Just sailing? Single hard drive connected to what ever

Hosting stuff you care about? Some form of raid/zfs/whatever with at least 2 discs and a backup plan, also hooked up to what ever

That is the bare minimum. Buy used and expect your needs to change within a month/year.

SSD is a bit optimistic for that laptop, quick Google shows a potential 5400rpm sata drive

Wasn’t aimed at you, more of an observation, fttp in the UK is usually sold as 150/150 or 900/900(ish) with some areas having the option for 2.5gbps it’s like when it first launched and ISPs had usage quotas that could be gone in 3 hours of full usage

10TB per month, is that uploads and downloads combined? If so that’s a 1gbps at full speed for 12hours

Only when used correctly

I had a router that I converted to a access point with openwrt, couldn’t get vlan trunking to work, so I ran 3 separate network cables back to the switch and assigned each one to its own WiFi network

This with remote transmission on your phone to control it

Well it depends where you sit on the bell curve, 1/8 of the population thinks the other 1/8 are fucking stupid, whilst been completely oblivious to the fact that they are in fact also fucking stupid

I use xfce as a desktop, so based purely on looks windows xp. The problem is the enshitification of windows, improvements in one area drags it’s screaming backwards in other ways, I’m looking at you control panel, you get dumber and less helpful every time I look at you.

Do you have any spare pcie slots, you can get m.2 pcie cards

Mythtv is awesome if you want to watch live TV, DVR the live TV or watch media. I’ve never been able to get it to work easily with streamed content. However you can just download the content you want and watch it as media. Best part is you can split the backend (disks, TV tuners etc) front the frontend (playback) and have a tiny box sat next to your tv

Are you on carrier grade NAT (CGNAT) WAN ip in the address space 100.64.0.0 to 100.127.255.255?

I feel like hardware raid is relic from the pre multi core CPU days, given that was less than 20 years ago it makes me feel old

Can confirm that moving a zfs array to a new system after a failure is simply connect the disks and zpool import -f <pool_name>

Every raid card I use now is put in hba mode it’s just simpler to deal with

I can recommend the nanopi r4s, supported by openwrt, ipfire and I think opnsense. Ive been using it as my main router for almost a year now on a symmetric 1Gb connection. Best part is it’s super cheap and tiny

Yes to unified inbox, not sure about exchange but works well with IMAP

External drive? Is it a usb drive? If it is you might be best pulling out the drive and connecting it to a sata port. The mount as read only and do what everyone else suggests

If it works fine on other networks then it’s your router provided by the ISP that’s the problem. If you can try setting 2.4 and 5Ghz networks to separate SSIDs with different passwords. I’ve got a couple of devices on my network that refuse to work if the networks are combined. You could try a different WiFi access point, an older unifi can be picked up cheap on eBay on if it’s just for testing. I was having similar issues with a Nintendo switch whilst working away, the hotels WiFi was just messed up

Did you know K-9 mail is soon to be thunderbird mobile

I had a fake item sent to me, reported to eBay to request a refund, got an immediate refund, seller asked to return the item. I said no, its fake I’ll bin it. Left negative feedback that the items are fake. eBay then removed the review and let the seller keep selling. At least he had one less item to sell and was out of pocket on postage