My Simplified Home Network: My NAS, Switches, VMs, and Software
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Here's the gear I use:
First, the VPN I use on my PC and on the VMs (especially when I'm downloading): teksyndicate.c...
Router running DDWRT: www.amazon.com...
NAS Units (you really only need one)
NAS 1: Synology 4 bay: www.amazon.com...
2.5 GB Ethernet Adapter for the Synology: www.amazon.com...
Drivers for Synology: github.com/bb-...
NAS 2: Asustor AS6604T: www.amazon.com...
Switches:
Asustor 2.5 GB Switch (I have a couple of these): www.amazon.com...
TP-Link 24 port switch: www.amazon.com...
TP-Link 8 port switch: www.amazon.com...
TP-Link 5 port switch: www.amazon.com...
Tiny PC for VMs: shop.udoo.org/...
It's a bit expensive, and it was sent to me for review a long while ago. I would probably just use a small dell with a 4770k for VMs if I didn't have this.
Raspberry Pi works fine, but it's so expensive now. You can run pihole on this instead: www.amazon.com...
As for media software, I use jellyfin and foobar. Let's talk about it.
You can install Jellyfin right on your nas, in whatever package manager you're using. Otherwise, you can get servers and clients here:
jellyfin.org/
If you want to use jellyfin for music as well, there's an amazing app for mobile called, finamp.
github.com/jms...
You can tell it which libraries are music/audio/audio books, etc. and it will just werk.... with most file types. I use foobar just because I have loads of video game music that uses different file formats (discussed in the video). For that, foobar and some plugins are needed.
Foobar
www.foobar2000...
www.foobar2000...
For VGM files: vgmstream.org/
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Always a strange warm feeling in my tech nerd brain when I see Logan's face.
This has the most sane recommendations on RUclips.
That pirate lego set with lighting is so sick. Thanks for another vid, I'm loving the set up/room themes, gives me some inspiration.
Logan is just a real ass dude. That's why I've been watching since 2014. Ever since I stopped watching the tech youtubers, I've been way more content with my tech that actually does what i need it to. No crazy ass upgrades neccessary.
I'm a big proponent of downsizing your homelab. I went from running a beast of an enterprise server to running 2x Zimaboards. Great to see such an efficient setup!
Love your setup. Also recently moved and sold most of the stuff I owned. Just moved with two bags of clothes and my desktop PC.
Planning to implement a NAS solution within my home network.
Quite the setup! I've been wanting to put together a server or NAS of some kind, at least for media and games and such. As time goes on, I really miss actually owning stuff...
+1 for Synology's SHR2. I've used ZFS a lot at home and in enterprise settings over the years and the lack of..."post-configuration flexibility" has been problematic. Yes, they are working on that, but much of the ZFS code base is showing its age as it wasn't designed with all flash in mind. It was always meant to be a stopgap until something better came along (but then Java was never meant for critical systems and is now everywhere in FinTech, great job Oracle). Then Oracle started selling ZFS as the last file system you'll ever need, but Oracle tends to exaggerate and bend the truth.
Bruh that Bell Notification is Foobar i Never got once a Ring up for a New video i just got this video in the Feed i Thought you where AFK from RUclips
I used to make the same claims, "do I need all this?", now turns out I need 16tb just for my retro game collection, I have 4tb for my plex, I have 1tb for my documents. Now, 2 of my 3 kids have their own PCs, plus school laptops. My wife has her own PC and Macbook Pro. All of these need to have backups. Honestly, my home network needs revamping. I appreciate the effort to "simplify" things though!
You can have big HDDs in the Nas and still run a somewhat simple network even with all that
Wow …. Massive streamline job on your home tech setup 🤩🤯😇. Streamlining is always a good thing …. Regardless of whether it’s for work, life, home etc 🥰👍. Wish I could get gigabit internet. Currently running 100 d/l and 40 u/l here in Australia 🇦🇺 . Internet is quite expensive here and once you go above my speeds …. The dollar AUD value increase exponentially 🤯🤯!
