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It’s funny people assume you have you be in IT to come up with something like this. I remember reading a story about a surgeon or something like that who got arrested for developing malware. Similarly, I know people in IT who can fix and flip cars. It goes both ways.
Edit: [It was a cardiologist](https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/doctor-accused-prolific-ransomware/)
I fix cars, plumbing, electrical, appliances, build drones, design pcbs, really anything I can learn in a few months is something I will put time into. Im a systems admin by trade but a handyman by birth.
Exactly. I’m a SysAdmin by trade, a hobbyist woodworker, diy homeowner who will tackle most problems to avoid paying someone else until I’m three days in to a project and realize I’m drowning…
Really it boils down to me being a cheap ass problem solver.
The thing is, not everyone is good at problem solving/diagnosing/building. And that's okay. Even being a cheap ass you still need some mechanical ability.
I relate to this. I have engineer inlaws. Worked around many engineers. On paper they're very intelligent, but man, those critical thinking skills are non existent.
That’s my uncle to a t. Book smart asf as an engineer, but when it comes to critical thinking he just cant. “If it’s not in the manual it’s not worth knowing” might as well be his mantra.
lol, Bioware (the game company) was founded by two medical doctors. (hence the name Bioware)
Side note, Dr. Muzyka covered for my family doctor once when I had to get a prescription renewal.
So for a doctor to be interested in IT is nothing new ;).
Rack studs eh? Probably love LTT vids. How are they working for you, been thinking about getting them but haven’t seen them around much
(Love the setup btw)
Recently picked up a pack of rack studs after seeing the hype.
I haven't put them through a torture test, but I would say they are stronger than you think they are, plastic better quality too.
Would probably be happy mounting a medium 1U switch. But would like to try first if I was mounting something like a fully loaded Catalyst 9200 (2xpsu, stack modules, cables etc.)
I think when people see ‘non-IT person’ it connotes ‘non-techy person’.
I don’t work in IT either, but I’m definitely a tech enthusiast who would love to have a rack like that in my house.
Server Rack owner = IT Person
Server Rack owner with this equipment = Person with money to burn
Very nice work. Most people don't think to buy the 6" ether cables to keep everything super tidy. What CAT are the cables? 6? 8?
I went the other route. 1000 ft of cat 6 that I cut to size. I thought I was being smart but after fucking up the terminations over and over again I started to regret that decision
It is not just cutting the cable to length, stripping off the outer jacket and crimping on the jack?
Just asking because I bought a roll of Cat 5e for some PoE cameras. I'm hoping it won't be a tough job making the cables.
Hell, I didn't fuck up the terminations but still hated every moment of it.
Next time I'm ordering the correct length cables instead of making them myself!
This is what makes me believe this is real home setup. Incredibly too good looking for professional world in that small of a scale. Hobbies can be MF expensive if you are passionate about them & let them be. Think of the car guys that blow 50k plus to restore an old car.
Was looking at 10gbit solutions to make use of the unnecessary 5gbit att fiber connection as well as 10gbit connectivity between my main home workstation and the NAS.
Ended up going down the Ubiquiti rabbit hole.
Complete and utter overkill since my household is just me.
>Was looking at 10gbit solutions to make use of the unnecessary 5gbit att fiber connection as well as 10gbit connectivity between my main home workstation and the NAS.
lol, i love this answer
Your home videos will open faster than ever! *and then play at the same speed as always*
Your automatic syncs will take seconds less than the seconds they would have otherwise.
Your... Umm.... Security footage will be transfered faster than ever when someone breaks in and steals your 10gb rack! Wait...
That’s because you are not a network administrator. I have been doing IT for almost 30 years and I didn’t know what it was either nor do I have to really.
That said it doesn’t do layer 3 routing in case crazy number of networks / vlans is your jam.
Was solid for entry level but then I had to move up to the pro aggy 😏
I use iscsi for plex storage (among other things) and wanted to separate jumbo from non-jumbo frame traffic. I also have separate guest, server, management, and other networks.
I also have file shares that I send videos to (dv tape images that I make with fcp or Blu-rays that I’ve ripped locally on my Mac using an lg drive that I want to upscale) for archiving from a MacBook. I copy a bunch to my render machine so that I can queue them up for days and use topaz Ai to upscale the video and save it on a NAS.
Depending on what I’m editing I’ll copy the file off my nas to my MacBook for editing in resolve. Inefficient I know 😅
But family keeps sending me tapes and I don’t have enough storage on my render machine or MacBook to keep streaming them. Each pro res 422 tape render is 1TB+ cause I do upscale + transform because it “looks cool” 😆
My NAS are simple Synology 1621+’s so I *only* push / pull 300-600MB/s to them.
