*|FNAME|*Feb 21

New config, who dis?

After some consideration, Indecided to move my instance VMs back to the local drive (I had relocated them to a network share on my NAS, to take advantage of the RAID 0 over there), but the added latency, coupled with the noise of the nightly backups waking me up at 0200 made me decide to move them back—the drives in my NAS sound like popcorn makers. 😆

As an aside, anyone have any recommendations for a vibration-isolation pad I can put under my Synology to cut down on the noise?

#SelfHosting #SelfHosted

Show threadDJ Majumdar
@crispius Vibration pads help, but the real move might be cheap SSDs - prices keep falling and they're silent. I went with BTRFS RAID 10 mixing SSDs and platters, which lets you swap drives in gradually as budget allows. Less spinning rust = less noise, better latency, and no 0200 wake-up calls.
Feb 21 at 6:15pmWeb
Show thread*|FNAME|*Feb 21

@deepjoy
Moving the 2x10TB drives to SSD is a bit cost-prohibitive at this point.

What I did do was move the NAS out of a little open cubby that it was sitting in. I think that was acting a bit like an amphitheater.