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Can you easily bond two 2.5GbE ports?
  • I don't know why I never thought to just try it out before. Popped in a 10GBaseT module and switched over my mac studio and sure enough, it's running just fine at 10Gb on a cat 5e run.

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  • I'm trying to figure out which EPYC Rome CPU to get for my new build. This is going to be running Proxmox with Truenas virtualized. It will also been running Emby, Home Assistant, a few VMs for docker, frigate. Nothing crazy. Single threaded performance isn't a huge deal. I'm mostly upgrading for bandwidth, the need for PCIe lanes, and the fact my current TrueNAS build just turned 10 and is due for replacement.

    I can get these various versions for about the same price +- 15$ except the 7R32 is about $100 more expensive. Any of them would be more than enough, but considering they're all comparably priced I'm having trouble figuring out which one would be the best performance per dollar.

    7402, 7452, 7502, 7532, 7R32

    The only benchmarks I could find for most of these have only been from cpubenchmark with low sample size. Anyone have any opinions of these options?

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    Choosing replacement server.
  • Newer CPUs will generally idle lower and be more power efficient at low loads and will stay at lower load due to higher processing power. I'd go with the i5-7600.

    That said I have my NAS on a Haswell era i5 cpu and it still works well at reasonable wattage. So the T20 would still work.

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    Any relatively cheap and easy business email providers?
  • I've had a good experience with them. It's pretty much just worked and I never have to think about it. They do have larger plans and ones that have a lot of other services. But their basic email lite plan is $12 a year per mailbox (which can have aliases but not multiple passwords) for 5GB of storage. Or $15 for 10gb.

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    4port Nic instead of changing IPs?
  • User your router to route between vlans. It will require you set up proper firewall rules. Then you can access it from any system you like.

    Alternatively just pass the tagged traffic to your desktop and set them up to each have their own IP address on your main NIC. There really is no reason to have a NIC for each VLAN.

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    I need a NAS OS that's friendly with Spectrum provided router
  • Spectrum will provide a modem only and let you use your own router and AP, but if they won't budge on anything regarding it that's probably not an option.

    What exactly are you trying to accomplish though? What will your friends being doing with your NAS? Spectrum doesn't have great upload speeds so at best they'd get slow downloads and at worst it would make your internet unusable with them maxing out the upload.

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