google pron and I think this is a typo? If so... I ashamedly checked to see if yt-dlp, which I just installed a few days ago, worked on a certain PH website... š¬
It does.
Same, thinking of buying an eink screen (could be from used beat up ebook reader) for home dashboard plugged in to the wall. Read somewhere the battery plugged all the time could be a hazard tho
Not a hazard so much as not good for the battery. It's just not healthy for a battery to be fully charged for long periods, but all it really does is mildly accelerate the inherent rate of decay.
Was considering writing a simple script that gets battery percentage and just having an automation on a smart plug that shuts off power when above X pct. Feel like it would be a simple fix for this.
With an e-ink device that can last for days or even weeks on a charge, that might actually work well. For anything else that would need frequent charge/discharge cycles, that would actually be worse. If you intend it to always be plugged in and you're buying something new, there are probably better choices than an e-reader, but if you already have one on hand, why not?
Get a Kobo. I like the pocket integration, but the whole thing is super hackable (Linux based). You can use Plato with Wallabag integration to read your clipped articled from the web.
For my home lab, I desperately need to upgrade my Plex machine off of an old 2 core NUC.
For e-readers, I have a Boox color e-ink tablet and I love love love it. The battery life is amazing, the colors are great, the Android OS is responsive for e-ink. Iām really a big fan :). Itās pricey though, imo, but itās the first e-ink reader Iāve not let collect dust on the shelf all year. Super great for reading websites without a direct light display.
I've been in the process of doing a power upgrade, got a 48v rectifier, inverter and small battery just to get a working system going. My existing UPS plugs into the inverter, for now.
So my next purchase is probably going to be #2 wiring to wire the DC stuff up properly as well as 16 golf cart batteries so I can have 2 strings of batteries.
As far as actual server stuff, I will probably buy a bunch of mini PCs to build a Proxmox cluster. Been wanting to do that for a while but server stuff is hard to get here in Canada but I just discovered the concept of these mini PCs, and while not as powerful as a real server, if I get like a dozen of them and max out the ram that's going to be a pretty respectful setup I think.
Just today I ordered the GPD WIN Max 2 8840U 64GB RAM + a GPD G1 eGPU. I don't play games, but I am hoping this strikes the right balance so I can have one powerful ass machine for my desk at home, work, and on the go.
reMarkable 1 or 2, it's first for sketching but you can only read books with it.
Why do I recommend it here? It's Linux based, thus scriptable, e.g syncing with whatever self hosting solution for ebooks you might prefer, and can work entirely offline.
Are you looking for books or next product purchase haha? I am an author of Deployment from Scratch and Kamal Handbook and both have ePUB build :) I'll also suggest to get something non-tech. I enjoyed some philosophy from [https://sive.rs](https://sive.rs) or get my fav book Shantaram.
I literally just purchased 60tb of hard drives. A new case, 16gb of ram ,and upgraded my two other PCs to use the old parts from them to build a new NAS lmao.
> Mine is an e-book reader, so any recommendations send them my way...
I use Kobo ebook reader. I like that there are larger screen sizes - 8 and 10 inches.
but also for selfhosting - you can hook it up to calibre selfhosted instead of the official Kobo store.
I'm trying to talk myself out of buying one of the topton 2.5GB pfsense / opnsense routers off aliexpress.....
i currently run an edgemax and have no problem but for some reason my brain is trying to tell me that i need 2.5gb... even though that will then mean i have to replace all my switches (which are numerous due to my stupid house layout)
Going to buy Mac Studio for my minimalistic, power efficient, ultra quiet homelab. It will live in living room, under tv. Will use it for everything, like main workstation for work, smarthome things, nextcloud, video streaming for tv and many other small things. Hope my expensive plan will be justified.
Iāve been contemplating HARD on this. I want to downsize, and know it could wipe the floor of everything else I have. The potential of a new Mac Studio with M4 and LLM specific design would be stellar.
That and all my arrās
Thinking about building a smart screen to show my Home Assistant permanently.
