https://www.aa.net.uk/broadband/l2tp-service/

Job done.

(Happy customer)

Startech make an 8 port SATA card. Worked for me.

Make me array and use zfs send | zfs receive to sync data. Disks can hang out of the side of the pc for a day or two if needs be. You’ll need some power splitters you.

Nah. My old server from 2012 did 35W. Dual core i5, 16GB, 120GB SSD, 3x 3TB HDDs.

Nah. My old server from 2012 did 35W. Dual core i5, 16GB, 120GB SSD, 3x 3TB HDDs.

Setup a free Think Broadband quality monitor?

I have just yesterday them running against my lines and those of my employer.

https://www.thinkbroadband.com/broadband/monitoring/quality

It’s fine. Spinning up down problem is over thought by too many people. The only time you have an issue is when your power settings are so aggressive they spin the drive down after a few minutes of inactivity causing thousands of spin cycles.

A commanded power down is different from a power loss power down because in the latter heads are parked before the power down event and the drive doesn’t need to use the spinning platter as a flywheel generator.