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If it’s just a NAS that you need, simple storage with either NFS or SMB, grap yourself a SFF computer with efficient processor and a stick of RAM. Don’t need powerful hardware. Put in enough drives to meet the storage that you need plus some extra for redundancy. Run something like ZFS or a similar redundant solution with checksumming. Either through a bare Linux Distri or through indeed unraid, openmediavault, freenas, or similar things. For the backups: I’m personally running an odroid HC2 with a 2.5 inch 2TB drive. The machine hosts a Borg backup repository. It is absolutely fantastic. Fully encrypted, and deduplicated. Allows me to put that thing wherever and have nightly snapshots without breaking the bank in storage needs

Good point. The dock in question might indeed be limited to 60 Hz, same with the iGPU. However, this is a 10-bit display. Windows says it's driving it at 6-bit. When connecting directly to the laptop it's driven at 8-bit, so I may be running into iGPU limitations there, but 8-bit should be the least it can do. The dock has Displayport 1.4 so I don't think bandwidth should be a problem.

That was my reaction too when daisy chaining the monitor turned out to suck. Literally from my post: It seems like Thunderbolt docks are not the be-all and end-all of this problem. That said, I have been limiting my search to thunderbolt docks that have an option to connect them over a longer cable as I hate have a loose one with all the cables dangling across the desk. See, this is information I'm looking for. Currently I'm rocking a 400 euro docking station and I'm still having issues with my webcam flickering when connected through the dock. It's clearly not as simple as "buy a thunderbolt dock and be done with it." Thanks, though!

Up until recently, I've been rocking two Dell Ultrasharp U2312HM monitors in landscape, with an old Lenovo as the private laptop and a newer HP as the business laptop. The Lenovo has an old docking station (bottom 40?-pin adapter), the HP came with a USB-C dock which has to return to the client's offices (got it with me at the start of COVID lockdowns). Up until now I've been switching my keyboard between those two docks and relying on the monitor's auto-input-select. I'm getting a new lenovo soon so both of my laptops will have thunderbolt. I want to upgrade my monitor situation and I want to clean up my desk. The plan was to get a 1440p-class 34" 21:9 monitor as my new main display, keeping one of the old Dells next to it in portrait mode as a secondary display. I wanted to use a Thunderbolt display with integrated dock so I could use a USB-C->Thunderbolt cable to daisy chain both monitors off of a single thunbolt cable. Then I can switch laptops with a single cable. So I Bought a Samsung LC34J791WTUXEN. A variant of the LC34J79 with two thunderbolt ports and daisy chaining support. This has four issues: (1) the VA panel has horrendous black smearing, (2) the VA panel has horrendous viewing angles to the point that I could see blue corners sitting right in front of the display at more than arms length, (3) the thunderbolt daisy chain would break any time the display goes to sleep causing my window arrangement to be fucked up or me having to manually cycle stuff on and off until it works, (4) my logitech C920 input flickers when connected through the display. Screw that. Returned the display and bought an LG UltraGear 34GN850 combined with a HyperDrive Gen2 Thunderbolt 3 16 in 1 Docking Station. While the display seems be alright, I can't seem to drive it at 10-bit colour, nor at anything above 60 Hz when connected to the dock. The camera has similar flickering when connected through the dock. Otherwise the setup is fine, but obviously I want to resolve those issues. I'm looking for a way to get at least the pixel real estate of a 1440p-class 21:9 display in landscape + a secondary 1080p-class portrait monitor. I want an easy way to switch between two laptops. Preferably with a proper KVM but I haven't found any thunderbolt ones. Whatever the solution there, the laptops should be connected through a single cable so they're easy to unplug and take on the go. I've contemplated running a single, giant 16:9 4K monitor, but those come with their own set of issues. If there's a really good one for office use I might consider it. My budget is basically not an issue at this point. I was looking into "cheap" options but I've realized that I'm basically going to have to drop serious cash on it and such is life. Cheaper is better, but getting the functionality on point is top priority right now. Please help me with this, I've been searching and searching but it seems like I'm stuck finding the same damn products over and over again. Any help is greatly appreciated! Thanks!

