Aren’t you then hosting an SMTP source and relay?

Why is this better than any other service mentioned.

What’s the difference?

Critical…technically no. Shutting down your NAS, putting in a replacement, and waiting for the disk array to come back online is trade-off.

Nothing wrong with building a box. You probably won’t be able to build something in this form factor and features though.

Well it’s an APU, so it’s running pretty much everything. Running any normal network services pretty much means it’s in use.

In the context of having a normal light bulb back in the day on 24/7, it’s still more efficient, but there are other options out there than use much less power is all I was saying. If you’re heavily transcoding, I don’t think it matters at all.

Eh, at it’s minimum configuration. I run two 5500u in similar setups that are almost always at 30W+ with pstate in its epp setup. In the scheme of things, not that much I suppose, but I run a couple little n100’s as well that almost max out at 15W, and my Synology units have these crappy Marvell chips that use less than 5W. The 5500’s are vastly more capable, but y’know…it’s all subjective to the user.

Looking through some of the notes there, some things to consider:

• Win11 is pre installed (probably baked into the price)
• Drive bays are note hot swappable
• It’s Ryzen 7, so definitely not a low power device

The biggest question mark there is kernel driver compatibility if you’re running a Linux distro. I’d check around. There are also other vendors with similar form factors and price that DO have hot swappable drives. Maybe something to consider.

Depends on what you need it for. If it’s just a NAS with a few containers, more than enough. I’ve not heard anything bad about the brand, and I know more than a few people with them.

You could definitely find your questions answered in the docs at the very least. Couldn’t hurt to have a look.

Yup. There’s some confusion about what a mail server’s purpose is here.

Super easy things you can do as exercises and take no serious resources:

• build a static site and host it locally
• host your music collection
• host your video collection
• setup the *arr stack
• setup home assistant for your dorm room

I would honestly run network services closest to the OS to avoid any issues. If it goes away, there ya go. If not, start digging at Samba+Docker+ZFS config options.

You’ve probably got a filesystem flag off somewhere in this chain of mounts. It sounds like the handoff from smb to filesystem has an issue.

Possibly similar: https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/issues/14391

Add a healthcheck to test the mount directory. If it’s deemed unhealthy, the container should restart until it passes. If your NFS mount is automounting properly, you should fix that though.

You pretty much just need an Intern et connection though it would be best if it was unmetered. It doesn’t take much as far as resources go to host music. You could also think about just syncing playlists to your mobile device. Lots of people forget about that.

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There’s a law for Open Source projects with no country governance? Holy shit. News to me.

Lolbye

I pointed them right to the problem. Please explain how that isn’t helping?

If I’m saying this, and the founders and mainters of the Linux Kernel agree, it really seems like I’m not wrong here.

Might be time reevaluate some stuff.