Software Engineer, nerd, homelaber

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  • Petri@lemmy.mlOPtohomelab@lemmy.mlNas case suggestions
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    1 year ago

    Time is merely a perspective. I’ve been doing this for 20 years.

    Perhaps it is overblown, but one of the reasons I have 8 drives is because I wanted to run raidz2 for the extra redundancy. I’ve had multiple drives die before and so as disk sizes have gone up more redundancy has been important (at least I thought so).

    So when my first ZFS NAS (4 disks) developed hardware failure, I decided to get more serious about it. Hence larger rack device with a proper Xeon with ECC memory and an HBA for 8 disks + 2 SSDs and the old drives that survived as a play space. I’ve also used this server now for 9 years.














  • I’m not sure what you mean. It’s true often setting up openwrt on some hardware can be difficult. Some though are not as hard, I had ok luck with some Asus routers; there is a list of hardware and features on openwrt website.

    Unfortunately, as I said, there are no wifi 6 routers supported by openwrt. So I’m not using it anymore.



  • Have had the TP Link Deco units installed for a few days now.

    They are pretty good. I’m basically able to suck up the entire bandwidth of my 500/500 fiber line directly over the wifi.

    On top of that, the mesh support has been good, connecting me to the best node and passing mobile devices between nodes well.

    They also have two modes BTW - normal gateway mode and just AP mode - for those who want to park them behind a pfsense router.

    The janky things about them are their setup encourages you to setup via their app with an account, which many here will find at best distasteful.