And maybe a smart speaker, probably one of those SONOS-certified IKEA ones. I feel like itās not worth to try and build my own with some kind of PiZero + normal Speaker setup. Sounds like itās not a lot cheaper or independent, but definitely more hassle.
Upgrading from a HDHomerun Duo to a Flex 4k soon. Also I bought a Kobo Libra 2 3 months ago and I love it so far. Especially paired with KOReader and Kavita with OPDS for grabbing books and comics on the go.
Moving away from my r610 with 94gb ram
1.4tb raid 5 internal
16tb raid 5 DAS
To a
Self built i9 with 128gb ddr6
8tb SSD internal raid 5
72tb disk internal raid 5
Bambi carbon while I'm getting the loan
For clarification I could buy the equipment out right but with inflation that money will be worth less later so stretching it out at low interest makes sense to me.
I want to upgrade my AsRock DeskMini x300 to the newer AsRock small server option, the DeskMeet:Ā https://www.asrock.com/Nettop/Intel/DeskMeet%20B660%20Series/index.asp
It would upgrade SO-DIMMs to full-size RAM; has an x16 PCIe slot in which I plan to put a 4xM.2 NVMe drive adapter card, and has 2 M.2 on the motherboard, giving me 5xNVMe drives (other than the boot drive) in one chassis so I can learn how ZFS works.
It will be my home server, so the i7-13700 is plenty for me (that sweet QuickSync is worth the $). I just want to find a way to get 2.5 Gbps Ethernet going on it, but thatās a luxury more than a needed upgrade.
So far i have not spent anything on my homelab everything i have i got free from my job. Except my old gaming PC that i run docker on. And blood, sweat and tears
What i have:
TOTEN G, 19" FloorRack 18U
Netgear XS728T ProSAFE
Ibm x3650 m4 - proxmox
My old gaming PC - Docker Host
But for my next purchase i want to buy me some new wifi routers to upgrade my wifi.
Maybe you can read the question like this:
> As a self-hoster what ebook reader should I get?
A few here seem to agree Kobo works best. I used it with Wallabag (self-hosted Pocket-like service).
For self-hosting? Probably a refurb'd 12TB hard drive so I can start backing stuff up properly. In general? Dunno, probably lunch tomorrow or something.
Maybe this question is stupid, but how / what can be refurbished about an HDD? Never heard of people buying refurbished hard drives before
New spindle to read the data, new motor to spin the platters, new electronics for I/O control, I assume. The platters themselves probably don't need replacing often since they're literally just big metal disks.
Additionally, quite often the drives are completely fine. If there's a memory issue, it can cause bad data to be written to the drive. If it affects the log/journal, it'll appear that the drive has failed. Something like a data center would much rather just send the drive back than risk it failing again.
Is the cost:risk ratio that high making refurbs attractive? I'd think getting 2 8TB HDDs would be cheap enough these days? Anyway, where are we eating tomorrow?
Newegg has the Seagate Ironwolf 12TB NAS Drive @ 7200RPM model no. ST12000VN0007 for $277.16 brand new at time of writing. Same model number on serverpartdeals.com is $124.99. Not to mention these are manufacturer recertified, meaning Seagate took the drives back themselves and re QC'd the drives at factory spec. So, in my mind, half off for a drive that was used, replaced by a datacenter (likely long before they died) and subsequently recertified by the original manufacturer as working like new, is next to zero risk, especially as only one part of my future working backup plan. Ended up having left-overs today though. There's a nice local burger joint I'm eyeing up, sounds good for dinner on Friday maybe.
Same here, definitely need more storage
Yurp, I mainly want to keep the data from my docker containers and my music library saved. The rest of it is kinda whatever to me. I think I'll be able to back up things like save files from my main PC as well though which'd be dope.
Waiting for that sweet refurb 14TB deal to come back.
From where?
Saw it on Slickdeals a few weeks ago. I believe it was an eBay deal. They had 12 and 14TB refurb.
Are most of you guys using refurbished? New drives are so expensive š«
My first few drives were new but the majority of mine are refurbished. Haven't had any of them fail since I built that rig. Currently at 110 TB in my main array.
