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Cake day: July 10th, 2023

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  • Opinion wise: love unifi for networking equipment. Especially since that equipment doesn’t require the web account. For a Nas, I’m in too deep already, I’ll only use equipment I fully control. I wouldn’t buy a Unifi NAS just like I wouldn’t buy a Synology, but I’ll keep leaning on my Unifi stuff as long as it keeps doing its job well.

    As for using TrueNAS w/ZFS at home, go for it if you know and like it! I actually was recently given my boss’s old home NAS that used to run his Plex server. When I got it it was still on FreeNAS (same thing, just a few versions behind) and it’s using ZFS. Worked for him, and now works for me, no problem. Both of us also use Unifi equipment for our networks. The only problems we’ve ever had were our own doings.








  • Why not split the difference and do both. Hdd for storage and SSD for services/containers. To help with the power load/performance hit I’d recommend using a usb to sata adapter that has external power. Overall though it sounds like a micro optipl x would be great for you. They’re cheap, more powerful, but still sip power, and usually can fit nvme and 2.5" drives together.










  • If you want to be able to watch/preview the HEIC images, you can edit the available mime type for Nextcloud’s Viewer. (I do this to our company’s NC so customers can use viewer for PDFs and employees can get previews/thumbnails of TIFFs, AIs and PSDs. For HEIC, just go to your NC’s ‘apps/viewer/js/viewer-main.js’ and add ‘image/heic’ and ‘image/heic-sequence’ to the mimetype list (about halfway down, I hgihly recommend using VSCode+a formatter to make finding it easier)