Hello everyone, hopefully you all can help me out with my issue, I'm helping a friend out with a new home installation, he has a ton of cat6 cables already in the walls, so im planning his new setup, mostly will be an unifi 24 or 48 switch with an unifi AP around his house, I also want to get him with it beside a patch pannel, a NAS and a Router.
For the Router:
Currently between a Unifi secure gateway to link everything together or a Custom server in the rack for PfSense or Untangle. in case of the later I was thinking of getting a cheap Dell R610 or R410 with dual X5650, some ram, a H200 or a SAS 6/ir and a simple hdd. Both are around 410 bucks.
For the NAS:
Also was looking at either synology or a FreeNAS solution. in case of the synology would be either a DS 918+ or a RS818+. for the FreeNas, probably a R710 with an H200 or a SAS 6/ir card, 16 or 32 gigs of ram and a 150 ssd for boot drive.
But beside that I needed the Server Rack, which is my biggest issue due to not knowing if the server would fit in them, given that im looking for one that closes. Current options I see are https://www.amazon.com/NavePoint-Enclosure-Cabinet-Perforated-Casters/dp/B07F43WBSR or the https://www.amazon.com/dp/B071KW95QQ/ref=psdc_11042141_t1_B00CWUI19I
Was hoping someone with more experience and knowledge would give me a hand on what to do. My friend is not that IT savvy, but I can help him with most configuration and Walksthroughs.