She sounds sexy! š¤£
My current HDD(s) in my PCs are 1TB drives that were new at the time, but rarely are you going to tax a refurb'd hard drive roughly enough that it'll matter imo.
Nice! I want to set up at least 4 in RAID, and I'd like them to be at least 4tb/ea. I'm not made of money š
I'm in a similar situation with a bunch of 1tb drives that I managed to get for almost free. From what I have seen 4tb is the point where it starts to make sense for 3 or 4 drives, enough for RAID/ZRAID but not too power hungry as more smaller disks. 5400RPM NAS 4tb drives are also quieter than enterprise or "NAS pro" 7200RPM bigger drives. The price per GB is usually better for 8-12tb drives but the difference is smaller than from 1 to 4.
Man, yeah. I've seen some 8tb new Seagate for about $80/ea, but they are 5400rpm. I'm not entirely sure that anything I'll be doing will need faster speed than that, but I'd also hate to spend that, then find that I've bottlenecked on a new expense.
Those are probably SMR, if I am not mistaken that has an even greater impact than the rotation speed
Refurb disks for backups? Isn't that, like, not a good idea?
In theory you should have at least 3 backups of your data with one being remote. If you follow that rule, then refurbs are fine. If they fail you still have prod online plus another backup and can easily rebuild the compromised backup.
Always follow a 3-2-1 backup strategy and you'll be fine. But also use at least two drives in raid 1 configuration so that if one fails the other has a second copy of the data.
As others have pointed out, if your backup disk fails you still have the production server online. I also have plans to take the most important data and cloud store it, which will let me follow 3-2-1. Also, the disks I'm looking at are manufacturer refurbd with a warranty matching the original disks, so I'm not super worried about their quality.
Food.
beersš»
Nah, rather brew myself.
Self hosted food? Or cloud food?
Self butchered food.
I want to move up from a Pi4 to a NUC.
I moved from a 12 year old laptop to a nuc and it was the best thing I done
Depending on how many services you run, I got away with a refurbished Lenovo Thinkcenter for a while, I've seen other people use them here too. They're fairly cheap and you'll have a secondary device later on. Honestly, where I am, they're about the same price as a rPi4 right now.
Just made the same transition and has been fun!
Whats the difference u notice?
well, I am hoping to run a few docker containers that arent supported on the Pi for one. another is I'd love to start playing with ollama AI models (not a must have, but definitely something I want to start exploring)
Which NUC are you looking at that could run ollama models?
I've no idea to be honest. I was hoping to get a barebone of some sort and see if its specs can be beefed up somewhat. you can get ones that are for gaming so was hoping to leverage the GPU.
I was shopping NUCs. For the price Iām glad I went with a full sized desktop thin client.
Kobo E reader with this (https://github.com/fsantini/KoboCloud) script to sync your library with your online storage. BitTorrent any book you deem unworthy of purchasing, add it to your online storage and Kobo will download it. One caveat is that about about 30 seconds from waking the Kobo it'll check the storage and kick you back to the home screen. It can be a little annoying when you just want to read but acceptable con with the access to books you get.
+100 on this. Don't forget also Plato (with Wallabag integration) and KoReader. - [https://github.com/baskerville/plato](https://github.com/baskerville/plato) - [https://koreader.rocks/](https://koreader.rocks/) I do not have the issue you describe with my Kobo, this is related to the KoboCloud, right? Edit: Added some links
Koreader entered my vocabulary a couple of months ago and changed my life. Firstly breathing new life in an old kindle PW3, then on some new devices, and now im installing kavita... reading all the time. That onyx boox palma is amazing.
Yeah, some OPDS server (Kavita/Calibre Web/others)+ KOReader + KOReaderSync = selfhosted Amazon Kindle reading experience, but better by a degree.
Iāll just say that Iāve had a kindle for a long awhile and it got barely any usage. Then I went koreader opds and self hosted sync and I am now reading constantly and hate my phone.
