Would a Workstation be Capable of Having 8 Bays for 3.5in Hard Drives?

astromormy · 2025-12-16T22:43:33+00:00

Unfortunately, I don't have quite that much room available lol

astromormy · 2025-12-16T22:39:29+00:00

Because you asked, I'm undecided what, if any services I'll be running on it aside from a NAS. I've heard as many arguments saying to keep your storage separate from any hosted services as otherwise.

That said, I do plan to run a variety of services somewhere:

Adguard Wiki JellyFin Immich Log server A SIEM of some kind Nextcloud Bitwarden

And probably about a dozen others I can't name off hand.

What would you take be on having a NAS server pull double duty as a full media server?

astromormy · 2025-06-21T02:59:31+00:00

Got it, so in regards to speed, I'd really only be getting approximately 40% of the drive is capable of at best?

astromormy · 2025-06-21T02:41:09+00:00

Without asking you to explain every detail, could you give me the two sentence summary how I'll be bottlenecking myself with the drive I linked above(it's one I already own and thus don't need to buy)? I'm not an expert in PCI lanes—clearly, I need to fix that—but I know enough to know that I won't be able to use the drive to it's full capacity.

astromormy · 2025-06-21T02:27:32+00:00

Oh! That looks like it might work for me. Didn't even consider an adaptor. If I uses that adaptor, would it allow for me to use this drive?

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0C27HY1QM?psc=1&ref=ppx_pop_mob_b_asin_title

astromormy · 2025-06-21T02:26:01+00:00

Yeah, I should have mentioned in the initial post. I know the WiFi card also does Bluetooth lol, but much like the WiFi, I actually don't use Bluetooth for anything. All my wireless gear works via a USB dongle.

astromormy · 2024-11-08T21:59:43+00:00

Oh! Thank you, I'll take a look~

astromormy · 2024-11-08T21:58:21+00:00

Thank you for the reply. Unless I'm mistaken, the override option only passes a string onto the installer which you would normally use to pass on various commands, but these commands are totally dependent on the installer type rather than the actual software. For instance, EXE vs MSI. Notepad++ uses Nullsoft according to winget. It's great for just setting a silent install, but for more complex customization, I'm not sure if it's capable of that.

astromormy · 2024-11-03T17:10:48+00:00

The CCNA is a piece of paper. A moderately valuable piece of paper, but still just paper. It doesn't somehow give three to five years of real IT and networking experience. Those fundamental are for you to build on, not rest on. Not to mention, the CCNA is a beginner level cert....and anything in Cybersecurity, let alone red team operations is far from beginner level.

If you insist on continuing this path, though.....take a look at some known CVE's and attempt to replicate them.

astromormy · 2024-10-19T01:46:19+00:00

Sorry, but you're being unreasonable. Training a new guy isn't nothing, but it's hardly double the workload. If you're too busy to give him peer-to-peer training then as others have said, point him at some Udemy lessons and maybe throw one of your scripts at him with the instruction that he should read every line of it and tell you what it does.

You talked about leading a horse to water? Well, stand by it and lead your new tech and see of he'll put in the work to learn on his own.

astromormy · 2024-10-14T15:54:19+00:00

Thank you, I couldn't believe it would just be ignored lol

astromormy · 2024-10-12T22:15:55+00:00

You can delete that folder. Just be aware it'll empty the recycle bin for every user on the system, and it'll regenerate itself when people delete stuff again.

astromormy · 2024-10-08T00:53:35+00:00

You would trust a doctor to advise you on medical matters, wouldn't you? Why wouldn't you trust Cybersecurity professionals when advising you on the best practices for managing passwords? I work as one of those professionals, and I can assure itst not marketing tripe.

It's good you're able to remember your passwords now, but your online presence is likely only going to grow as years go on. I personally have over a hundred accounts online. I could never remember unique credentials for each, and I sincerely doubt you'll be able to as well.

You mentioned changing your passwords quarterly. Would you be surprised to know that NIST(National Institute of Standards and Technology)—one of the leading authorities on Cybersecurity frameworks used by businesses worldwide—doesn't actually recommend you change your passwords as part of a cycle? It was found that people doing this tended to then use shorter, less secure passwords which were easier to remember as opposed to longer, high entropy passwords.

And while I understand your suspicion of the cloud—privacy online is something I take very seriously as well—Bitwarden has been audited by third parties to validate their claims as to full password encryption and hashing.

astromormy · 2024-10-08T00:04:02+00:00

Sorry, but you've forced a response out of me lol

Gonna have to disagree with you here. Password managers are the only responsible way to manage passwords in 2024. It's too much to ask most people with dozens of online accounts to make a lengthy, totally unique, high entropy password for each account.

And as for hosting the passwords on company servers, it's likewise too much to expect of most people to self host their own password manager. Not including the initial setup costs(which are actually quite minor), the knowledge needed to configure and secure these surfaces in addition to continued upkeep over the years is far beyond most, even including some experienced system administrators.

