I’m currently running pfsense, and then mikrotik and ubiquiti switched and ubiquiti AP’s. I’m slowly removing the ubiquiti switches and moving to mikrotik as I’m upgrading to 10gbe. Mikrotik switches have a reputation of being reliable, capable, and cheap-ish. So far I like them. While I love ubiquiti’s single pane of glass approach with the unifi controller, I wanted to get away from that a bit. I work in IT, and most things I encounter don’t have that… And are configured via cli and or web interface. When I built my home network I jumped into ubiquiti for the ease. Now I’m back tracking for more learning.

At that depth, I feel like creaking and cracking is probably common. However, I don’t think there would be any spraying as an indicator. Based on this tweet I saw earlier.

Incase anyone is wondering… Little clip of an implosion

RIP to those who parished. I think most can take solace knowing that if it turns out to be true that it was an implosion, it would have been instant, and the occupants likely felt nothing. .

I’m running Trunas. I’ve been using it for many years, and it’s been an fantastic solution for me.

As far as resources, what do you mean? It’s an older server, so Google is your friend for sure. But I’ve had zero issues sourcing parts that I may have needed.

• Radarr
• Sonarr
• Lidarr
• Prowlarr
• Plex
• Pihole
• Papermerge
• Syncthing
• Guacamole
• Klipper
• Octoprint

There’s probably others. Just a quick off the top of my head list.

I was using a home built machine for several years as a Nas, and it was fine, but I ultimately upgraded to a Dell R510. They can be had pretty cheap, and have 12x 3.5" bays. I also added an HBA that I plug into a Lenovo sa120 (direct attached storage) I bought, for a total of 24x 3.5" drives.

I mention the sa120 because it just leads to expandability down the road for you. My r510 is one of my most favorite machines. I’m currently migrating data from 15x 4tb drives, over to 6x 10tb drives and I’m going to be shutting the DAS down to save electricity.

The r510 isn’t easy on electric usage, but it has been Rock solid for me.

How do you like vyos? I had looked into it, and it seemed a little cumbersome last time I looked at it. I believe it’s entirely cli? I suppose that’s not a bad thing, but sometimes a gui is nice.