Part 1 Part 3 Part 4 So I made a mistake. And a big one. I jumped the gun with my choices for the motherboard, cpu & memory. My original post has a nice list for a very nice PC, not one that is really good for this purpose. The use of ECC capable memory, cpu and motherboard is paramount for a ZFS based storage solution. So what to do. Already purchased these components and are nice mid-range specs. ...
Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Over 30 years ago I started with “playing” with a Mac in the role of server. The first steps into what turned out to be part of my profession. All these time I have had administrator access to one or more server(s) running on the Apple platform. However the time has come to say goodbye to the MacOS and the Apple platform as a server platform. ...
At my place of work (Pro Warehouse) we use OPNSense as our router/firewall, a very nice HardenedBSD based firewall and routing platform. So off-course I wanted something like that at home as well. After playing and getting a couple of miniPC’s from Ali, I had a good start on with it. However something was constant off, I just could not put my finger on it, but just some nagging in the back of my head. The router was always hot, throughput not really great. ...