slaecker

joined 1 year ago
[–] slaecker@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I did quite some research when I worked with the WD Red Plus drives and also tried the -S switch, without success.

In openSeaChest I just set the number of milliseconds for each power mode and it just works. I'm happy with that.

[–] slaecker@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Came here just to see if somebody already gave that answer. Thanks, bye 🫡

[–] slaecker@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Yes, self-hosting my email server since 2 years without issues so far. I only send a handful of emails per month but haven't stumbled into any issues of being blocked by any big provider, even the ones that are known to block small email servers here in Germany. I enjoy the flexibility of as many aliases and distribution groups as I want for the family and being able to configure the anti-spam-component the way it works best for us.

I run everything on a small VPS at a known provider and checked the IP against block lists. It was indeed listed on one but I never had issues and when checking again a few days ago it wasn't listed on any list anymore.

First I tried the available all-in-one solutions but troubleshooting is hard if you don't know each component.

So, I followed this guide but moved all components in their own docker containers instead of installing natively to be more failsafe regarding system upgrades:

https://workaround.org/ispmail-bullseye/

Everything is running fine and in case of issues I know exactly how each component is set up and can troubleshoot quickly.

[–] slaecker@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

This.

Having a subscription doesn't mean you have the right to pirate when the service goes down. You only own what you buy.

[–] slaecker@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Add --no-remote to start different profiles simultaneously.

Example:

firefox -P 'Joel User' --no-remote

 

Just want to share some love about Seagate.

My new DIY NAS is idle most of the time so I want to configure it to be as power efficient as possible.

I spent a couple of evenings trying to make my new WD Red Plus drives go to standby (spindown) after 30 minutes of inactivity, without success. I read about WD not respecting hdparm commands, interpreting them differently and tried all suggestions, again without success. I even read about WD support saying they don't support Linux. Strange as most of the available consumer NAS systems are based on Linux.

I then decided to try my 2nd choice drives: Seagate Ironwolf. On the first attempt they also didn't go to standby after configuring with hdparm. Then I found this: Seagate offers an open-source suite of tools named openSeaChest, which lets you configure and test your drives in any possible way including firmware updates and ... tada, power settings. After enabling idle_c and standby_z and configuring the timers the drives now do how I configured.

I returned the WD drives. Now Seagate is my top choice for future drive purchases 🧡

[–] slaecker@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wow, very detailed list. I will surely find some apps to add to my mostly open-source setup.

Thanks for sharing.