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[RSR]

While there is nothing wrong with my Synology, I have a few annoying irks. For example, my DS1621XS has a fan that comes on and off, which is even louder than when it's on full speed, so I have had to run it in the loft to get around that but I believe the 8-bay units don't have this issue due to using 120mm fans. The XS unit, which runs the Xeon CPU, has a higher idle power than the Plus mode with the AMD CPU. That's a fairly minor one, but the main one for me is the vendor drive locking as an example if you want to use SSD's the Synology branded ones are around £1000 for a 4TB drive when you can get a ~8TB enterprise drive for a lot less than that or something like a WD Red for 300-400 or so.

I have looked at Qnap as well which seems to offer better hardware than the Synology counterparts but not sure on the software side.

So, I have been looking at a white-box solution. The issue I am finding here is the MB size / PCIe slot and lanes but I am set on using Kioxia drives

I think I may have fixed the fan spin-up issue on the Synology. Oddly I swapped out the Synology E10G21-F2 NIC for a Mellanox ConnectX-4 (MCX4121A-ACAT) and it has been silent all day, I'll give it a few more days to see how it goes but looks promising at the mo.

 

[ChrisD.]

Just ordered the USW-Aggregation (with free shipping!). I have my NAS, and 5x ESXi hosts connected to a Mikrotik 25 GbE switch and the fan noise whilst relatively quiet is annoying when it's idle, has that horrible whine to it. Most of the time it's just a single host (which has Plex on, plus a DC) and the NAS running 24/7, and I don't need 25 GbE for that (tbh I don't need it for the lab, but it's nice to have). I'll wire that host and the NAS to the Aggregation which is silent, which mean I can turn the Mikrotik off when the lab is off.

Installed, not the tidiest but gives the general gist of my lab. There's two more hosts sat on top of the rack, I need to move them into 2U cases but meh. I could replace them with more NUCs but RAM is a constraint in them and the two older hosts have 128GB in each.

Now the annoying Mikrotik whine has gone which has made a massive difference in my home office. I'll fire up the Mikrotik when I turn the main lab on.

Also replaced the US-16-XG under the stairs with another Aggregation switch which has made it much quieter. Any idea how much the old US-16-XG's go for second hand? I haven't seen any sold for a while.

 

[Caged]

Those breakout cables are chonkers aren't they

 

[ChrisD.]

Those breakout cables are chonkers aren't they

Mate they are ridiculous! They are also 3m and I have no use for them being that long but they were cheap on eBay. I do need to tidy the cabling in the back of the rack, it was relatively neat but I think my dog has been back there or something.

 

[SupraWez]

OK so had confirmation back from UI on the notification setup on a UDM Pro, seems that even with a 3rd party mail setup, which I have configured and confirmed working with the built in test mail function, you have to have remote access enabled.

So scheduled backups and notifications require remote access, which in reality has no reason to force this, what utter tosh.