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OK, I'm scratching my head here and looking to see if anyone has had a similar issue. Since this virus started it seems like everyone and their dog wants to use Zoom meetings. Our kids teachers are still using it for meetings.. so it has to be installed on all the systems int he house it...

Anyone using something like the TP-Link KP200 in an outdoor setting? We have a covered deck area that I would like to put some smart outlets in, but everything "outdoor" rated looks like cow dung. No, I don't want some dongle hanging off my outlets. My concern is with the operating...

Ugg.. our TV setup is quickly driving me nuts (specifically having to listen to family members bitch about it). We don't have a difficult media setup. Basically, before Christmas we just used a Roku connected to a Yamaha soundbar and then the TV, with a Wii U on the second TV input. Of...

As part of our move last December I had to minimize my computer gear from an entire home lab down to a single desktop with an 8TB hard drive and 8TB external to back up to. Fast forward 7 months and I’m needing more storage space but I don’t have room or even want my old lab set back up (Dell...

After changing jobs and moving all this crap from Houston to Nashville, I've decided to cut out a lot of extraneous gear which includes my home VMWare setup. I've been running everything off of a single desktop now for 6 months between temporarily living in an apartment and the new digs and now...

Looking for options to extend the coverage of my remote access point for work http://www.arubanetworks.com/products/networking/access-points/205h/ The unit is horrible about penetrating walls, let alone exterior walls. I would like to extend the coverage to my covered deck (if/when we get it...

Now that we are settling into our new home one of my first projects is to get some networking run and move a couple coax lines. I'm planning on putting a communications box or short-depth rack in the closet under the stairs (if anyone has a good recommendation for something no deeper than 12"...

New house and I'm looking at options for a security system. I'm currently leaning between Simplisafe and Nest Security. One issue though is our front door is a "fancy" glass door with no peephole or anything to see who is there, so I've been tasked with finding a camera option with a "viewing...

We are moving into our new home just after New Years and one thing the family has agreed on is that we want some "smart thermostats".. especially with the house being all electric (AC, heating, water, appliances, etc.) to try to control costs better. After years of living in a house with bad...

We will be moving into an apartment for 3 weeks and I have no clue how this works or what gear I need. I haven't dealt with an apartment since pre-2000. Currently at home I use an edgerouter lite and a couple unmanaged switches. I have an Aruba remote access point that I require for work. My...

We are in the process of getting our house up for sale and that unfortunately means tearing down my home lab. Unfortunately I'm not sure about storing the gear. We live in Houston and I can either store it in the garage or move it to the climate controlled storage space. The issue with the...

Thinking about changing out my home network switch from the Cisco 3750G to something with 2-4 10GB SFP+ ports. What's recommendations does anyone have? I've currently got an Edgerouter Lite and an older UAP-LR access point. Thinking about replacing those with a USG and a couple AC-Lite APs...

Working on clearing out the house so we can put it up on the market and thought I'd see if anyone was interested in some of this stuff before it goes in the trash/recycling. Prefer payment via Paypal and my heatware is under my username. All prices are OBO. More stuff will be added as I clean...

With OmniOS being cancelled, what is the best ZFS option now? Bite the bullet and just move to Linux with ZFS? OpenIndiana/Hipster? Whichever route, it will probably be virtualized into an All-in-one build. I'm currently running an older version of OpenIndiana and have been planning on...

Just curious if anyone has been running the Nutanix CE in the home/lab for more than just testing. I've been chugging along for several years now with VMWare and a homebrew SAN (ZFS on OpenIndiana) but have been trying to think of ways to consolidate a little. Considering we are using more...

We are preparing for a possible move and I'm toying with the idea of building a temporary Plex server since I currently run everything virtualized on an R710 with a separate storage server in a Norco 4220 case. 6U of equipment is a little more difficult to move around :p I have a couple...

Probably a long shot, but is anyone using the Plex DVR for recording, then processing the file via MCEBuddy to an MP4 container and watching via a Roku device? I've got it working but the files are still transcoding, so I'm hoping someone can point me to a good profile or configuration settings...

Not sure if this is better here or the Apple subforum but I'll give it a shot. We gave our daughter my wife's old iPhone 5 when she upgraded to the iPhone 7. It's been working fine but within the last month it appears to have started to have an issue with the battery expanding and pushing the...

Going through my home office and need to get some of this hardware out of here. Prices are best offer. Payment will be via Paypal. Possible trades are 4TB+ drives (2.5 or 3.5) or Ubiquiti gear (AC WAPs, Unifi networking). Laptops HP Elitebook 8470p - $150 shipped - SOLD 320GB Hard Drive 8...

For those using it, how is is the Plex recording process working for you? I've still got a SageTV system running (sort of) but have been thinking about moving over to Plex. The only two things I'll probably miss are LiveTV (for the occasional situation like New Years or the inauguration) and...

Unfortunately, it looks like the $89-99 Fry's sales on the Coolspin 4TB drives dried up back in September or so. I was trying to catch enough on sale to upgrade my ZFS storage at home over the year, but ended up shy by 3 drives (2 last replacements and one cold spare). So.. now I'm looking for...

