tylerjd

Ubiquiti's line of cameras don't require a cloud setup to work, only a server under your control and their software. https://www.ui.com/products/#unifivideo While they advertise a "hybrid cloud" setup, the feature that lets you stream using their website has to be specifically enabled (I double checked the documentation before recommending them). Otherwise, it just uses their controller software which is a Java based server that you install on a Windows desktop or Linux server

The first thing that comes to mind is your thermal paste. Did you use the included or your own? If so, you put the CPU cooler on flat down, and tightened the screws in a cross fashion? Is it tightened down all the way?

Depends on the task. For gaming it's the i7-8086k (highest clockrate/IPC), for low power applications, or if you need lots of low power cores, ARM or RISC-V. Need lots of high power cores? EPYC/Threadripper. It really depends on your application, there is no one "best" CPU.

I mean the extra speed is nice, and the NVMe drive has a greater queue depth (i.e. the amount of operations it can do simultaneously, but that is only super useful for servers). I find the traditional SSDs fine, all my games load quickly and OS boots really fast, but I don't do 3D modeling so I don't know how that would affect things. I have 4 MX300s (previous gen to MX500) in RAID 10 on my system, but the RAID is for redundancy more than anything. It really depends on how much money you want to spend. If I were buying a singular SSD today, it would be an NVMe SSD. But I already had the MX300s from my previous build (which didn't support NVMe), so free is hard to beat.

The 970 EVO is a NVMe SSD, meaning significantly more faster. The MX500 is a traditional SSD with reads and writes around 500MB/s, whereas the Samsung can do 2,500MB/s They're both good, but it's like comparing a Porshe to a Toyota. They both do the same thing, they're both good parts, one does it much faster.

Why? When your job has to do with typing things all day, it's better to have a keyboard that feels great to type on all day Cherry MX is a brand of mechanical switches. The colors are different kinds of switch, the videos above will have more information about that.

Using HWInfo or a similar tool, how are your temperatures when doing these tests? Sounds like it's getting throttled for some reason

I haven't done bonded 10GBit links, but I have a bonded 2Gbit link from my aggregation switch to my POE gigabit switch. Literally it's one radio button in the Unifi controller. Works as well as bonded links do - i.e. you wont get full 20Gbit for one connection (or 2Gbit for my case), but multiple streams over the same link will fill it to capacity, as it uses LACP for aggregation. Also works between the switch and pfSense. I don't know if SMB3 would change this, I am a Unix only shop save for one windows VM for gaming.

I don't have all the ports lit right now, so I can't get you any better than getting 52Gb/s total throughput in real world testing, however having owned more than just that from Ubiquiti, I wouldn't be surprised to see it able to fully handle that speed. Prices are dropping for 10GbE, and Ubiquiti are usually cost leaders for enterprisey gear for less. Linus has really liked their APs in the past (as do I, owning 2x AP-AC-PRO), and their switches are good too (I also own their 8 Port 150W POE switch with SFP).

If I do a synthetic test like iperf3, I can get full line rate 10Gb/s. Granted, that's just hitting the switch and not the router. I have my "storage" network set with a larger MTU (9000), to reduce the total packets per second. Things that hit pfSense take a bit of hit, and I am able to get between 3Gb/s and 5Gb/s. This is on a router with a i5-4570s, but it's also doing deep packet inspection and intrusion detection through Suricata.

I use it at home, currently between file-server, workstation, and router. I have a Unifi Switch US-16-XG, which is a 16 port managed link aggregation switch. It has 12 SFP+ Ports, and 4 10GbE ports. It's the cheapest managed 10Gig switch out, if you need the managed features. I also run a pfSense router, with a few gig ports and 2 10GbE ports on a Intel x540-t2. pfSense isn't quite (yet) able to do line rate 10GbE routing, but they're working on it. Lemme know if you have any other questions.