hardware

Hi people, based on an older video, I bought the following Hardware for a little vm server. HUNSN Micro Firewall Appliance, Mini PC, VPN, Router PC, Intel Core I5 1240P, RJ50f, AES-NI, 4 x 2.5GbE I226-V, 2 x SFP+ Optical 10Gbe 82599ES, Barebone, NO RAM, NO Storage, NO System: Amazon.de...

Hello everyone :) In a homelab / home network, the main priorities are usually: energy-efficient, small, quiet. Noise isn't an issue for me, as it's absorbed. As for hardware requirements, here's what I have in mind: pfSense/OPNsense Typically no more than 5 users The full bandwidth of the...

Hello everyone, I currently have a basic homelab comprising of a low end NUC machine running homeassistant and a synology NAS that serves double duty of data warehousing and also hosting a bunch of other services I use via docker. This includes things like Pi-hole, portainer, *arr stack, amongst...

Here we go ... so for the mobo, cpu's, ram and cooler I prefer a single sale. Hence the discount. I don't want to get stuck with a few modules or cpu's that won't sell. For all items: 100% working! Stuff ran for years 24/7 with no issues whatsoever. Mobo and Xeon Silver are 3,5 years old. Xeon...

I currently run pfSense on a SuperMicro microATX board with intel i3-6100, 16GB ECC RAM, and a quad Intel 1GB NIC in a small Fractal Design Core 1100 mini tower case. It is rock solid and zero complaints other than the space it takes up. Given the plethora of mini PCs out there that could...

Hello, I'm looking for a 1u firewall appliance for OPNSense to replace my Supermicro Atom firewall. Anyone have experience with the HUNSN RS06k? Intel N5105 6 x Intel I226-V 2.5Gbe 16G RAM 512G SSD I will need it to handle: 1gb symmetric connection 2.5gb nics (dont need 10gb) Firewalling...

Hi, I watched a bunch of videos on YT how to get an old enterprise server and make it work as home media device or a home server, the things are pretty cheap, but I'm also a pretty poor student, so I'd rather not experiment with parts that might not work. I'm planning to go with DebianEdu or...

I ran `iperf3` between two Windows machines and noticed that the speeds were not symmetric. I tested using both the built-in 1-gigabit Ethernet adapters in each machine as well as with 10-gigabit Mellanox ConnectX-2 cards in both machines. Here's the relevant output. I address the 10-gigabit...

Hi, so i am looking for a cpu/mb for over two weeks now, but there is just so much to choose from and i dont want to buy sth i regret when its too late. I am currently planing a home server that will handle everything that needs to be on 24/7 (cctv, nextcloud, HA) to be able to switch my main...

Hi All, I have been attempting to plan my server build for a few weeks, I know what I want it to do, but I don't know what components to use. My real problems finding the CPU/MOBO, but if you see any other glaring problems I would appreciate your input. I have a budget of around...

Dear fellow NAS-builders, after sailing the sea of infinite combinations for days, I feel finally slightly more informed than confused. This is a simple "what should I go for" question. Requirements: - 8+ Threads (A fair amount of stuff will be going on aside from ZFS such as CI/CD Piplines...

Does anyone see any "gotchas" with the card below? Looks to be TCP/IP network interface cards, I was thinking these may be a good upgrade from my current 10gb direct connect networking. What do you all think...

I've had my dl360p G8 a little while now, probably about a year. ESXi 6.5 U3 2x Xeon E5-2630v2 48 GB RAM 4x 600GB 2.5" SAS HDD 2x 750w PSU Over the course of the year I've realised that whilst I really like this piece of kit, it's just too loud(whiiiiirrrrrrrrR) and power hungry (last months...

I'm about to build my first production ceph cluster after goofing around in the lab for a while. I'd like some recommendations on hardware and setup before rushing to buy hardware and making wrong decisions. My goal is to start small with 3 nodes to start using ceph for daily tasks and start...

Hello, Does anyone have experience or owns an OSN 500 and can tell me about its performance?

Considering building a pfsense or opnsense box for home use. 500/500 fiber connection. would like decent performance with suricata, vpn ++ Been looking at the mbt-4220 system for $199, but they don’t ship to Norway, and I’m not sure how much vpn performance I’d get. 2Gb ram is also not much, if...

Hi all, Found this deal on eBay, was hoping someone can give some advice on it, mainly, is hardware like this still worth it etc. Dell Poweredge R710 2x Intel Xeon X5690 6C 12T 3.47GHz 16GB DDR3 RAM 6x 3.5" SATA/SAS bays Included with 5x300GB 10k SAS drives 2x870W Gold rated PSU Perc6/I RAID...

Hi all, New to the forum so hello all I wrote about this in much more detail on my blog here with instructions. I recently installed dual fans on my Gen 8 heatsink after installing the Intel Core i3 3240 processor. Installing the i3 processor gave me a huge increase in performance but...

I recently bought a brand new Voltaire 30035/4036E-LM (low memory version) and have a few general questions that I haven't seen asked or answered. How do I save my running config on the switch to itself (unfortunately I'm not able to run it 24/7), I did a reload thinking it'd save the config...