GuruOfNothing

Stop buying iPhones as a start. They will update using their own cell service if you keep denying them or will just brick. If your jailbreaking doesn't prevent upgrade/overwrite, just trying to block it from getting an internet signal won't work. And why would an iPhone not try to update if they know to do so will kill the jailbroken-ness of their product? I am sure you can do something to stop that update but if it can ever try to connect to momma... you can't stop it.

Oh dear lord. There are more questions than answers here and let me start with... CAT8???? What the literal hell? How many concurrent video streams are you planning? There is absolutely zero reasons to have more than CAT6, even factoring in "future-proofing". A half dozen 4k streams wont kill a solid 1 gig line. The R720 is going to be a jet engine when pushed so find a place that it can make noise, even with v2 processors. It is seriously more than you would need at home for a Plex box and that is fine... I have four of them in my server farm at home. But for the love of all that is pink and smelly... don't waste your money way overbuilding something like that and save it for your home theater gear. If you are trying to create a media server for all your friends and family that will do 4k... you are opening a pandora's box you can't close and it will never be enough. SSD's are not necessary. Period. Get some decent spinners and if you want affordable but not giant, if that box has SAS backplanes, go SAS... there is a ton of them on the market. I just two weeks ago bought 56TB worth of Dell Constellation SAS drives in sleds for 50 a piece.

i GOTTA ASK...Does anyone ever read the OP's original post before poking at keys??? He said exactly this... "I recenly turn my old pc into a small NAS ". And you respond with "If it's a Synology"... face palm. Sorry OP, the easy answer is no. Congrats on using recycled gear to make a useful device but without NAS software on it (that generally has options for doing what you want) there is no easy way to create access to it that won't compromise all your data and home network. Punching a hole in your network and allowing others to have access is not noob level work. There is a number of relatively technical steps required to do so. And if manikyath's comment is any kind of example, if you don't pay close attention, it's super easy to get lost in the weeds and give some dipshit script kiddie a plaything to wreck havoc with.

Mostly because I have no clue as to WTF I am doing. HOWEVER... I didn't start out this build with the idea of it becoming a BI server. It was going to be a video edit box. Then I tried grabbing some video from my NVR and realized that stuff was.going south in a big way and I was going to be replacing it really soon. That changed the need to... something different. I was half tempted to put both the BI server and the editing box on the same hardware but I know that BI server is pretty CPU intensive and didn't want to Jack up my camera operations with my editing activity. Then came the idea of swapping out my Plex box to the BI server since I didn't figure I was adding much more pop to the party. So do I need the GPU? F IF I know.

I just pulled the trigger on a Ryzen 7 2770x, gtx1660, 16g Ram and other misc crap for a new system to be used for a Blue Iris server to run 8 cameras at 1080p. Its above recommended specs so I figure it should be just fine as a dedicated BI server. Any idea how much extra overhead there might be? Can I drop a Plex server on there as well? There is only 1 or 2 streams that will ever really be served and I don't share my library outside my house.

Don't toss them, shuck them. I run purely shucked drives because I am not paying the ludicrous prices for retail drives when the shucked ones are just fine. In the case of the WD externals, they are usually always RED's anyway. Even the white labels are RED drives, just produced for this kind of equipment. Since the warranty is over anyway, you have nothing to lose. With that said, BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP! Makes no difference what drives you use if you have no backups of your data. If you are doing this for a NAS, you are just fine. I run WAY over 4 times the storage i need and run raid and backup copies. I know many people that run 100's of TB's of shucked drives and have no issues with them, any more than what retail drives would offer. And if your warranty fails you with a retail drive and your data is gone, it's just as gone as with a shucked drive.It just stings a tiny bit less because it didn't cost quite as much. Did I mention BACKUP!?

