Thanks for those links. Im looking for something to expand the storage on my Mac Mini via Thunderbolt.

Getting tired of having to boot up my old Windows PC anytime i need to import or export photos from Lightroom.

 

I was thinking of this one

doesn't necessarily need to be hot swappable


https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/produ...elite_pro.html

 

I have an old OWC external 1TB drive that I used to use regularly. It was fast (Firewire 800 ) and never had an issue.

 

What the hot thing in 802.11AC home routers these days? I'm ready for an upgrade. If it can run dd-wrt that would be nice but I don't even think that's a requirement for me anymore.

 

^The most important thing for me is LAN wifi speed. I have multiple devices trying to get to my NAS over wifi for Time Machine backups. Large backups take forever on my N router as it's only able to achieve about 75Mbps on the wifi.

 

Thanks we're going to try out the Xcellon DRD-101, it's got eSata and doesn't come with any drives.

 

I've found this site to be pretty good at recommendations. It's apparently run by the New York Times, and they make their money off referral links for the devices they review. I purchased a 4k monitor they recommended and I've been happy with it.

The Best Wi-Fi Router (for Most People) | The Wirecutter

 

Going to give the Linksys WRT1900ACS a shot. I see they have a WRT3200ACM but no clients currently support the faster mode of that so meh. I'll put DDWRT on it. Was going to give the comparable NightHawk a shot but I saw lots of complaints about hardware problems. The 3 band ones look cool but I wasn't convinced the bugs are all out of them yet and I don't have the energy to fool around with home routers that much anymore.

 

The router upgrade from N to AC turned out to be well worth it. The increased throughput of Time Machine backups to my NAS is noticeable. The dead spots I previously had in my house are gone. I guess those external antennas really make a difference. The Linksys firmware is almost good enough for my needs. It has a app for iOS/droid that allows the router to be configured from anywhere. If it had better performance graphing I don't think I would bother upgrading it to DD-WRT. Maybe I can live without it.

 

that thing. It seemed cool it was just really unreliable it kept shutting when rebuilding an array, we returned it.

 

ASUS software is also pretty on point that I left my DD WRT hacking ways a few years back.. Time's a changing...

 

i recently upgraded from N to AC as well.

althought i went the lameo route and went from a apple 4th gen airport extreme to a 5th gen time capsule.
Went with the 2TB time capsule so my mom's Mac can start having Time Machine backups.

definitely got rid of the dead spot in my room. I used to get like 33-50KB/sec in my room. now im getting around 1.7MB/sec in my room

 

Dealing with some Windows 10 bullshit this week. Got a PC from Best buy, it came with 10 Home, upgrade it to Pro, joined it to a domain, and now I can't login using domain credentials. Can only login as local admin. Seen others having this issue, only fix is to reinstall or reset it. You can reinstall Windows 10 pro since it's been licensed for it now. Seems like the bug is related to upgrading from home to pro and then using domain creds to login to the PC.

https://community.spiceworks.com/top...windows-10-pcs

 

Anyone have any thoughts on a simple to use Asset management program?

I need some way to know when various equipment items are approaching EOL, etc.

I would love to have it be able to send me reminders for maintenance, too.

any ideas?

 

Anyone use a cloud LDAP service? Thinking about JumpCloud for some clients

 

Networking question... I am going to be putting a few machines and a NAS on a 10G switch and just want to make sure this is going to work, as the 10G switch will be downstream from an un-managed 1G switch. As long as both switches point to the router for DHCP, it should be fine, right?

Is there an advantage to connecting the 10G switch directly to the router in parallel with the 1G switch or does it not matter?

 

Does the router have the capability to connect to the 10G switch via 10G? If so I would do that. Typically best in my opinion to limit hops to the primary router as well in my experience. Say the first switch fails but the second is still working. If you have directly connected each to the router then it would allow PC 1, PC 2, and the NAS to keep working.

 

I can connect the 10GB switch directly to the router, but it will auto-negotiate to 1GB speeds, though (router is a Netgear 1750 I think) so no speed advantages there. Good point on the 1GB switch failing, perhaps it would be best to run them both to the router separately.

 

I'd connect directly to the router as well. I take it whatever is on the 10G switch is intentionally so as you want those machines to have the fastest transfer speed versus the ones on the 1G switch.


No reason to daisy chain except for ease of wiring perhaps

 

I need Computer 1 and 2 to be able to have really fast read/write to the NAS. All other computers are fine on the 1G connection.

I have no problem connecting the 10G to the router, wiring shouldn't be a problem.

Thanks gents, now to wait for the switch to be back in stock...

This is what I am fighting with:

 

Which one are you going with?

 

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/produ...nt_10_gbe.html

"supposed" to be in stock next week at BH.

 

Welp, B+H has no idea when it will be in stock, and other retailers seem to be missing the Buffalo, too.

So, Planning on swapping this TRENDnet one in instead:


Anyone have any good/bad experiences with TRENDnet switches?

 

10G Trendnet switch and PC/NAS cards ordered... Should have them in a few days.

 

 

Got the 10G switch and cards all hooked up and running... I had to daisy chain the switches Router>10G switch>1G switch as I was having a lot of trouble being able to access the web interface for the 10G switch and the NAS when I had each switch attached to the router on it's own line. Not sure why, some DHCP issue I am sure...

Anyway, devices are currently connected with Cat6A cable and I am not getting crazy fast speeds (Just under 200MB/sec). This is on a copy from the NAS to a local SSD. If I just do a read from the NAS (checksum a large file, etc.), the rate is about the same. I am thinking my limitations are either the 7200rpm spinning platters in the NAS (not going to change that until I can afford 30+TB of SSDs) or the cabling. I just ordered some Monoprice Cat7 cables to try out and see if performance improves. Also, 9k Jumbo frames are enabled on the NAS, computer and 10G switch. Can't find any way to enable jumbo frames on the Netgear, but since all traffic on the 10G switch is internal, I am not sure it matters. I am considering turning off DHCP in the Netgear and enabling it on the TrendNet switch to see if it makes any difference (just have to transfer over address reservations).

 

Is that a RAID 10 array?

 

RAID5, with btrfs and snapshotting

 

Did you forward the ports properly?

 

You think you can get a lot more than ~200MB/s out of your RAID 5 array?

 

Probably not... but I had both switches pointing to the router for DHCP.
I had hoped...