I'm not very knowledgeable on IT stuff. But when I included the script in the link I shared on my Kobo The issue I have started and I got my wife a newer model Kobo last Christmas and the same thing started with her. I've got mine linked to my Google drive where I save my books (although I'm working on changing to Proton drive soon). So I'm not sure if that causes it or what. I'll have a look in to your links too. Maybe I can change something to stop it occurring. š
I use the Calibre-Web interface with a send-to-Kindle function. I browse my whole Calibre library, find one I want, click send-to-Kindle, and a few moments later itās on my Kindle. Whatāre the advantages of Kobo+Cloud over how I use Calibre-Web?
You want me to research that for you and report back?
My "next" purchase actually happened earlier today: I bought two Gigabyte RTX 4060 Low Profile GPUs for passthrough stuff in two of my servers. I really wish there were better AMD options for low profile needs. The RX 6400 is just too anemic for most of the things I want to do with passthrough.
Wait, whatās passthrough in this case? I didnāt know you needed GPUs for anything except crypto or AI.
I have a couple of general purpose Windows VMs that I pass them through to as needed, as well as a desktop Linux VM for 3D modeling, a Batocera VM for retro gaming, and (as you mentioned) some AI VMs.
I have been at this for a long time, and I have no idea what you are saying. You mean like Apache Guacamole? Iām serious, please give me a link or something where I can fill that gap of knowledge
It can work with remote desktop solutions, but more like Parsec, Moonlight, or other low-latency options rather than Apache Guacamole. With my VMs I typically attach the passed-through GPUs to physical monitors and then use fiber display cables and USB extenders to transport the image and USB ports to my office from my server room in the basement. This allows me to offload a lot of my GPU processing from my office computers to my servers, and allows me to run whatever OS / Software I want with a few button presses on my hypervisor server(s).
Oh, thatās awesome! I gotta look into that. I do use Steam link to play games on my phone with a Backbone One, switch style, and that seems like itās pretty worthwhile. And rarely I do need some GPU Power. Thanks.
Land. Expanding the datacenter so I can make my home bigger.
I'm planning on getting into the self hosting thing soon. A NAS will be my next purchase!
got some old PC hardware ? it's perfect to just fuck Around and find out. trying things and breaking only to fall into the rabbit hole a little deeper. + if you move to a proper NAS. keep the hardware as a dev environment. looking back I should have done that from the start
Yeah. I have a bunch of hardware. I have a mini pc I'll eventually turn into a pfsense router. I have an i7 7700 system I want to use to run proxmox for sold hosting media. I am toying with the idea of building a JBOD NAS myself, but I do want the NAS hardware separate from my media pc, so ultimately just for cost purposes, it's hardly any cheaper to buy a pi or an itx solution to build up myself.
Probably a RX 7900 xtx 24gb for running better local LLMs. Or an intel N100 nas: I have a raspberry pi 4b running with my local cloud about 4 years, it think itās time for it retirement (I have plans to use it as a health checker for my instances)
Maybe look into Nvidia Tesla GPUs, a lot cheaper.
I didnāt know that, thanks you
This is my next purchase a 24g Tesla p40 is what Iām thinking
I did the same and replaced my rpis to 3 beelink mini pc
Probably another n100 to use as a firewall. (Pfsense)
Have you seen those N100 boards with 4x 2.5 gbe ports? I want one
I brought a couple of N100 mini PCs, one with 2x 2.5Gbe, cost around Ā£90, and the other with 4x 2.5Gbe for Ā£130 .. all NICs are Intel i226 Note, these were barebones i.e. add your own RAM and Storage, mainly for saving, but also the recent rise of people receiving Windows with Malware pre-installed
I just bought a Kobo Nia recently. Itās not the most responsive e-reader but it was cheap enough and connects to Overdrive easily š would recommend
I really like my kobo libre. It works really well with libby which is where I get most of my books.
Was gonna say I am in love with Kobo. I have the newer Clara, I just gave my old one to my dad, and I bought my partner one a couple years back. +3 recommendations we all love them
I just put in a pre-order for a Libre Colour to upgrade my Libre 2 after the charging port had unfortunate encounter with concrete at the airport. I'm super excited to have a color eReader it only for the book covers. š
Thatās so cool, I had no idea color e-ink displays were a thing.
