I use Alpine Linux for all my dockers, small and fast.

Thats what I did when win 7 support was ending, been very happy and there’s no way I’m going back to Windows.

Nope, you have to do the bypass

2.5" disks are SMR, you don’t want that in a raid.

Unless you have use case for that much horsepower I would suggest, like others here, buy a mini PC as a start and if you need more down the line buy a second one. They are cheap, fairly quiet and don’t use much power.

No not really, even with a couple of hundred employees it would be a lot for that.

Does zoom do a ton more than the meeting app since they have 7500 employees?

It’s called power supply idle control, worth a test.

There is an issue with ryzen and certain PSUs that when it goes to idle it pulls so little power that the psu thinks it’s off and kills the power, it can appear as a hang. there should be an option in the bios to change it to “typical power” or named something similar.

If I where you I would just buy a regular case that can fit a decent amount of HDDs like a fractal define 7 or one of its older versions and transplant your current computer into that with some new drives. 100tb is 5 20tb drives so you don’t need that many.

USB enclosures are not a great way to handle storage as USB tends to be unreliable.

I agree but many use it as if it’s actual power consumption

Afaik TDP isn’t power consumption, it’s more input to the manufacturers of the coolers and it’s not calculated the same between AMD and Intel.

I think you’re missing the point of my comment.

This study doesn’t show that red meat causes diabetes, an epi study can’t show causation, there could be 1000s of reasons why the people in the data developed diabetes which is why these types of studies are mostly meaningless (except to find new areas to be studied further with for example clinical trials)and shouldn’t be used to form guidelines for diet.

Another epidemiology study on diet, imo a waste of time and money. We should be doing proper clinical trials so we can see actual causation, but no they are too difficult or expensive so we waste it on these types of studies over and over again.

ok, but it’s still once a year and unless it’s a castle with 43 rooms it can’t be that much of a hassle 😀

Did you actually save any money, buying new sensors for £8-10 each so you don’t have to replace a battery once a year for £1.

You also have beelink that makes these small PCs

Around 40C

I have a 12 drive setup in a define 7 (not xl) and it’s working fine. As long as I keep the filters decently clean from dust the temps are fine.

Same, cant stand Samsung’s bloated software not that pixel is perfect in this regard but miles better.