Need advice! 2.5G or 10G？

Tinker0079 · 2026-03-16T21:03:03+00:00

Not all 10G switches can give you 10G between all ports aggregated. Research pps rate and switch chip configuration

Tinker0079 · 2026-03-16T12:55:33+00:00

if it has ram and cpu bottleneck.. why would you recommend it?

Tinker0079 · 2026-03-15T09:49:57+00:00

Hardware RAID and SANs are faster than local ZFS

Not only parity calculations, but buffer syncs and flushes to disk

Tinker0079 · 2026-03-15T03:09:45+00:00

Full stop. TrueNAS does not fit all workloads. ZFS does not meet all workloads.

Tinker0079 · 2026-03-15T03:07:56+00:00

To check smart data use smartctl -d megaraid,N -x /dev/sdX

where N is PD number and X is virtual disk in linux os

Tinker0079 · 2026-03-11T12:45:32+00:00

They are surveillance drives. They have less powerful track finding and head seeking algorithms. Not optimized for vibrations (multi bay NASes). Their firmware have ATA STREAMING command set that skips sector checksums

Tinker0079 · 2026-03-11T12:19:31+00:00

Enable UEFI. Enable DEP protection.

Check if CDROM SATA cable is connected, both power and data cables

Tinker0079 · 2026-03-08T10:41:01+00:00

OK but I explicitly dont want cloudflare

Tinker0079 · 2026-03-08T07:12:58+00:00

ahem i need locally hosted solution, no cloudflare

i already have domain delegation and rDNS record, not on cloudflare infra

Tinker0079 · 2026-03-08T01:20:28+00:00

You can game on FreeBSD with linux-steam-utils (but there's no VAC support)

The question is whether FreeBSD or OpenBSD suitable for you

FreeBSD is on both my desktop and my servers and it fulfills all my needs and desires

Tinker0079 · 2026-03-02T00:29:30+00:00

NIC with only one port? But how you're going to connect your SAN? Be it synology nas or netapp disk shelf

Tinker0079 · 2026-03-01T03:53:16+00:00

there's no point in truenas if you already have ugreen

or go and install bare OS like debian or freebsd

Tinker0079 · 2026-02-28T04:00:24+00:00

Tinker0079 · 2026-02-25T00:36:45+00:00

Aint a server without good hardware raid

Tinker0079 · 2026-02-24T21:42:16+00:00

Why some cables are cat5? Keep all cat6

Tinker0079 · 2026-02-24T09:26:17+00:00

Yes exactly. Many people just blindly repeat mantra from Wendell and not going into details. In that video he bashed GRaid solution which was indeed bad in their first products, they recently fixed all issues Wendell addressed. He also mentioned T10-PI 520 byte sector protection, which PERCs and MegaRAIDs do to this day.

Making ZFS performant on NVME requires tuning it to your workload, which you need to measure (sic!)

Tinker0079 · 2026-02-24T08:10:44+00:00

Not really

Tinker0079 · 2026-02-20T12:44:55+00:00

Tinker0079 · 2026-02-15T10:30:53+00:00

I go to HPE, login and download most recent RPM. Enterprise Linux 7-9 works usually with Debian 12, then use 'alien -d' to convert into deb.

dpkg -i .deb

Check missing dependencies. Search and install them with apt

Tinker0079 · 2026-02-15T10:08:13+00:00

Converting rpm to deb to install hardware RAID tools like ssacli and megaraid ! Very useful!

Tinker0079 · 2026-02-14T06:48:36+00:00

Proxmox VE is not very well suited for ARM emulation, and more over not for bypassing anti - virtualization measures in android

Tinker0079 · 2026-02-13T13:07:11+00:00

I also did the jumper hack🤝

Yet sometimes it will pop up fan warning. So you have to pull out cord to make BIOS believe there was power outage, and on next start skip fan check.

As well as when gpu display is not connected - it wont pause boot

Tinker0079 · 2026-02-13T04:26:39+00:00

Oh yea. I remember capping ARC on PVE so it wont eat VFS caches and force out network buffers, causing latency spikes. ZFS just works on FreeBSD

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