No. I initially thought of publishing the files. But there are some issues with the design I didn’t fix and the whole thing is built around the NanoPi M4V2, which I don’t think you can buy anymore.

I have enough people I dislike and disagree with IRL, I will have all my opinions confirmed when I’m browsing online, thankyouverymuch. /s

The seller mentions the drives are fully tested, but does not offer a warranty, aside from the Ebay 30-day return policy.

I left a comment to the Ebay seller and asked the same question, but I did not get a reply.

What do you use for the bit-by-bit test and how long does it take (depending on disk size) ? I have read about badblocks and that it could take an entire week to test one drive of 12TB, I didn’t have the patient to do that. The long SMART test already took nearly 20 hours in my case.

Thank you

Thank you ! It was a cool design project, but I ended up no publishing the design as it is quite difficult to assemble and work with. here are a couple more photos:

The black box with white front and blue LED lights, yes. I designed and built it myself. The case is made of laser-cuted plexiglass and 3D printed parts. The front plate is PLA, internals are PETG. It’s build around an ARM Single-Board Computer: NanoPi M4V2 with a SATA extension hat.

In a previous post, some were recommending me to use helium-sealed drives for lower noise. The disks I’ve bought are helium-sealed, but they are definitely a little louder at 7200rpm than 5400rpm drives. It’s still acceptable.

I love jellyfin, it’s great ! I haven’t played with Plex much to be honest, so I can’t really compare

My media collection is not backed-up, expect for the spare disks I have now. My photos and documents are encrypted weekly and sent to pCloud. They are also synchronized to my computer and phone with Syncthing. This way the important files are protected by 3-2-1.

I guess I got lucky with this batch, they all seem to work perfectly. But only time will tell if this what truly a good deal.

Cool cool cool cool. Can I buy 16GB now and upgrade my Mac later ?

The client for Android TV works very nicely. Maybe there is a way to use the same UI on consoles?

This is good. But I suppose that will also require some time and effort from Mozilla to port the real Firefox to iOS.

It’s a shame… iPad seems like a very practical device for web browsing and media consumption. But browsing the web in 2024 without an Ad Blocker, tracker blocker, cookie banner auto reject all, is just impossible, at least for me 😅

Thanks, I will look into this :)

Is there a good way to watch YouTube on iPads ?

On PC and Android my preferred way is Firefox+uBlock (NewPipe sometimes and Smart Tube every day !)

We got an iPad recently and I found out the hard way that Firefox doesn’t support add-ons :(

I self-Host Vaultwarden at home, this way I have a convenient password manager for myself and my SO, it’s easy to setup and maintain. East to access from the phone, Firefox, etc. Bitwarden app keeps a local cache so even when disconnected from the server I have access to my passwords and it will synchronize at the next connections. I otherwise have a Wireguard VPN setup in case I need to connect to my home server from outside my home.

Before I used KeePass+syncthing but it was to much configuration to convince my SO to use it. Bitwarden/Vaultwarden was more successful in that regard.

Thanks for the advice. I found that the import tax would be 80~100€. I when for eBay Germany, and ordered some drive there: 4x WD Ultrastar DC HC520 12TB, helium-sealed, for 120€ each. I will test them upon receiving and see how it goes from there :)