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Choose a switch wisely and you likely won't touch it for years. Most "enterprise-y" switches come with both options (F->R air flow or R->F airflow). p.s. Somewhat OCD but...there is zero reason to mount a switch with the ports facing the front. Just doesn't make sense. p.p.s Switch stacks are...

You should see the new Apple "Liquid Glass" UI...

:) Good decision.

Actually, there is some *sense* in keeping a few things bare metal. Firewall/Router and Storage are the primary candidates to be on bare metal. Home assistant is an interesting beast. Yes, you could run it virtual, but if you intend on going really deep into it, device connectivity "may" become...

It's all good. More options are never a bad thing.

I actually like the layout and structure of pfSense better. But...ethics man...didn't have a choice.

This is true to a large extent. I tested 40/56gb network transfers with/without RDMA. Without RDMA - CPU usage on the Truenas end = ~27% of an 8 core CPU, with ~3GB/s throughput With RDMA - CPU usage on the Truenas end = ~10% of an 8 core CPU, with ~4.8GB/s throughput

It's not required but...I'd never run a file server without it. I mean..do you drive without seatbelts?? :)

pfft. The Truenas guys can go... Hardware raid works just fine, even GREAT with ZFS. You get all the benefits of ZFS and all the benefits of modern RAID.

There. :) Why? Because...in 2026 it is hard to find to find a NAS OS/software that can't do more. Take Truenas as an e.g., one of the more popular ones. - You could literally setup a SMB setup with NAS functions, private cloud, VPN, hosting, source control, HR functions, etc etc...all on a...

I hate AI slop...

Yes. Yes. You do wanna update that. The built-in driver in Windows is fairly out of date. Download it from the Microsemi site.

Actually no. What I do is...very compute and storage intensive. I'm consuming the entire market feed on all US exchanges...in realtime. And then running computations on it...on thousands of instruments. And then storing the "outcomes" and then..distributing them... and then... :) All this...

Financial/Capital markets. Stocks, Bonds, Futures, Options, Derivatives...

There aren't dedicated system admins anywhere..:) They went the way of the dodo when "cloud" became the buzzword. I'm not a sysadmin, I don't want to be a sysadmin, but...I run a business, and it's all on-prem, because "cloud" would be...well...multitudes more expensive. Like 20x to 40x more...

It does, but it's a necessary evil. If you're managing a fleet of machines, then...manual provisioning is just painful, and the complexity is worth it. On the other hand, if you only have a machine or two, there's no need for provisioning at all, the complexity is just not worth it. I'm not...

I don't do much of Windows these days (for reasons we all are pretty well aware of), but Linux auto provisioning is easy. - I run a self hosted Netboot.xyz with a dedicated VLAN for provisioning. Netboot.xyz handles the TFTP/HTTP part of delivering the boot loader and iPXE. - The switches are...

See...that is a problem. The fact that you said usually.. Hardware and Software is supposed to be deterministic. If it does something one way, it is supposed to do it the exact same way every single time. Not just sometimes. The current incarnation of "AIs" is anything but deterministic. Yes...