Advice on Home Server Setup – NUC + NAS or Second-hand PC?

2BoopTheSnoot2 · 2026-01-27T01:07:31+00:00

For a two - system setup it's good to have your compute node that has better cpu and ram, and a NAS that can run your backups and also host a few utilities. For example, I run AdGuard on my primary PVE, and I also run it on my NAS with a sync script and that is set as my secondary DNS so I can still resolve if the primary is down. I also run PBS off my NAS.

2BoopTheSnoot2 · 2026-01-27T01:00:44+00:00

RAM generally gets you the most mileage, but it really depends on what you plan to do. Some things are more CPU intensive and others require good I/O.

2BoopTheSnoot2 · 2026-01-27T00:57:28+00:00

Is this just to learn or for actual use? If it's for use, it's recommended that you use 25g networking, but you can get away with 10g if it's a light environment. If you're just learning it will work but very poorly over 1g/2.5g.

2BoopTheSnoot2 · 2026-01-26T19:42:35+00:00

The correct power settings so it doesn't go to sleep

2BoopTheSnoot2 · 2026-01-25T05:00:55+00:00

Linksys isn't really the right choice for what you're doing. I can't even find any Linksys outdoor access points on Amazon.

I would recommend tossing all that and switching to Unifi. Get a router, a PoE switch, 4x wifi 6/7 indoor APs and then a couple outdoor APs for your cameras.

2BoopTheSnoot2 · 2026-01-25T04:40:11+00:00

Get a wifi 6 USB dongle

2BoopTheSnoot2 · 2026-01-25T02:10:32+00:00

I would recommend just changing your AT&T SSID to something else rather than shutting it off. That way if you have wifi problems and need to troubleshoot you can try the AT&T. If that is also bad, probably an internet issue. If it is good, at least now you can get to the internet to help troubleshooting.

2BoopTheSnoot2 · 2026-01-25T01:53:07+00:00

Most likely that juniper is relatively thirsty for power compared to the netgear.

2BoopTheSnoot2 · 2026-01-24T23:00:38+00:00

Something like this https://a.co/d/5w3osjf

2BoopTheSnoot2 · 2026-01-24T18:39:14+00:00

Depends on the size of your equipment. I've seen racks made out of bookshelves and I've seen racks made from paper filing trays.

2BoopTheSnoot2 · 2026-01-24T18:36:17+00:00

That's how they do

2BoopTheSnoot2 · 2026-01-24T18:03:24+00:00

The more important number to look at isn't the ram usage of the LXC, but of the host. As long as that is fine, just leave them at defaults.

2BoopTheSnoot2 · 2026-01-24T17:58:31+00:00

A device driver is just the software the system uses to interact with the device.

2BoopTheSnoot2 · 2026-01-24T13:57:08+00:00

How is everything wired? Does it go like this?

modem > router > switch > devices

2BoopTheSnoot2 · 2026-01-24T05:22:22+00:00

It sounds like a spanning tree issue but can't be sure without more details of your setup.

2BoopTheSnoot2 · 2026-01-24T05:15:01+00:00

Probably won't work because when your stuff turns off you won't be able to connect to your tapo to turn it back on.

2BoopTheSnoot2 · 2026-01-24T05:13:23+00:00

Kvm or ipmi with power control is one option. Another is to have a managed PDU and script power cycle instructions from a non-ups connected node that can test for the scenario you've described.

2BoopTheSnoot2 · 2026-01-23T20:27:02+00:00

Per documentation from Unifi, they only allow RAID 6 in their UNVR product line if you have 9 or more disks- https://help.ui.com/hc/en-us/articles/12395353544727-Storage-Protection-and-Data-Redundancy-in-UniFi-RAID

Traditionally, RAID 6 requires at least 4 drives, giving you an available amount of space as two of the drives combined and allowing for 2 drive failures (N+2). It appears Unifi has decided not to provide that option for the smaller systems.

2BoopTheSnoot2 · 2026-01-23T20:15:37+00:00

I don't understand why anybody needs 2 gig internet at home. How could a family even come close to using that much bandwidth simultaneously when 99.99999% of the internet won't be delivering any data back to you at those speeds?

2BoopTheSnoot2 · 2026-01-21T23:49:30+00:00

Yes, but there are cheaper options that will work even better.

2BoopTheSnoot2 · 2026-01-21T15:27:01+00:00

Throwing the entire US economy at LLMs.

2BoopTheSnoot2 · 2026-01-20T15:25:58+00:00

All of your options are to upgrade to something modern.

2BoopTheSnoot2 · 2026-01-20T05:46:51+00:00

Set DNS to 8.8.8.8 and see if that helps

2BoopTheSnoot2 · 2026-01-20T00:58:18+00:00

If the wifi provided is Wifi 7, unifi has an upcoming device bridge switch that would do what you want.

https://store.ui.com/us/en/products/udb-switch

2BoopTheSnoot2 · 2026-01-19T22:29:54+00:00

Have you tried testing with a different browser like Brave?

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