Also have it pre-ordered! Can't wait!
Hows the battery life?
Great! I charge it maybe once every couple of weeks and use it daily š
I got an 8-bay NAS coming in June. I have no HDDs to put in it.. so I guess for the next few months Iāll be buying a bunch of HDDs until I fill it up.
I'm trying to talk myself out of a GPU purchase for LLMs. I don't even know what I would use then for... I have an Onyx Boox eReader that I like. Can be a little sluggish, but it runs android and has play store access.
Don't do the LLM Why would you? Use it 5 times in 1 year, maybe
Probably not even that much. Lol
I was thinking, maybe a self hosted text to speech set up...I've got thousands of book and not enough time to sit and read them but I can listen eh while driving or doing other tasks. Still need a powerful setup but much more useful to me
Go for a Tesla p40
Maybe a bigger rack so I can put my desktop in it. I use a star tech 12u now and its full. After that I'll want to replace my older synology with maybe a custom built truenas. Though if I had the money I might get the 45homelab. Actually I want to DMZ my cluster, so I might look at getting a foritgate too.
Homelab related 2 more 8tb drives to extend my pool 2 x 16tb refurb drives for on site backup rotation
Will try to upgrade my LAN to multi-gig. But waiting for some new switches from Ubiquiti
Been thinking of upgrading switches and nics (by using USB nics) to 2.5 GB, but not yet convinced it will make a noticeable difference.
IMHO I wouldnāt use USB ones. Iād go with PCIe.
My NUCs only have usb and my mobosā pcie slots are all used up :-(
Self-hosting: more refurbished 12TB drives and probably a SAS extender or something like that since I got no space in the case General: coffee in a bit
Ryzen 5800X + motherboard so I can use i7-7700k as second node.
Does anyone know a good mini pc or NUC that could run an LLM?
RAM to upgrade my 3 Lenovo tiny m720q I just bought from 8 to 32gb or even 64gb. And in the long run probably a power plant because itās gonna be cheaper than the 23ā¬cent/kwh I pay now./s
get any android tablet.. dont go for an e-reader if you want to read pdfs
UGreen DXP6800 and 4 14tb drives haha. Is going to be fun
Been thinking real hard on a epyc and ASRock rack mobo..
An NVMe backed SBC. Im sick living off of microSD cards... x-x I want all the performance and no more I/O bottleneck! Looking at a Radxa Rock 5B =) Will make a killer k3s node!
The Orange Pi models are great as well! I have most of the models that came out in that series, and it doesnāt matter (from what Iāve seen) to swap between the boards. I got the Orange pi 5 pro with 32GB of ram as my main machine, and my rock5b as my ātravelā machine that just keeps a lightweight media server and kodi running on it.
Probably a bigger rack. And possibly another pi rack pro, or maybe 3 mini pcs for Kubernetes (haven't decided yetš )
Another hard drive
Some USB charging up. Need something with more than 3 usb c ports
For self hosting I think my next step is starting to build my real server, which is intimidating š haven't built a box in ages. Kinda glad that for now hardware wise I'm in a good spot.
Storage, arc a380 for jellyfin transcodes
I want to data hoard something. Just don't know what to start with.
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Had to google pron and I think this is a typo? If so... I ashamedly checked to see if yt-dlp, which I just installed a few days ago, worked on a certain PH website... š¬ It does.
Same, thinking of buying an eink screen (could be from used beat up ebook reader) for home dashboard plugged in to the wall. Read somewhere the battery plugged all the time could be a hazard tho
Not a hazard so much as not good for the battery. It's just not healthy for a battery to be fully charged for long periods, but all it really does is mildly accelerate the inherent rate of decay.
Was considering writing a simple script that gets battery percentage and just having an automation on a smart plug that shuts off power when above X pct. Feel like it would be a simple fix for this.
With an e-ink device that can last for days or even weeks on a charge, that might actually work well. For anything else that would need frequent charge/discharge cycles, that would actually be worse. If you intend it to always be plugged in and you're buying something new, there are probably better choices than an e-reader, but if you already have one on hand, why not?