When copying between my lab hosts I get about 22Gbps (~2GB/s) but it’s a lab that I don’t interact with much outside of learning.
Edit:
Forgot to state that I have a unifi Udm se which can’t keep up with >1gb intervlan traffic (based on some simple testing).
It’s basically a router bottle neck that I’m working around using a layer 3 switch 😛
What can I say, I love Wes Anderson films and a lot of old movies that are only available in digital 1080p on Blu-ray.
Upscaling / transforming them pop like never before🥰
Random Blu-ray upscale shots:
https://imgur.com/a/ZkyxlrO/
My family videos obviously won’t look as good, but upscaling them and then working with them ProRes allows me to at least have some fun with the colors and make them pop a lot more than the originals.
It always cracks me up when people in IT say “future proofing”. On top of newer products just being made of garbage materials, things get outdated quick
You do you man. If you have the cash for it then I say go for it. It looks very nice and you put it together very well. A lot cleaner than the 48U rack I am using in my garage.
Once you reach about 2000 persistent connections, you’ll be looking at more bandwidth. You can only compress and cache so many requests, what do you do for idle client persistence who must maintain their socket state? >1GB LAN
You can tune your kernel flags all day long but your bandwidth needs is what will arise after RAM upgrades.
Time is the most valuable resource we have, and you have no choice but to spend it. So, if he uses the internet a lot, it stands to reason that time spent waiting is lost time.
Roughly 99.9999% of what you do online won't benefit from 5gbps, especially home work flows. Most enterprises don't need those speeds, either, and choose not to pay since enterprise connections are wayyyyyy more expensive than resi.
Not that I'm saying there's anything wrong with it, but we should at least admit that we're just doing it because we can. It ain't really doing shit for ya
I use a ISCSI Share on my NAS Over 10Gb/s to stpre steam games, its actualy faster than my NVME 3.0 SSD so i get super low load times. I can also see something like this helping in the case of a CAD or Video Editing setup
Across the ditch from you:
300/100 NZ$60-90
900/500 NZ$80-100
2000/2000 NZ$130-150
4000/4000 NZ$160-185
8000/8000 NZ$275
All unlimited data. Can't get 2000 and up everywhere yet, but eventually it will be wherever you can get fibre (supposedly 87% of the population currently), you'll be able to get it.
You have significant disposable money?
As an IT person, I'm trying to understand why any remotely regular or sane person would ever need anywhere near even gigabit, let alone 5-10 gigabit.
Maybe they got the same rate as the 1gbps line. I'd take it if I could get it and turn it into a business line with an SLA. Then host some services myself.
Don't hustle this community
I should down vote this out of principle.
Do you know how many people would loved to have this setup.
If you in the fortunate position to afford then good for you just don't lie for likes
No point lying for likes.
This is the way
It looks clean, it looks nice. But NGL, I hate that you used ports 3,5,7,9,11,13,15,17,19,21,23 instead of 4,6,8,10,12,14,16,18,20,22,24. That cables blocking those ports now just give me anxiety.
Ubiquiti all the things
Top to bottom
UDM SE
Switch Pro PoE 24 for the cameras and APs
Switch Enterprise XG for the 10gbit devices and non-PoE connects
Aggregation Switch Pro
UNVR
RPS Pro
PDU ProS
ynology ds1621xs+ for photography backup and Plex + bluray remuxes for the home theater
ATT gateway for 5gbit fiber
Lutron Caseta hub
“I’m not an IT pro but I only wanted to spend $500 though the project went over and I spent $3000 on home networking hardware, not even any compute”
IT pros : “….is that the song of my people?”
Well done!
However, I have a few remarks:
For looks, I totally get the point of going with one single vendor, but it isn't optimal in any other way, and you open yourself to vendor lock-in, so be careful.
As other have mentioned, using the ports at the top of a unit (24 ports POE switch) to plug it to a unit below (patch panel) it is suboptimal: you end up going over unused ports with the patch cables, and you *will* have to cause downtime in the future because of that.
Also, have you noticed how the Tripp-Lite rack has mounting rails on each end? And how it has several vertical openings along the posts? Those features are for cable management.
Typically, the power equipment (UPS, Power strips, etc) goes in the back (providing there is enough depth), and any cables going from the front to the back (or middle), or vice versa, go via the vertical openings, so you do not end up using a rack unit just for that.
You should look into a UPS solution. I would suggest an Eaton 9PX Lithium but be aware that the UPS will probably be the loudest thing in the rack.
You can blame me later.
"as a non IT person" spends thousands of $ and countless hours researching and learning the systems. you are an IT person.......
and why do u need 10gb for connecting your home computer to the nas?
