u/Juggernaut_911

First post here!

I have got this 500GB WD green laying around home in this 3.5" enclosure and an orangePi getting the dust in a closer (i thought it was dead but good to know it didn't fail on me at least).

The results is a beautiful but essential low cost NAS. Orange Pi Zero2 with quad core cortex A15 @ 1.5ghz, 1GB DDR3 and 32GB SD card using zram and Log2Ram for preserving ram usage and sd card RW.

Pity that i have a USB2 port for the enclosure that is designed for the 3.0, but well better than nothing.

I tried with OMV for now and Debian 12 Bookworm and so far it works very well. Transfers are around 40mb/s over LAN but still, very happy as a first result. I will use it!

I'd like to tell this short story.

I have a best friend and we know each other for 23 years (we met in 2003 on a GTA roleplay forum), sharing literally everything: going out, traveling (recently), gaming sessions, even late till dawn. Since the day I've met him he hasn't been lucky with work, financial stability, relationship or money. He's going through a serious situation where his father will have to undergo on dialysis due to failed kidneys while he (my best friend) ended up to have a colon cancer in 2018 with his back that is going into pieces (the colon surgery after therapy is fine, he needs regular checkups). In short, he's not doing well but much better compared to what it was 10-15 years ago. He bought a car after many sacrifices after using his parents' car until a couple of years ago to go to work so just to let you know how bad his situation was.

In any case, I supported him and tried to help him in gaming and in our PC Master Race world in every way, and after some sacrifices (at least a year ago) he bought himself an RTX 5070 and a Corsair RM750X PSU at a very low discount on Amazon (€500 for the GPU).

Right now he has a 2019 setup (Z390 + 9600K + 4x8GB DDR4) that he can't upgrade due to the Rampocalypse and is starting to bottleneck his graphics card, so I decided to do what very few people would do: give him a gift to help.
He recently accompanied me on a challenging 2,000km road trip, hosted me at his house and everything else, so I could rest and go back home safely... And I intend to pay back the favour in this way.

I'm sure he won't touch his new setup for the next seven years, and this thread isn't about asking if the components are good or not; I just want to share this story.
Anyway, he knows I gifted him the fans as a late birthday present, but he doesn't know about the motherboard and processor, so it will be a nice surprise.

I'm a big believer in Karma, even when I don't expect anything back.
Also, if you have a friend, a best friend, or a loved one who's having a hard time and can't upgrade their PC because of this RAM and SSD mess, just do it. Money come and go but seeing someone happy is priceless. Do it without asking anything back.

Life is once, make it worth for someone else.

Sincerely,
A PC gamer like all of you