methodicalaspect

Unless the requirements have changed, you’re looking at 2016-2017 era. Intel 7000-series, AMD Ryzen 1000-series. Newer may be available if there’s no TPM installed.

Should they be eaten first to spare them the suffering of seeing the rest be devoured, or last to allow them to live as long as possible before their inevitable demise?

“Hell is real” is a year-round thing.

…and as such, a shit load of them should be jailed for perjury.

Yes, that’s the only reason. You can mix drive sizes and still have a dedicated parity drive to rebuild from in case things go poorly. I am aware that it’s basically LVM with extra steps, but for a NAS I just want it to be as appliance-like as possible.

Still using Scale at work, though - that use case is different.

Just got unraid up and running for the first time today. There’s a bit of a learning curve coming from TrueNAS Scale but it supports my use case: throwing whatever spinning rust I have into one big array. Seems to work alright, hardware could use additional cooling so I’ve shut it off until a new heatsink arrives.

Fair, I’ve seen a ton of complaints about Resolve’s lack of AAC support for far too long, so if your workflow depends on AAC encoding and decoding directly inside Resolve you shouldn’t have to bend over backwards to work around that.

That said I’ve done all of my video editing in Resolve Studio on Linux for years now and haven’t had any trouble. I’m using an Atomos Ninja to record, since my camera outputs 10-bit 4:2:2 over its HDMI port but records 8-bit 4:2:0 internally. The Ninja records PCM and so the AAC issue has never bitten me.

The only thing I can complain to Blackmagic Design about is their official support of Rocky Linux only. The udev rules for things like the Speed Editor or Micro Color Panel don’t work properly for Ubuntu- or Arch-based distros, meaning anyone who wants official support is stuck with their specific modified Rocky Linux ISO. Through trial and error I’ve proven that it works fine on AlmaLinux 9.5 too, so that’s what I’m using, but honestly I’d rather be using something with a newer kernel and better hardware support.