Dear Makers,
Apologies for talking about Backup & Redundancy on a Saturday Halloween Evening, but I have an excess of redundancy and far too many backups!!
Therefore, in order to transfer my redundancy and get rid of my backups, I would like to donate an Argon EOS NAS, it has 2 x 256Gb SSD’s and a 1TB HDD. I have tested the disks and they are okay. It’s running on a Pi4 8gb. It’s a blank slate.
Could we incorporate this into the existing NAS setup at the Space?
Unless the scope of the NAS is intended to expand beyond it’s current use it feels like what we have setup by Yaz is probably enough.
Yes, no worries, I don’t think we should expand the scope…
Me either, it’ll end up becoming a piracy drop box or something and cause us legal headaches if we try to back that up to AWS S3.
Yea we don’t want to be responsible for peoples files regardless
I’d suggest the main value of donating this would be so we could sell it to provide a little pot of money to buy an outdoor rated AP for the warmer months, something like the Swiss Army Knife - Ubiquiti Store United Kingdom
Otherwise I think we’re good for devices at the moment.
Make yeah right, responsibility for other peoples files, wow, that’s a legal nightmare, doesn’t bear thinking about.
The Swiss Army knife by Ubiquiti loks very good, and considerin the price of the ARGON EON NAS, The Space could probably get two.
Should we set or price, or perhaps auction it, as you can’t buy them, someone might see it a collectors piece?
P.S. It’s almost fully loaded, pi4 8gb, 2 x 256Gb SSD’s, 1 x 1TB HDD.
Yea it’s also more people relying on it for backups, we have had people leave work on the laser PC for years for instance and then be sad when it disappears, so best to have everyone keep track of their own work/files!
@unknowndomain want to try to sell this for @systems budget?
I mean possibly, but Azad, wouldn’t you rather sell it yourself and keep the cash for yourself.
I can run a pledge drive for the Wi-Fi in the spring if people want it.
A donation is a donation is a donation. 
Is their anything cool we can convert it to, maybe a Flux Capacitor for a De’Lorean?
It sounds like @Jem would be able to use the pi for more digital signage in the space, and we could then try to sell the case online to cover an outdoor Wi-Fi AP?
That’s sounds good, and a fun project, a roll of WS2812B LED’s around the front display window, with a neon sign South London MakerSpace in cool colours!
Theirs also an autonomous car-bot in the window, just had a thought we could create a little conveyor belt, and have the car-bot going a treadmill while also placing led’s on the wheels, like the cookie cutters of old.
Also, we could have a section where we have agri-tech, basically a environmental management system growing a couple of hardy herbs like rosemary, thyme, oregano, mint, sage on one of the windows, running on a BLE33Sense, got the code, and equipment.
Wow, really happy how backup and redundancy has evolved into something far greater and much more interesting!
I’d still like to turn the Argon EON Case into a Flux Capacitor and Go Time Travelling, but I guess the next best thing is to sell the case and get an outdoor Wi-Fi AP, like the Ubiquiti
Actually Jem’s going to try and make a live display of the forum in the space for key notifications in the kitchen window!
loulou is doing the window but might be interested in people to help!