I moved into the city and have 3 choices for gigabit here... Plus Comcast gig but that's not fiber. I don't think I want to live outside a downtown area again. It's just too good... But outside of the city the situation here is similar to yours.
Thanks for making this video! Made It look more accessible to make a home network! Can’t wait for the next video each one is great
I love my unraid server, it does all I need and more. I like that it does dockers without having to run linux and being able to make VM's on the fly.
Truenas top notch Nas. Your setup have many parts prone to headaches on failure.
Which parts?
Zfs is cool, but I'm happy with my Synology.
Had a Drobo when the power went out it was a pain to get it to recover, also the western digital wasnt bad, but limited. used a Synology 5 bay great unit, very versatile software and hardware.
all sorts of drives, ssd, standard, all different sizes.
Synology was a remarkable unit, I had 1512 one of there earlier models. Dual ethernet bridgable,
lots of extenal ports for ext drives or usb sticks.
I went from Synology to Freenas and upgraded to Truenas. I really liked the simplicity of Synology but i had a problem with their stuff that i couldn't go back to it. The enclosure died. Not the hard drives, but the actual enclosure. My device was out of warranty so i bought another one. Popped my drives in and it wouldn't recognize my drives. I had to reformat and reset everything back up. I called Synology and they said you can't swap drives from one device to another. Their encryption doesn't allow it. It ties it to that specific device. I did some research and found that you can unlock the encryption using Ubuntu. I gave that a shot and was never able to get it to work. So because their device died i lost all my data. Anyone using Synology make sure you have two or some other type of backup option. I ended up having two old PCs i turned into Freenas/Truenas "servers". One is my main and one is a backup just in case lol
good tip for 2 pihole but also 2 nas - stuff breaks - add a sniffer box and do pkt cap with moloch - also think about cluster nodes and netfs - nvme scales well - you may be able to use bridging/bonding and upgrade to 5g on most devices
nice to see you again...... its been years
Logan is a great man.
BE LIKE LOGAN.
Synology is great! FreeNAS is nice too, but it's a lot of work.
I'd like to do a setup like this, but my house isn't wired for ethernet and I don't even have space for a "network shelf". I'd basically have to clear truckloads of junk out of the basement, get the house wired for ethernet going to the basement as a source, and put a rack or shelf in the basement. That's the dream though. For now, everything has to live on my desk. I'd like to get an Asustor NAS and move everything over to that so I could reinitialize my Synology one without losing data and use it as a backup server, but the other thing is kind of a prerequisite for that as I don't have room for two NAS's on my desk.
Still fighting the "Dark Force" to use a cloud. Awesome stuff.
Been using PIA for years. Its great.
did not know about jellyfin. thanks for showing it a little bit
Here's my video on it: ruclips.net/video/94J0CiJmvws/видео.html
It's basically open source emby
thanks Logan :)
'Simplified' home network. Damn. My NAS consists of a single 16Gb USB stick plugged into the one USB port on the back of my standard ISP-provided router. And I don't even need that, I just set it up to mess around with.
Love these maximum efficiency builds.
My excuse to keep my home server is the 35W CPU.
But the 15 drives aren't helping lol
thanks for the great video logan.
Thank you Sir! TNice tutorials helps alot !
If you ever going to move over to that one Synology NAS, then I would love to see a video what and how you would be using that thing full time. Cheers from Estonia 🇪🇪
If I do, it will probably be at a time when I upgrade to a bigger, faster nas. That way it can run some VMs and Jellyfin without slowing down at all.
I spy a RA Salvatore book good reading sir! video liked and sub'd.
I use to watch you like 8 years ago and always thought; boy he likes over complicating his home network, so it’s nice to see this lmao. I love and work IT; but I leave the complex stuff for work LMAO
lol same I don't think I could be bothered to configure that level of stuff in my spare time hey
Much simpler , I like Simple , I think you can even do better next time you make changes , as your needs change , as I got older I tended to do Games on stand alone systems that I could go online with to do remote work . My Hair is still a bit thicker than yours and Much Longer but I am starting to thin out over all at the capitis . Hair is finally starting to go Grey at 55 . By 60 if I'm around I will donate it for a free cut and go Short Hair , witch will be 0dd . Now is the Time Man , Spend time with your Music and Online creations , you have a nice set up , Liked and Shared , Thank You :) QC
Perfect timing
Great video!
