RelentlessAF

Thanks for your response I appreciate you answering each of my questions. I did not know the read speed would get increased by raidz2 so that is good to know! I'll probably stick with 2.5 in the meantime, 320MB/s is still significantly better than the current transfer speed to my pi of 10MB/s lol.

Hey everyone, I've been using an Rpi 3 Model B for awhile as my home NAS that just has a single external SSD plugged in which has been okay for the most part. Really stretching the limits of that 1GB of RAM. We have been running into more and more issues with finding the shows we like without paying for 30 different streaming services so I want to expand to a much larger NAS that has Jellyfin and rip all our favorite shows onto it. After a few upgrades I have some extra hardware lying around but I also intend to use this to host other things like my home webservers that I set up (which at the moment I just host on whatever PC I am coding on), my Wife's minecraft server and maybe other things in the future. What I Have: CPU: Ryzen 5 3600 RAM: 2x8GB Corsair LPX 3200MHz Storage: Corsair MP500 250GB NVMe SSD Cooling: AMD Wraith cooler / NZXT X53 PSU: EVGA 650W 80+ Gold PSU What I Plan on Getting: Motherboard: MSI B550A Pro RAM: 2x32GB Corsair LPX 3600MHz Storage: 6x4TB WD Red Plus 256MB cache HDDs GPU: GTX 1080 (A friend is sending me his old one for the cost of shipping; I want to use it for hardware transcoding on Jellyfin) I'm planning to use the Corsair SSD for cache. I was originally looking into Unraid but it looks like TrueNAS is a also a really good option and also supports docker containers for me to run different servers on it plus I've been reading about RaidZ2 on TrueNAS and it sounds like a really good way for me to add redundancy to my data. My Questions: In the case of RaidZ2 am I correct in that it works the same as RAID 6 where I would have 4 of the 4TB drives available for storage as a single vdev and then the remaining 2 would be for parity? Do you think the Corsair SSD would be fine as far as cache goes? I've also heard a lot about intel optane. Should I look into a motherboard that supports ECC RAM instead? The one I picked I chose because it has 6 SATA ports and was pretty inexpensive I have an extra AIO water cooler (the NZXT X53) but I feel like I'm right in assuming that Air would not only be more reliable but water wouldn't really even be necessary? I wanted to look into 10G networking to the NAS from all my devices but I'm pretty obviously limited by the speed of the harddrives so this feels like a waste no? Thanks in advance for any answers!

Hello Everyone, I am planning on setting up a desk area that is dedicated to "work" to kind of separate my gaming PC from my "workstation". The laptop I'll be using for it however is technically a gaming laptop though but I digress. My intention is for the dock to have all the peripherals plugged into it (Keyboard, Mouse, Monitor, etc. ya know... dock stuff) and then when I need to take my laptop somewhere or use it on the couch or something I only need to unplug the one USB-C connection. Realistically I will still need to use the power brick as there is no way I'm getting 200W from USB-C (... unless?) So my question is, what are your favorite laptop docks for this use case? I've seen a few from Anker and Dell that look like good options. I did some cursory research and docks that send power over USB-C *should* be overridden by the power adapter internally since it provides more sufficient power. If it is relevant I have an Asus Zephyrus G15 2021 Laptop with a 5900HS and RTX 3070. Thanks in Advance!

Hey thanks for the response! I appreciate the information and the suggestion I will keep this in mind and maybe give it a try in the near future. As an aside I do use Private Internet Access (the app) on my FireStick as well. Ironically this works without any issues for HBO Max but does not for Hulu lol. Actually it really seems like it is only Hulu as Funimation works as well

That makes sense, I'm not sure when the last time my assigned public IP changed, in the meantime I've cancelled Hulu for now, I may try again in a few months to see if anything is different.

My router already uses my ISP's DNS I've tried using cloudflare (1.1.1.1) and Google (8.8.8.8) as well and same issue. I ended up just cancelling Hulu for now as I don't think there will be a workaround anytime soon.

I did a tracert and it looks like the routing is the exact same between the two, this may be a case where my ISP was previously not blocked but now suddenly is. I've tried a few other options since my post including using my firestick which always used to work and it no longer does, as well as my phone on cellular data instead.

I tried disabling the firewall and no dice unfortunately.

Ah okay, I'm not entirely sure but that may be part of the issue then. Since it's a modem router combo I could only add a third-party router by setting the modem to bridge, otherwise the ISP modem would continue to handle the routing or there would be some collisions I would think with the shared responsibility. The modem used 192.168.0.X and the Asus router used 192.168.50.X

My ISP modem does not have a dedicated WAN port instead when setting it to bridge mode it defaults the WAN port to the first LAN port on it which is what I have the router plugged into. I would also think it has to be a setting on the router. Unless something about setting the modem to bridge mode changed how the whitelisting works. Beforehand I couldn't use Hulu with a VPN but it wasn't required as I live in the EU but on a US military installation and Hulu whitelists the ISP for the installation (typically).

Yeah I downloaded the right one the first time when I went to get you the link I clicked in the 68U instead. I do have the right firmware downloaded. Edit: As a follow up I got an older one to work however the issue is still there.

Yup, I downloaded the latest stable release version for the RT-AX86U found here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/asuswrt-merlin/files/RT-AX86U/Release/ Edit: clicked the wrong one in the first post lol

Yes it still works with the modem from the ISP. I attempted a few times to flash the Merlin firmware but it fails immediately unfortunately.

Well I've disabled all of those features, AI Protection was off by default for me. The issue is still there however, I even tried bouncing around to different PIA servers including ones actually geolocated in the state they say they are and nothing. I also tried changing the DNS server to cloudflare (1.1.1.1) and it just doesn't work. I'll probably try contacting Hulu support later I don't know if they will help as technically where I live I should have access to Hulu even though it is not in the US but others have had the support give them two different answers.

Hello Everyone, This is a weird one for me. I do not live in the U.S. at the moment, however where I am located I've never needed to use a VPN to access Hulu. I've used it for 2 years up until this point without a single issue. However, I recently bought a new Asus RT-AX86U router to take over router function from the modem router combo provided by my ISP and after getting it set up I suddenly get blocked from Hulu and told I cannot access it while using an anonymous proxy even when I am not. I do have a VPN but that does not work either when I try. I've looked through the settings and the only ones I've enable are QoS and OpenNAT which I can't see causing this issue. Has anyone else had this issue before or any idea how it may have happened? Thanks in advance!