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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • I stumbled over Topton as well, and ECC would be indeed some improvement, but most of these boards are fairly new without long time experience while the Asrock SOCs have plenty of posts like “been working fine for 5+ years in my NAS, just upgrading because I need XY now”.

    Of course, more features and N100 are tempting but for a NAS they really aren’t needed. ECC, Multiple NICs would be the most interesting thing and maybe something like IPMI/vpro (didn’t check yet if they support that) but everything else won’t be used.

    I’ve seen Jonsbo and they seem to be good, but most of them are larger than I’d like them in my small rack (2-3HU).

    Gonna check that vid in my break, thanks a lot!










  • I currently have the exact same question in my head. I think I’ll go the following route: Install opensense in a VM on my Proxmox host (it has 2 NICs) and just put my lab stuff behind it in it’s own lan. Everything connects to the router via firewall.

    Benefits:

    • The rest of the lan (e.g. partner’s devices) do not rely on my firewall working
    • I don’t need to buy anything, I can switch to bare metal later if I need to and have figured out what exactly I need