The question I would ask... and do of all the posts I get involved with when people sound like they have zero network management training and skills... is what skills do you have that will make running a server farm a good idea? Its far from just dropping some boxes online and letting them rip. I HIGHLY suggest not doing any such thing if you don't have the training. Why? All you are doing is creating bot boxes for people to do creepy shit with because you don't know how to keep them out of your systems. And like @Donut417 said.... your ISP is gonna LOVE you! Right up until the cancel your service. If I got that all wrong, and you do have those abilities and training, my apologies. But people asking about a good server to host lots of shit for 100's of people does not say, "I have a degree in IT and I know what the hell I am doing." It says, I have no clue what I am doing.

Well... but here's the uglier side to that coin... and I KNOW you can find lots of cases of it online... is that the account that bandwidth is coming from is you. Whomever you are sharing it with (even though think they are top shelf and all that) decides to be searching for kiddy porn. Maybe not even getting, but searching. Your IP is tagged and the Feds come in and raid your house. "They won't find proof of anything, so what?" So your house gets tossed and damaged. Your name gets smeared all over the federal lists as a "potential" child molester and you spend a few weeks in jail while they forensically dig through your computer gear. You lost your job and even though you weren't guilty, a flag comes up on your record that you can't escape. Your skeevy neighbor/friend/customer gets off scott free. Happens man. Just sayin... You really don't want that kind of liability. People do weird shit for strange reasons even when they seem to be perfectly decent human beings. Smart people do dumb shit. Don't involve yourself. That's a tag you can't ever shake...even if you did nothing wrong.

Proof? We ALL KNOW they do. It's everywhere! Hence the reason why VPN's are a thing. So you have proof... but you also have no internet then too. Just don't do it.

I would be way more concerned with having to be the tech support for this nightmare waiting to happen. 10 residences? If for a second you think it's gonna be smooth and never hiccup causing someone to call you at 3am, think again. And they will eventually find out because someone you are reselling service to will dime you out when they don't get what they think they should be. Seen it happen many times with people that have tried it. I get the "entrepreneurial" nature of it and why not make some money but it's only fun until it's not and then what? You just cancel everyone's service? Not a great idea. And good luck getting paid consistently by everyone. They say no and you have no recourse but to shut off their service and then they dime you out. Exactly how it happens. And you are out the cost of infrastructure.

I have a DL380 G7 that I had running ESXI. Its a lab box that I started playing with recently. I did a proper shutdown on it a week ago. Let it sit for most of a week until I got it's new home prepped then carefully relocated it. I fired it up and none of the drives show up. I have 8 drive bays with 8 146GB drives in there. One of them doesn't light and hasnt since I got it but all the drives showed up during the install. All of the normally lit lights are green and solid and i checked all the cables and what not to make sure everything was ok. It's a lab box with virtually nothing on them (that WAS an ESXI joke BTW) so it's not a big deal that it went dead stick but since I know less than squat about this box, I don't even know where to begin. I know just enough about computer hardware to know I got a brick at the moment. It will fire up and start an install from CD but when searching for the drive array, it comes up with nothing.

By looking at it, I am pretty sure that it is an outdoor weather enclosure. The guts of it are unknown as you said you didn't know how to get into it. Being as it looks like it mounts on a wall, grab onto both of the wings (with the screw holes in them) and pull the opposite way of the case. It looks to be mounted with the wings down, with the opening down as well. The case would be lifted upward and off to expose whatever is inside. Half guessing it is empty but won't know until it is pulled apart. Might be a good friction fit.

There is no such thing as "cheap" hotspot service. Especially prepaid and ESPECIALLY unlimited. Hotspot means "I will be tethering my computer to your service and probably doing RPG gaming and movie streaming on big screens at high resolution and while I am at it, I will be doing some Torrent sharing" and they say... Uh... that's a lot of cellular bandwidth we don't want to give you. You are better off to limit your data usage and see the sights and disconnect from the tech umbilical cord. It's cheaper that way.

Yeah... I have been pondering that possibility. I doubt that connecting a 1.5m connection with a 600 or so ping to a 18m with 4 or so ping. Cant see how integrating the 1.5 into the mix would be of any value at all. Even when it is working ok. The high ping makes that line pretty much worthless

Perfect! I am certain I can screw that up:-) Looks like it's time to rebuild the PfSense box! Thanks!