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Oh wow you do 3D printing too? I just got into it and bought the X1C w AMS and a bunch of filaments, loving this thing so far even tho it’s all proprietary, all the fouled prints I’ve had had been my fault, the prints weren’t sticking to the smooth plate, fixed that by giving the plate a good washing in the sink. I got mine 10 days ago and she’s got 85 hours on her already. I’m hooooooooked!

I came to say that i got lost on the first minute of explanation but my tailscale is still running like a charm on all my devices 😂

Did you have issues with those fanless 8-port aggregation switches? In my network closet, it was frequently overheating with Mikrotik SFP+ connectors (I didn't use fiber at the time). I ended up switching to the more-expensive 32-port model (which has a built-in fan), and that fixed all my issues no matter the connector. I moved the 8-port model to another room where I'm only using 4 ports and haven't had heat issues since. Only 15 of those 32-ports are in used since SFP connectors don't have PoE, but it's already more than the 8 ports I had before, and I seem to be always finding more places to add Ethernet drops in my house. I've already moved 20 wireless IoT devices onto Ethernet, and will do that to more devices that support it. Ethernet EVERYWHERE!

I'm surprised you're good with 10Gb. It wasn't until I setup 25Gb that I finally moved all my files off my main rig and onto my NAS. Before, I only used my NAS as a backup because I was so unsatisfied with the transfer speeds. 25Gb is finally at NVMe speeds with PCIe gen 3. I'm actually running into limitations in my drives now rather than the cable. Also, upgrading everything to jumbo packets for that and my 5Gb Internet seems to have caused issues with some older devices. I left it this way, but I'm aware there are weird issues now for some IoT devices. It's never that simple :/.

I had nothing but issues with the fiber I got from FS. Frequent issues. I recently cleaned all my connectors (Ubiquiti's ones, not FS), and that seemed to have fixed the issues. FS sent me fiber SFP+ and SFP28 adapters that weren't compatible with UniFi gear and were directly shipped from China. That last part is important because when I asked to ship them back for a full refund, they kept asking me to ship them and pay for shipping. It's been over a year, and I have yet to ship these back. They refuse to pay for it even though they sent the wrong ones over. Never using that company again. trueCABLE is local for me, and they're fiber came in much thicker than the stuff I bought from FS. Haven't tried them out yet as I'm gonna be moving house soon, and their cleaner tool fixed the immediate issues I was having. Also, trueCABLE's patch cables fixed all the 10Gb and PoE issues I was having with the Monoprice Slimrun patch cables (all only 1' long). At this point, I'm all-in on trueCABLE. Glad they're local, but I'm surprised how easily switching manufacturers fixed my issues. I had no clue cables could be so problematic. Like you had, I run a over 8 x 10Gb copper links and 4 x 25Gb fiber links with ODM4.

When I was taking a random networking class around 2006, the enterprise gear was all CLI and no unified management. And that's what it was like all around town I was told since those companies provided the Cisco gear we were working with in the lab at school. I'm actually surprised it's normal now to centrally manage everything in the enterprise. I've also heard it costs a bunch of get that functionality whereas UniFi is free.

Me hose happy with gigabit local speeds and 300mbits sppeds from ISP

Too insane

Is there a reason you don't go with IPPC-3000 fans from Noctua with your server?

got abo because of rimworld play in background panel 😁

The 0.1 volt does make a difference, I can't speak for Raspberry Pi, however where I chat mod on Twitch, for a truck driver, we recently swapped a LiveU Solo streaming encoder which was slowing dying for a Jetson Nano. We power it with a large power bank, and were saw regular under volt warnings, Belabox (the streaming encoder software) stats were telling us that it was receiving around 4.8v (despite the power bank claiming it will do 5v), we have got several other devices, including Sony action cams plugged in too, so maybe that lowered the overall voltage output, anyway we borrowed a power bank and saw 5.01v being reported, we're now using a smaller dedicated power bank just for the Jetson and that's giving a steady 4.9v, so definitely in our experience 0.1v can be enough to cure under voltage issues. Glad you find a Pi plug and it solved it, the newer low power SBC are power sensitive for sure. Also I love how 3D printing in being used practically for server/homelabbing, the SSF Dells look so good rack mounted.

