I usually just yolo and throw them into the pool but my last drive I just did a long SMART test and it came up clean so into the pool it went.

One can also do a badblocks run if you don’t mind waiting the extra time to do so and can understand the logs.

you need to install samba and setup a share on the linux box first.

this is more suited for r/linux4noobs.

Too old and power hungry at this point. Plus the raid controllers of that generation only support up to 2tb.

Aim for at least a T320 or R320.

just a sas controller, everything else works as usual.

Nah, the virtual kvm in the remote management on them doesn’t work anymore. Go for a Rx20 series or newer. Those have a html5 based kvm.

I wouldn’t trust WD with any of their lineups right now. it doesn’t matter which line is still good, treat it all as bad till they fix it.

as far as I can tell, it looks like a standard hib with switchable power to the ports. I have a couple anker hubs that do that. what’s special about this one other than it has a led display in a fancy enclosure?

I do… well, xubuntu but I rarely ever use the gui. it’s only there if I need it and lately it barely works so yay. I primarily access it over ssh anyway and manage everything in docker.

I do have a proxmox box though. didn’t care for truenas. the proxmox box just runs nextcloud and syncthing in their own containers.

I’ve never had to install software to use external media…

you can host on a raspberry pi.

the question shouldn’t be can you host, it should be about what you want to host. there’s tons of things one can host. see the links in the sidebar of this sub’s feed page.

That’s a spare PC? I’m jelly.

You can fit lots of stuff in 4gb of ram. Just pile on services till it starts running low.