u/ColdBootCountry

Hey people!

I have a 15yo gaming desktop PC that has been out of order years. Not too sure why, I barely investigated, but my best bet is the mother board is fried.

FTR: Core i5-2500, 8 Gb RAM, 128G SSD, Radeon HD6870, plus a bunch of 1T HDDs.

I've lived without it very well. I don't do any gaming anymore and I have more recent laptops for all other tasks. Problem: the disks on this machine store 10 years of data of all sorts and my wife is getting angry for all the photos she can't look at.

I thought it would be the perfect occasion to set-up an home server. General idea:

• Have an always on "something"
• Plug the old disks on it somehow
• Optionally move all the data to new disks/replicate them in a RAID setup/not too sure
• Make the disks network available somehow (network shares/personal cloud)

Host some services on the side, preferably in VMs/containers (think home DNS, VPN, that kind of stuff

Looking at this wish list, I thought a NAS server would work. Something like a theBrandYouShouldNotName, or a refurbished Synology ds420 sound like sufficient.

That said, other options could be:

• A micro-PC with a 4 disk enclosure
• Same with an old second hand sff
• Same with my repaired desktop PC
• A raspberry based hack of a NAS

What would be your favorite option?

I must add I'd rather stay on a budget, including on the power consumption side of things.

Thanks for your answers!

edit:dumb me on the budget. 300-400$ would be great

I need a new mattress. Mine is a 10yo entry level epeda, can't remember the name, that is starting to get tired.

Today, I visited a local mattress shop and tried a few models from bultex, merinos, and epeda. I got back home with a quote for a bultex and a merinos, 750€ and 850€ respectively.

The price does not include shipping, and the shop do offer a "try it for 100 nights" option but it's another 100€ on the quote. I found this to be pretty bad, plus it raises the quote to 900/1000 because I won't buy a mattress if I can't test it before. So I thought I might as well find a different vendor now that I now the model I would go with.

And here comes the surprise: the model I got quoted does not actually exist in bultex's catalog. The model on my quote is named "Bultex Nice" and it's sold absolutely nowhere except on my local store brand's website.

Smart me then decided to compare the specs of the mattress with those found on bultex's website, but they also made that difficult by:

- Changing the mattress external look (the pattern on the mattress outside looks quite unique).

- Not providing the EXACT composition of the mattress.

Is it common practice to obscure the model you are selling that way? I bet this is done in agreement with the brand, would likely not be legal otherwise. There is even a good chance that they slightly change the specs to bypass the EU fair competition laws.

FTR, the Bultex mattress I tried is described as:

- 26cm high

- 15cm Bultex nano mineral 35kg/m3 in 5 zones

- 23kg/m3 bodysoft foam + 500g/m3 "fibers" on one side

- 14kg/m3 confort foam + 250g/m3 "fibers" on the other side (allegedly the summer face of the mattress)

That does not seem to match any of the mattress I can find on Bultex website. That said the sale guy in the store was also talking about some memory foam too, but that's not in the """spec sheet""".

Roughly speaking the spec ressemble those of the Bultex "energizing" but the height does not match and the one I'm quoted is 200€ cheaper.

I really don't get it and can't help but feel I'm getting robbed somehow.