Well, this post is designed to be exhaustive. If you run through the entire post following all steps carefully, you should either have a POST-ing computer, or a very solid indication of what component is causing issues. If someone runs through this list and does not have either of those, the list of troubleshooting steps should be expanded upon.

Literally the first line in this thread:

I find Docker Swarm easier to manage than straight docker-compose. Even if it's single-host, the management surrounding configuration, secrets, and desired state is better implemented in Swarm and Kubernetes. Kubernetes comes with a relatively high overhead, but Docker Swarm really doesn't. If you're set on that specific CPU, indeed ECC won't be an option. EDIT: regarding to how important ECC is: if you like your data to be correct and last a long time, very. Random bit flips are a thing and without ECC, those will end up persisted in the data on your drives. In simple pictures or videos, you'll probably no notice that. In documents, it might make the difference between bank statement PDFs and illegible corrupted data. This is personal, though. Only you can decide what's important to you. Regarding the hard drives: in what configuration will you be running them? RAID1? Should be fine. Wouldn't go a lot bigger than that because read error rate becomes problematic for rebuilds at that capacity. Slap those bad boys in a btrfs RAID1 and you're off to the races. Nvm, just read you're going Unraid. Protip: try out the other options first. That's the cool thing about FOSS: you can just slap the software on there and see if you like it. Unless this is time critical? For cooling: try it out with the stock intel cooler, you probably won't have any issues, they're relatively quiet. If it turns out to be too loud, swapping something like a Noctua in there is trivial. Chances are the hard drives will be just as loud at CPU idle. For the PSU: the data sheet for your drives mentions power draw of up to 8 watt. Take some headroom and say 10-15 watt peak per drive. CPU specs say 65W TDP. My usual rule of thumb is to Double CPU TDP, then add GPU TDP and hard drive powers to get your minimal PSU capacity. In your case that would be less than 200W. Suffice to say any PSU from a reputable brand should do you well. Given that silence is important to you, get a 450W seasonic fanless model. Super efficient, super quiet.

Can you expand on this?

Hardware side 1. Any modern intel cpu with quicksync should do for Plex, unless you’re really pushing the quality settings. 2. The set of capabilities you’re looking for should be doable within 16GB of RAM, except maybe the Minecraft server. I don’t have experience with that. I’m running Plex, Lidarr, Radarr, Sonarr, Transmission, qbittorrent, Nextcloud, a backup client, a factorio server, and an Unreal Tournament 99 server all on a box with only 16 GB of RAM, no problem. Use ECC if at all possible. 3. For storage: RAID is not a backup. RAID is good for business continuity. That’s it. Make sure you have a backup strategy in place. I’m running a selection of 8 disks accumulated throughout the years in a ZFS pool. I have a separate odroid HC1 with a 2TB drive in it that’s offsite for backups. 3-2-2: at least 3 copies of important data, stored on at least 2 different types of media in at least 2 separate locations Software side If you’re willing to learn, I wholeheartedly recommend looking into plain old Linux as your operating system. Proxmox, TrueNAS, openmediavault... they’re nice, but at the end of the day, you won’t really learn what’s going on under the hood. If you end up going that route, this is the software stack I’d consider: 1. For drive pooling: use either btrfs or ZFS. Btrfs should only be used for RAID1 or RAID10. It’s not stable for RAID 5 or 6. Both options are a combination of a filesystem and a RAID system roles in one. They’re considered next-gen with features like snapshotting, checksumming, deduplication, compression all built into the filesystem itself. Especially checksumming is important to prevent bit rot. 2. To deploy your applications, skip VMs. Embrace containers. Way less resource intensive, with almost all of the separation advantages. There’s two major container orchestration tools: Docker Swarm and Kubernetes. For a beginner, I’d recommend looking into Docker Swarm. It’s easier to set up and uses less resources. If you do want to look into using Kubernetes, I’d suggest giving K3S a look, it’ll be one of the least resource-intensive options for Kubernetes. I’m personally running Docker Swarm on my own servers, and I use Kubernetes professionally. 3. Nextcloud is amazing. I’ve been using it for years now. It’s my own personal cloud complete with calendar, contacts, mail client, password manager (though I’ve switched to Bitwarden), and so much more. The iOS and Android clients allow you to do photo backup straight to Nextcloud. It has user and quota management. It’s easy to maintain and has official docker containers on Docker Hub. Definitively what you’re looking for. 4. For backing up your data, take a look at Borg. It supports snapshots (for point-in-time recovery), deduplication (so two snapshots of the same data won’t use twice the size of that data), checksumming (so you prevent data corruption), compression and encryption of your backups. It works over simple SSH and allows you to recover files by mounting the backup as a filesystem over the network. I’ve been using it for years. My server automatically does nightly backups. I periodically prune old snapshots. Borg allows you to specify really elaborate retention schemes. I keep daily snapshots for two weeks, then weekly snapshots for the first year, and monthly snapshots for two years. Haven’t lost a bit of a data since using Borg. 5. for VPN: there’s a super easy-to-use OpenVPN container on Docker Hub.

