I had a heat pump and you could barely hear it outside. I had to be within 10ft to hear it running. It could be an age thing too. Mine was installed within the past 3 years, so that probably helps too.
I have recently repurposed and old Hp Stream to a home server and successfully run Immich. I really like it and even a small 500GB disk is way more than the 15GB Google offers....
I do. And since I’ve been slowly taking back control over all my online stuff as much as I can, I’m very happy with it. It gives me peace of mind it’s secure and I am super unlikely to just lose it.
I use backblaze on my synology. I backup photos automatically to it with their built in app on my phone, then every night I run encryped backups. I also could setup an encrypted backup to go to my parent’s synology.
My backup is about 900gb and costs <$5/mo. That is my music, pictures, movies, and TV shows. Obviously that will increase, but well worth the nominal coat to have that much backup encrypted and in the cloud.
Do you have a heat pump? Is it noisy?
Riffing off the earlier post about heat pumps in cold weather (lemmy.world/post/10270502), how much noise does your heat pump make?...
worth selfhosting immich or similar? what about backups?
I have recently repurposed and old Hp Stream to a home server and successfully run Immich. I really like it and even a small 500GB disk is way more than the 15GB Google offers....