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  • root@sw-core> show system uptime
    fpc0:
    --------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Current time: 2023-11-30 12:31:41 UTC
    Time Source: LOCAL CLOCK
    System booted: 2023-04-01 10:08:51 UTC (34w5d 02:22 ago)
    Protocols started: 2023-04-01 10:14:36 UTC (34w5d 02:17 ago)
    Last configured: 2023-11-12 12:38:21 UTC (2w3d 23:53 ago) by root
    12:31PM up 243 days, 2:23, 1 user, load averages: 0.16, 0.08, 0.08





  • yes and no.

    you might be able to bond two connection but it is preferable to use LACP and that is normally not available on standard windows drivers / NICs.

    on top of that you’re internet speed won’t go beyond 2.5G for a single session. lets say you download games from stream = you will be limited to 2.5G. But you might be able to download a game from steam at 2.5G/s and another one from EA at 2.5G.

    also bear in mind that no HD will be able to save things at 3G/s and a SSD might be able to saturate it f you’re lucky.

    if you decided to get a 3G connection you must have been thinking about 10G all the way?





  • a good backup strategy should follow the 3-2-1 rule (I recommend google it so you understand the concept)

    I use tape for the pure purpose of easily having a backup offsite. Even if we don’t foresee [insert your worst nightmare] happening it might, and having your data save outside of your house is for me a must.

    Now its quite easy to store pictures and documents in the cloud and its fairly safe, but storing a lot of virtual machines, databases etc. in the cloud can be expensive. Storing the data on hard drives might be easy, but in 10 years who knows what interfaces your computer will have, that will be compatible? Also hard drives are clumsy.

    Tapes allows me to take a backup every night, every week, and a monthly backup, as well as one quarterly backup without having to having to buy 10 hard drives.

    I can easily store each tape at remote locations. Currently I only have tapes at work and at a family place, but all in the same city. Backups have saved my life 10+ times due to hardware issues.

    A tapeloader might be better than having a single backup drive, but is more expensive and would require a tape backup software that can handle the loader.




  • I don’t need to worry about getting appropriate local storage for the computers that host these services

    not sure I understand, what OS should these computers run? should this also be NAS storage? Or is it just the database filesystem that should be on the NAS?

    honestly it looks like you don’t have the knowhow to setup shared storage, it seems you are more a developer type of person, so KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid)

    run local storage, your databases won’t be even gigabytes in size, get some cheap SSD drives instead (SATA) if you want I/O.

    also all your databased won’t dive when your accidentally pull the power plug to your NAS or trip over the ethernet cable.


  • I have never used TrueNAS but I guess you could provision a separate volume and use iSCSI on top of that, and serve your very large database just to make things easier.

    you can in theory connect multiple hosts to the same JBOD with SAS, there are even “SAS Switches” that are built for that purpose.

    But if you do this incorrectly and initiate the incorrect drives your TrueNAS data is bye-bye


  • generally 1U servers are not loud in the datacenters, that’s just a myth, the main reason might be misconfiguration, or a datacenter that does not have any cooling…

    if you control the fans your pizza boxes will run hotter, and might be throttling, or just shutdown completely.

    running customers in your basement seems to be a horrible idea, but its your business :)


  • These are over 10 years old and are not really useful for anything, they are passively cooled. All this is quite easy info from google…

    So useless unless you really want to get your hands dirty on VDI but it seems a bit out of your league at this point in time. that’s why the cost like $40 on eBay.

    the only good news is that they do not require a license to do vGPU / vVDI



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    SQL server express is available even for Linux so that might be an interesting homelab setup.

    Otherwise you can use a trial license for (any) windows client or server to run SQL Express. This of course implies that you dont run any commercial stuff, but you posted in homelab