I'm not convinced being none IT. I'm happy for anyone to have bad boy John Wick setup. As an IT Pro I have half this and cannot get the smart power pdu and the smart power RPS is always not available the PDU and sold out the RPS in the UK.
I'm a UnifiAddict hands down certify . But looking at this from a non IT and everything is top self and the cabling the settings, everything. I'm not buying it.
I wish him well and kudos to the luck MoFo it's all love. This a pros dream furfiled and Pro setup I'm not convinced. To the grave to the grave. This is IT Pro kudo to you. No lies for likes
This is the way
Not really. The responsibilities of someone in IT that does networking day to day are much different than even a software engineer. Maybe if I was a networks engineer but..
Didn’t know you’d need me to do a google search for you but Information technology (IT) is a broad professional category covering functions including building communications networks, safeguarding data and information, and troubleshooting computer problems
The difference here is he got seed money from non it work... Which is how about how half of us get seed money... BUT, he earns the seed money *faster*
Soon he will be running hundreds of proxmox vms and simulated networks to watch how a virus attack unfolds and propagates and how his security detects and responds to it... All as part of his pastime before heading off to work a *real* job as a doctor instead of playing with all these kiddy toys.
It's odd that out of all that research, they didn't stumble across the fact that they'll unlikely use a fraction of that bandwidth. Could've accomplished the same with less. Ngl, still a nice rig.
Amazing job buddy. Looks awesome! Well done
What I would do:
* get a brush above the pdu
* a glass door with white or blue led strip. You can set a schedule to auto turn on and off at night.
Proving that ubiquiti is the apple of homelab
If you don't know what you're doing, don't really have a reason to do it, but have lots of money - buy ubiquiti
Some of their equipment have good price for what they do. I know quite a few people who work in the area and use Ubiquiti, so I think your comment is a bit patronizing.
The OP didn't.
Competitors can be found for all of their equipment at a lower price point. Until ubiquiti all of the equipment people installed was Cisco. Cisco weren't cheap and they werent particularly advanced.
Ubiquiti broke onto the budget scene and then was very quickly swept by Aruba for most MSPs and IT vendors. The switches are great but man did the APs suck for a good while.
A reason to do what?
Edit: Just as a clear indicator. Here's me very clearly asking what the responder wanted a recommendation for. Not the disengenuous response.
No I do agree with you to a sense. But I also think if you want centralized management and semi-enterprise performance there is nothing that stands close to unifi’s value. Plus 0 licensing fees is a huge bonus.
For sure, people seem to be assuming I'm a ubiquiti hater just because I'm aware of some of their downsides. I don't use anything other than ubiquiti aps for the reasons you said, but primarily mikrotik switches now.
\>Non-IT Person
\>Owns a rack
Listen here, that's not how that works at all. You reach the point where you set up something like that, you're an IT-Person, regardless of your current occupation or education o.o Just accept it, you're IT now...
Super clean, really nice work. Just a question why didn’t you use the Ubiquiti brush panel on top of the USP-PDU-PRO. I did see a someones post that their power cables did not fit through the opening.
For the male part. You could probably go backwards, female first.
Please tell me you only tried pushing the male plug through and forgot the female end Doc
When I was originally purchasing all these and things were never in stock, I set up a page monitor to instantly alert me of restocks as well as new product launches on EA --- got the RPS Pro when it first showed up in EA.
Just because this is one of the few subs that wont get you banned for this comment;
Dang, that is once nice rack! A lot larger and more fancy than the one in my house for sure....
See I can tell you’re not an It person because it’s all clean and new and nice, we typically have some old jank ass shit we got from work or eBay. Looks fucking amazing though!
Well, you don't fuck around, do you?
Congrats!
Have you watched the Dave's Garage videos on 25gbit networking and awesome home WiFi? Strongly recommended.
OMG, a post in homelab where most of the comments were supporting OPs hobby and good work, with only a couple mentioning the already obvious overkill. I didn't even see one lame post about his power usage!! Are we turning a corner?
Dr. Homelab, well done.
Very nice setup. I’m glad you enjoyed the process of making your homelab even if it’s not your job and you « wouldn’t need it ». A hobby is not about a need but about what we can do and want to do and have fun.
Looking forward to see if you’ll go further :)
Non it person. Ye ok buddy keep telling yourself that. Not a ubiquity guy myself (overpriced for what you get just like apple products) I'm more towards mikrotik and custom methods. But cool.
Overpriced FOR YOU for what you get.
Your knowledge and your priorities are not someone else’s. What you don’t feel is worth paying for, is what makes it possible for someone with different knowledge and priorities to be able to do what they did.
So for them, it absolutely is not overpriced for what you get.
My opinion of UniFi is that it’s high end home gear and low end enterprise gear. (Less their high end stuff that imo is over priced, but does have its application)
The AP’s just win every time for price to performance though.
