Line interactive basically means the battery will always be feeding the devices on UPS. Make sure you don’t go over the listed wattage. I learned the hard way and bought an under spec Tripplite, the battery kept dying. I now have a UPS specced out for my router and the Verizon box outside, not anything else on my rack. You should be fine, just saying in the future when you add devices, keep that in mind.
I know nothing about networking or security. What has helped me was going to the library and checking out any books they have on networking and security. I don’t actually read the books through, I scan them for terms I’m not familiar with and just read about those. It has helped me a lot more than trying to find it online or ask specific questions on forums. There’s so many books and info, I mean people go to college for this stuff. Even the “for dummy” books are a useful resource.
If I can find a good, cheap 4 bay nas that would be just as good. But I can’t seem to justify to myself to pay $200-$300 for a four bay nas when I can pay the same amount for other options that either have more storage or more compute. Don’t have much room or money, so most of my lab wears many hats, and I like to purchase tech that can fill as many holes as possible.
This is why I’m concerned about noise. I swapped the 40mm fans I have in my switches to noctuas, helped a bunch. Would hate to have this disk shelf I grab to be louder than my switches.
as of right this moment I run an R430 1U dell server, which is a dual socket server with 4 3.5 drive bays up front, averages about 90w. Just being a 1U enclosure and having those tiny fans it tends to get loud. Was looking into a 3U disk shelf as well, but have seen 40mm fans on the back of them. I have too many 40mm fans as it is, I don’t need to add more with more noise. I know a 2U or 3U server enclosure would have larger fans and be quieter, and if I get the same generation or newer, use the same or less power.
Ever since moving to a dell precision tower inside a rack, noise has been taken care of greatly. The 7920 has been an amazing homelab platform so far. Cut off and looking at selling my r430, way too loud with the small fans.
Need to add four drives pretty much immediately, but I like to future proof my builds, which is futile I know. I’ve considered a used commercial NAS but ones with four or more bays tend to be as much as my other options.
Have tried thermal grizzly, arctic and noctua thermal pastes and a plethora of pads as well.
Polishing with finer and finer grit of sandpaper? I don’t want to used a chemical polish because it might stick around, right? Could use automotive sandpaper I guess… might give that a try.
Case is cool all over, 3d printed a shroud for a 120mm fan to blow down on it, even the spot directly over the slug is cool, which makes me think it’s that blasted aluminum puck that’s holding me back.
If I forgo the case, a vapor chamber with heat pipes would be perfect. I guess I could just zip tie a cooler on there, but was hoping for something less jankey. Finding copper in the right size is my preference, but that stuff gets expensive quick.
I’m currently using a dell precision t7920, can hold up to ten 3.5 drives, has too many pcie slots, dual Xeon silver cpus. I had it running for about a year now, 24/7, in my living room, it’s in my rack now, and you can’t even tell it’s there. The poweredge series might be different when it comes to fan curves, but I can’t imagine it would be too different.