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What's your opinion on Ubiquiti/Unifi gear? (lemmy.world)
submitted 4 months ago by early_riser@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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I bought into the ecosystem while taking my networking cert classes back in 2017. They were much cheaper than Cisco gear for business-grade networking, and overall I've been happy with them.

Their security offerings are locally managed, and you can make local accounts, but I just bought a NAS from them and I had to sign in with my ubiquiti account first before I could make a local account, and it seems the cloud account has some privileges that you can't give to local super admins.

So now I'm having second thoughts. I figure since it's enterprise-grade stuff they can't really make it cloud-dependent like you see on the consumer side since a lot of companies need air-gapped networks. On the other hand, on those occasions that I didn't have internet access and hadn't yet made a local-only account, I was locked out, so...

Regarding the NAS specifically, I use a TruNAS system at work and it works well enough on a rack server, but since it uses ZFS I don't know it would be good for home use. What alternatives are there?

Are there any truly FOSS networking options? I figure especially on the switching side you need purpose-built hardware, right? There aren't generic motherboards with 48 network ports you can buy.

I like my Unifi setup, I'm just scared of a rug pull.

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[–] early_riser@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

No longer true

Does TruNAS support this feature?

Related, will TruNAS work on a mini PC with an attached DAS?

[–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 months ago

It's part of ZFS 2.3.0, so it just depends what version TrueNAS is shipping with.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

How is the DAS connected?

[–] early_riser@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Don’t own one yet. But I guess USB?

[–] tomten@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Don't use USB to connect hdds to a nas, it isn't reliable enough and will causes problems, it's just a matter of time.

[–] early_riser@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

So no mini PC then? I'd have to build a tower I suppose.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 months ago

TrueNAS doesn't support external connectors like USB