I’m currently running pfsense, and then mikrotik and ubiquiti switched and ubiquiti AP’s. I’m slowly removing the ubiquiti switches and moving to mikrotik as I’m upgrading to 10gbe. Mikrotik switches have a reputation of being reliable, capable, and cheap-ish. So far I like them. While I love ubiquiti’s single pane of glass approach with the unifi controller, I wanted to get away from that a bit. I work in IT, and most things I encounter don’t have that… And are configured via cli and or web interface. When I built my home network I jumped into ubiquiti for the ease. Now I’m back tracking for more learning.

No. I meant 3.5" your original post listed >= 4 3.5" bays.

In my hyve Zeus servers I run two ssd’s in a mirror, and then host all my data on a trunas server with an nfs share. That said, ssd’s are really reasonable (just bought 2 x 2packs of 1tb ssd’s for $66 each). If space requirements exceed what you can do with some ssd’s, then I get it.

I have an r510 as a trunas server. It uses well over a 100 watts, so I can at least provide you that info. Haha.

At that depth, I feel like creaking and cracking is probably common. However, I don’t think there would be any spraying as an indicator. Based on this tweet I saw earlier.

Is 3.5" drive bays a deal breaker? Cause if not, I absolutely LOVE my Hyve Zeus servers!

Incase anyone is wondering… Little clip of an implosion

RIP to those who parished. I think most can take solace knowing that if it turns out to be true that it was an implosion, it would have been instant, and the occupants likely felt nothing. .