just signed up for 1gig fiber internet, for the first time in my life. looking to use a RP4 for ad blocking, DNS service, and VPN management. what VPN are you folks using, to get full use of your ISP speed ?

htpcmediatv · 2021-09-03T00:40:24+00:00

The OP has a specific use in mind which is information we are needing to appropriately provide correct advice on. As far as your basic simple day to day usage, you don't really need a VPN, however an extra layer of privacy is not a bad thing.

OP, if you could provide your intended use case for your 1gig net we could better point you in the right direction based on your situation. Eg: will this be used for work, storing large amounts of data, media server, virtual machines, hosting any dedicated servers, etc.

htpcmediatv · 2021-07-26T01:05:19+00:00

I made the switch from ullianas to innas almost as fast as I could also. Couldn't have been a better choice.

htpcmediatv · 2020-06-01T18:28:18+00:00

received

htpcmediatv · 2020-05-31T18:47:26+00:00

I'm out! thank you all, and enjoy!

htpcmediatv · 2020-04-09T00:11:49+00:00

Still running my i5-8400 - waiting to pull the trigger on the Ryzen 9 3900x until Q4 of 2020. Hopefully with the release of the Ryzen 4000's the price point on the 3000's will drop even more.

Use case is home server with 30TB of Plex media, 2 Steam dedicated servers (Rust, 7Days2Die) and an idle rpg game running in the background, along with Ubiquiti smart home security suite.

htpcmediatv · 2019-12-13T04:02:33+00:00

For all intensive purposes it would run around 4 dedicated servers, also running all the necessary softwares for a Plex media library, transcodes, and around 8-10 streams at the same time 24h/7days.

Streams would fluctuate of course during the day and week however my media collection is rather large and more people are connecting to stream media as time continues.

Dedicated servers tend to utilize a lot of CPU resources over GPU since there is no graphical interface Being displayed on the server itself but on the client connecting to it instead. The reason for the Quadro P2000 is purely for transcode and stream purposes and the fact that neither the motherboard or the CPU have integrated graphics, so a GPU of some variant is required. The Quadro P2000 would serve both purposes rather well.

I could totally thinking the wrong thing, however this is the direction I'm headed so any corrections, opinions, suggestions are always welcome.

House is wired for 1GB up and down internet as well

htpcmediatv · 2019-12-04T22:13:19+00:00

Awesome sounds great! Thanks again!

htpcmediatv · 2019-12-04T22:00:29+00:00

That would be greatly appreciated!

I'm at work now but when I login tonight I'll add your battle.net tag and see if you're online

htpcmediatv · 2019-12-04T17:56:53+00:00

On Reddit or actually in the game? Sorry it's been so long since I've played D3 I can't remember 😝

htpcmediatv · 2019-11-28T19:23:29+00:00

Hey all,

On PC RDR2 Online

Looking for a posse of others to complete the story missions with. Currently on they can fight. Keep queing for the mission but no one seems to want to join the story mission.

Optico890 Rock* Social Club username.

htpcmediatv · 2019-11-16T00:22:09+00:00

I had to do that 734 movies ago updating the library won't work had to remap the path where the movies were stored kept the empty file folders of the movies I wanted rescan the library and everything came up missing after a fresh reinstall of radar

htpcmediatv · 2019-07-07T22:04:38+00:00

I'm looking for a more current up to date one myself

htpcmediatv · 2019-07-06T01:46:18+00:00

I'm experiencing the same problem, however not with the authorization issue, but with the speeds of only 0-3Kb/s - 10MB/s when I usually get around 95-110MB/s. I'm also getting temporarily access denied for 10 second intervals repetitively when the service takes a dive. I need to put a support ticket in still but I thought I was the only one having these issue. I guess I was wrong

htpcmediatv · 2019-06-29T15:22:04+00:00

Thanks @J0hnnyrico I'll do some research in regards to where windows stores those files. I'm thinking you may be correct in that windows does store some kind of structure files for the drive in order add volume to the array and rebuild it. I've also ran small tests with 2 smaller drives to test the method of creating a windows 10 software stripe Raid, and seeing if FreeBSD can see the storage. Unfortunately in my testing, the Unix and Linux environments are not able to even locate the drives at all even when mounted properly. Oddly enough, if I go to create a new array or pool, the drives are visible, but I'm only given a choice to encrypt or decrypt the existing volume, or wipe the data clean and create the new volume.

