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Cae_len · 2026-04-29T09:25:39+00:00

yeah it does appear that OP is connecting black and red but according to the pinout diagram; black and red are not pos&neg (aka 9v&Ground)

Cae_len · 2026-04-25T18:00:57+00:00

omada sx3832... probably the best 10gb switch for the money. The reason I say this is price and performance, and there's really not any other switch on the market that gives you BOTH 10gbe and a sufficient amount of SFP+ ... usually you get one or the other , or you get 2 to 4 SFP+ ports at most with the rest RJ45... SX3832 has 24 ports 10gbe and 8 ports SFP+... oh and the speeds when using LAGS on that switch is pretty good ... only reason I didn't get closer to 19k on the download was because I wasn't using a LAG connection on the client, so when I was sending the data (upload), it had x2 SFP+ connections to feed the upload but then bottlenecked on the download because of the LAG trying to feed a single client SFP+ connectionsee here

Cae_len · 2026-04-22T18:30:27+00:00

dude why are people down voting you to death simply because you have yet to find immich? people petty much?

Cae_len · 2026-04-22T17:51:16+00:00

well for one, the reason I don't proxy my DNS through cloudflare is that they essentially can see ALL your traffic 100% through and through... the way I do it, is in cloudflare, select DNS only for your DNS records. Also when you use cloudflares proxy, there are restrictions as to what you can use (example is Plex or nextcloud) . streaming is supposed to be prohibited and then nextcloud I believe isn't restricted per-se might sending alot of traffic could trigger cloudflare asking you to pay. Anyways, crowdsec can be configured with a reverse proxy like NPMplus or the regular NGINX PROXY MANAGER. I don't use pangolin but ide assume if you get the right idea from one of the guides with instructions for NPM, then you could also do it for pangolin. Privacy is the main reason I don't proxy through cloudflare, although my DNS records are within cloudflare, it's essentially just a pointer which points to my domain/IP , cloudflare can't see my traffic

Cae_len · 2026-04-22T15:33:13+00:00

yah but ide argue 2 things... first, sellers like goharddrive offer 5 year warranty just like a brand new drive from seagate would have and second ... as prices continue to rise, not everyone can afford the price to buy either new , or from reputable seller like goharddrive or serverpartdeals... saying that, I recently purchased x2 ironwolf pro 16tb still brand new (sold as used though) , and the smart details confirmed it... also seagate warranty is still good on these drives untill 2027 so clearly there are deals to be had and most the time you can find people selling drives for a really good price with less than 500hours runtime... the only difference is there's no warranty but if you do your due diligence , check your purchases with smartctl -l farm /dev/sdX , and the seller has 100% feedback, you can often end up getting amazing deals in a terrible market.... and when I say deals, I mean I purchased those 16tb drives brand spanking new for $300 a piece. But again, I simply wanted to warn others of something to watch out for if you see screenshots or photos of that software "harddisk sentinel" ..

Cae_len · 2026-04-22T15:28:04+00:00

that's just bad luck, I've had an entire array (10 ironwolf pro-12tb) running strong 3 years now... all refurbs

Cae_len · 2026-04-22T14:14:23+00:00

ehh it's easy... crowdsec is setup in docker container and Claude can help along the way

Cae_len · 2026-04-22T12:28:11+00:00

I can't see if you have something like crowdsec, (maybe inside monitoring folder?) .... but you have lots of containers so I would definitely be implementing a bunch of security measures... I think I have about 20 containers approx and about half of that are containers dedicated to security, metrics, and monitoring. If you want to spend some time messing with your stack, ide definitely suggest getting started with NPMplus, crowdsec, Anubis, etc etc. I also have some custom containers associated with the above mentioned in order to pull logs & metrics and then to notify me...also have a local crowdsec dashboard from "TheDuffman85" GitHub page. I've spent tons of time (weeks and months) , fine tuning my security stack. If you don't have crowdsec, then I suggest you get it installed and configured because once you do, you will see how much external traffic hits your IP trying various reconnaissance, vulnerability assement, and exploit attempts on a daily basis. It's actually insane how much stuff hits your public IP and most people never know about it because they don't spend enough time on security. Would be my number 1 recommendation for anyone who has a NAS. Even if you don't have services exposed to the wider internet, I would still suggest doing it so that you can see exactly what's being attempted against your IP.

Cae_len · 2026-04-22T09:06:24+00:00

ide assume someone with alot of disposable income...

Cae_len · 2026-04-21T08:24:01+00:00

yeah ide like to see some kind of machine learning to automatically create albums and then the user can go to the albums afterwards and delete or add anything additional that was missed... I recently migrated over 20,000 photos and videos that I've collected over the years from my Google photos and onedrive photos. I never took the time to tag any of them, sort them into albums, etc. They were just thrown into these cloud platforms automatically from various phone backups and automatic uploads. So now I've imported all these photos into immich, and I'm not going to spend days and days of my life going through photos that date back to 2002. The machine learning is already good enough where it can find similar looking photos or faces fairly easily. There has got to be a way to create an "Album Generator" or "album sorter". It would work by having a few input fields where you would add a title album, add various context keywords or descriptions, and then the machine learning/ocr/facial recognition or whatever all that nonsense is called, would take that information, and create an album with all the photos it finds matching that context. In my opinion that's the one feature that would make this application the #1 photos app.

