He told him

Ackshually yellow cheese doesn’t have much lactose, see e.g. https://www.lactolerance.fr/blog/en/milk-content-of-dairy-products/

Thanks for the advice, noted! I was attracted by the compact size, I guess it’s not realistic that it would handle 5 disks…

You’re starting to convince me, I’ve been looking at getting a GMKtec G3 N100 mini pc and just slotting it beside my existing NAS. I can even get a dedicated gigabit ethernet connection going between these two.

Interesting, I’ll investigate this!

Yeah, I’m also upgrading from a 14 years old Intel Atom D2701. It has a TDP of 10w, at the same time it has roughly a tenth of the performance of an N100. And then the HW accel for encode and decode is in addition to this, fot this type of task the difference is larger than 10x - the D2701 cannot do transcoding.

Thanks, the Jonsbo N1 actually has five hotswap bays, and I believe you can squeeze in another 3.5" besides the PSU if you have a small PSU. I’ll consider the N3 but I don’t think it will fit where I have my current NAS so I’ll have to replan a bit.

Yes, I’m thinking about either getting a PCIE SAS HBA to open up the option for SAS drives, or to get an ASM1166 M.2 to 6xSATA.

You’re right that I’ve focused too much on ECC, I think I’ll see it as nice to have more than something I’d prefer to have.

You’re right, I probably don’t need ECC. I’m mostly worried about bit flips in my important data, and as you say, a checksumming FS and RAID will protect against this while the data is in storage. However, it doesn’t protect against bit flips while copying data, for example copying data to backups - but there are other solutions for this, which I should consider.

Hot swap is nice to have. I haven’t even considered that it wouldn’t be supported by a mobo, I should look into that, thanks. These are the mobos I’m considering for each option:

N100: Topton N100 motherboard, 4x2.5G, 6xSATA, PCIE x1 https://a.aliexpress.com/_EvVv0k6

8500G: ASRock B650I Lightning WiFi (Gigabyte A620I AX might be an option, but it has only one M.2 slot so the upgradeability is less)

13100: ASRock Z790M-ITX Wifi

The N100 option is cheaper and should be lower power, but as you say I worry about needing another upgrade in a year or so, and this option doesn’t offer much upgradeability so that would mean at least a new mobo and cpu. The other options could accommodate a beefier CPU if needed.

Yeah, old Xeons tend to not be very low power, also I don’t think I’ll be able to find one with a mini ITX board to fit it in a compact case. Also, I’d probably need to add a discrete GPU, which adds to the cost and power consumption.

I want a low power build to limit heat and noise produced in my office room, to limit the electricity bill and as I understood it the case I’m considering also doesn’t have the best thermals, so I don’t want to put a CPU with too high a TDP into it.

The ReadyNAS 626 actually has a Xeon D-1521, but with a quite low TDP - 45W.

Regarding budget, I’m aiming for 400-800$. The N100 option, including case and PSU (but not disks) is at the lower end of this, while the 8500G and 13100 options are at the upper end.

Not sure whether to upvote because this is so accurate it’s funny or to downvote because it’s infuriating 😂

Wow, memory unlocked! Motocross Madness did this too, if you managed to drive up the giant wall surrounding the world. I checked, and it turns out both these games were developed by the same company, Rainbow Studios, so probably they used the same engine.

DK! Donkey Kong!

Being classified as an Iranian language? Or would you like it to be broken down into Sorani, Kurmanji etc?

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It will say “Dallas DS1287 REAL TIME” and be unusually thick for being a DIP chip.

I just remembered, there’s a third possibility for replacement if this is the problem - the nwx287, a hobbyist-made replacement chip that has a cr2032 holder.

Then the cmos battery is probably in a Dallas DS1287 or similar chip. There are hacks to replace the battery itself with a CR2032 holder, but it requires drilling into the chip.

I bought a DS12887+ to replace it, and socketed it in case it would need replacement again in the future (in another 30 years? :)). But if you want to go this route look up what chip is compatible with the exact one you have.

No, the reason it doesn’t work is that IDE to USB adapters don’t support pre-LBA HDDs. These old disks are all CHS-addressed.

I wanted to take images of such disks. I ended up managing to boot an ancient version of Knoppix from a CD (just booting it was a nightmare) and then using dd_rescue to clone it to a file on a CF card connected vi a CF-to-IDE adapter.

Edit: oh, drive powers off when usb is connected? Might be that the adapter doesn’t offer enough power, but if you could get around this you would inevitably run into the problem I describe above.

It’s so homegrown it even has it’s own instruction set architecture.

Edit: it is based on MIPS, but apparently the differences compared to it are minor

It has its own instruction set architecture called LoongArch which in turn is based on MIPS, there is no relation to Intel’s x86

Edit: apparently the differences compared to MIPS are minor

This is a fantastic release of them. I’m not usually an In Flames fan, I listen to Soilwork, Scar Symmetry, Evergrey, The Halo Effect etc, but this one hit all the right spots.