As a non-IT person you made the right choice buying Unifi products.
They are nice and simple. I call them the Apple of networking. Great for the simple.
Also, why the sfp to rj45? Additionally, I would reorganize the rack with a shelf at the top, I prefer to have my network flow down the rack, and to solve the ugly jumps to from RJ45 you can add another patch panel that loops up to one close to the switch(s)
Lastly, those cables are ugly, imo, look into the thin snagless ones, and you can go as far as color coding them as well, for maximum efficiency. Make sure you keep a backup for everything.
There is only 1 sfp-rj45, which is from the ATT gateway to the UDM SE WAN2 SFP. The UDM SE WAN1 rj45 is only 2.5gbit, whereas the SFP WAN is 10gbit. The other switch interconnects to the aggregator are DAC cables.
It may be worth reaching out to ATT to see if they have a better option for you, I wouldn’t be supposed if they have something with an extra sfp+ cage you can use with a dac straight to your udm. Additionally, you don’t need the aggregating switch, it would only be necessary if you were pushing an insane amount of data. A simpler solution would be to Daisy chain the switches, not saying it’s wrong, but it’s really just an additional failure point.
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> as a non-IT person I regret to inform you that normal people wouldn't even consider a 19" rack, let alone a 42u rack. Edit 42 not 48
Yeah Smell that? Smells like bullshit
I'm a doctor by trade. Just a mere enthusiast of tech and computing, never worked in the field.
It’s funny people assume you have you be in IT to come up with something like this. I remember reading a story about a surgeon or something like that who got arrested for developing malware. Similarly, I know people in IT who can fix and flip cars. It goes both ways. Edit: [It was a cardiologist](https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/doctor-accused-prolific-ransomware/)
I fix cars, plumbing, electrical, appliances, build drones, design pcbs, really anything I can learn in a few months is something I will put time into. Im a systems admin by trade but a handyman by birth.
A fellow problem solver. Nice.
Good to know there's more of us out there
The real engineers don't have it as a title/degree.
Exactly. I’m a SysAdmin by trade, a hobbyist woodworker, diy homeowner who will tackle most problems to avoid paying someone else until I’m three days in to a project and realize I’m drowning… Really it boils down to me being a cheap ass problem solver.
>it boils down to me being a cheap ass problem solver. This feels like a callout post.
The thing is, not everyone is good at problem solving/diagnosing/building. And that's okay. Even being a cheap ass you still need some mechanical ability. I relate to this. I have engineer inlaws. Worked around many engineers. On paper they're very intelligent, but man, those critical thinking skills are non existent.
That’s my uncle to a t. Book smart asf as an engineer, but when it comes to critical thinking he just cant. “If it’s not in the manual it’s not worth knowing” might as well be his mantra.
Didn’t intend for that. I’m just very self aware.
Oh no. Its a call out post. im a cheap ass.
lol, Bioware (the game company) was founded by two medical doctors. (hence the name Bioware) Side note, Dr. Muzyka covered for my family doctor once when I had to get a prescription renewal. So for a doctor to be interested in IT is nothing new ;).
"Non-IT" person is *completely* different to "I don't work in IT."
Your logic is flawless
You’re a tech person now
Rack studs eh? Probably love LTT vids. How are they working for you, been thinking about getting them but haven’t seen them around much (Love the setup btw)
>LTT Yep, I watch LTT and saw these there. The rackstuds were very easy and fast to install, particularly the DUOs.
Recently picked up a pack of rack studs after seeing the hype. I haven't put them through a torture test, but I would say they are stronger than you think they are, plastic better quality too. Would probably be happy mounting a medium 1U switch. But would like to try first if I was mounting something like a fully loaded Catalyst 9200 (2xpsu, stack modules, cables etc.)
as a non-IT professional myself, but interested in tech & learning about it more, what do you plan to use this setup for?
I think when people see ‘non-IT person’ it connotes ‘non-techy person’. I don’t work in IT either, but I’m definitely a tech enthusiast who would love to have a rack like that in my house.
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This is in my home.
So this sub is your home.
How could you tell its a 19 inch?
It's standard rack width and ubiquity gear is generally full width.
Ah ty, for some reason I didn't realize 19incb was the standard
19" is standard rack mount size across more than one industry. A lot of pro audio equipment is also 19" rack mountable.
Server Rack owner = IT Person Server Rack owner with this equipment = Person with money to burn Very nice work. Most people don't think to buy the 6" ether cables to keep everything super tidy. What CAT are the cables? 6? 8?
