bluebarracuda

We give our golden purina pro plan beef and rice and she gobbles it up (but she'll eat anything). For the first 3 or so years we gave her the lamb and rice formula, but Chewy was OOS on it for a while, so we switched to beef and rice

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I don’t think I could terminate the fiber myself though

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You cant :lol:

Anyone use Steam's in home streaming these days? Just picked up a little NUC with a 12900HK that I plan to replace the PC there (have other plans for the PC), but I haven't used the in home streaming in a looooonnnnnggg time

Thankfully most of the games I'll play locally (shite like n64/gamecube/ps1 emulators, worms, and other multiplayer "party games"), but occasionally I may get an itch to play a new AAA game on the couch

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its in the laundry room closet and its 'land locked'. the back wall has an exterior stone wall on the other side; the left wall has 1st floor bathroom with a cabinet on it on the other side; and the right wall is the garage which has shelving on the other side.

none of those are optimal and the laundry room gets hot in the summer when we're doing laundry; only one small floor register at the opposite end. i end up leaving the doors cracked to the closet which the wife hates so looking for something a little more elegant to help keep it cool.

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You're just going to be dumping that hot air back into the room at a higher pace with a "new rack" :lol:

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and re: the poweredge; i like the idea of a dedicated NAS because no telling how much longer that thing will last so i'd rather not lose both my plex server and nas at the same time

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Drive failure is far more common that server hardware failure, and it takes like 5 minutes to spin up a new plex server :spank: But no telling how old that poweredge could be though. I had an R530 running in my 100F+ storage room during the south Louisiana summer without a hitch. Went through 2 summers with it before moving to my smaller/power friendly rack I posted earlier

Do you have a door on the back of your current rack? If so, just take it off :lol:

Why not incorporate your NAS into the poweredge server? It should have plenty of HDD slots, no?

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Dude, you just posted a switch at uses 191W at 0% traffic and 0% PoE.

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Yea, which has absolutely zero to do with the storage.

Edit: Load w/o POE is 162w. Mine w/ POE devices is running 202w

Synology used to be heavy on proprietary bullshite, drives and internals. Not sure if that's change or not, but I stay away from them because of it. Ugreen seems to be a good disrupter in the space with their pricing

I would check out minisforum too, if you want to go with something more customizable on the OS end

Not sure how available that willet hirsch is around you, but it's a damn good bottle for $125

Storage is stupid simple to manage :lol:

It's just not worth it. Not only are the drives significantly more expensive, but the hardware needed to support the higher bandwidth is too