I want to build a proper server with room for 40+ HDDs to move my media server to and have RAID 1. I know a lot about PCs and software, but when it comes to server hardware I have no clue what I'm doing. How would I go about building a server that has access to 40+ RAID 1'd HDDs?
You need to research raid 1,6,10 and zfs first. Make an informed decision and go from there. You're basing the number of drives off of (uninformed) assumptions and that's going to drive all of your decisions the wrong way. Start with figuring out your target storage amount and how many drive failures you can tolerate.
That's definitely something to be aware of, but the vdev expansion feature was mergered and will be released probably this year.
Additionally, it looks like the authors main gripe is the current way to expand is to add more vdevs. If you plan this out ahead of time then adding more vdevs incrementally isn't an issue, you just need to buy enough drives for a vdev. In homelab use this might an issue, but if OP is planning on a 40 drive setup then needing to buy drives in groups of 2-3 instead of individually shouldn't be a huge deal.
I’m not too familiar with the gesture stack, would it be possible to have a small app that just listens for that gesture and emulates a back/forward mouse click?
If you suspect stability issues due to newish hardware, downgrading is very rarely the way to go (unless the bug was introduced by a recent update).
Bugs get reported and fixed so you want to be doing the opposite, running a newer version of KDE and the kernel.
Have you enabled kde backports? If you’re going to wipe the computer anyway, maybe give Tumbleweed a shot? It’s running the latest everything while still being quite stable.
I think you’re going to have a lot better experience with plasma 5.27, they’ve done a lot of bug fixes since 5.25.
I’ve been running tumbleweed for a few years on a few different computers, I’ve only had an issue a few times, but it has a built in method to revert to a save point before the problematic update, so it’s super easy to undo and wait a few days to upgrade again. You can also look at slowroll, it’s tumbleweed on a slower release, though I’m not sure it’s out yet. I definitely recommend it over kubuntu though, I was originally using kubuntu but switched due to wifi driver issues.
If you want to stick to an Ubuntu based system, you could try neon, but it’s built on top of the Ubuntu stable releases so the packages are generally a lot older. It didn’t solve my wifi problems so I gave tumbleweed a shot.
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I want to build a proper server with room for 40+ HDDs to move my media server to and have RAID 1. I know a lot about PCs and software, but when it comes to server hardware I have no clue what I'm doing. How would I go about building a server that has access to 40+ RAID 1'd HDDs?
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