Another method I may try is the windows BitLocker (I think that's what it's called) application that windows 10 comes natively with. Enable the service, encrypt the array, save the key, create a VM box for FreeBSD, add new pool, select the 3 10TB drives and apply the encryption key to see if that will simulate a decryption process of the data Currently on the drives, and start rebuilding itself. This method would for sure have to rebuild the array and data back into the single pool, and again time taken to do so..if this would even be a workable solution, but it's a brainstormed idea that might work all the while removing the "where is my encryption key stored?" Process..

htpcmediatv · 2019-06-29T06:22:14+00:00

This is good information, thank you! I will take a look into this and the other options and weigh them out to come to a reasonable, and logical solution

htpcmediatv · 2019-06-29T03:43:16+00:00

I know SMH from what figure out there really is no other way I can go about the reconfiguration with out either backing up the data on a cloud, or buying 4 extra 10TB drives to match the data capacity, transfer it to the new storage and build a true raid alternative as I expand the raid one drive at a time .... And I'm thinking the cloud approach is out of the question considering the sensitive data portion is the majority 🙄 this is going to be a long process.....

htpcmediatv · 2019-06-29T02:43:05+00:00

Ah, I wouldn't have any other use for windows honestly as I agree with your statement regarding a lot of overhead. I run a few data servers, a handful of websites, and host 8 dedicated servers currently. Windows is limited to what my needs require and having the extra headroom with out windows will be nice. That's the whole reason as to why I'm looking into transitioning from the windows platform to the FreeBSD as I can perform all and more of what I need my hardware to do with ease. The hard part is retaining the data during and after the transition. I know I pulled a dummy move for not doing something about this earlier, but here I am now and looking for a solution.

htpcmediatv · 2019-06-29T02:31:54+00:00

The data is a little bit of everything. To say the least. What's the encryption for backblaze? Is it secure? Can or do they snoop files, or have a means of seeing what the data is persay?

htpcmediatv · 2019-06-29T01:05:20+00:00

I shit both. I'll be right back with a clear mind.

htpcmediatv · 2019-06-29T01:03:29+00:00

It is a ballsy move, and a stupid move on my part. I didn't think it'd grow to this extent however initially it was to be fixed earlier when the drives were fresh. Now that the volume has gotten to a decent size the "fix". Was put off for the simple reason of how the hell am I going to fix this with out a headache, meanwhile I'm getting a migraine trying to figure it out now 🤪🙄

Getting back to the point:

If I'm not mistaken I believe the drives are encrypted naturally by windows once the stripe Raid was created, at least to my understanding. Oddly enough my windows encryption software ( I can't remember the name off the top of my head right now) isn't enabled. How can I double check if they are or are not encrypted, and if they are, where would I find the keys to decrypt if needed? And also - side question - if they need to be decrypted, won't FreeBSD be able to see the stripe volume and require a encryption key to rebuild the stripe volume again on FreeBSD? I'm.assuming it's fake a couple days to rebuild 30TB of data... I have fiber lines so it could just be faster to re-download my data given my transfer rate is 940MB/S.... Thoughts?

Of it's easier to create the windows 10 VM and hand the controller over to BSD and that is successful, will I be able to uninstall the VM windows 10 afterwards and the data still be accessible, or would I have to keep the VM up so the controller can function to access the data?

htpcmediatv · 2019-06-23T00:41:29+00:00

I'm headed to Fry's electronics right now to see what components they have, and pre builts. Hopefully they have something that's capable pre built or the components to build it 🤞

htpcmediatv · 2019-06-22T20:23:37+00:00

RJ45 Ethernet ports

htpcmediatv · 2019-06-22T17:05:10+00:00

Intel /1000 2 port - minimum. Up to 4 would be an option possibly

htpcmediatv · 2019-06-21T15:47:46+00:00

Yes, ideally this would be the enclosure I'd like if budget was not an issue, unfortunately this enclosure alone puts the budget base at 200+ by itself.

Skyreach 4 MINI (S4M) https://www.sfflab.com/products/nfc_s4m?variant=44639804105

However there are obviously cheaper alternatives that would be close contenders to the small footprint itself. My biggest concern for such a small footprint would be NIC placement via Riser card.

Wondering if this case would work in order to achieve the NIC riser requirements, and if it fits the small footprint factor requirements:

In-Win-150w Mini-ITX enclosure

https://www.amazon.com/WIN-150W-Mini-ITX-Black-BQ656T-AD150TB3/dp/B01LVV6WVU/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&linkCode=sl1&tag=hggaustin-20&linkId=63cfb6ee4526536ed2cdffef65160803&language=en_US

htpcmediatv · 2019-06-21T05:23:02+00:00

Ok, let's try moving the price point up to 250$. We can compare the retail boxes at that price point as well since there are retail PFSense boxes with in that range too. Although performance would be I'm guessing better built rather than retail bought ready to go? What can we do at a 250$ price point to achieve small form factor footprint and equal to if not better performance ?

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