Bought two and one of those died within 72 hours.
It was really weird, first it became read-only, then it zeroed by itself, but it still was read-only, no program was able to write on it, even aban (dban is dead)
Now the replacement has more than 2 years but i downgraded it in a low activity server
I'm also using that drive but it likes to stay toasty, it's always in a 60-65° C range even with a low activity
I don't really like that. Bought an heatsink and it improved a bit
I noticed that the prices of SSD almost doubled in the last months. I bought a 2tb nvme for 89 euro and now it requires almost the double
WD and Seagate are using the AI hype as an excuse to increase prices on both SSD and HDD. They say AI bros are buying too many drives to store the models. I find this not really believable. Normal models are a few hundred GB, I don't think that they're pushing so much the demand
I'm using nextcloud and I like it (also I don't see all this slowness even if I run it on a core i3 8100) but it's the general stance from the devs
Everything it's announced like it's ready to the public when it's just a proof of concept (not even alpha)
Another example is the mail plugin. It's an unusable early alpha yet on the blog there are three posts starting from four years ago talking about inexistent features https://nextcloud.com/?s=Mail&wpessid=1612
Same for the forms plugin. Early alpha that doesn't have an essential feature like emailing responses to specific addresses (it sends notifications via nextcloud). Again the blog talks 4 years ago like it's ready for everyone.
Or the Trello clone. Many problems like it "ruins" the tasks sync by creating read-only tasks that get synced via caldav.
Or nextcloud photos, big post in 2022 but it's very barebone
Or docs, so many posts yet it has so many problems.
Or the desktop client, where builds are pushed to regular users without testing the installer script (forced reboots without confirmation, crashing explorer.exe instead of asking a graceful restart)
The only NC plugin that I'm using without problems and that I feel it passed the beta stage is Music and its subsonic compatible server. No blog posts about it. Maybe because it's hosted on owncloud GitHub repository
Doesn't help that every nextcloud official announcement promises the moon while delivering not even stardust.
Example: this blog post from two years ago: https://nextcloud.com/blog/plan-your-next-trip-with-nextcloud-maps-new-features/
None of the features written in that post are available, even today
It's something that it might be coming in a decade if someone is inspired by the mockups and codes it. When you install the maps plugin it shows a map of the world, and that's it.
If they need to announce a concept that only exists as a mockup, either publish the news on April 1st or write "concept of how maps might integrate with nextcloud 50"
An exception might be nowTV from sky. Being copyright trolls themselves they would spend years in development to reinvent the wheel if there was a 0.1% to block pirates.
In 2018 I was given a 6 months coupon for their service. I wasn't able to watch a single minute:
The guy contacting the streaming services hoping to hit the jackpot with a bug bounty: they literally don't care until it's public, and when it's public it's a Microsoft problem.
The only reason they're using playready it's to make happy the copyright trolls and being compliant with the content license. The streaming services they just choose a solution that does the job with the minimum amount of work and money.
Seems like he wasted months for nothing. Next time try to do bug hunting on WordPress, it's easier and more remunerative.
If need unlimited cheap accounts: MXroute. Sometimes he does lifetime promos. For webmail he has a custom version of roundcube with some paid plugins that have a Gmail like skin or another paid webmail like crossover. He used to offer afterlogic webmail but then stopped "because nobody's using that and it's hard to set for alias domains". Pity because I liked the aesthetic. Can set forwarding from unlimited aliases to Gmail but this is monitored. If you receive (and forward) too much spam or use it to send thousands of useless activity notifications, he's going to block or throttle that because he wants to keep his sender reputation high. For example he doesn't forward any email from Facebook or Wordfence notifications
If need a single inbox: Zoho mail. Can set a catch all on unlimited alias domains that goes in the same inbox. And if a specific address needs to be blocked, for example you signed up to temu using temu@example.com and then they're bombarding you with endless spam and ignoring your stop requests, you can set to reject all emails directed to that temu@ account. Emails can be forwarded but only if you set a custom filter in the web mail, it's a bit limited
I am paying for both, monthly for Zoho and a lifetime for mxroute (lifetime = mxroute it's a single man operation, so it's not my lifetime rather... *KNOCKS WOOD*)
I am using Zoho mail and I like it a lot but there are two disadvantages:
For the rest is excellent, the spam filter can be finely tuned in the admin panel like "block all domains like xxx" or "block all emails that contain those words". And you can set to bounce "address not found" to annoy the worst offenders that don't respect your privacy. And after a very short training (1 week!), it's very rarely wrong, unlike Gmail. If it's in spam, it's definitely spam, if it's in the inbox it's 95% ok. Unfortunately you can't block entire TLDs like .su or .monster which are exclusively used by spammers
And the webmail is very pretty and chock full of features never saw anywhere else in a web client. For example, you can add a task or add a note to an email and you can tag another user and have a parallel conversation around the content of it. Like tagging a colleague to ask opinion on that. The web client can also add IMAP accounts from other services, and you switch between them. It keeps them separate, doesn't import emails like Gmail (you can add Gmail/Hotmail/whatever but you can't add another Zoho email! Infuriating!). It's like having a "web version of thunderbird".
For what I saw there's a good chance it has a custom firmware that makes them unusable outside the walled garden
it depends what you need it. If you want a "stupid" tube station for local traffic, then you want unmanaged. It needs less power. If you instead want to have multiple VLANs, which are separate virtual networks inside your network, you need managed. Then from the GUI you say "port 8-12 are for VLAN 5 which is 10.0.0.1/8 and does not have internet access, rest is normal LAN". If then the switch has lots of fast ports, then it needs lots of power to manage the communication, more power means more hot, and more fans.
Owncloud infinite scale is a rewrite of owncloud(=nextcloud) in go, it supports local, nfs and S3 mounts. Change the smb share to nfs and it might fit you
Disadvantages are: