Omg… I’m a dummy. Thank you, stranger!

OK… I guess I’m an idiot… Where is the pre-reg on the playstore?

My first printer was a creality cr6 (kickstarter edition), and it’s been absolutely fantastic. I use my printer to solve problems mostly by designing my own parts for things. My printers really are tools to me. My cr6 doesn’t get used a lot, but I turn it on, run the auto level, and hit print. I’ve printed roughly 2000 hours with it, and I’ve had one jam, and zero failed prints (I’ve stopped a couple for various reasons, but I’ve never walked in to find a spaghetti mess). I upgraded to the community firmware, a dual drive extruder, and capricorn. Also, I print almost exclusively in PLA.

My second printer is a kingroon kp3s. I’ve printed very few parts with it. I got it as a toy, and plan to install klipper and just be able to print fast. I like the small for factor, direct drive, and linear rails. It’s a decent printer, but it’s not as “easy” as my cr6 (no ABL, and my bed seems to have a high spot right in the middle). The prints I’ve printed for testing are small, and the quality has been really good. I just haven’t had a lot of time to play with it and really dial it in.

All this said… I’d by a mk4 in a split second for my use case. Again, as a tool that I turn on every few months, prusa is a known workhorse. My only complaint with my cr6 is it’s slow… And the mk4 would take care of that.

I echo these exact thought, except it was sync for me. Without question the most used app, always first to be installed a new phone, and had the designated spot on the home screen.

Makes me sad where things are going.

I’m currently running pfsense, and then mikrotik and ubiquiti switched and ubiquiti AP’s. I’m slowly removing the ubiquiti switches and moving to mikrotik as I’m upgrading to 10gbe. Mikrotik switches have a reputation of being reliable, capable, and cheap-ish. So far I like them. While I love ubiquiti’s single pane of glass approach with the unifi controller, I wanted to get away from that a bit. I work in IT, and most things I encounter don’t have that… And are configured via cli and or web interface. When I built my home network I jumped into ubiquiti for the ease. Now I’m back tracking for more learning.

No. I meant 3.5" your original post listed >= 4 3.5" bays.

In my hyve Zeus servers I run two ssd’s in a mirror, and then host all my data on a trunas server with an nfs share. That said, ssd’s are really reasonable (just bought 2 x 2packs of 1tb ssd’s for $66 each). If space requirements exceed what you can do with some ssd’s, then I get it.

I have an r510 as a trunas server. It uses well over a 100 watts, so I can at least provide you that info. Haha.

At that depth, I feel like creaking and cracking is probably common. However, I don’t think there would be any spraying as an indicator. Based on this tweet I saw earlier.

Is 3.5" drive bays a deal breaker? Cause if not, I absolutely LOVE my Hyve Zeus servers!

Incase anyone is wondering… Little clip of an implosion

RIP to those who parished. I think most can take solace knowing that if it turns out to be true that it was an implosion, it would have been instant, and the occupants likely felt nothing. .

I think it’s as equally important to remember; A backup is not back up… Until you’ve restored from it.

Test your backups, folks.

Couldn’t agree more!! I’d absolutely love to have sync back!

I’m running Trunas. I’ve been using it for many years, and it’s been an fantastic solution for me.

As far as resources, what do you mean? It’s an older server, so Google is your friend for sure. But I’ve had zero issues sourcing parts that I may have needed.

I am ALL for this!! I was a sync pro user for years!! Miss that app now that I’m done with reddit.

• Radarr
• Sonarr
• Lidarr
• Prowlarr
• Plex
• Pihole
• Papermerge
• Syncthing
• Guacamole
• Klipper
• Octoprint

There’s probably others. Just a quick off the top of my head list.

I was using a home built machine for several years as a Nas, and it was fine, but I ultimately upgraded to a Dell R510. They can be had pretty cheap, and have 12x 3.5" bays. I also added an HBA that I plug into a Lenovo sa120 (direct attached storage) I bought, for a total of 24x 3.5" drives.

I mention the sa120 because it just leads to expandability down the road for you. My r510 is one of my most favorite machines. I’m currently migrating data from 15x 4tb drives, over to 6x 10tb drives and I’m going to be shutting the DAS down to save electricity.

The r510 isn’t easy on electric usage, but it has been Rock solid for me.

Are you me? Haha! Our setups are very similar, except I’ve stuck with pfsense (though I’m debating switching to opnsense as I upgrade to 10g). But the saving every watt to keep the wifey happy can’t bemofe on point for me. Haha.

I’m seriously debating switching to opnsense. I’m in the process of upgrading my homelab to 10g, and wonder how pfsense will play with my 10g nics. I think I read before that pfsense plays with it fine… But if not, I’ll jump to opnsense.

I also wonder how long pfsense will keep things going for CE… Seems like the writing is on the wall that it isn’t going to last, but we’ll see.

How do you like vyos? I had looked into it, and it seemed a little cumbersome last time I looked at it. I believe it’s entirely cli? I suppose that’s not a bad thing, but sometimes a gui is nice.

I’ve run pfsense both ways. I’m currently running (and have been for a number of years now) running pfsense as a vm within Proxmox. I personally love it, but my setup is a little different then most. I have a dedicated server running promox strictly for pfsense (then have three Proxmox nodes for my cluster). I have a quad nic that I pass through to the vm and this has been Rock solid for years. I’ve not had a single issue.

In my stack I’m also using PBS, and I love the backup process (and or restoring a backup). Have a dedicated Proxmox machine for pfsense means I can shut down servers in my homelab without taking the internet down.

Running pfsense bare metal never gave me any issues, and going with a vm was more about the exercise of just doing it, and playing with pci pass through. Once it was setup and I setup the backups, it was a no-brainer for me to keep it running that way.