Okay and what about longevity of the drives? That should just depend on the number of writes, right?

But an M.2 is usually more expensive than a normal 2.5" SSD. Is it better to boot from a M.2 HAT than from USB?

What about enclosures from Sabrent? That should be a reliable manufacturer, no?

Is this command to check the health of the SSD/drive in general?

Thank you, I think I will go with this and a SSD from crucial to start off and then add some HDDs for backup and NAS. Do you think this kind of enclosure is reliable enough for a NAS? And is there enough airflow if you add two 3.5" HDDs together in the dock station?

Thank you very much, this helped way more than the other comment!

Happy cake day!

I heard it’s not so good practice to buy used drives so I will not do that for now but thanks for the second part I will consider that!

I stumbled upon the Crucial BX, do you think that one is not reliable enough? Because I think I use that in my PC atm and it runs fine. But it’s not a home server so there is probably less load on this one.

For example? Kingston, Crucial?

Could you elaborate?

What does YMMV mean? And yeah sure, I just want to run the OS on the SSD and a few containers but the rest on HDDs and also backups on other HDDs.

Are you using SATA to USB adapters? If yes, which one work well?

Thank you very much, you saved me money and hassle!

Hello, sorry to bother again but I have a question. Do you think adding a M.2 card with six SATA3 connectors to a Lenovo ThinkCentre M910q would work? I found a M910q for 50 bucks, quite cheap I’d say and the expansion card is around 30 bucks.

Thank you very much! I read about those. Maybe it’s time to try out GNOME again, I don’t want to use a too early version of an OS. Altough I fell in love with KDE, especially KRunner!

Yes I already use the Fedora KDE Spin right now, it’s awesome!

I didn’t know that it uses X11 because Fedora uses Wayland already for a few major releases.

I think I found a solution for your problem recently. Are you familiar with distrobox? AFAIK you can use it on top of your OS, in this case Tumbleweed, and install another OS in a container, like Arch, and then export the programs installed from AUR or whatever to your host OS.

But nonetheless thank you, I think I should just try it out in a virtual machine or something.

Thank you.

In the MicroOS portal it is described like this:

Rolling Release: Every new openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshot also automatically produces a new openSUSE MicroOS release.

So it should get the latest software pretty fast too, right?

Can you elaborate? I think I didn’t understand your point.

I thought MicroOS is like Fedora Silverblue and an atomic desktop?