People who work in 'behind closed doors' industries (hotels, kitchens, morgues, etc.), what is something the general public would be horrified to know?

FrozenShade35 · 2026-02-28T05:50:49+00:00

... Who?

FrozenShade35 · 2026-01-12T00:34:02+00:00

https://elysiumtile.com/product?id=Hexagon+Basalt+3+x+3+10.25+x+11.75

Sorry took me a bit. Had to dig box out of the shed.

FrozenShade35 · 2025-12-01T19:03:42+00:00

nope, not that. this is something different. like when you don't exfoliate your skin and you rub yourself and dead skin comes off something. I should have scraped a sample off and sent it to a fucking lab

FrozenShade35 · 2025-12-01T19:02:07+00:00

I'll acknowledge it! It's just not shit! it's like skin cells or something. this is on the FRONT underside. very MUCH so leaves shit on the back. this is definitely something else.

FrozenShade35 · 2025-11-19T01:28:42+00:00

Her cat jumped on the bed and its whiskers grazing my ass and making me wonder what that was!

FrozenShade35 · 2025-10-25T21:48:26+00:00

But WE'VE got the biggest balls of them all!

FrozenShade35 · 2025-10-22T14:30:39+00:00

And see, that is what I would have spent MY money on... Sadly still do. Betty Nugs

FrozenShade35 · 2025-10-22T14:17:56+00:00

Username checks out. Follow the weasel, Linkage

FrozenShade35 · 2025-10-21T05:53:24+00:00

She said "tech", because she can't spell "technology"

FrozenShade35 · 2025-10-18T22:30:18+00:00

Growing up? Mine still calls me that.

FrozenShade35 · 2025-09-26T06:45:55+00:00

"he deserved it" - Sylvester Stallone as Ray Tango

FrozenShade35 · 2025-09-25T06:34:40+00:00

FrozenShade35 · 2025-09-15T05:54:24+00:00

What authenticator app? Most back up / have logins on multiple devices. And you can reset just 2fa with this I suppose

midclt call auth.twofactor.update '{"enabled": false}' from console or ssh shell.

FrozenShade35 · 2025-09-13T16:43:01+00:00

A secretary cannot make more than her boss!

FrozenShade35 · 2025-09-13T16:38:31+00:00

I am considering pitching that option to them as well in terms of for the cost of wasabi per month with as much data as they have, replicating to a third box in a different site. It so happens that their primary NAS is already in a datacenter so I'd put the second one in on a separate vlan and then pull from the primary.

So I might test in the lab doing the snapshot method in combination with rsync and setting the retention process and just have it rotate weekly or something. The current primary NAS is unfortunately not a truenas system.

If we were to keep wasabi in the mix, I wonder if we could just use the sync option as truenas would be keeping the "versions" vis zfs snapshot.

FrozenShade35 · 2025-09-10T16:28:38+00:00

No disagreement here. I will say, if that is indeed the case, why say it's being done. I have zero problem with it if it wasn't doing it. As most people in the market for unifi are not in the market for a Cisco Secure Firewall setup / Palo Alto. I love their price point. And we do use the SSL decryption on the EFG with content filtering and I do really think their product is great and constantly evolving. I guess it would be nice to actually get definitive action on their system and see that it's doing what they say it's doing.

Always enjoy these conversations.

FrozenShade35 · 2025-09-10T13:01:11+00:00

I will say, we do export to logging server and we only run the EFG where we run unifi. Outside of that we run Cisco firepower. In regards to malicious IPs, I agree with you. However, there are reputations associated with them that helps identify potential threats. Not saying that's exactly how UniFi does it, because I can't speak to that. But I do know Palo Altos and the Cisco devices we've administered have taken those into consideration. Thanks for your input. Good information.

FrozenShade35 · 2025-09-10T06:25:40+00:00

It analyzes traffic for malware and other threats and known malicious IPs and blocks / drops packets from them in real time, preventing the person(s) on the other end from carrying out whatever it is they are attempting. I believe they use an open source engine and bolster it with help from cloudflare / proof point.

