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

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

I will never make it to Pee Pee Creek on time. I can’t hold it this long !

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.

why not btrfs send | btrfs receive? is there some advantage to rsync?

I didn’t think of this. I am familiar with rsync, I went with it without searching for alternatives.

did you hotswap the drives after each btrfs replace or shutdown and then swap?

I did the swap with the system powered down. I don’t know if my the NanoPi + SATA hat support hotswap.

what’s your host OS and do the drives spin down if inactive?

The NAS runs Armbian. The disks are configured to spin down, yes. I don’t know if this caused me the issue while replacing disk 2. I suppose not, since during replace the disks are all reading continuously. But I don’t know for sure.

Edit: fixed copy-past mistake with quoted sentences

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.

Hello,

Many of you are concern this stand could damage the laptop by bending it with the leverage force. It’s true that I didn’t consider this case when I designed it 🤔

While trying it out, I didn’t feel like it would damage the laptop, unless something catastrophic would happened like an heavy object or a pet dropping on it, but it is a legitimate concern ! I might reconsider using it… I was wondering why this type of stand is common for phones but inexistant for laptops, well now I understand !

Thank you all for the constructive feedback !