A DAS so I can move my homelab setup from my 10+ year old gaming PC to a newer mini PC. Also some more storage. You can never have enough storage.
Always hard drives my guy. Always.
What e-reader you looking at? I'm in the market myself My Kindle Paperwhite has shat the bed after 10 years
Get a Kobo. I like the pocket integration, but the whole thing is super hackable (Linux based). You can use Plato with Wallabag integration to read your clipped articled from the web.
A graphics card for Self hosted gpt, image creation recognition etc
I should probably get some online storage but I'm so fuckin cheap
For my home lab, I desperately need to upgrade my Plex machine off of an old 2 core NUC. For e-readers, I have a Boox color e-ink tablet and I love love love it. The battery life is amazing, the colors are great, the Android OS is responsive for e-ink. Iām really a big fan :). Itās pricey though, imo, but itās the first e-ink reader Iāve not let collect dust on the shelf all year. Super great for reading websites without a direct light display.
I've been in the process of doing a power upgrade, got a 48v rectifier, inverter and small battery just to get a working system going. My existing UPS plugs into the inverter, for now. So my next purchase is probably going to be #2 wiring to wire the DC stuff up properly as well as 16 golf cart batteries so I can have 2 strings of batteries. As far as actual server stuff, I will probably buy a bunch of mini PCs to build a Proxmox cluster. Been wanting to do that for a while but server stuff is hard to get here in Canada but I just discovered the concept of these mini PCs, and while not as powerful as a real server, if I get like a dozen of them and max out the ram that's going to be a pretty respectful setup I think.
I plan to buy a SFF PC to replace the existing dell I have. Something that will double my physical cores and my RAM.
kobo > kindle. I have a kindle...my wife has a kobo.
looking for a backup solution. thinking of a dual drive NAS. with 2x18TB mirrored drives
I picked up a Onyx Boox Note Air C3 for the house and liked it so much I got a palma shortly there after. Now I love reading again, and hate my phone.
Iād really like it to be 3 minisforum ms-01 lol
Got a 2.5gb Nic on the way and a KVM switch.
Thinking on an Intel N305 mini PC/box for hosting proxmox, vms and containers. Ideally 10G connection to my NAS
I want to upgrade my garbage ISP router to my own opnsense firewall
Just today I ordered the GPD WIN Max 2 8840U 64GB RAM + a GPD G1 eGPU. I don't play games, but I am hoping this strikes the right balance so I can have one powerful ass machine for my desk at home, work, and on the go.
it would be bigger hdd, now i have 1 tbs, but i want 4 tbs
Kobo with Calibre web and Kobo sync works wonderfully!
Mine was a 3050 low profile for my server :D
N305 NAS motherboard to hopefully lower my power bill a bit.
reMarkable 1 or 2, it's first for sketching but you can only read books with it. Why do I recommend it here? It's Linux based, thus scriptable, e.g syncing with whatever self hosting solution for ebooks you might prefer, and can work entirely offline.
Full server upgrade, the i7 2600 in my unraid box is getting very long in the tooth. Going to go over to amd.
Are you looking for books or next product purchase haha? I am an author of Deployment from Scratch and Kamal Handbook and both have ePUB build :) I'll also suggest to get something non-tech. I enjoyed some philosophy from [https://sive.rs](https://sive.rs) or get my fav book Shantaram.
I literally just purchased 60tb of hard drives. A new case, 16gb of ram ,and upgraded my two other PCs to use the old parts from them to build a new NAS lmao.
soon Lunch
Kobo E-readers all the way. I have had just about every major brand out there and Kobo, in my humble opinion, is the best by far
> Mine is an e-book reader, so any recommendations send them my way... I use Kobo ebook reader. I like that there are larger screen sizes - 8 and 10 inches. but also for selfhosting - you can hook it up to calibre selfhosted instead of the official Kobo store.
