first off, if you plan to scan the storage for bad “sectors”, that’s gonna take eons if the disk is of any considerable size. what’s more likely is you running the SMART self-test and that will work over any medium.

the cables absolutely can and do cause corruption, whether it’s plain SATA-SATA cables or the USB-SATA with their own controller on it; however, if you don’t have reason to suspect this particular cable/adapter is faulty, it’s not a worry vector per se.

what’s this “probability” based on?

wine exposes the user’s home directory as drive Z: and has full read/write access to it. so, the user’s proper fucked.

edit: I misspoke, Z: exposes the entire root file system, whereas only the /home/user/ has full r/w access.

any mods around? what’s this bullshit have to do with programming?

I don’t know any of those things, wide, narrow, high… how do I determine which I have? compared to what?

I have acknowledged that they’re that, but that’s not what OP asked for - they asked for a cheap setup (which the minis ain’t) and they intend to run a servarr instance, which implies large storage and those are both difficult and not cheap to cram into said minis.

I don’t understand the fascination of other commenters with mini-PCs, as the mini-ness was mentioned nowhere in the OP.

any used and decomissioned old office PC, any i5/i7 is way more powerful than you’ll need for that setup. you get everything you need right in the box and you can cram it full with cheap RAM and hard disks. you get to repurpose something that’s useless as a desktop workstation and not buy more future e-waste.

yes, the mini-PCs and the Rpis are more power efficient, but the operating costs of a $30-50 PC don’t come close to the price of buying one of these mini-things, not to mention - figuring out how to run large hard disks with it.

maybe there’s some way to filter out the stepmothers with the stepfathers on the stepladders…?

thanks. I’m trying to find a cheap 2nd hand device that can run pmOS and has 8 GB RAM and supports USB to DP/HDMI, was hoping this one was on the list.

here are my lutris settings

let me know if you want me to look up something else.

and my axe deduping. all those dlls and wine prefixes that contain them occupy space only once.

did you try it with an external monitor? I guess keyboard and mouse shouldn’t be a problem

mergerfs combines all those drives/mounts/etc into one. so if you have e.g. “Movies” folders on two drives, the new one has one “Movies” folder with the combined contents of those two drives. when writing to this array, the files are stored where there’s (more) space. so searching stuff recursively is simple.

needless to say, there is no redundancy so if a drive dies, its conent is gone from the array.

I’m really sorry for reiterating this, but what you wrote also implies that movies that weren’t on any list will also be deleted (don’t want that), along with the movies that were on a list and now aren’t (do want that). do you have first-hand experience with this?

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tried it, that’s the opposite of what I need. that app guesses what’s going on with the battery, based on prolonged usage patterns. I need something that talks to the battery controller and gives me numbers I can use.

tried it, that’s the opposite of what I need. that app guesses what’s going on with the battery, based on prolonged usage patterns. I need something that talks to the battery controller and gives me numbers I can use.

it is, that’s why I’m looking to linux to overcome the fault; like GRUB can cut out a piece of faulty RAM and work without issues.

thanks. unfortunately, didn’t fix my problem.

I also have a T480s with similar hardware to your Dell and it works without issues, no kernel switches necessary.

tried a bunch of those, did modinfo i915 and then tried all that looked power management related, and in both directions. here’s one of those attempts:

just wish I could somehow do a snapshot of all kernel and other settings when with and without battery and deduce the difference, but I’m coming up short.

I’ll try to rephrase this and post again, as people assume I’m looking for hardware troubleshooting help.

I have an issue involving similar hardware, can you share the mandatory stuff for 8th gen iGPUs? read through the intel_graphics article but found no direct mention.

did you try the i8k module?