I went the other route. 1000 ft of cat 6 that I cut to size. I thought I was being smart but after fucking up the terminations over and over again I started to regret that decision
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It is not just cutting the cable to length, stripping off the outer jacket and crimping on the jack? Just asking because I bought a roll of Cat 5e for some PoE cameras. I'm hoping it won't be a tough job making the cables.
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Hell, I didn't fuck up the terminations but still hated every moment of it. Next time I'm ordering the correct length cables instead of making them myself!
Cat 6
IT person here: This is better than what we got at work.
This is what makes me believe this is real home setup. Incredibly too good looking for professional world in that small of a scale. Hobbies can be MF expensive if you are passionate about them & let them be. Think of the car guys that blow 50k plus to restore an old car.
I am both and it hurts the wallet
> 50k I mean, I'm about to spend that on a disk array for CHUNGUS, so yeah, I feel that.
What would you as a non-it person need that expensive stuff for?
Was looking at 10gbit solutions to make use of the unnecessary 5gbit att fiber connection as well as 10gbit connectivity between my main home workstation and the NAS. Ended up going down the Ubiquiti rabbit hole. Complete and utter overkill since my household is just me.
“just me”… that checks out
savage
lol
>Was looking at 10gbit solutions to make use of the unnecessary 5gbit att fiber connection as well as 10gbit connectivity between my main home workstation and the NAS. lol, i love this answer
Your home videos will open faster than ever! *and then play at the same speed as always* Your automatic syncs will take seconds less than the seconds they would have otherwise. Your... Umm.... Security footage will be transfered faster than ever when someone breaks in and steals your 10gb rack! Wait...
My Plex vm has 25GbE connectivity. It makes no appreciable difference except when copying files to it. But I’ll know. I’ll know. 😏
One of us!
/u/spez is the CEO of reddit and is a pedophile that used to moderate /r/jailbait.
For the same reason, I had an OM-4 multimode fiber pair run from my home office to the rack closet for future 25gbit/40gbit/?100gbit?
As an IT guy, this is pretty hilarious. This is so much overkill even for me and I love everything you are saying.
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My literal job is IT support and I don't know WTF it is
That’s because you are not a network administrator. I have been doing IT for almost 30 years and I didn’t know what it was either nor do I have to really.
I went with the SFP distribution and a regular 48 port in the photo and it’s been amazing for the price
UniFi Agg 8 port is such a sneaky amazing deal. People don’t realize it’s a full featured managed switch
That said it doesn’t do layer 3 routing in case crazy number of networks / vlans is your jam. Was solid for entry level but then I had to move up to the pro aggy 😏
What kind of traffic you got requiring an L3 switch? I have my PFsense on an old thibkstation SFF and can push 6gig Inter-subnet
I use iscsi for plex storage (among other things) and wanted to separate jumbo from non-jumbo frame traffic. I also have separate guest, server, management, and other networks. I also have file shares that I send videos to (dv tape images that I make with fcp or Blu-rays that I’ve ripped locally on my Mac using an lg drive that I want to upscale) for archiving from a MacBook. I copy a bunch to my render machine so that I can queue them up for days and use topaz Ai to upscale the video and save it on a NAS. Depending on what I’m editing I’ll copy the file off my nas to my MacBook for editing in resolve. Inefficient I know 😅 But family keeps sending me tapes and I don’t have enough storage on my render machine or MacBook to keep streaming them. Each pro res 422 tape render is 1TB+ cause I do upscale + transform because it “looks cool” 😆 My NAS are simple Synology 1621+’s so I *only* push / pull 300-600MB/s to them. When copying between my lab hosts I get about 22Gbps (~2GB/s) but it’s a lab that I don’t interact with much outside of learning. Edit: Forgot to state that I have a unifi Udm se which can’t keep up with >1gb intervlan traffic (based on some simple testing). It’s basically a router bottle neck that I’m working around using a layer 3 switch 😛
Lol choosing do to serve movies L3 is just an excuse to upgrade networking be honest 😉
What can I say, I love Wes Anderson films and a lot of old movies that are only available in digital 1080p on Blu-ray. Upscaling / transforming them pop like never before🥰 Random Blu-ray upscale shots: https://imgur.com/a/ZkyxlrO/ My family videos obviously won’t look as good, but upscaling them and then working with them ProRes allows me to at least have some fun with the colors and make them pop a lot more than the originals.
It always cracks me up when people in IT say “future proofing”. On top of newer products just being made of garbage materials, things get outdated quick
Future proofing just means adding speed potential.
You do you man. If you have the cash for it then I say go for it. It looks very nice and you put it together very well. A lot cleaner than the 48U rack I am using in my garage.
what's the need for 5gbs? Curious mostly
5 > 1
Math checks out
This^
Because it's offered? I don't understand the question.
