I’ll make an addenda to my notes. Thanks.

I had one back in the day like that. My notes on that event are old so maybe someone can modify or clarify.

First you’ll have to find the UUID of the external drive. (lsblk -f) Then create a mount file like: sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/mnt-data.mount. In the mnt-data.mount file, insert something like:

[Unit]
Description=External HDD Mount
Requires=dev-disk-by\x2duuid-<YOUR_UUID>.device
After=dev-disk-by\x2duuid-<YOUR_UUID>.device
After=local-fs.target

[Mount]
What=/dev/disk/by-uuid/<YOUR_UUID>
Where=/mnt/data
Type=ext4  # Change to ntfs, xfs, etc., depending on your drive format
Options=rw,noatime,nofail

Enable and reload:

sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable mnt-data.mount
sudo systemctl start mnt-data.mount

Verify status:

systemctl status mnt-data.mount

Should say ‘active’. Reboot and test. Let me know if that works. Like I said, that was a while ago. If it works, it’s just another reason why you should doccument your server setups. If it doesn’t, well shucks I tried. LOL

Reason I ask is that I have a line on a Dell Optiplex 5060 SFF with 16 GB DDR4 / no drive, for around $175 USD (local IT guy). I’m getting an itchy finger. LOL

Optiplex

How’s that working for you? I don’t need 8 of them but after doing some passive research, the Optiplex seems to be a favorite in the homelab/selfhosting arena.

Dell T320 idles out at 54–99W, but typical use would be in the 101–158W range. In my locale, one Dell T320 will cost about $35 USD per month to run. I shut them down before retiring for the evening as I couldn’t justify running them while I’m sawing logs. I’m the only user and I have no late nite/early morning Linux ISOs downloads scheduled.

I use this fairly often. Simple, effective, no complaints really.

There are so many people in this world I’d rather not ever hear their voices. Lmao.

100%! It’s a pain in the ass when I create music tho. Some frequencies I just can’t hear well enough to make a decision. I lean on AI to assist me in the mastering process.

If your current machines are working fine and the $35 a month isn’t breaking the budget

Good point. The T320s are running fine. In fact I’ve not done anything to them since the beginning of the year except enjoy them. If I were to boil the ox down to the bouillon cube, I’m a little bored, and I’ve learned a lot since I first fired them up years ago, and I feel I could do things a lot better, cleaner, and more efficiently. Mostly bored tho. I like a good project.

What infrastructure or operational costs do you think people underestimate the most?

In a former life I was an Mech Eng specializing in HVAC. I was a designer, project manager, estimator, and ran the IT dept (deceptively small company) and trained old codgers to run computers and laptops. In my experience, most owners underestimate the cost of construction. When I did project estimates, I read the spec book cover to cover, even the sections that weren’t related to HVAC. I would do a nut and bolt take off and derive a cost + overhead and profit. I understand, everyone wants the best bang for their buck, but there is always a reason why low ball numbers will bite you in the ass, because you will be hounded by change orders until the low ball price will match mine.

Ever since you posted that, I’ve been tinkering with the notion of replacing one of my Dell T320s with just such a unit. The Dell T320 have been good servers but cost me about $35 USD per month to run, whereas the Dell OptiPlex 3050 Micro you recommended would cost me about $3 to $5 to run per month. So, just in power savings alone, would pay for itself in less than a year. The Dell T320s put out a decent amount of heat as well, and aren’t so quiet…which doesn’t bother me as much since I’m clinically deaf. LOL

Why are you getting packet flooding? DDoS? MAC address table overflows? Unknown unicast traffic? Broadcast storms? Multicast flooding? Undetermined? Ntopng will detect packet flooding, and it can be configured to send out notifications. Maybe Wireshark, tho it does have a learning curve and doesn’t send out notifications that I know of. Do you have a stand alone firewall like pFsense or Opnsense? Both Snort and Suricata are IDS/IPS that can block based on rule sets.

Dude, I do not pretend understand the inner machinations of a Lemmy mod. Rule 3 seems a blanket coverage for a lot of threads. But, I’m still out here repeating your recommends. Seems like it would be a jammy server for Docker containers at a good price.

I think they nuked the whole thread.

Thanks man! Nice looking project BTW

I think the mods deleted under rule 3 which really doesn’t make much sense to me. If you are going to self host and you are starting with equipment recomendations, who better to ask than the people who selfhost. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Personal food database with photos, barcodes, categories, and custom labels

Where do you source your barcodes from? The reason I am asking is that I would like to give Grocy/Barcode Buddy a better barcode pool to draw from. As it is now, it’s kind of hit and miss. Most brand names are fine, but off brands or store brands are kind of iffy.

OP, Don’t let ‘em give you shit about your ponytail. Keep on rockin’.

@DonutsRMeh@lemmy.world recommended this on is the last similar thread to this one: Dell OptiPlex 3050 Micro. The price seems right and you could probably run good many other Docker containers in the future.

Anything much newer than that will consume less power per core (usually) but will cost more up front

I did a little passive research on the Dell OptiPlex 3050 Micro that @DonutsRMeh@lemmy.world recommended. For my locale you could run that 24/7 for about $2.00 USD per month. I like to stay in the DDR3 range of equipment because those are not nearly the same price for units using DDR4 or higher, and as far as performance goes, are still on the green of newer DDR4 & 5 units. Plenty enough computing power to handle a lot of Docker containers, etc.

Not sure where you are located OP but, eBay, CraigsList, Goodwill, local Refurb shops, befriend a local IT person…business are always throwing out decent stuff. Just stay away from enterprise equipment. In my locale there are ‘flea-markets’, FaceBook Marketplace. @DonutsRMeh@lemmy.world suggested a Dell OptiPlex 3050 Micro, and if you do some dilligent searching of Amazon, you can find some good deals on Used or Refurb computers.

That is totally awesome and cool bro. You’ll never hear me throw shade on someone for charting their own course in life or choosing a different path. In fact, to drop a little relevant Hendrix up in here:

“I’m the one who has to die when it’s time for me to die. So, let me live my life the way I want.”

As long as my life doesn’t interfere with your life, we’ll be just jippity jippity. Rock on! Git sum! It’s a big world. We can all coexist.