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    Raid Card or ZFS?

    So while this does NOT replace backups. ZFS does have a neat feature that can give your data even more safety. Snapshots, ZFS is a copy-on-write filesystem which gives you basically performance free snapshots (you must enable it). So if you do regular snapshots and get affected by a ransom...
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    Hardest component to pick in a massive Home Storage Solution

    I would not disable the fans, backplane sure but fans not sure about.
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    Hardest component to pick in a massive Home Storage Solution

    Interesting that your chassis did not get shipped on a pallet. My Supermicro was shipped on pallet and yes it is heavy. I actually had to ship it to my office since the shipper required truck dock. I got it home in a pickup. As for the holes, you do not want to modify them most likely they...
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    Hardest component to pick in a massive Home Storage Solution

    A good redundant PSU and the backplane are not exactly cheap. The PSU will run you around $500 by itself easily. Backplane though should not be more than $100 at most. So that gets you within $400.
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    Hardest component to pick in a massive Home Storage Solution

    I would stay away from NORCO. They are much cheaper for a very good reason. I love my Supermicro and considered the NORCO for a while before deciding on the Supermicro. Biggest factors for me was I want redunandant PSU and the Supermicro comes with it, NORCO did not and that alone brought the...
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    Issues with Unfi UAP-PRO-AC

    So to my surprise Unifying Solution the company I ordered mine from got back to me and already shipped a replacement unit and provided a return label. Gotta say I love that response time for Christmas Eve, would have totally been fine with them getting back with me on Monday.
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    Issues with Unfi UAP-PRO-AC

    Yep after another 30 minutes I packed it up and sent an email out to get an rma. Being Christmas Eve I do not expect it to get a response until next week. You ever get success with unifi? I may just ask for a refund and go a different route.
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    Issues with Unfi UAP-PRO-AC

    Just picked up a Unfi UAP-PRO-AC. So far not very impressed with it. My aging Cisco WAP4410 while not liked by many has run perfectly (albeit slow for an N AP) without issues for years. Wanting to upgrade to both 5Ghz and AC I decided on this device since Unifi seems highly rated. So far...
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    Raid-1 Raid-10 Questions

    This is a consumer software raid solution and I have never seen those as being all that great. You probably better off with no RAID than that for stability. If you want RAID1 level storage and do not want to get a proper raid controller then I would just do it in the OS and leave those...
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    Raid-1 Raid-10 Questions

    Running two SAS 9207-9i cards with dual E5 CPU and 96GB RAM so yeah not really a home computer.
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    Raid-1 Raid-10 Questions

    3-way mirror is possible with all 3 drives active, not hot spare. And you can have as many disks in a 10 as you like. I am currently running 14 disks in a 10 array.
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    Is there some new kind of DHCP ? What's going on here ?

    Another solution is check the ISP support, they may have an automated way to reset your assigned MAC on your account. Or you may have to call support and have them do it.
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    Ethernet cabling in new house? Shielding, Cat 5/6/7/fiber?

    I used both pull string and fish tape. Had to use fish tape once the pull string got too tangled.
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    Ethernet cabling in new house? Shielding, Cat 5/6/7/fiber?

    Have you actually run cable through it after the fact? I have an it is not good, I ended up cutting a hole at the very gradual bend to pull the cable through. It was actually 2 45 degree bends separated by about 1 foot. After a few pulls it was worthless. Note it was 2" smooth conduit
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    Ethernet cabling in new house? Shielding, Cat 5/6/7/fiber?

    Everyone says put conduit it you can pull cable later. Great advice if you follow 1 rule, all conduit must be straight, no turns at all. If you need a turn you need a junction box to pull through. Reason for this is once you add a couple of cables you will not be able to pull anything through...
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