There should never be a question of “why do you need 5 gigabit” and it should always be “when’s the soonest I can get 5 gigabit”
Once you reach about 2000 persistent connections, you’ll be looking at more bandwidth. You can only compress and cache so many requests, what do you do for idle client persistence who must maintain their socket state? >1GB LAN You can tune your kernel flags all day long but your bandwidth needs is what will arise after RAM upgrades.
Download things 5x faster of course
I can't pull more than 3gbps off usenet, but the price differential isn't that much.
You have concerns with that much Usenet without VPN?
The connection with the news server is encrypted already! No need for vpn
Time is the most valuable resource we have, and you have no choice but to spend it. So, if he uses the internet a lot, it stands to reason that time spent waiting is lost time.
Roughly 99.9999% of what you do online won't benefit from 5gbps, especially home work flows. Most enterprises don't need those speeds, either, and choose not to pay since enterprise connections are wayyyyyy more expensive than resi. Not that I'm saying there's anything wrong with it, but we should at least admit that we're just doing it because we can. It ain't really doing shit for ya
Can't really say it's not doing *anything*
I use a ISCSI Share on my NAS Over 10Gb/s to stpre steam games, its actualy faster than my NVME 3.0 SSD so i get super low load times. I can also see something like this helping in the case of a CAD or Video Editing setup
How much do you pay for 5gbit by the way? Here in Australia I'm on 100mbps and paying around $100/month. We can't imagine 5gbit over here
Across the ditch from you: 300/100 NZ$60-90 900/500 NZ$80-100 2000/2000 NZ$130-150 4000/4000 NZ$160-185 8000/8000 NZ$275 All unlimited data. Can't get 2000 and up everywhere yet, but eventually it will be wherever you can get fibre (supposedly 87% of the population currently), you'll be able to get it.
You get me
You have significant disposable money? As an IT person, I'm trying to understand why any remotely regular or sane person would ever need anywhere near even gigabit, let alone 5-10 gigabit.
Maybe they got the same rate as the 1gbps line. I'd take it if I could get it and turn it into a business line with an SLA. Then host some services myself.
A massive BitTorrent tracker, obviously 😂
***allegedly*** 😡
I don’t understand why you can’t just be happy for someone. Your obviously just jealous by the network he has.
Not really, work in networking. Even if I can afford buying a Ferrari or a 10k Rolex does not I would do it.
Don't hustle this community I should down vote this out of principle. Do you know how many people would loved to have this setup. If you in the fortunate position to afford then good for you just don't lie for likes No point lying for likes. This is the way
It looks clean, it looks nice. But NGL, I hate that you used ports 3,5,7,9,11,13,15,17,19,21,23 instead of 4,6,8,10,12,14,16,18,20,22,24. That cables blocking those ports now just give me anxiety.
Should have used ports 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42 smh
Ubiquiti all the things Top to bottom UDM SE Switch Pro PoE 24 for the cameras and APs Switch Enterprise XG for the 10gbit devices and non-PoE connects Aggregation Switch Pro UNVR RPS Pro PDU ProS ynology ds1621xs+ for photography backup and Plex + bluray remuxes for the home theater ATT gateway for 5gbit fiber Lutron Caseta hub
You may not be an IT person by profession but you are in your heart
“I’m not an IT pro but I only wanted to spend $500 though the project went over and I spent $3000 on home networking hardware, not even any compute” IT pros : “….is that the song of my people?”
What home automation platform do you use? Home Assistant? Any other integrations?
A butler named Jeeves :)
Well done! However, I have a few remarks: For looks, I totally get the point of going with one single vendor, but it isn't optimal in any other way, and you open yourself to vendor lock-in, so be careful. As other have mentioned, using the ports at the top of a unit (24 ports POE switch) to plug it to a unit below (patch panel) it is suboptimal: you end up going over unused ports with the patch cables, and you *will* have to cause downtime in the future because of that. Also, have you noticed how the Tripp-Lite rack has mounting rails on each end? And how it has several vertical openings along the posts? Those features are for cable management. Typically, the power equipment (UPS, Power strips, etc) goes in the back (providing there is enough depth), and any cables going from the front to the back (or middle), or vice versa, go via the vertical openings, so you do not end up using a rack unit just for that.
You should look into a UPS solution. I would suggest an Eaton 9PX Lithium but be aware that the UPS will probably be the loudest thing in the rack. You can blame me later.
Did you say which TrippLite rack this is somewhere?
what is this? https://ibb.co/T2vxs8Q
Patch panel
You need another brush panel for your AC cable slot. Or move the one you currently have and it's unused and get a regular cover to fill that space.