Before I go trying to hack a cable together.. thought I would see if anyone has a Dell GP700 cable for adding an internal SSD drive to a Dell R710. Not about to pay the crazy $40+ prices I can find via the web (when Dell was selling them at one point for $6). While I expect to pay more for a...

Looking to pick up a used iPhone 5 (or maybe 5s) for my daughter who is going into 5th grade. I know there is a fair amount of iPhone/Apple hate here.. but since both the wife and I already have iPhones, being able to add hers to our "find friends" for checking on bus status and such would be...

Doing some purging, new items will be listed as I come across them. Preferred payment is via Paypal. Prices are best offer. Media items HDHomerun Dual - Original white version - $30 + shipping Zune 30GB Brown model - includes travel case, car adapter/fm transmitter, dual headphone adapter...

Without money for a 10gb switch right now, I was wondering if it is possible (though I'm sure not officially supported) to use 10gb for vmotion without a switch for 2 ESXi hosts and one storage server? I've been using iSCSI via 4gb fiber in my old setup for a couple years (with sync=disabled)...

Anyone familiar with the the differences between V1 and V2 of the Dell R710 servers? I've got 2 V2 servers and 1 v1 server that I would like to make use of. I've looked all over but the only differences I can find appear to be CPU support (v2 support 130W CPUs). What I'm running into is that...

Looking at making the move from 4GB fiber iscsi for my ESXi hosts at home, to 10GB NFS. I've got a couple Intel X520-DA2 cards (one for the storage server, one for the primary host, and need to pick up a DA1 card for the secondary host). I already have two DAC cables also. Of course ESXi...

Let me start by saying that our XenApp "guru" has left our company and our XenApp 7.6 environment has fallen into my lap to learn and support (yay on learning.. boo on supporting before I feel comfortable). We have an application that was built under the 6.x version of XenApp that needs to be...

Ugg.. been going back and forth on this for awhile and just can't make a decision. I'm currently running an installation of OpenIndiana with the following; A pool of 6 3TB drives in mirrored pairs shared for general storage (music, video, documents, etc.) A pool of 6 320GB drives in mirrored...

Has anyone used the adapter brackets to take an external SAS 8088 to an internal SAS 8087 connection like these? I've been running a Norco 24-bay chassis as a stand alone storage server, but I've got a spare Dell R710 I could use as an additional ESXi host at home and just run my storage as a...

Looking to pick up some more 360 games for the kids (2 girls) and maybe a couple for myself. The of course like all the "Just Dance" series and love "Kinect Adventures". I gravitate more towards the RPG and fantasy games (still working on Blue Dragon). I've tried local garage sales, thrift...

Looking to get rid of a few things that just keep accumulating around here. All prices are shipped and OBO. Shipping will be USPS if it will fit in a flat rate box, FedEx (most likely) if not. Preferred payment is Paypal. Possible trade options are 4TB internal drives (not Seagate unless NAS...

Had another 3TB Seagate crap out on me in my array and need to get it replaced. Really don't want to sit around waiting on a sale with my array degraded. It looks like Microcenter has the MD04ACA400 drives for $109. Trying to keep it as close to $100 as possible. Anyone have any experience...

This has been on my list of things to buy and we will be taking a family trip for Spring Break so it's time to give in :) Looking for a travel router that will provide "passthrough" of your standard hotel splashscreen/login so that we can make use of a Roku or Chromecast on the trip. Ideally...

My OpenIndiana server is driving me nuts and on it's way out. Something got corrupted during an update and it has been limping along since then. For whatever reason, the server rebooted last night or this morning and anytime it restarts, if I don't select a previous boot snapshot, Napp-it...

Is there any way to make use of these in a home environment.. without paying through the nose? I have access to several of these APs from work that were pulled from working environments. Unfortunately, what I can't get my hands on are any WLAN controllers :( I know Cisco has a virtual...

I've been putting it off, but I really need to buy some new drives for my server. Currently running OpenIndiana but will be migrating to Linux with ZFS. I have 6 3TB Seagate drives in 3 2-disk stripped mirrors, and one died about 2 months ago. Yes.. I've been running for 2 months with a...

Pulled from working HP servers (upgraded memory on some ESXi hosts). Prices include shipping and are OBO. Payment method = Paypal. Trades are possible also... currently looking for 3TB+ drives or a Ubiquiti Edgerouter POE 5 or Ubiquiti AP Pro. (8) Samsung M393B1G70BH0-CK0Q8 8GB PC3-1200R...

Looks like yet another of my Seagate drives has bit the dust in my home storage server (ST3000DM001 model). While they've been going for about 2 years.. this is the 4th one to die in 6 months now and I'm tired of it. I stubbornly replaced the other 3 with new Seagate drives... starting with...

So, it looks like my OpenIndiana/Napp-it server on it's last leg. It's been struggling along for awhile now, but is at the point that a recent Napp-it upgrade failed and it isn't happy anymore :( Can't get the desktop to load, and I have to select a "pre-upgrade" snapshot when restarting or...