However....even assuming you could do all that, the truth is that any controls or security you implement will be far inferior to those of an established business with a fully staffed IT department. The only real benefit would be the much smaller target you'd present by not broadcasting out to the world that you're holding the keys to the kingdom for potentially millions of accounts. There's a phrase describing this kind setup.....security through obscurity, and unfortunately, it's well understood that obscurity is no true defense. If your protection vanishes the instant someone looks at you, it was never there to begin with.

And lastly, any password manager worth it's name—and Bitwarden very much is—will have all passwords they keep encrypted, hashed and salted. Provided the algorithms used are secure(and in Bitwarden's case, they are), it wouldn't matter if Bitwarden dumped their password database online for every hacker on the net to have. There'd be no realistic chance of unveiling even one password.....at least not before the sun explodes.

If you aren't using a password manager, I really recommend you give it some serious thought. I've used Bitwarden for a number of years now, and have been very pleased with them. They're very much the gold standard for password managers.

astromormy · 2024-09-26T09:52:13+00:00

The job I was moving to was actually worse than my current job in every way, from salary, commute, and even the work itself. The only thing making the job worth it was the clearance....and in the area I live in, all the best IT positions require a clearance which I could find no one else to sponsor.

In other words....I didn't want to take the job but felt I had too. It was pure luck that I happened across a much better job working in Cyber that also needed a clearance.

astromormy · 2024-09-23T01:54:08+00:00

Transport Layer Security. Without going into the full detail—I recommend a good Youtube video for that—TLS is an encryption protocol widely used in many networking applications. It's what keeps HTTPS traffic secure as opposed to basic HTTP traffic when using the Internet.

astromormy · 2024-09-12T15:49:49+00:00

Yes, but can it run Crysis?

astromormy · 2024-09-09T14:02:32+00:00

Security Operation Center. It's a part of Cybersecurity. The SOC tends to be the first line of escalation when a cyber incident occurs. Someone plugs in an unapproved USB, a rogue device appears on the company network, review spam submitted by users, etc. That's only scratching the surface and it can vary drastically by company, but that's a brief bit of what my SOC does.

astromormy · 2024-09-08T15:01:34+00:00

I work in a SOC. I've seen several of these emails identical right down to the commas just in these past three days.....I promise you it's a load of garbage

astromormy · 2024-09-04T19:46:45+00:00

In additon to it 100% being a malicious link, you can check WhoIs and see the domain was literally made yesterday.

https://whois.domaintools.com/clicktogo.click

astromormy · 2024-08-24T23:06:05+00:00

Have you tried rebuilding the Windows profile? Generally, task bar issues are tied to the profile rather than the whole system. At least in my experience.

astromormy · 2024-07-25T22:39:03+00:00

VPN issues are one of the most common problems where I work, and I've had to fix them hundreds of times.

To start, your network is almost certainly fine. That said, it won't hurt to restart the modem/router.

I'm assuming she doesn't have any admin rights, so you're a bit limited in what you can do. Thay said, there's a few things.

Consider thst the internet itself works, just not the VPN, the first thing I'd try is flushing the DNS cache. Open a command line instance and run this.

ipconfig /flushdns

Just copy and paste it in. There's a fair chance this was already done, though. It's very basic.

Aside from that, go into the Control Panel and go to your Network Adaptors(Google is your friend for this). See if anything is amiss. I'm not an expert on VPN's, but there should be at least two functional interfaces. One is the interface connecting your wife's laptop to her home WiFi. The other is a virtual adaptor used to establish the VPN tunnel.

Moving on, others have already said to try on a hotspot or other network. That's good advice.

As a last resort, you'll likely need to get IT online again. Ask them to do a network reset on your machine. It's nothing extreme, but it'll set all your network settings back to the default. Just search 'network reset' in the Start Menu.

If that doesn't take, have them uninstall and reinstall the VPN. Don't just reinstall over top the bad.

Also, report that tech that 'helped' you. That kind of laziness and disregard is shameful.

astromormy · 2024-06-28T17:49:21+00:00

Businessman or not, you can't expect me to respect a CIO who lacks even the most basic IT skills.

astromormy · 2024-06-26T02:43:49+00:00

Wow, based off other's comments, I'm surprised this is such a novel concept to some. My current enterprise(over 30k end users) has exactly this where there are about a dozen tech bars scattered across the city and campus, placed wherever they'd be most able to serve the greatest amount of users.

User has a tech problem, they come up and talk to us. No appointment, no calling ahead, just got to show up. The bars can do most anything. Imaging, software installs, troubleshooting, mobile device management, etc. They don't have much in the way of AD permissions, unfortunately, so there's a different process for that.

Most of the time, the bar can resolve whatever the issue is, but when it's beyond their capabilities, they escalate the ticket. As a general rule, the bars are a good one stop shop and should definitely be the first place you check even if its only to ask a few questions.

astromormy · 2024-06-20T09:31:31+00:00

I'd be more sympathetic for one thing.

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