[–] 5 points 1 week ago (1 child)

Exact same. Mine had also just renewed for two years. I cancelled the renewal but hoped sometime in the last two years things would have improved. I'll be losing that in January along with the more than half a tb of drive space I had racked up for being a long time customer.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    If you don't require your email to be encrypted (since that ends once you send something) I switched to Fastmail last year for email, calendar, and contacts and it's been night and day with how well it works with third party options.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago

    If you threat model doesn't actually require having your emails encrypted (since that only exists until you send it) I switched from Proton to Fastmail and I have really enjoyed the service. It's been night and day getting it to work with third party options.

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    Cross posted from https://piefed.social/c/selfhosted/p/1869119/advice-on-swapping-from-synology-to-a-ugreen

    I've been using a two-bay Synology nas for the last couple of years with 2x 8TB drives and a stupidly large media collection. I recently acquired a four-bay ugreen nas but don't have any drives for it yet because fuck you AI.

    Since I need to have all the same drive size for raid, I was thinking of getting larger disks and taking out a second mortgage. Like start with 2x 12TB and some day add two more. If I do that, I'll have 2x 8TB that wouldn't be useful without keeping the Synology running, and I don't really need both.

    The other idea was buying two more 8TB for the new nas, copying the media over, and then moving the two over to make four and decommission the Synology.

    I am not well versed in raid, so there easily could be something I'm not considering or a way I should do this to make my life easier.

    Also, any advice on how one normally keeps backups with such a large amount of data. I know raid ≠ backup, but right now I'm just praying to the tech gods that the disks keep spinning. I know others out there have large media collections… what do you do?

     

    I've been using a two-bay Synology nas for the last couple of years with 2x 8TB drives and a stupidly large media collection. I recently acquired a four-bay ugreen nas but don't have any drives for it yet because fuck you AI.

    Since I need to have all the same drive size for raid, I was thinking of getting larger disks and taking out a second mortgage. Like start with 2x 12TB and some day add two more. If I do that, I'll have 2x 8TB that wouldn't be useful without keeping the Synology running, and I don't really need both.

    The other idea was buying two more 8TB for the new nas, copying the media over, and then moving the two over to make four and decommission the Synology.

    I am not well versed in raid, so there easily could be something I'm not considering or a way I should do this to make my life easier.

    Also, any advice on how one normally keeps backups with such a large amount of data. I know raid ≠ backup, but right now I'm just praying to the tech gods that the disks keep spinning. I know others out there have large media collections… what do you do?

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