For a laptop, Framework is absolutely peak for repair and upgradability. They even offer newer generation motherboards that continue to work with older generation framework laptops. Enabling you to upgrade the core components while not having to rebuy the chassis, monitor, etc.
For a desktop, either build one yourself or buy from one of the companies that assemble it for you. Companies like Maingear.
Is that the new lingo to try to downplay how many acid attacks occur in London?
Hiring people based on their skin color has no place in modern society.
Yeah, for TrueNAS it would be a mirrored ZFS array with said two drives, functionally the same.
Your basic components will be an old desktop you have lying around and two hard drives. Put the two hard drives in RAID 1 (mirroring) set with either a network share and/or FTP access to add/remove stuff from the array. The drives optimally should be the same size, but if they aren’t that is OK, the amount of redundant space available will the the size of the smaller of the two drives.
Depending on what you have lying around this might not cost you anything. However, if you are going to spend money anywhere it should be on the drives themselves. You probably don’t need anything fancy, just a pair of 5400RPM HDDs that are large enough to hold your data, plus some room to grow.
You can use any OS of your choosing as basically everything supports the requirements. Linux, Windows, and TrueNAS come to mind as viable options. You may or may not want a third, tiny, drive just to boot the OS, particularly for Windows, as it can make things easier. I personally use Linux for my basic NAS with SFTP access.
Sometimes I wonder if the EU is designed to just waste money.
Good. Europe (and the world) is too tied to natural gas an an energy source. Nuclear has the nice ability to scale out without us having to wait for energy storage tech that is still long off.
France is doing one better here though and actually building out the plants. They are a huge energy exporter to Europe, particularly Germany as they were forced to quickly get themselves off Russian natural gas.
I suppose if you want to tinker with the device remotely the cloud feature might be useful. However, I know I have personally never felt the need to tinker with a UPS. They are a set-it-and-forget-it appliance.
I just put a physical label on each one listing when the battery was last replaced, so I know when it is time to replace with a fresh one.
Edit: Nor do I trust them to keep up to date with security patches for an IoT UPS. Remember, the S in IoT stands for security. Don’t add any IoT devices to your network you don’t need to.
Ukraine is doing better than all pre-war expectations. This isn’t a game and war is often slow. We must continue to support Ukraine, as the alternative is to prove to the dictators of the world they just need to wait for a few years and the west will get bored of helping those they wish to conquer.
Framework absolutely makes PCs. Most notably in the laptop form factor.