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So....to provide reasonable protection, and power for a few network devices for a short period of time (perhaps even <1 hour) but not servers, using conventional home power input, what what you get? Tripp Lite SMART1500LCDXL? CyberPower OR500LCDRM1U? Eaton 5P? Something else?

Any double-conversion UPS that seem better (reasonable quality, reasonable cost) than the others? This one? https://www.apc.com/us/en/product/SRT1500RMXLA/apc-smartups-srt-1500va-120v-lcd-rackmount-2u-6x-nema-515r-outlets/?range=61918-smartups-online&selected-node-id=27162421315

What do people suggest for power protection/distribution for a home lab and home office? We are doing some basement renovation including a small server room. Unfortunately, when somebody was trying to figure out the circuit breakers they may have repeatedly turned power off/on, and it seems to...

What are people using or recommending for monitors in 2022? I mostly do office work, have enjoyed dual and quad 27" 2K display setups in the past, and do a little gaming. I'm redoing my office so now would seem like the time to jump into 27+" 4K monitors.

If I wanted to take a motherboard (ASRock Rack C236 WS) I'm using to run TrueNAS and turn it into a desktop PC for light use, would I see much benefit to putting an M.2 SSD into a PCIe (3.0) adapter versus just using SATA? Is there a preferred reliable M.2 to PCIe adapter or are they all about...

IIRC, CrashPlan had a nice data deduplication feature...that seemed remarkably similar to the ZFS feature. Do you know if they actually run on ZFS?

I loved Crashplan....didn't they pull out of the consumer market?

I use a variety of consumer wireless routers (4) as APs to cover my house/property, some of which I flashed to DDWRT, connected to a Netgate 3100 router. Any major advantage of moving away from consumer wifi routers in favor of dedicated APs?

I am redoing my basement and server room (closet) and continue to use 4 TB drives from 2017-2018. SSDs are still too expensive for me.

Hmmm...fiber may not offer much increased lightning protection, may be more susceptive to physical damage, might be a pain in the butt to install (I had some insulation copiously sprayed in the basement, including over the bit of conduit that it uses to leave the house), and the speed advantage...

Indeed. I've now been a practicing cardiologist for 5 years! Computers remains one of my few hobbies to (try to) keep me sane.

I'm a little concerned about trying to run multiple pre-terminated OC3 (LC) cables given the bulk of the connectors - the conduit I have to work with is only 1" in diameter.

In my server room I have a new Mikrotik CRS328-24P-4S+RM. If I ran fiber to the detached garage I was thinking of using a Mikrotik CRS305-1G-4S+IN and use the 1GBE port to connect to the existing switch which has a bunch of POE ports for my cameras.

What do you guys use for your OS on FreeNAS/TrueNAS? A USB flash drive? Conventional 2.5" SSD? A SATADOM? The FreeNAS material used to strongly suggest a USB key (to avoid taking up an unnecessary SATA port, but ServeTheHome argues that USB flash drives may not be particularly reliable. Do you...

I talked with the folks at SR immediately after the DB crash. No real backup due to user error. Lessons learned!

Long time since I've been around! Great to see conversations still going! I too am moving to 10GB due to large file transfers. I have a detached garage with a single run of Cat6 where I have a Wifi access point, some POE cameras, and a TrueNAS Core box. I'm considering if I should replace the...

We do have natural gas. Will look into a generator at some point. But for now I just want to power a few key items that I hope draw relatively little power.

I'm hoping the draw would be fairly minimal for just a modem, router, switch, and two home automation thingies. I'll have to do the math. Frequency of events is probably minimal - few times per year.

Hey Gang, My family and I successfully made the move to Wisconsin. We're about done re-configuring our basement, which will include a "server room". So far it has it's own 20 amp circuit and the cable modem/router/switches/smart things hub/garage door controller, and perhaps other stuff will go...

Sorry to jump in late. Just moved and will be tweaking, but my basic system involves backing up via CrashPlan to the cloud, backing up via CrashPlan to an NFS shared FreeNAS-hosted ZFS 8-drived mirrored stripe (~RAID 10). I also use Deja-dup to copy everything to another internal drive. I've...

No, thanks for pointing that out!

I did the rc.local trick outlined here and it worked!

And after I put it in the fstab I can't boot into gnome shell and get kicked to the command line.

The disks are no longer in my fstab. I guess I could try putting them back in. I use the set mountpoint command and rebuilt the cash, and no joy. On boot I still get "no pools available". From last night I see: Device dev-disk-by\x2dpartlabel-zfs.device appeared twice with different sysfs...

Ubuntu 15.04. Uses systemd. I can install ZFS on Linux such that it appears to be running when I first log on ("$ dmesg | grep ZFS[ 134.263583] ZFS: Loaded module v0.6.4.1-1~vivid, ZFS pool version 5000, ZFS filesystem version 5"). I can run zpool status and see that my pools are there. Set...

