diffraa

joined 2 years ago
[–] diffraa@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

update yo shiz

 

For reasons unexplained, you have no homelab hardware, but $1,000 in cash earmarked for the purpose.

What are you buying, what are you installing on it, and how is it different from what you've done previously (i.e. lessons learned)?

[–] diffraa@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

Fastmail or mxroute

[–] diffraa@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

The best part of those machines was the warranty service, which I used regularly when I was supporting these machines in production.

[–] diffraa@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

opnsense seems to be made by people who don't hate me, so I use that.

[–] diffraa@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Do you run into issues with anti cheat?

[–] diffraa@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

Got a friend with a 3d printer? You can make anything rackmount if you try hard enough :)

[–] diffraa@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

You're rebooting them for update right?

right?

[–] diffraa@alien.top 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Based on the experiences I've seen on this subreddit, the solution is to buy a floor to ceiling 42u rack

[–] diffraa@alien.top 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

To be fair the windows model is more or less "Yes mr ransomware developer, you can do whatever you want"

[–] diffraa@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

That's the key with these. My storage box has 16x3tb, all similar used enterprise sas drives, but I've got 2x raidz2s and 2 hot spares on top of it. Important stuff is backed up to a 8TB external or Wasabi. alternate between scrubs and long SMART tests weekly.