What’s the full error? Can you ping the backend server? If you can ping it but not reach vue through nginx, I’m guessing it’s because vue-nginx conf states this: server_name inf-education-47.umwelt-campus.de; which means you need to contact it and set the host header. With curl I think you can verify that with --host

Is this a brand new website or do you have actual metrics of your current platform? If you’re starting at zero, maybe run it on a cloud provider that allows you to scale? Given that you’re speaking of home connections, I’m wondering if this is more aspiration than actual expectation. if the hardware is a good deal go for it, serving static content shouldn’t be too hard. Heck, with half a gig of site contents you could just put the entire thing in Varnish and serve from RAM.

Well, the error is telling you nginx can’t connect to the backend service. Have you verified that you can reach MY_IP:60702 from the nginx node on the command line? A simple curl should do. edit: I’m guessing the issue comes from directly trying to connect to the backend IP, instead of using a hostname. The vue configuration specifies a server_name, which means that config wouldn’t be used to serve requests if you’re connecting via hostname

You’re looking at dual 10 Gbps NICs as a necessity, so I’m assuming you have a fairly specific use case in mind? Could you share it? If it’s just plex + family photo/video/document storage, this thing is way, way over the top. I’m running a 6 yo Dell R510 and even that is just idling most of the time. For Plex, get a recent intel CPU with quicksync and you should be good for transcoding. For file serving with limited clients, literally almost anything will do. Unless you’re planning on running VMs, 32 GB of RAM will just go unused. Unless you have loads of clients hitting it at once, a 10 Gbps connection will go unused. if you want to future proof: don’t. You’ll spend more now for stuff you don’t need and by the time the need arises you’ll probably have an old enough system that it warrants just replacing entirely. The only future proofing system that’s worth it is to get a motherboard with more PCIe than you need. If you need 10 gig nics down the road, just Chuck in an add-in card.

Another way you can go about this, if you’re fairly certain of having network connectivity, is to use tools like NoMachine to provide a remote desktop connection to your main rig. Then you’re just using the laptop as a thin client.

As much as I am all for learning and experimenting, Get a Synology. Their systems are rather foolproof, efficient, and cost effective. Figure out how much storage you need, then make sure you get a system that supports that many drives + one or two for redundancy. Play around with setting it up the way you want, learn about the cloud-like storage options, backups, VPNs. Synology provides you with a safe platform to learn these things with minimal chance of losing data if you follow the manual. Then learn about hardware outside of the business. It’s clear you don’t have the expertise you need to guarantee data protection... yet. That’s ok. Now is the perfect time to learn. In the mean time pay for Synology’s expertise in NAS devices. Last thing: think about backups! RAID is NOT a backup. Use redundant storage for business continuity and also back up everything to an offsite location for data protection. Encrypt your backups. Use snapshotting to provide point-in-time recovery. I like using Borg Backup, but there’s many tools out there

Back in the day I played the title game for longer than I'm willing to account. It's been a long time since I've considered myself a gamer and I'm kinda out of touch with the current offering of tactical shooters. What game should I look into if I want something similar to the discontinued GRO? Thanks.

From my previous comment: I wasn't sure. I've watched the video @Proffecte suggested and delved deeper into online resources. It seems that I misjudged the importance of the surround speakers. It also seems matching speakers isn't as important as I first thought. Given that I can basically mix-n-match over time, I've decided to use the speakers I currently have hooked up to a super old minisystem for now. They sound good enough as a start. I'll be adding a subwoofer and then surrounds and a center when I found decent deals. Thanks for all the comments and feedback, peeps. I've learned a lot!

