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Your favourite piece of selfhosting - Part 1 - Operating System (sopuli.xyz)
submitted 1 year ago by theorangeninja@sopuli.xyz to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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Hello everyone,

I am about to renovate my selfhosting setup (software wise). And then thought about how I could help my favourite lemmy community become more active. Since I am still learning many things and am far away from being a sysadmin I don't (just) want tell my point of view but thought about a series of posts:

Your favourite piece of selfhosting

I thought about asking everyone of you for your favourite piece of software for a specific use case. But we have to start at the bottom:

Operating systems and/or type 1 hypervisors

You don't have to be an expert or a professional. You don't even have to be using it. Tell us about your thoughts about one piece of software. Why would you want to try it out? Did you try it out already? What worked great? What didn't? Where are you stuck right now? What are your next steps? Why do you think it is the best tool for this job? Is it aimed at beginners or veterans?

I am eager to hear about your thoughts and stories in the comments!

And please also give me feedback to this idea in general.

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[โ€“] cheesemoo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Damn, 38 disks! How do you connect them all? Some kind of server hardware?

Curious because I'm currently using all 6 SATA ports on an old consumer motherboard and not sure how I'll be able to expand my storage capacity. The best option I've seen so far would probably be adding PCIe SATA controller(s), but I can't imagine having enough PCIe slots to reach 38 disks that way! Wondering if there's another option I haven't seen yet.

[โ€“] brygphilomena@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

Yep. It's a 4u super micro chassis with the associated backplanes.

I had some servers left over from work. It's set up to also take jbod cards with mini-sas to expand into additional shelf's if I need that.

My setup really isn't much of an entry setup. It's similar to this: https://store.supermicro.com/us_en/4u-superstorage-ssg-641e-e1cr36h.html