Bit late I know, recently found your channel, really enjoyed going back to catch up, great content, originally came looking for info on the best platform for a low power but decent homelab, I'm currently running containers on my QNAP NAS but want to get into playing around with things, I use my NAS for client footage that I edit, so I can't really have downtime or risk data lose, really interested to get in Proxmox, some Dell/Lenovo SFF clusters, and various VMs. Anyway, you were talking about your aging 3rd gen CPU for your OpenSense router, you should check at out the Intel N100 CPU, I have PFSense running an a CWWK Mini PC that I got from AliExpress, added my old 256GB NVME drive that had my Windows daily driver on and got 16GB RAM, it's probably overkill for the application, but in the year I've been running it it's been faultless, not had to attend to it once. I had become sick of always restarting the ISP router, and even a consumer Netgear router. Using a Unifi AC Pro for AP, got that used off eBay, and self hosting Unifi Controller on the NAS, works really well. I know now that the N100 has been out a while there's a lot more offerings without going down the AliExpress route, ASRock definitely do a solution, as do Minisforum if you just needed the board. You're right about 8th Gen, it's a good CPU, when UK energy prices were out of control last year I bought a Dell Optiplex 3060 that has a 8100T for 50 quid, I run Linux on it for everyday browsing tasks and the like, I use an AMD 3950X with a 1080Ti for video editing, but being freelance you don't always work every day, so was a waste to run it just for some browsing. What I did learn though is Dell don't update their BIOS microcode, unlike Lenovo, so you can't upgrade the CPU, I was looking at putting a 9500T CPU in it, but since Dell have closed off that route, not gonna work, and it seems like a right odl ballache to get a cracked BIOS update, and jump though all the hoops. I guess that's why for the same 8100T/8500T in a Lenovo goes for double the price, coz you can simply make the whole thing last longer. Also agree on Cameron, I love his long form content, he's always informative, and it's all real world deployment stuff, if it's not for his own flat, it's for family or friends.

I started with a Wanhao i3+, now i have a Prusa i3 Mk3s+. I tought about buying a Bambulab p1p to cut my print time in half because “slow” 24+ hours print times are not the best for iterating things very often. So imagine my joy when i found out you can upgrade from mk3s+ to mk4 with an official Prusa kit. Problem is that the upgrade costs €639 and the Bambu p1p is €649 😂 This makes the bambulab an easy choice

30-40 hours to build a printer....? I build one several years ago and it took about 10h. And from what I heard experienced builders could do it like half that time.

Have you ever thought of having audio books of children's bedtime stories. SOOOTHING

Came for the smokeping help, left with my mind blown about the vscode ssh capability - thank you for that!

14:40 FROM UNDERNEATH?? Never even thought to look due to the absurdity. assumed they were rivets. It was easier taking apart the cage holding the 10 adapters (which isn't even needed).

The results are now published! blog.ktz.me/the-best-media-server-cpu-in-the-world/

The results are now live! blog.ktz.me/the-best-media-server-cpu-in-the-world/

I really appreciate how nerdy you were to fully map out your home network. That's really something. A question. Why didn't you buy a non-K 65w variant of the processor? Wouldn't that have been a better option for your use case?

Thank you for doing a build video without once mentioning bloody "gaming". Thoroughly refreshing. Thank you, sir.

Thanks, sound advice.

Your videos are great. I've came across them exactly for the point you made. Checking if my ISP in Bali is trying to kick the can down the road. I am a European living here with a private VPN home server abroad. The performance has dropped dramatically all of a sudden. The ISP came with a new router and blamed it on a broken sea cable in Singapore that I can't find much info on. Still digging into it further and learning a lot. Cheers mate!

