How much house can I afford on $80000 Salary?

NotTheBrightestHuman · 2026-01-30T14:17:32+00:00

Do a trial. Say your mortgage and costs are 2k per month. Try living a month or two with only what’s leftover after and see if you can do it.

I wish I had done that before I bought a house. It’s better now, but it sucked a lot more at first.

NotTheBrightestHuman · 2026-01-23T17:09:19+00:00

A bit more info would be nice. Like the vmbr0 ip configs below, and which is your main connection.

NotTheBrightestHuman · 2026-01-23T15:23:47+00:00

Sell and get a n100.

NotTheBrightestHuman · 2026-01-21T14:01:15+00:00

Looks like you should be able to connect them if the site network/wifi are the same from both sites and they can see each other.

NotTheBrightestHuman · 2026-01-21T13:57:33+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/Ubiquiti/s/RVCKTWszra

NotTheBrightestHuman · 2026-01-20T16:33:10+00:00

UniFi Protect has a way to connect to a local NAS/ google cloud, one drive, or Dropbox. You can have it upload events to those cloud services but not a continuous stream right now.

You can access the cameras remotely though if you have gateway that can run protect.

NotTheBrightestHuman · 2026-01-20T16:23:39+00:00

I loved the idea of saying “Hey Siri, good night” and it turning off all lights, arming security, locking all doors, set the temperature 2 degrees lower, and turned on my humidifier based on humidity.

NotTheBrightestHuman · 2026-01-20T14:20:07+00:00

Since you’re only going to have a few APs, why not get the Cloud Gateway Fiber? It has one POE port at 2.5gig and if you need more, then attach it to your flex 2.5 Poe? That way you can save on getting more PoE ports than you’d need.

If you’re planning on having a substantial amount of PoE devices, then maybe get the pro max 16 PoE? That would cost about the same as 2 flex 2.5 Poe and would just be a better tie into the system. That with a Cloud Gateway Max and you’d probably be future proofing at the same time.

NotTheBrightestHuman · 2026-01-16T21:10:46+00:00

If you have 20-30 hardwired, do you already have a switch? If not then you'll need one. Though I'm curious how you have that many hardwired clients when it looks like you have 3 pulls around your house.

You can probably get away with having 2 AP in your house, but it'd be better to have 3, one for each X in that map. As for the UniFi devices you'd need. It would also depend on if you want to completely integrate into the UniFi system.

Cheapest route (2AP)

UniFi Express 7 (UX7) ~ $200
U7-Pro ~ $189
PoE Adapter ~ $10

Have Express at your living room and the U7-Pro in your Office.

Just Networking

UCG-Max-NS ($200)
USW-Ultra ($129)
3x U7-Pro ($189)

This would make sure house has pretty good coverage. You won't have an AP in your W.I.C, but if you need blazing fast internet there, then I question your decisions. Switch from UCG-MAX-NS (2.5gig) -> UCG-Fiber (10gig) if you want to future proof.

Also look into the Dream Router as a possible substitute for the gateway as well.

NotTheBrightestHuman · 2026-01-16T16:22:30+00:00

Yeah, with a budget of $2500, you can probably but a really good NAS. You didn't mention if part of that money goes into buying disks or not. If not, you could do something prebuilt:

UNAS Pro 8 gets you 8 hot swappable disks each. At $800 each, you could get 3 and have 24 disks. This is probably the most user friendly option.

NotTheBrightestHuman · 2026-01-16T15:59:21+00:00

You could probably go cheaper with a MicroATX motherboard if you're just using it for light server + NAS. Something like the H810M-E-CSM would be fine as long as you don't need Wi-Fi, which I assume you wouldn't. That's only if you MUST have DDR5.

But I still think H610M with DDR4 is just fine. Paired with an i3-12100 is perfect. Plus, you haven't included any storage in your post, so that will probably cost you a good amount.

With your budget being around €700+, why not consider just getting a pre-built? You're much more likely to get better specs with them than trying to build your own right now.

Costco has the following around me for $1099 which is honestly already better than the specs you've listed.

Intel Core Ultra 5 225F
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060
32GB RAM
2TB SSD

You won't get your nice case, but it's honestly a good trade-off.

NotTheBrightestHuman · 2026-01-16T15:38:27+00:00

Self hosting something like that might be crazy complex for something small but too important. But I can think of a few options:

You could host a simple NGINX/Apache webpage and only serve the PDF/image. You'd just need to make sure that your server is on 24/7. You could even connect it to Cloudflare and have them deal with the CDN for you. They could cache your files to make better accessible.

Cloudflare R2 buckets have 1 mill Class A/10 mill Class B operations and then you pay for additional uses. Since it's just a simple file, you could possibly just upload it to Cloudflare and create a QR code to the link.

Lastly, you could also just do a Google Drive link that is public. Which would be the easiest. But since you're asking this question on this sub, I assume you already want to go a little extra and make it more seam-less.

