Thank you for pushing me into the rabbit hole. But gluetun already has a socks proxy server built in, if I read that correctly on their github.

This sounds very interesting. I always wondered if I could use a paid VPN together with Tailscale or Netbird. But I’m not sure I understood how you set this up. And what are Android private spaces?

Okay and what about longevity of the drives? That should just depend on the number of writes, right?

But an M.2 is usually more expensive than a normal 2.5" SSD. Is it better to boot from a M.2 HAT than from USB?

What about enclosures from Sabrent? That should be a reliable manufacturer, no?

Is this command to check the health of the SSD/drive in general?

Thank you, I think I will go with this and a SSD from crucial to start off and then add some HDDs for backup and NAS. Do you think this kind of enclosure is reliable enough for a NAS? And is there enough airflow if you add two 3.5" HDDs together in the dock station?

Thank you very much, this helped way more than the other comment!

Happy cake day!

I heard it’s not so good practice to buy used drives so I will not do that for now but thanks for the second part I will consider that!

I stumbled upon the Crucial BX, do you think that one is not reliable enough? Because I think I use that in my PC atm and it runs fine. But it’s not a home server so there is probably less load on this one.

For example? Kingston, Crucial?

Could you elaborate?

What does YMMV mean? And yeah sure, I just want to run the OS on the SSD and a few containers but the rest on HDDs and also backups on other HDDs.

Are you using SATA to USB adapters? If yes, which one work well?

Thank you very much, you saved me money and hassle!

Hello, sorry to bother again but I have a question. Do you think adding a M.2 card with six SATA3 connectors to a Lenovo ThinkCentre M910q would work? I found a M910q for 50 bucks, quite cheap I’d say and the expansion card is around 30 bucks.

There’s also Netbird as an open source alternative to Tailscale. @[email protected]

Username checks out.

Thank you very much! Can you link to a noob-friendly guide for all the features Netbird offers?