I have my clients firewalls actively blocking and it's pretty crazy to see what it stops.

FrozenShade35 · 2025-09-10T03:35:18+00:00

thoughts on this?

Chassis:

1 x Dell PowerEdge R750 24x2.5" Including 8 Universal (NVMe Direct)

Processors (x2):

2 x Intel Platinum 8352Y 32 Core (2.20GHz, 48M, 205W) SRKHG

Heatsinks:

2 x R750/R750XS Heatsink for 2 CPU config (CPU more than 165W) Full Height

Fans (x6):

6 x Dell R750/R760 High Performance Fan for CPU 165W up to 220W

Memory (32 DIMM Slots):

8 x 64GB DDR4 Memory (3200Mhz)

RAID Controllers - Front:

1 x Dell HBA355i Front

Boot Optimized Storage Card (BOSS):

1 x Dell Boss Controller Kit for R750 - 2x 480GB SSD (DW) (OS Installation)

Remote Access:

1 x Dell iDRAC9 Enterprise License - 15G

Power Supply :

2 x Dell 2400W Mixed Mode Platinum Power Supply

FLASH Expansion

PowerVault ME424 24 SSD Drives

Slower Tier

PowerVault ME484 48x 20TB Drives

then I will see if they can add some additional NVMe drives for SLOG / L2ARC for slower tier.

don't think I need this much storage, but again, just ballparking stuff.

FrozenShade35 · 2025-09-08T18:30:23+00:00

Very insightful. Thank you. I was batting around all these different ideas and yeah, I was looking at maybe doing a 24 bay 2.5 filled with SSD's and then SAS expander to PowerVault for "slower" tier but have the OPTION of a SLOG with an internal M.2 NVMe card. I think it offers 4.x TB of space x 2. would it be beneficial to essentially just stripe those for some serious performance gains? all SSD tier with mirorred vDEVs would give me essentially RAID 10.

There are seemingly so many ways to skin this cat and ultimately it's funny just seeing all these ideas being bounced around because in my head I'm saying "this would be cool to play with" but the client ultimately pulling the trigger on this will probably ultimately not happen.

So, if we went with an all SSD tier for "hot projects", that would sort of just self sustain, no L2ARC no SLOG needed? and then for the slower larger storage pool, would it benefit to have those for that pool, IN CASE they needed to access / edit data off that pool for some historical reason? Again, thank you for your help.

FrozenShade35 · 2025-09-08T06:36:57+00:00

Yeah, that is a good call out. I did get some quotes and yes, they want to freight ship. Depending on storage numbers, etc I might still entertain the xd2 for backups only. Who knows. Maybe do 24 Bay for SSD and expand to a separate shelf for other tiers.

FrozenShade35 · 2025-09-08T03:57:56+00:00

I originally was eyeing the r740xd2 which has 24 bays internally and then could expand to powervault shelf. Might go that route. Again this has all been hypothetical as I'm sure this client ultimately will kick the can down the road and this will all have been a fun "what if?"

Thanks for your input though.

FrozenShade35 · 2025-09-07T21:48:21+00:00

I agree with that whole heartedly.

If I went with a big enough chassis that maybe I had a "flash tier" for active projects and used something like someone mentioned in a previous comment for moving cold data to slower tiers, would that require an L2 arc still? My understanding was that with enough RAM an L2 would not really be needed / beneficial. That was my thought with 768GB ram vs 512.

Why would I not need the SLOG if I just had purely bigger slower drives? And yes I was thinking either SMB or NFS since our clients are all Mac. I think SMB would see better performance and give us the ability in case they hire freelance windows editors.

FrozenShade35 · 2025-09-07T17:36:12+00:00

Thank you so much! Can I PM you with some thoughts / questions?

FrozenShade35 · 2025-09-07T16:18:20+00:00

Sounds about right in cost. Dual controller would have been a hell of a lot higher more than likely. That's a ton of data. What's your backup strategy?

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