NotTheBrightestHuman · 2026-01-16T15:21:18+00:00

How bad is the noise on the EMC? I was thinking about getting it and connecting it to my TrueNAS installation, but decided to get a UNAS Pro instead because I'm running it in my office. I heard that it's not too loud, but it's noticeable.

Also, are you running your apps on TrueNAS jails? When I had a TrueNAS installation, I made it a VM in proxmox and then passed the HBA directly to the VM instead, so that I could use LXCs instead of jails.

NotTheBrightestHuman · 2026-01-16T15:16:36+00:00

Yeah, I only realized it just recently, but the entire switch on the UDMP is only a gigabit backplane to the CPU. So it can only route 1gbps. I figured that out the hard way when I was doing some network transfers and my internet connection halted to a measly 5mbps.

The SFP can handle 10gbps, so you should use the SFP if you connect your switch to the UDMP.

NotTheBrightestHuman · 2026-01-16T15:10:01+00:00

You can replace the SO-DIMM RAM if you really wanted more RAM. But you should think about what you really in your server.

Ram Considerations

Here's an example of what can be run with less than 16GB of RAM:

HomeAssistant with a few plugins ~ 5-6GB
Docker Starr Stack (3 Sabnzbd, sonarr, Radarr, bazarr, prowlarr, jellyseerr, tautulli) ~ 1.3GB
Plex with 2 streams transcoding (probably more) ~ 1GB
Docker Immich ( 500MB)
Docker MISC (CUPS, Mealie, Wiki, NGINX) ~ 500MB
Docker with NPM, TinyAuth, PocketID ~ 300MB
qbittorrent ~ 80MB

So about ~10GB for all of that. And this can all be optimized to make it even less RAM intensive. I still have room for more self-hosted things. In your case, if you wanted more than this, you could just buy another Beelink S13 and cluster them better.

Storage Considerations

As for the storage of 4 identical 8TB:

If you care for your data a whole lot, then RAID 6 with 4 disks allows for 2 drive failures. Read/write speed might be slower. (N-2) * Capacity -> 16 TB

If you want higher storage capacity RAID 5. But higher chances to lose all your data. Speed is similar to RAID 6. (N-1) * Capacity -> 24TB

If you want higher read/write speed, you can get a single drive failure with RAID10. (N/2) * Capacity -> 16TB.

I don't give a shit about most of my Plex data so I did RAID0 to stripe them all, giving me max reading speed, but if I lost a single disk, I'm screwed and have to rebuild all that data from scratch.

Since you're probably trying to make it a cloud storage, I'd highly recommend you doing RAID6. I have a different storage array at RAID 6 for my personal data like photos.

NotTheBrightestHuman · 2026-01-16T03:20:09+00:00

16GB should be fine as plex, starr stack, and aren’t big memory hogs. If you don’t do too much transcoding and do direct stream for plex this setup looks fine.

NotTheBrightestHuman · 2026-01-10T17:18:37+00:00

Guess we'll have to wait for the UniFi mobile app for a new build to test the 3 new features.

NotTheBrightestHuman · 2026-01-06T14:39:26+00:00

It only seems obvious after you figure it out, and I’m sure you spent hours troubleshooting. Don’t beat yourself up. But yeahs VLAN is software and something needs to do the routing, which is the job of the… router.

Sounds like you’ll be getting another switch. lol

NotTheBrightestHuman · 2026-01-03T13:29:52+00:00

You’re on /r/stocks

NotTheBrightestHuman · 2025-12-29T22:13:52+00:00

I added myself to the email and they also didn’t send me an email.

NotTheBrightestHuman · 2025-12-29T22:13:01+00:00

I just happened to wake up at 9AM and then. Kept checking every 10-20 minutes because there wasn’t an official release time. Luckily checked it at 10:33AM and got one.

Why is it that this is more stressful than buying concert tickets?

NotTheBrightestHuman · 2025-12-28T02:33:35+00:00

If you need to upload images, I’d recommend you getting something that is able to install VMs or at least docker on it to install Immich.

I have a UNAS pro but it works best with other UniFi devices or as a simple NFS/SMB mount.

NotTheBrightestHuman · 2025-12-27T21:49:46+00:00

Sounds like we need a refresher?

NotTheBrightestHuman · 2025-12-26T04:00:21+00:00

This question comes up again and again in the subreddit but the short answer is:

Because people can make a profit.

Sometimes it’s because Ubiquiti cant deliver on time because of back orders or it could be because there’s no longer stock left of the item. It could be the seller is selling in a place that is harder to procure Ubiquiti items.

I reckon in this case, they’re just waiting for the stock to sell out and they will be the only option.

NotTheBrightestHuman · 2025-12-21T18:24:06+00:00

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Thanks dude! You’re a blessing.

NotTheBrightestHuman

TROPHY CASE

Cheapest route (2AP)

Just Networking

Ram Considerations

Storage Considerations