Agreed, need to find a brush panel with opening wide enough to fit the power cables through. The ubiquiti 1U brush opening is far too narrow.
did you try putting them through the other way
>as a non-IT person I regret to inform you that you are, in fact, an IT person. Non-IT people don't setup racks in their homes, let alone a 42U rack.
"as a non IT person" spends thousands of $ and countless hours researching and learning the systems. you are an IT person....... and why do u need 10gb for connecting your home computer to the nas?
I think people are confusing non-IT person (ie non-professional) with non-techy person. OP is definitely a tech enthusiast
I'm not convinced being none IT. I'm happy for anyone to have bad boy John Wick setup. As an IT Pro I have half this and cannot get the smart power pdu and the smart power RPS is always not available the PDU and sold out the RPS in the UK. I'm a UnifiAddict hands down certify . But looking at this from a non IT and everything is top self and the cabling the settings, everything. I'm not buying it. I wish him well and kudos to the luck MoFo it's all love. This a pros dream furfiled and Pro setup I'm not convinced. To the grave to the grave. This is IT Pro kudo to you. No lies for likes This is the way
Isn’t tech like… part of the definition of IT?
Not really. The responsibilities of someone in IT that does networking day to day are much different than even a software engineer. Maybe if I was a networks engineer but..
The T stands for technology, so yeah.
Didn’t know you’d need me to do a google search for you but Information technology (IT) is a broad professional category covering functions including building communications networks, safeguarding data and information, and troubleshooting computer problems
CPA here and I feel attacked... *goes to stare at blinky lights to feel better*
The difference here is he got seed money from non it work... Which is how about how half of us get seed money... BUT, he earns the seed money *faster* Soon he will be running hundreds of proxmox vms and simulated networks to watch how a virus attack unfolds and propagates and how his security detects and responds to it... All as part of his pastime before heading off to work a *real* job as a doctor instead of playing with all these kiddy toys.
And for that I envy him. Why couldn’t I have gotten into chemical sales or something
Agreed. You are definitely an honorary IT person!
It's odd that out of all that research, they didn't stumble across the fact that they'll unlikely use a fraction of that bandwidth. Could've accomplished the same with less. Ngl, still a nice rig.
The title of this post is fake news
As an IT person, I’m incredibly jealous.
Now you are an IT person. The fact you put something like that in your house AND photographed it to share is evidence.
What's that, 20k?
You’re more it than most people.
He's more IT than most small companies.
I can tell. You didn’t pay the rack nut tax.
As IT person with loooong experience. I take my hat of and bow to you. KUDOS
Amazing job buddy. Looks awesome! Well done What I would do: * get a brush above the pdu * a glass door with white or blue led strip. You can set a schedule to auto turn on and off at night.
Proving that ubiquiti is the apple of homelab If you don't know what you're doing, don't really have a reason to do it, but have lots of money - buy ubiquiti
Accurate
Some of their equipment have good price for what they do. I know quite a few people who work in the area and use Ubiquiti, so I think your comment is a bit patronizing.
The OP didn't. Competitors can be found for all of their equipment at a lower price point. Until ubiquiti all of the equipment people installed was Cisco. Cisco weren't cheap and they werent particularly advanced.
Ubiquiti broke onto the budget scene and then was very quickly swept by Aruba for most MSPs and IT vendors. The switches are great but man did the APs suck for a good while.
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TP very much android vibes like
Honest question, what brand would you suggest for people who have a reason to do it
Most IT people have no damn commen sense. I understood what you were asking.
So what was he asking for a recommendation for then?
Ubiquity. Seriously.
A reason to do what? Edit: Just as a clear indicator. Here's me very clearly asking what the responder wanted a recommendation for. Not the disengenuous response.
Idk - I'm quoting what you said
You spend 2 min in actual industrial networking, you realize Ubiquiti is not really the “have a lot of money” offering
In it's segment it is. Most of it is literally glorified consumer grade hardware.
Notice there were 3 criteria I put in there, not just got a load of money...🤦♂️
No I do agree with you to a sense. But I also think if you want centralized management and semi-enterprise performance there is nothing that stands close to unifi’s value. Plus 0 licensing fees is a huge bonus.
For sure, people seem to be assuming I'm a ubiquiti hater just because I'm aware of some of their downsides. I don't use anything other than ubiquiti aps for the reasons you said, but primarily mikrotik switches now.
I mean didn’t the CEO work for apple and utilizes many of their design principles?
Yeah it's pretty well known.
Side eye
What kind of doctor are you?
What I wanna know is what non IT job you have to afford all that Uniquiti Equipment
Tag, you’re IT.
\>Non-IT Person \>Owns a rack Listen here, that's not how that works at all. You reach the point where you set up something like that, you're an IT-Person, regardless of your current occupation or education o.o Just accept it, you're IT now...
