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Bioses and drivers keep getting better, it's only a matter of time before things completely stabilise

What about a mikrotik CRS210?

I feed tvheadend from my hdhomerun, then use a kodi plugin to talk to it.

I've moved to TvHeadend from Myth. Much easier setup, and lower amounts of messing around.

I stand corrected (one of the only "k" CPUs with vt-d on that socket)

You can't passthrough using a 4790k - it doesn't have VT-D support. Aside from that, looks good. You need to pass the 9210 through to the VM

Been playing redout lately, insanely fast fun. Haven't touched multiplayer yet though

That's pretty cheap

re ZFS: Raid 10 for Vpools is perfectly acceptable - as in adding disks in mirrored pairs in zfs. There's no reason that this can't be used at home (aside from cost). They can even be different sizes.

The T420 certainly does, though I highly recommend chelsio's driver rather than VMware's

Stay safe..

Urm.. get ecc if you can afford it. (not listed above in your posts) Mirrored pools make a lot of sense if you have the intention of adding drives. Re Backups, usually things fall into one of 4 categories: 1. Not super critical if you lose 2. Mildly annoying but recoverable/rebuildable if you...

There are levels of paranoia I suppose

Wouldn't a UPS and something that writes the ram to a drive, like a shutdown script, solve that issue?

Ok I get that Zeusram drives are fast, what I don't understand is why someone would get one, versus 8 gb more ram if the latter is a possibility. Could someone please enlighten me?

So long as you add pairs or greater, you can expand zfs. Basically adding raid 1 pairs as you need storage. BTRFS isn't ready for prime time. It just isn't. I wish it were, but it isn't.

Sophos uses snort for it's IPS - snort is single threaded. Sophos gets around this by firing up multiple snort instances if requested: You experience a lower level of IPS performance than you expect on your UTM - Sophos Community

The HP 1810 switches are lovely, cheap and just work. That said, if you can spring for one, the mikrotik CRS226 + a 10 gig card for the pfsense/virtual environment would be better...

Ok. One key thing that comes to mind is Snort. Snort is single threaded, thus the faster your snort thread can go, the faster throughput you will be able to achieve. The N/J series chips will be slower for this than the U chips.

If all you are doing is routing, the J1900/N3150 would be sufficient. I run suricata and pfblocker as well as a 30-40Mbit VPN and a few other things. I wouldn't want one of those boxes for this use