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Cake day: June 23rd, 2025

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  • Thanks for the Tooltips. But I think instead of using a separate budgeting tool I could also just use my already existing banking solution and get the same result. These Budgeting Tools do not Hard limit or enforce a Budget. Because (for me) they are just more advanced Excel Sheets.

    But I want something more in the way of:

    • I sent some amount of money once per month
    • I can choose projects I want to donate to
    • Everything is tracked, but just visible for me
    • No possibility at all to exceed my budget and no linkage to my real banking account

    But I see that this intention of me was not clear in my inital post.
















  • I don’t know if there is a (of the shelf) DAS out there that supports using drives with existing data on them and also some additional drives with RAID in the same enclosure.

    In case you don’t have some place to store the data temporarily you can just use it as it is and save SE money for a NAS.

    Because I am asking myself: if you don’t have a place to store the data temporarily, where is your backup? Sounds like you don’t have one. In this case you can save for the NAS AMD use the external drive as a backup drive attached to the NAS. Win-Win maybe?


  • For me a similar tasks should be handled by the same device. Network routing and VPN are similar things for me, therefor they are handled by the router.

    It also handles VPN connections to other remote locations. So again same things in the same device.

    Another benefit (which you can also have on the Server with some additional effort): the router boots up without interaction after a power outage. The Server does not. Them I can connect and unlock (LUKS password) the servers.


  • As far as I know you cannot (easily) use your own OS in QNAP. You can use your external 8TB drive also for the NAS. Attach it via USB to the NAS and expose OT via SMB as your other shares. But in your case I would not do this. Geht the NAS and use it and use your 8TB drive as it is right now. Thats imho the easiest and good enough way.


  • You cannot use drives that already have data on them in a Synology. They will be “Wiped” during the installation/initialization process. If you can save the data somewhere else you can put it back on the NAS after Installation. I don’t know if this is also the case for QNAP or Asustor.

    you can definetly store data, from a Service running on a different machine, to the NAS. This is the whole point of having a NAS. Limitation is network latency and bandwith. But this is no problem for the typical home user use case. If you habe a special use case you propably already know what you need and how to do it.