Hey guys, thank you for the feedback! Those speakers seem rather pricey. I get that they're super good speakers, but are they also good on the price/performance spectrum? One more thing I'm concerned about with those is that the matching speakers for surround are pretty big. As I stated, I'm quite limited space-wise behind the sofa so the surround speakers will have to be small. Would it be wise to buy non-matched speakers for surround? I found some time to dig through Amazon (DE one, as I'm located in BE) as well and came up with this: Receiver: https://www.amazon.de/Pioneer-VSX-S520-B-Verst%C3%A4rker-Multiroom-Bluetooth/dp/B01LZNVFVA/ref=sr_1_3 Speakers:https://www.amazon.de/Pioneer-Lautsprecher-Set-S-11-Heimkino-Systeme-Belastbarkeit-Schwarz/dp/B008JW9C1Y/ref=sr_1_2 That would land me right around 500 EUR for a surround setup, though it doesn't include a subwoofer. Now, if you say those speakers are crap for the money, I'd rather not take them. Given their size, it's immediately apparent they won't be exquisite, but I've listened to similarly-sized Bose speakers with great enjoyment. Care to share your thoughts on the above? Really appreciate the feedback.

I want to re-vamp my living room media setup. Currently I have a combination of TV, old stereo, a small linux box, a decoder, and a bluetooth speaker. I want to simplify, so I'm in the market for an A/V receiver with a built-in amp for speakers. Also looking for speakers that go with it. I know literally nothing about this specific market segment, so I was hoping you guiys might give me some suggestions and/or things to watch out for. Hard requirements: * 3 HDMI in, preferrably 4 or 5 * Capable of acting as a bluetooth speaker * 2.1 audio output * HDMI ARC support * 1080p support * HDCP 2.2 support (sigh) Nice to have, but not hard requirements * Airplay * Built-in network streaming * FM/DAB+ * 4K support * 5.1 surround support * The microphone-auded automated levels tuning feature (whatever it's called) For the speakers, I'll have to see if I can convince the lady of the house to let me put speakers behind the sofa (where we walk to get from the kitchen area to the dining table/hallway). If not, I'll stick to 2.1. If she agrees, I'd like to somehow attach small speakers to the sofa. I'm looking to spend no more than 500 EUR. Any suggestions/comments/feedback is highly appreciated!

Looking into controller solutions. I want roaming hand-off so I can't go the standalone route. Probably will be running the VM appliance.

Got three AIR-CAP3502I-E-K9 at just under 50 a piece. Looking at switching over to Air-cap-1702i-e-K9 if I can flip those 802.11n APs again at a reasonable price.

Thanks for all the replies. I ended up finding a great deal on some enterprise Cisco APs specifically designed to handle this sort of thing. Ubiquity ended up costing me more.

My experience with multiple independent access points is that switchover for roaming devices is a nightmare, which is why I specifically mentioned that in the OP. From my experience, it seems clients try to stay connected to the same AP as long as possible, instead of recognizing the best AP for their current location.

As title suggests: need WiFi solution in new house. Footprint is 8x10 meter for basement and ground level, 8x8 meter for first and second level (attic). Looking for a solution which plays nicely with multiple devices and multiple APs. I'd like an access point on each floor except the attic since that'll be used for storage. Back when I was super active here, Ubiquity was all the rage but I've heard that they're not actually as superb as I had thought. Care to share your vision? All feedback and questions welcome.

Looking at ~50 inch sizes. Would be sitting about 3 to 3.5 meters (10 - 11.5 feet) away from the screen so I figure that size should do nicely. Correct me if I'm wrong. Do want: picture quality (probably OLED but not sure if hard requirement) inputs for at the very least set-top box, HTPC, and a laptop low input latency (separate mode if necessary) Don't care audio quality (happy to hook up external audio solution if audio quality sucks) smart TV privacy nightmares (will NOT be hooking this thing up to the internet) design 3D actual TV tuner Budget: eh, lower is better, anything over 2k EUR is a simple "no". Suggestions? As you can probably tell: I'm not well-versed in TV hardware. Feel free to point out mistakes in my reasoning.