Even after you get your ideal setup with all your traffic transversing your network to a single host, you have bottle necked the whole network to the speed of that single host.

Usually in networks devices are able to talk to each other directly across switch fabrics and not interdesr with other traffic.

Say you have four devices A B C D each pair trying to send 1GiB/S of traffic to each other over a GbE network connected to the same switch. A,B gets 1 GbE and C,D gets 1 GbE. For a total concurrent speed of 2GbE.

In your model since all traffic has to hit the central wireguard node W first you can only get 1GbE speed concurrently

The synology.com account, not the NAS account

The person doing free labor and providing open source software doesn’t use the preferred vocabulary… Still a net positive, no reason to brigade their issue tracker for wrong think.

Encouraging the internet to harass a volunteer is low.

Nothing stopping people from forking the project changing the vocabulary, and maintaining their fork. But that’s more work than drive by hate

Tailscale, cloudflared tunnels, nebula

I was surprised too. But a lot of the current NAS devices basically operate as hosting devices. It makes sense the hard drives are there the power is there the RAM is there the CPU is there. So for the low intensity containers and VMs you want to run like a Plex server, or DNS server, or tail scale it’s all right there

At this point, it might be easier just to buy a supported UPS. I’m glad the backups 850 is working. It’s a good data point

I followed your advice, and went through the settings, and try to enable the USB device. But it’s just not detected.

Oh the synology drive is a file system syncing utility, it provides local caching of a remote file system and then syncs the files back. It’s not the software that shuts down the computer

Right now when updates get applied to the NAS, if it gets powered off during the update window that would be really bad and inconvenient require manual intervention.

In memory caching, and the Amy cashing, well I think the file system would almost certainly be in a consistent state, you might lose data in flight if you’re not careful.

The real problem, that I need an nas for, is not the loss of some data, it’s when the storms hit and there’s flooding, the power can go up and down and cycle quite rapidly. And that’s really bad for sensitive hardware like hard disks. So I want the NAS to shut off when the power starts getting bad, and not turn on for a really long time but still turn on automatically when things stabilize

Because this device runs a bunch of VMs and containers as well closing down so that all of those rights get flushed is good practice

AND their Synology drive client requires administrative permission to install on Mac OS, and on Windows. Why? Why…

Well I’m ranting about this process, I have other complaints.

Synology.com - if you want to add a second factor to your account, requires a phone number to be the master factor, in case you lose your second factor. So if you’re worried about Sim jacking, or even just not having a consistent phone number for the lifetime of the deployment, it’s kind of a terrible practice. There’s no way to unlink all phone numbers from an account, you can only replace them with a new phone number.

Synology does actually support hardware USB keys, but only as a secondary factor behind SMS… Ai ya.

100%. I think the developer taking the project read only was not a temper tantrum, it was just them signifying they don’t have time to maintain it. So now if you want anything to happen you must fork it.

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The device you’re thinking of has 42 decibels of sound. You should be aware of that, I don’t think it’s actually fanless

Noise is going to be a huge factor for your home lab, so make sure you look at the data sheet for whatever you’re about to buy and check what it’s rated noise level is

No, I’m pretty f****** loathe.

Governments dictating technical standards, is fine if it’s a regulatory body that’s dynamic, but bad if the technical standard is encodified in the law itself.

In the United States the American national standards association, as well as other bodies, set standards, and the government can dictate that you need to use a standard for mainstream device. That’s fine

But a lot saying you must use USB-C, that’s crazy. USB-C has a limited lifespan. Plus they’ll be innovation in the future.

Well it’s a good thing at the moment, I am loath for governments to dictate technical specifications. I’d much rather they say electronics devices must adhere to a modern open standard. And if you are introducing your new standard, it has to be patented royalty free for other people to use

I’m not the OP, but you can get 8TiB SSDs, they are spendy, but doable, no spinning disks required, the benefit of using a nas based solution is you can put a bunch of cheap SSDs in

Not directly an answer, but the CRT guy has a series of industrial computers for different environments, which could provide inspiration.

Some of them have direct DC inputs, some have anti-vibration designs, some have massive passive cooling!

The little guys series https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EP3aKEG79DM&list=PLec1d3OBbZ8LGjvbb0GQwlQxWXmI2PA88

I think a Synology box would work for you, or a TrueNas design - you could just build out one of their motherboards in your own itx case. These are good, robust, anti-vibration, mobile low power cpus, hardware selected for robustness and minimum heat. Stick it in a cupboard and forget about it, they run containers, and vms.

Depending on your requirements, you can pick up used gear for quite cheap, set alerts on craigslist/marketplace/kijiji. i.e. one access point for like $30 used, and host your own network controller container to configure it.

If you want a single pane of glass whole network management, its going to be spendy no matter which ecosystem you go with.

Fair enough, can’t go wrong with Ubiquiti, Mikrotik, Grandstream for radios.