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1. Yes that's right, so in terms of how to understand it, you have your NAS which is a filesystem (for all intensive purposes lets call this local, there are distributed filesystems such a Gluster and Ceph as you mentioned above but lets stick to basics) locally to the machine. Then you have your "sharing protocol" which is ontop of the filesystem and is used to share this local filesystem with remote systems over a network connection (again, not just network only but lets stick to basics). Then you have your remote machine communicating with that "sharing protocol" - hopefully that makes sense? CIFS is probably good but can act weird sometimes. I think it will server you best, ISCSI might be another option? 2. Most filesystems have a way of using a cache disk (typically SSD) in order to handle this situation but again testing is needed here. ZFS has an l2arc which could help. The other option is to have 2 pools, one small SSD array that you can work directly too, then your traditional slower spinning disk array which the data can be transferred to after the job is finished (I don't know the workload but see if that fits your situation). 3. ZFS is a "self healing" filesystem, which does integrity checks of the data and can automatically correct any corruption. It's worth reading up on, its quite a complicated and interesting beast. It would be classed as a "software raid" solution, but don't be scared if you have read things like "intel software raid is terrible and no one should use software raid" because there was articles like that going around - ZFS is a completely different beast altogether and more an enterprise filesystem. 4. What do you mean by tiered storage? If you can expand on this I can maybe help. I realised I forgot to answer your 4th question in the first post but you've kind of answered it since, 10G is not a requirement, 1G will work, as will 100mb, but as you've already identified, less than 10GB will most likely be your bottleneck.

What is your setup you are using to test with?

Hello! 1. Forgive me if my assumption is wrong, but I think you are a little confused here. You ask which filesystem would allow for smooth access of files from Linux and Windows, however the filesystem is not where you need to look for this question, it would be technically be called "filesystem protocol" which includes CIFS/NFS/iSCSI etc and should work regardless of the underlying filesystem. Anyways to answer the question, CIFS/smb is probably the best choice unfortunately since you are using Windows, you will need to install Samba on Linux and do a little configuration but its pretty easy. 2. Unfortunately no one can really answer that question, it really "depends" - depends on the work load and the hardware. Best thing to do is actually set something up and test different workloads and scenarios with different filesystems and record your results and go from there. 3, Again, it "depends" - zfs would like direct access to the drives so either via onboard sata ports or through a HBA. You need to workout which route you go for before that question can be fully answered! Hope that helps a little!

Heh, ring sting..

Ubiquiti LiteBeam or similar will do these easily.

There is a policy that stops you connecting to a PC without a password..not sure why they implemented that but they did. Try setting a password on the second PC and trying again. Do you have admin rights on both?

Ubiquiti LiteBeam's are very cheap and range is very good, you will get perfect performance if you have line of sight

"FUK...U OK?"

That's good you got it changed, its a pretty common attack method really!

I wouldn't really worry about blurring things out, only thing you might not want to include is your public IP address. The rest is useless to really to anyone else really. Did you manage to do the above?

According to the manual, you go to "Advanced > Network > DHCP Server" and change the primary and secondary DNS there. You will need to do a lease renew on the end device for it to take effect. Disabling and re-enabling Wifi might be enough!

When you say it remains, where does it remain? On the device (iPad, Laptop etc) or do you mean on the router? Screenshots of the router would help if you can!

That card is like one of the most if not the most popular cards you will be fine!

Also forgot to say, it seems like the DNS servers that your ISP is providing is compromised, unless you manually set those (doesn't sound like you did!)

There will be an option to change it somewhere, so you've already identified that your router has its DNS servers set to the malicious ones, look for "DHCP Server" and look for DNS options within that. What model router do you have?

Do you have line of sight to the building? You could use something like long range wifi bridge, saves having to run cable if you would prefer. Just another option!

On your router, check what the DHCP options are for DNS

Yes.

Yes you should be able to do this using NATs, probably take a little bit of trial and error however.

God damn I loved that game

Also just to add, when you say stopping the array, what do you mean? Spinning down the disks?

Have you enabled C states in BIOS? Honestly, 65w is really nothing, anything else you can lower it by really isn't going to make any noticeable difference to the energy bill, IMO.

Agreed, Unifi controller on a VM would be a good choice. Having said that, the Cloud Key Gen2 will give you access to the new Unifi Protect solution for the video cameras. You can install Unifi NVR on the same VM also though. And yes you should also do a site survey as mentioned above, you can also use Unifi's map feature which allows you to upload floor plans, insert walls and place AP's and will give you an indication of how the the signal will be throughout the building.

Hmm, if wiring was an option then 2 Unifi AP Lites could have done the trick nicely, and cheap. I'm not sure how much your looking to spend, but what about maybe the Orbi ac3000 from netgear? That includes one Orbi router and a secondary Orbi access point?

What about disabling wifi on the existing one, and installing 2 new ones to handle wifi? Would wiring ethernet connections be an issue?