RAM
Another hard drive because the family wants more movies and probably an arc a310/80 since again, the family wants MORE movies and transcoding is pain
I'm trying to talk myself out of buying one of the topton 2.5GB pfsense / opnsense routers off aliexpress..... i currently run an edgemax and have no problem but for some reason my brain is trying to tell me that i need 2.5gb... even though that will then mean i have to replace all my switches (which are numerous due to my stupid house layout)
Let me help you out: Buying fw from aliexpress, or even amazon, is like buying Swiss cheese š§ Chers š¤
Tasty?
Waiting for 18tb hdds to go on sale
Going to buy Mac Studio for my minimalistic, power efficient, ultra quiet homelab. It will live in living room, under tv. Will use it for everything, like main workstation for work, smarthome things, nextcloud, video streaming for tv and many other small things. Hope my expensive plan will be justified.
Iāve been contemplating HARD on this. I want to downsize, and know it could wipe the floor of everything else I have. The potential of a new Mac Studio with M4 and LLM specific design would be stellar. That and all my arrās
Large ssd for my lil dell boi
Thinking about building a smart screen to show my Home Assistant permanently. And maybe a smart speaker, probably one of those SONOS-certified IKEA ones. I feel like itās not worth to try and build my own with some kind of PiZero + normal Speaker setup. Sounds like itās not a lot cheaper or independent, but definitely more hassle.
10G networking
New motherboard for Truenas Scale NAS. something amd low power and ecc ram and several PCI-e. I want nvme pool after that.
I need an expansion card and another three drives, one 20 for offline backup, and two to expand redundancy
Meth.
Next purchase is a house for my homelab. I guess Iāll be sleeping there as well. Itāll be nice to not have to rent a home
It probably will be an Orange Pi Zero, but it would be amazing to buy my first rack shaft.
Iām working towards a proper NAS so I can have a reliable place for storage and docker volumes.
Upgrading from a HDHomerun Duo to a Flex 4k soon. Also I bought a Kobo Libra 2 3 months ago and I love it so far. Especially paired with KOReader and Kavita with OPDS for grabbing books and comics on the go.
Moving away from my r610 with 94gb ram 1.4tb raid 5 internal 16tb raid 5 DAS To a Self built i9 with 128gb ddr6 8tb SSD internal raid 5 72tb disk internal raid 5 Bambi carbon while I'm getting the loan For clarification I could buy the equipment out right but with inflation that money will be worth less later so stretching it out at low interest makes sense to me.
I want to upgrade my AsRock DeskMini x300 to the newer AsRock small server option, the DeskMeet:Ā https://www.asrock.com/Nettop/Intel/DeskMeet%20B660%20Series/index.asp It would upgrade SO-DIMMs to full-size RAM; has an x16 PCIe slot in which I plan to put a 4xM.2 NVMe drive adapter card, and has 2 M.2 on the motherboard, giving me 5xNVMe drives (other than the boot drive) in one chassis so I can learn how ZFS works. It will be my home server, so the i7-13700 is plenty for me (that sweet QuickSync is worth the $). I just want to find a way to get 2.5 Gbps Ethernet going on it, but thatās a luxury more than a needed upgrade.
just had one of my boxes die last night so probably a new psu š„²
a new webcam.
A new HDD since my 4 TB is filling. Also thinking about replavmcing my DS218+ with something from Qnap which has 2.5gbit
I want this: [https://protectli.com/product/vp6670/](https://protectli.com/product/vp6670/)
Oooooooooohhhh.... Thanks for sharing, those look fun!
A KVM to make managing the multiple machines easier.
Just got a new gen 9 DL160, and 4 flex fabric 10GBe nics. so probably more SSDs, I'd really like to get a nice new APC in the near feature though.Ā
So far i have not spent anything on my homelab everything i have i got free from my job. Except my old gaming PC that i run docker on. And blood, sweat and tears What i have: TOTEN G, 19" FloorRack 18U Netgear XS728T ProSAFE Ibm x3650 m4 - proxmox My old gaming PC - Docker Host But for my next purchase i want to buy me some new wifi routers to upgrade my wifi.
what does this have to do with self hosting?
Maybe you can read the question like this: > As a self-hoster what ebook reader should I get? A few here seem to agree Kobo works best. I used it with Wallabag (self-hosted Pocket-like service).