No, /home was not it's own partition before. TRIM support is on. I realized that I could boot a different Linux distro off of a different drive, access /home and delete the redundant contents. Booted back to the original distro, and all is well.

So, I managed to move my home folder over to a ZFS pool since my boot disk (SSD) was running low on space. Not too hard, just used the zfs mountpoint command and replaced /home with a zpool. Except it looks like what was in my prior home folder is still using disk space on the SSD. Does anybody...

I want a local number where I'm moving.

My wife and I have had our current phone numbers for 13 years. We're moving to a different area code and want to get local phone numbers but we're not ready to give up our old numbers. I'm also planning on switching us from AT&T to Verizon. We'd like to overlap the new and old numbers if...

Thanks, Merc. Stereo is just fine for now - we're still using the built in speakers in the TV.

oh man, I also have my old HTPC upstairs - an AMD X4 640 (Propus) with 4 GB of RAM. The tiny little fan was way too loud so replaced it with an Amazon Fire TV, and it plays movies via Plex well. Any obvious use for the X4 640 these days?

And I've also got a 3570k laying around now. Any reason to favor a 3570k over a 2600k for Plex?

Handy, how did you do ZFS in Linux? FUSE? Kernel port? I'm thinking I might keep my local copy in Linux on Ext4 for speed and simplicity. But maybe not. I've enjoyed using FUSE. I've deployed a Linux mint machine using ZFS-FUSE to my parents home and running a CrashPlan client to do off-site...

Thanks, Handy!

Handy, why did you do 4 runs of Cat6 to each room? Did you think you might have up to 4 computers in a room? Were you considering bonding/link aggregation?

Hey Gang, My main machine is 4 years old (2600k, running at 4.4 GHz) and still running Windows 7. Its performance has some issues, and it feels glitchy. I'm also tired of windows, and my reasons for sticking with Windows are fading. So I recently rebuilt my previous linux machine using an i7...

I thought it was a little odd at the interview when they asked about my experience treating bratwurst-related injuries, favorite way to eat cheese curds, and alluded to the requirement to get a Packers tattoo within 30 days of starting. If you guys are ever nearby, let me know!

Done with training (cardiology/echocardiography fellowship), moving to first real job in Eau Claire, WI!

I'm moving! New job, new city. Yay! Anyway, I'll be setting up a gigabit network. I'll need to look more at the home to decide if I'll run the cables myself or pay somebody to go through walls for me. I understand that cat6 allows for 10 gigabit ethernet for future compatibility (I hope to be...

Anybody have opinions on the Macbook pros? Looking for a nice laptop, wouldn't mind the jump to OSX. Would want to run some VMs (Linux distros, maybe Windows). Want Retina display. Thinking MacBook pro, 256 GB SSD (how much room does the OS take?), 16 GB RAM. Might do some light gaming but not...

GTX460 on my Windows machine, integrated Intel graphics from an Ivy Bridge chip on the Linux machine.

My old cheapy 28" LCD died. I need a second monitor. I use a USB switch and multiple monitor inputs (HDMI and DVI) to juggle two PCs into two monitors, one Windows 7, the other Linux (currently Linux Mint). I'd like a monitor in the 27-30" range. Most of the time I do office work on it, some...

So would you rip the DVD to disk and then later transcode it? Anybody have a favorite ripping program for Linux?

Not planning on encoding that much, but this is becoming a bigger piece of my computing life so I was basing my next computer build around this type of workload. I just don't game anymore.

Any reason my old Asrock Z77 motherboard couldn't use the newer Devil's Canyon chips like the 4790? Wondering if the simplest solution is just to drop in a new chip. Is hyperthreading helpful for video transcoding?

Would VT-d and transactional memory (in the new Devil's Canyon chips, like the 4790) be of any benefit on my encoding machine that might also run some virtual machines?

It looks like the cheapest 6-core LGA2011 CPU is an E5-2620 Sandy Bridge-EP, for around $400. Does this seem right? Handbrake using x264 definitely saturates all 4 (physical) cores of my 3570. IIRC, doesn't the newer chips use AVX or some other extensions to speed h264 encoding? Not sure it...

Handbrake. DVDs to h.264. Onboard video, presume it's all CPU-based. Maxes out my 3570s 4 cores. Takes 30 minutes now. Would be great it it could take half that time.

My i5 3570 is feeling a little pokey trancoding video. Will I get much improvement using a newer CPU? Would a Xeon be worth it? I would want to run it stock and not OC it. Would prefer to spend <$500 on a new motherboard and CPU, and I already have 32 GB of DDR3-1600 RAM I'd want to recycle.

Was the FreeNAS machine using ZFS? I think I shared earlier a little about how performance increased significantly when I went to a more beefier machine that included lots more RAM - I think you might have been the one to point this out.