I picked up my Bambu X1C. Here’s all I can say… It’s plug and play. I’ve never printed an item so fast, with such good quality, in so little time. My other two are dinosaurs compared to this.

The only thing I don't like is that the black flap cover doesn't also have indication that the RAM slot is underneath it. And for your own sake, dual channel would probably make a noticable difference in performance. CPU, and GPU especially, can benefit anywhere from 15-30% from the proper dual channel bandwidth.

Great work! I am following you to see what inspiration can I get. I was looking for a Supermicro motherboard and this seems to be the one. Do you know if 14th gen would work just the same with TrueNAS Scale?

Built my unRAID server using Intel® Core™ i7-11700 Desktop Processor 8 Cores 65 w with a Asrock H570 steel legend and an LSI card from art of server and I was gonna spring for a dedicated GPU for transcoding but I discovered quiksync and got it working in no time flat w Plex, so i bought a lifetime Plex pass instead. Been looking for this channel and I couldn’t remember your name lol I need some custom sata cables made for my define r5, I looked it up on you last video description

I have recently discovered your channel and I really love the videos. Really interesting and entertaining content! Keep it up!

Nice video, just missing a top cam 😄!

It's morning :(

I swear you've upgraded with almost all the same hardware I've been looking thinking about. Proxmox server is now an Epyc 7302 in a CX4712 and I've been looking at the X13SAE for my NAS upgrade which will probably go in an HL15. I'll be keeping an eye out in case there is any follow up with the X13 board, even though it's a pretty popular board it's not easy finding much info from homelab users out there about it.

Did that HBA turn out to be OK from your earlier issues, or did you have to get a replacement?

Loving the Silicon Valley reference on the wall 😂

Hi this video was great I was struggling with tailscale so I can't wait to try this out. It's the first time I have seen the advertise marker will this only work on a router or could I set this up on a machine that is running tailscale?

FYI: That case has space for two SSD on top of the power supply, those could be your boot drives.

Dude this is one stupid ass comparison. What were u thinking??? Thumbs down.

I've also just realised you're the Tailscale guy whom I've been watching over and over this week. No idea why it didn't click... I was like " this guy looks familiar..."

Thank you for the video, really interesting to watch and explained quiet a lot - excited about my build now. Dipping my feet into homelab stuff and just bought a H11SSL-i Mobo with a 7551P and 128GB RAM - I have so much more info now!

Q: You are using mkcert for the local SSL certificates or you are using the Tailscale HTTPS?

Mine is on the fedex truck now. I went bare case with the rails. I wanted to customize the internals more... I think thats gonna either replace my backup storage server or a plex server upgrade

What an unfair comparison. Compare to the MK4 would be much more fair. Even the MK3.5 is two times faster than the MK3. And has the WiFi etc. So adding a RP to the bill is not fair as well. I could continue but all in all the video is imho useless. Sorry.

wish you showed how to install smokeping

How's nixos working on the laptop?

I’m running 10GbE on my network everywhere and I regularly exceed 2.5GbE. I love it, BUT I was stupid for not laying fiber instead. I could even have my server room with all my PC’s rack mounted and centralized anything I want and had better scalability. I had a team come in for like a week to run it, so I do t want to redo the whole thing,e job 2 years later. Kicking myself.

Did you ever publish the results?

Dude i love your content. It scratches the homelabber itch perfectly. Finally a youtuber who knows their way around a terminal :P

I hate the electronic space how companies work obviously a lot of features could be pushed and added to most of the electronics we get but instead companies trickle them down to you version after version so they can sell you a new product instead of making the best product to begin with and then working on making that even better

Thats better then my ssd fail rate i had 5 ssds 4 of them no longer can write and before thst there speed was down 55% when that happens i back up the data and wait for them to die to buy another now i just run everything off of a naz

is there a follow up video? the github shows, that 4k hevc will not even playback with a newer i5, is that correct? crazy to think that

Excellent presentation. Explains the subject well. Great to have no background music and other distractions. Do continue to explore the different uses of Tailscale.