Recent content by Thomas H

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    Brocade ICX6450-48P $99.99 or best offer shipped

    These are great for the price! Paid $130 for mines.
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    US $192 ($190 BO) Great deal on a Quanta D51B-2U 2u Chassis

    That kills it for me. Any recommendations for quieter ones?
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    Ruckus R500 for $50 or maybe an offer for 3x R500 for $40 each

    check out https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/ruckus-wireless-as-an-unifi-alternative.26384/
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    Ruckus Wireless as an Unifi alternative?

    Technical Support!! I almost forgot this. Are there any technical support, phone or chat or email, available for EOL products? My experience with Ubiquiti, they don't have phone support but they have live chat 24/7. I have ran into issues like factory reset did not work, clients suddenly cannot...
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    Simple Home Network Advice

    You friend did it right by running 2 network/2 video to every room. Like your electrical outlets, there is not "too much". You will thank him later. This will be more apparent later as we have more uses (ip cameras, video conferencing, wireless access points, iot, etc.) and as the home gets...
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    Ruckus Wireless as an Unifi alternative?

    Excellent summary. Thank you! New to Ruckus antenna patterns. What does it mean to have 64 vs 512 vs 4000 different antenna patterns?Practical use? For some best practices question on number of APs, placement and orientation: Scenario A: residential home 24'x60' with attic and crawlspace, up...
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    Ruckus R500 for $50 or maybe an offer for 3x R500 for $40 each

    Base only means no mounting brackets, correct? If so, how do I mount to wall or ceiling? Are there screw holes on the base?
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    Ruckus Wireless as an Unifi alternative?

    The R500 at $50 each ($40 each for 3x) sounds like a great deal. Is it worth the upgrade over my UniFi AC Pro/Lite APs? How do I choose which Ruckus AP like R710 vs R610 vs R510 vs R500, etc.
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    Cache plans for ZFS server

    Are you saying layout ZFS pools as so: Primary Pool: stripe all drives (i.e., no RAIDZ redundancy/mirror) caching not needed (even RAM?) Pros: fastest data with the benefits of ZFS Cons: any drive down will lose all data (from last backup), downtime until restored, is prone to bit-rot?? Backup...
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    Brocade ICX Series (cheap & powerful 10gbE/40gbE switching)

    What I want actually is to enable PoE on all ports and have it auto detect PoE. Is there a command for this?
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    Brocade ICX Series (cheap & powerful 10gbE/40gbE switching)

    I followed your update guides updating firmware and PoE. What commands do I execute to empty config? How do I do a factory reset? I browsed through the manuals and can't find this information. edit: Went through your "Setting up Brocade ICX6450" guide again and see "factory set-default"...
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    Need Advice Building a 16+ ZFS NAS

    Are you saying SuperMicro storage cases like SC826, SC836, SC846, SC847, etc. are very loud? Any JBOD cases you recommend? I am starting to read up on SAS expanders. The 6X SSDs I have are HGST HUSMR1650ASS204 (aka Ultrastar SSD1600MR) drives. If I have 6 SSDs (12Gb/s SAS) and 10 HDDs (SATA3)...
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    Brocade ICX Series (cheap & powerful 10gbE/40gbE switching)

    Picked up a ICX-6450 unit on eBay. Do I have a defective unit with PoE problem? From web GUI: Under Inline Power Statistics, I see four "PD Detection Fault" From console (reload): Stack unit 1 PS 1, Internal Power supply detected and up. Stack unit 1 PS 1, Internal Power supply detected and...
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    Need Advice Building a 16+ ZFS NAS

    I want to build a 16 drive ZFS NAS with 10G NIC. Possibly want to expand in the future. Currently, I have 10 HDDs and 6 SSDs. These will be in two ZFS RAIDZ2 pools respectively. General usage will be slower HDDs for media and faster SDDs for VMs. For 10G networking I have HP 649281-B21 adapter...
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    Some SAS Cards

    I am following your thread "Flash/Crossflash DELL H330 RAID Card to HBA330/12Gbps HBA IT Firmware." So isn't this the same SAS3008 so virtually same as Dell H330 card?