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The problem is it is a niche of a niche market. If they make a case that small your cooling options are extremely limited for the cpu as well and thus limiting the hardware you can put in it.

Like I mentioned, of you wanted something as compact as the synology, that is your only option. If you are willing to go a bit larger those other cases are the next best bet. No DIY case will match the size of the synology.

Unraid doesn't fully utilize the e cores from what I remember and they will just be additional ones without hyper threading to it. Depending on what the windows vm is going to be expected to do and if you want to isolate those cores or not. If it isn't much the 12400 would be fine. If it is going to be high work load or you are isolating, go faster.

Downloading torrents would be sketchy yes. Just with any system, it is a secure as you make it. I like the snapshot automation that truenas offers. That way if I do get hit with ransomware, shutdown everything and clear out the source of the attack and then in truenas revert the snapshot before it happened and my data is back.

These are probably the closest options you will find. With DIY, the hardware won't fit in the tiny space that synology and the like they use. If you op is looking for more powerful hardware than what synology offers maybe look at the one from ugreen. Their 6 bay offers a core i5 cpu and support for 64gb ram. As well as 2 nvme as well. Their software is still a work in progress but you can install your own os in it as well. I pre-ordered one myself and plan to try ugreens os and if it doesn't work how I would like, I will put truenas on it and check the state of ugos after a year.

Sounds like a scam to me. Try contacting their support if you can. If not I hope the purchase was on a credit card and you can try contacting your card issuer for a charge back.

It's been since 2019 when it was released. I wouldn't hold your breath with nvidia creating another one soon sadly.

I second that. I have a fair amount of content that is 1080p and the upscale on the shield is pretty good. Looks almost as good as true 4k content and can really only tell the difference in high movement.

I forgot about this. This could be a good option and setting up next cloud aio is pretty easy if you have a domain you can use it with.

I would try using this site to scan those ports to make sure they are actually open. It is possible that they are blocked by something else or your isp. https://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2

Just as an fyi, for parsec to work well, you will need to pass through a GPU to your vm. Other than that I haven't found anything better that provides low latency connection to remote machines.

Based on your testing then, it sounds like that isn't an option either. Just generate a secure password to provide them. They would also need to trust you since you are housing their data anyway. So trust would be implied by them accepting your offer to host the storage.

Yeah I tried it as well. It is very picky about what you run it on and how you run it. I would recommend against it as well.

Oh yeah. I remember running wd raptor drives in raid 0 before ssds were a thing and you could cook an egg on those things without airflow.

I agree. It wouldn't even be noticeable in the 15 bay storinator hl-15 maybe in the massive one though but most home labs aren't going to be using that.

Ah gotcha. Yeah finding older firmware for these things is like a needle in a hay stack.

It might be something with it's configuration. Have you tried resetting it's bios? Are you using it's raid or something like truenas? If you are using software raid, you probably need to flash it to IT mode.

With advancements I don't think it is needed as much as it was back in like 2017. It is more expensive to use helium so they have inventive to not use it when they can. They were able to get better density with using helium due to the lower turbulence vs the air usage. There was a blog article about it from western digital a while back.

I think the main reason they use helium is to increase density on the platter and less air resistance. The only difference better the two options when both are available is probably just a minor decrease in power consumption I think.

Yup. That is one thing it allows and does well that truenas and others don't. Really just depends on your use case.

You mean snapraid right? I think that treats disk management similar to unraid. I haven't used it so not sure how ui and ease of setup is. I personally haven't preferred that style of raid as you only get single disk speed. But if it is mainly just file storage for media, it will be fine. I have been happy with truenas. But that software is supported but it's enterprise customers. I don't think the price for unraid is unreasonable given the advancements they made in the product and they don't have businesses to support a free version. Software development and upkeep tasks a not insignificant amount of money.

Yes that's a good price. I haven't seen those less than 230.

Those drives would be solid. Currently I am using the 8tb versions of those in mine for about a year now.

Oh and you can find out more about wdda here https://www.westerndigital.com/solutions/device-analytics

That is their enhanced smart drive monitoring. You can still rely on smart though. Those might be fine I haven't used many toshiba hdds lately just ssds. And those have been hit or miss.