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  • I think the whole point of setting up a VPN is to AVOID port forwarding. It’s safer to have no ports forwarded.

    Yes, but if the only thing you’re forwarding is the VPN, it’s fine. There isn’t really any big issue with forwarding anyway, the issue is with exposing potentially vulnerable services. And if you take down a service but forget to disable port forwarding, and something you don’t want public ends up being accessible from the Internet.








  • SheeEttin@lemmy.worldtoSelfhosted@lemmy.world[hardware] Used SAS drives?
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    1 year ago

    SAS drives are cheaper because the market is smaller. You need SAS hardware to use them, but SATA drives can go basically anywhere.

    Hopefully the seller gives some idea of the condition. Usually the ones I’ve bought have been anywhere between 10k and 40k power-on hours. Much more than that, if they were really cheap, I’d just buy spares.

    The other big health factor is start-stop counts. Server drives shouldn’t have too many of those. If that number is really high, I’d be concerned about how the drive was used.