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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • I was an AirVPN user for a number of years until Mullvad came around. I switched to Mullvad and stuck with them for a few years. However, now that Mullvad has gotten rid of port forwarding, I have since moved back to AirVPN.

    The performance has been solid with all the servers I have used, even with multiple tunnels open. My only complaint is that the IPs on the servers I use are unfortunately blacklisted on quite a number of sites. Other than that, I am satisfied.




  • Perfect! I had to use it when I was updating my cache drive and reorganizing download data across a few drives to add a new one. It took hours and hours, but once it was done, all the data ended up in the right places, and when I relaunched my dockers, everything worked without a hitch.

    Just remember to turn off any services like VMs, dockers, or movers before using it. It’s much simpler that way since live data won’t be passing through while you’re moving it.


  • LSI cards are indeed a boon for servers with massive amounts of drives, like yours. Hopefully, you can get it working, and once you have it set up, everything should interconnect seamlessly.

    If needed, you can also consider consolidating your data using unBALANCE. This way, you can distribute some data to the larger drives and potentially remove smaller, older drives that are on their way out or causing unnecessary overhead, which would free up space and optimize resources in your build.


  • Like you, I had old retired server hardware for Unraid earlier this year that I used for many years, and it worked just fine. However, I decided to modernize my setup and retire the old hardware. I gave it to an enthusiast friend of mine to do whatever he pleases with it.

    I wouldn’t say the hardware you have now is a complete waste. Instead, it provides a good platform for continuous learning. Is it overkill? Perhaps, but it’s not necessarily a bad thing either.

    In my server, I have 11 disks and one cache drive. The majority of those drives host all my media and files, while three of them are dedicated to downloads and random stuff that I don’t organize too well but still keep around. It may not be the tidiest setup, but it works for me. Every six months or so, when I’m bored and want to try something new and learn, I streamline it. I also don’t use parity because I like to live dangerously!