No warranty covers the product with ITs serial number most of the time.

Not sure what you mean.

WD RMA seems to require proof of purchase and serial number.

Perhaps going outside of these “normal” channels for RMA might get you around these requirements, but it seems unlikely they’d accept RMA for any drive without proof of purchase. Maybe in some cases, but in suspect those would be the exception, not the rule.

That said, who is to say how long a drive sat on a stock shelf before initial sale? An unregistered drive could be secondhand, or just wasn’t sold until recently.

I simply meant that I wouldn’t assume a used drive includes a manufacturer warranty. I’d work with the reseller to replace the drive, not the manufacturer.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but manufacturer warranties are not transferrable, so when you bought it secondhand, the warranty didn’t convey to you.

My experience with WD and Seagate has been that they request proof of purchase, which, for me, was my original invoice.

Bab’s house?

I recently adopted ente, and while the devs are active and enthusiastic, feature parity with gphotos is a long way off. IMO, the sub price should be half what it is.

The desktop app (the only practical/supported way to import your Google Takeout) has lots of little bugs and problems, not least of which is 100% CPU load for the the first few weeks you have it installed. Thats because (even after initial encryption and upload is complete) the machine learning and indexing (even the basic, opted out version) hobbles your system with aggressive CPU scheduling.

I’m going to stick it out for a second month, but I’m not without regrets. For me, I was just done feeding Google AI with my photos and wanted privacy first.

TrueNAS iX Systems statement with interim mitigation steps.

I had Plex running on a Windows server first, then locally on my Nvidia Shield, then on my FreeNAS as a jail. I used it from 2013 to 2018 or 2019. My library is only about 3k files. Plex would get slow, then start serving titles with missing metadata, then start spinning. The only fix was to purge the database and rescan the media, losing all watch data. I worked through backing up the database multiple times, but the backup was only usable for a narrow window of server versions, and was extra work Id prefer not to have to do.

Really, the phone home and pushing for Plex Pass were more consistently annoying for me, and besides, after the switch, I realized how much more I get with the simple setup Kodi allows. My NAS is doing less work, and Kodi does so much more than Plex, minis theme music for shows,/which there is probably an add-on for, but I won’t chase it.

3: You don’t need a server application to replace streaming. After years (and mixed results) of fixing corrupt Plex databases, I switched to a simple file share and access my media through Kodi now. Better features, better player, better community, no closed source, no phone home, no features added/changed/removed without recourse, no forced updates and no accounts required.

My NAS is just a simple SMB/CIFS/NFS share and Kodi accesses it, doing all my metadata handling. If I need to migrate, backup of all watch data and other metadata is simple XML based.

I know you asked for Plex info, but I am so pleased to be out of their clutches, I think others might prefer to be as well.

I believe you want to look at the activity table. I don’t have an instance, but the linked thread mentions it.

+1 for snort or securityonion.

I liked fog a few years back