YouTube has become a bit of a dilemma for many people like myself who enjoy music and video edits with said music; We love supporting artists we enjoy along with the video edits. But, with companies locking down on content, these videos and channels are going offline suddenly and often without warning. I’ve taken to downloading backups of these as often as possible. With a little help from r/datahoarding, I now have a great set up that does this with minimal user intervention.
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After spending some time troubleshooting this morning, I finally came across this gem hidden in the mail log: Clamav was having issues scanning emails, causing them to reject and delay.
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Most complicated home network ever…ever.
A little background:
I’ve been building and tinkering with computers since I was about 12, when I got my own laptop and desktop both from garage sales and began swapping parts, doing OS upgrades from floppy disks and doing whatever I could to tinker with them. Fast forward almost two decades, and I’m still at but on a much larger scale.
Latest Computer build: RAID fileserver and media center
Had the idea in my head for a while now about doing a fileserver build to put all my media in one place. This includes years of movies, music and TV shows along with about 100GB of music rips. The goals of this were pretty simple:
- Have some form of redundancy, most likely in a RAID 1 or RAID 5 format
- Have enough horsepower to stream movies/videos on the fly, including conversions
- Have enough storage for all my current collection (~1.5TB) and future
At this point, I had some extra components lying around and got a sweet deal on an ASUS 990X motherboard and a set of 6 hard drives. Let’s get to the specs:
- ASUS 990X Sabertooth motherboard
- Corsaid 500W PSU
- Mushkin 240GB SSD
- (6) 750GB WD Black hard drives
- AMD 3.5GHz 8-Core CPU
- Hyper 212 Evo CPU cooler
- AMD 7770 GPU card with 2GB GDDR5 RAM
- Rosewill Stealth tower
- (2) Inline SATA power cords
- (6) 90 Degree SATA cables
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