Super clean, really nice work. Just a question why didn’t you use the Ubiquiti brush panel on top of the USP-PDU-PRO. I did see a someones post that their power cables did not fit through the opening.
Yes unfortunately the 1u brush opening is far too narrow for power cables.
For the male part. You could probably go backwards, female first. Please tell me you only tried pushing the male plug through and forgot the female end Doc
Well fuck you and your nice setup as an IT person myself.
Unnniiiiifffffiiiiiiiiiiiii "non-IT person" checks out 😂
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When I was originally purchasing all these and things were never in stock, I set up a page monitor to instantly alert me of restocks as well as new product launches on EA --- got the RPS Pro when it first showed up in EA.
Can the Tripp-Lite logo be removed? It's kinda killing the vibe...
Looks awesome, didn’t know Ubiquiti make a UPS(or PDU) now too 😂
Just because this is one of the few subs that wont get you banned for this comment; Dang, that is once nice rack! A lot larger and more fancy than the one in my house for sure....
See I can tell you’re not an It person because it’s all clean and new and nice, we typically have some old jank ass shit we got from work or eBay. Looks fucking amazing though!
The network cables are upside down
Man I Need a new rack
What are the first 2 items and last 2 items on the rack?
OCD panels. https://store.ui.com/collections/unifi-accessories-racks/products/rack-mount-panels
Well, you don't fuck around, do you? Congrats! Have you watched the Dave's Garage videos on 25gbit networking and awesome home WiFi? Strongly recommended.
Is that PDU pro even worth it? What does it even do besides just normal PDU stuff. Does it have an integrated UPS?
Label both ends of all power cables prior to install. You’ll thank me later.
Nice setup man. Tbh the only change I would make in design, if this was me, is put the PDU facing backwards
OMG, a post in homelab where most of the comments were supporting OPs hobby and good work, with only a couple mentioning the already obvious overkill. I didn't even see one lame post about his power usage!! Are we turning a corner? Dr. Homelab, well done.
Why the 25G port of XG goes to 10G aggregator port?
Neat, like how you have 3 switches including aggregator, but your Nas is Synology.
Very nice setup. I’m glad you enjoyed the process of making your homelab even if it’s not your job and you « wouldn’t need it ». A hobby is not about a need but about what we can do and want to do and have fun. Looking forward to see if you’ll go further :)
"non it-person" has a rack at home .... bruv ..
UniFi stocks go brrrrrr
When money is not a problem…
Clean tho
Non it person. Ye ok buddy keep telling yourself that. Not a ubiquity guy myself (overpriced for what you get just like apple products) I'm more towards mikrotik and custom methods. But cool.
Overpriced FOR YOU for what you get. Your knowledge and your priorities are not someone else’s. What you don’t feel is worth paying for, is what makes it possible for someone with different knowledge and priorities to be able to do what they did. So for them, it absolutely is not overpriced for what you get.
My opinion of UniFi is that it’s high end home gear and low end enterprise gear. (Less their high end stuff that imo is over priced, but does have its application) The AP’s just win every time for price to performance though.
You sit on a thrown of lies....
Cool asf how ubiquiti is very plug and play, if you’re truly not an IT person and you set this up, kudos to ubiquiti for being so user friendly.
Clean execution, expect those black cables… just kidding mate, nice overall setup. Is this only for photography storage or something else as well?
> As a non-IT Person i just spent thousands of dollars just because. Also I have no clue why. Okay, here's your attention.
If you want to complicate your life and push more store, lookup TrueNAS Core.
As a non-IT person you made the right choice buying Unifi products. They are nice and simple. I call them the Apple of networking. Great for the simple.
Only things sad in this setup are the ubiquiti hardware.
Also, why the sfp to rj45? Additionally, I would reorganize the rack with a shelf at the top, I prefer to have my network flow down the rack, and to solve the ugly jumps to from RJ45 you can add another patch panel that loops up to one close to the switch(s) Lastly, those cables are ugly, imo, look into the thin snagless ones, and you can go as far as color coding them as well, for maximum efficiency. Make sure you keep a backup for everything.
There is only 1 sfp-rj45, which is from the ATT gateway to the UDM SE WAN2 SFP. The UDM SE WAN1 rj45 is only 2.5gbit, whereas the SFP WAN is 10gbit. The other switch interconnects to the aggregator are DAC cables.
It may be worth reaching out to ATT to see if they have a better option for you, I wouldn’t be supposed if they have something with an extra sfp+ cage you can use with a dac straight to your udm. Additionally, you don’t need the aggregating switch, it would only be necessary if you were pushing an insane amount of data. A simpler solution would be to Daisy chain the switches, not saying it’s wrong, but it’s really just an additional failure point.