About 120W total for:
- 2 Proxmox hosts with 4 spinning disks between them
- Opnsense firewall
- 24 port GbE switch
- Fiber ONT
- Unifi AP
MangoPenguin
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I just do the first option.
Everything is pretty much idle at 3am when the backups run, since it's just me using the services. So I don't really expect to have issues with DBs being backed up this way.
I don't even have all that much storage (18TB usable), the other side of things is I'd need 8x 5TB 2.5" drives in RAID 10 to be equal my 2x 18TB 3.5" drive mirror I have now, which means I'd need to add an HBA card that also consumes more power. Even if I ran RAIDz2 I'd still need 6 drives.
Price is another factor, from some poking around 2.5" is around 2x the cost of what I paid for my 3.5" drives.
In a classic server-client situation, your clients should have AllowedIPs set to 0.0.0.0/0, ::/0 in their repecive configuration file.
Only if you want the VPN to be your default route! Many may not want this.
It looks like about 2-3W with 2.5" vs 6-8W with 3.5"
So 3.5" drives are going to be more efficient, since you can get one that's 4x the capacity (20TB vs 5TB) for only a little over double the power usage.
Less noise is definitely a bonus if your NAS sits next to your workstation or something though.
3.5" are cheaper, go up to higher capacities (2.5" maxes out at only 5TB IIRC), and are easier to find cheap in used/refurb formats.
I wouldn't use 2.5" unless you absolutely had to for some reason.
AFAIK the user account created by default on windows will be a full privilege account, so won't need a password to gain admin through UAC. Essentially the same as Linux where you can gain root privileges through sudo by using your own password.
But if you create an account with standard user privileges it will ask your for the password to an administrator account to gain admin. I'm not sure what the linux equivalent of this would be, denying sudo access would be too restrictive so maybe there's an in between where you need the password to an admin user to gain sudo.
Pretty normal tbh, a lot of those thumb drives get very hot. Probably not great for its lifespan though.
Best bet is install an SSD if you have a spot for an M.2 or 2.5" drive inside.
No, 2FA stops someone from getting into your account if they have the password.
I find it really hard to read for getting the information I need quickly, too much going on with too much useless info.
App and program are interchangeable terms, it doesn't matter.
Damn that's a setup alright!
If you're making use of the hardware it's well worth it over anything cloud based for sure.