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Pretty much what the title says, I was wondering, since I want to invest on self hosting applications and my raspberry pi 3 b+ can barely function. I don't have enormous expectations, just docker containers, nextcloud, pihosted, jellyfin... Any further suggestions (regarding the hardware) will be much appreciated.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

One thing that could help a lot would be have a third drive off one of the USB ports, a cheap large spinning drive, and have a cronjob to routinely copy the contents of your drive to the cheap spinning drive to the backup drive. That way even if you lose your SSD or your SATA drive, you still have a somewhat recent version of all your files elsewhere.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Not a bad idea, however I've had problems with some of the firmware (I think, maybe it's the kernel) on external HDDs causing them to power off when not in use for long periods of time. For some reason it doesn't happen with internal drives so it must be the enclosure or the way the system deals with the drive.