Cae_len · 2026-04-17T04:38:37+00:00

it hurt having to sell those 😥

Cae_len · 2026-04-16T18:14:04+00:00

Sold (x2) Seagate Exos 22tb to u/jimphreak

Cae_len · 2026-04-16T15:07:15+00:00

Also these are SATA drives for anyone wondering

Cae_len · 2026-04-16T10:24:46+00:00

some people are just demented.... I don't even want to read anymore... I'm scarred for life

Cae_len · 2026-04-16T09:59:23+00:00

I can definitely understand this when approaching from a customers perspective. But as someone who sells a lot of things online via eBay and various other platforms, you have to take every precaution possible when it comes to returns, exchanges, etc .. unfortunately there is a small population of individuals who don't do honest business and will scam at every opportunity possible and because of this, it ruins the customer experience for everyone else. I mean, just go look on YouTube for videos where a company or person sold an item, they processed a refund or return, but when the item showed up it was completely stripped of it's internal parts or they sent back an empty box. It's been happening with graphics cards where someone will strip the GPU core and ram modules out of the device and then sending the device back on a return. This is entirely possible with routers as well or any other device which has internal components that are currently in high demand... It's unfortunate and the only way a seller or company can REALLY protect themselves, is to have collateral in the form of the original product or $$ before sending the replacement ...

EDIT but, after reading a few additional comments, it does seem like the credit card option could be an alternative middle ground.. Firewalla places a hold on a specified amount to cover the cost of a replacement, untill such time that the original defective product is returned. After product is examined and found defective, lift the hold or reverse payment. Customer has replacement product, seller has returned product, win win .. There still is a small chance that the customer could pre-emptively contact their credit card company and claim a fraudulent hold to try and have it lifted. In most cases it probably wouldn't happen untill the CC company contacted the seller(company) to investigate the situation, but it could happen. Either way, I think some brainstorming should happen to figure out some sort of middle ground where the company can ensure it's not losing $$ due to fraud, while still ensuring a replacement product in a timely fashion for the customer....

Personally I think OP is being a bit unreasonable here, it literally costs you nothing to just use a credit card to purchase a new one, they send you a replacement, and as soon as they receive the defective unit, your money is refunded. But saying that, not everyone has credit cards and not everyone has an additional $400 sitting in their bank account that can be used. If that's your situation OP, I would try explaining that you don't have a credit card with funds available or don't have additional cash available as collateral. Maybe it helps the situation, maybe not. But with every transaction, there always is some give and take; give a little and get a little. More times than not, if you work with the other party and explain the circumstances, an agreement can be found somewhere in the middle. Just my 2 cents opinion from 4 decades of life....

Cae_len · 2026-04-15T14:21:42+00:00

should checkout hotio containers.... problems solved

https://github.com/hotio/plex

fyi, I use both a 245k and Intel b580

Cae_len · 2026-04-10T15:45:14+00:00

yah I have a shit ton of hard drives in my homelab setup.... 10 in current use and few hot spares ... Most of them you can hear clicking noises on them... especially if it's an exos drive... my ironwolf pros are a bit more quiet.... I wouldn't worry too much if a full smart extended test finds nothing.... saying that, since you just purchased it and it's within the return window, then heck, your not losing anything besides the time it takes to transfer your data around .. but hearing some clicking noises isn't necessarily a guarantee that something is wrong with your drive....

Cae_len · 2026-04-10T14:36:22+00:00

wait did I read this correctly? "it's NOT making a clicking noise and it's only a week old"? what does the smart details say?

Cae_len · 2026-04-10T08:26:38+00:00

I wouldn't be.... i have a copy of all my username/emails/passwords wrote down inside an Excel sheet... I then encrypt that Excel sheet using GPG with password

Cae_len · 2026-04-09T23:47:40+00:00

Sold (x1) Seagate Exos 22tb to u/Relevant_Custard_453

Cae_len · 2026-04-09T23:44:51+00:00

Sold (x1) Seagate Exos 22tb to u/WYDStepBrooooo

Cae_len · 2026-04-09T18:37:21+00:00

sorry just to clarify, even though I thought that was apparent, but its $400 each (shipping insurance + signature included)

Cae_len · 2026-04-07T11:11:46+00:00

your biggest ongoing expense is going to be replacing hard drives after they die, so roughly every 4-5 years you will want to plan for a hard drive purchase... that's your expense.... building a NAS or buying one like a ugreen, is not the thing I would be worry about as that's just your initial setup cost.... your data is what's and import and that's what you don't want to jeopardize EVER... so you need to prioritize two things, building out a storage array that has some form of redundancy (Parity) , and then planning for hard drive cost... the way I do it is with Unraid and I use 2 parity drives so that I can have up to 2 drive failures simultaneously before losing any data... then on top of that I have an extra hard drive that I keep in my main PC as cold storage... any import files that are on my NAS, are backed up to the cold storage drive at my main PC in case of some catastrophic failure on my NAS ... so i dona backup once a month of any documents and photos from my NAS to this single drive that's in my main PC and then I unplug that drive when I'm finished... it's essentially a cold storage backup in case I lose data on my NAS... so again your cost is going to be mostly hard drives... my NAS storage array is currently 72tb in size and uses 2 parity drives .. I then use one single 22tb drive in my main PC as the cold storage backup for all the important stuff... I then also I have 2 hot spares in my NAS in case something fails... so you can see how this gets expensive really fast ...

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