Great info as always
👍🏼 perfect thinking I approve 👍🏼
I use Unraid. Also btrfs.
Prop up your devices on Ceramic's like a mug; the heat will drain away quick.
Great video man :)
Have you heard the Outrun 2019 sound track?!?! that is the best sound track of any genesis game.
It's up there, but I wouldn't say it's anywhere close to Alisia Dragoon
The next stage is to tidy up all the cables and making it look nice and neat!
NEVER!!!!!!!1!
I go into small businesses and have to setup and/or replace network hardware. It is out of the scope of my work to clean things up (things are always a mess) and it risks stopping things working... but I always try to leave things better than I found them. A little bit of velcro tape here and there, can make a significant improvement on the appearance and can make future changes easier... for a small amount of effort.
42U RACK?! Oh, my, no!!!!
37U will roll through most doorways.
Can you create a home netword just using your router?
This is wholesome content!
Hi, I have installed CAT 6 cable throughout my house from one central location, i wanted to know how I can make one singular wifi network from that, so that i may be able to move throughout the house without drops in connection, or having to reconnect to another network, which devices will I need to buy for that, to create a mesh like network.
Thanks so much in advance.
why not bond the ethernet port on DS918? anyway, nice video Logan 👍🏻
I don't have or want a managed switch at the moment... and that requires 2 cables... and all my wall sockets are single port, etc. It's much better for me to spend the $20 for the USB 2.5 gbe... and it's faster.
What is the UPS model you use?
Synology's implementation of BTRFS is actually decent. I have set up a couple of those NAS units for people and it's worked out great. For my own server however, ZFS is the only file system I will consider.
7:00 - Make both the antennas point straight up.
Oh, that wifi is disabled. I use a little AP instead.
@@teksyndicate Strategic deception...
I've got a NAS with two 14 TB drives and basically no one I know even has a 4TB HDD.
How do you run the backups?
These units are so easy. Asustor has a simple USB backup utility. You just set the schedule and that's it. It copies files after you add them, then does a full backup once a month
Where is the fiber ?
photographer/videographer ,got 3 servers , on my network all on windows server 2012 , is easyer to manege than linux , one is 24 7 server has my plex and my media , and store my curent project and get flush every year has raid 10 for projects and 2 other drives for media , and ssd for projects am working on , to the cold storage server , and get copy to backup server , and all have quad or dual nic
Actually, you can completely circumvent windows from forcibly making you use an online account when you first boot into it but I still hate windows 11 due to all the pfisherprice nonsensical shit they did to it, specifically to the damn start menu and making it less customizable.
In regards to their online account crap, it works similarly to the way HP'S startup software install worked for windows 11 which when it showed the only interactive button available onscreen, I just went into task manager and killed the process and started the explorer manually via starting it as a new process if it didn't automatically start.
1 video down. 4 more to go. You know the deal
I gave you a like. Now make us some cooking videos.
What kind?
@@teksyndicate Up to you. Just have fun.
@@teksyndicate Your take on broasted chicken?
Did asus/asustor fix the ransomware issue yet? I want to get a NAS but i don't want to have to deal with deadbolt.
I don't know, I keep all of those easy ddns services off for security. That's an easy way around it. I just run my own ddns.
You wouldn't happen to have that link you shared with me on twitter about fixing 7zip being hidden in context menus in windows 11 would you? I can't find your tweet anymore lol. (right click to extract need to click "show more options"
Here's my video on it:
ruclips.net/video/OnQN-lqY66s/видео.html
Here's the tool I used: www.thewindowsclub.com/ultimate-windows-tweaker-5-for-windows-11
Note: I went back to Windows 10 on everything, so there may be better ways to do these things, but these are probably still the best methods.
why did you show your code is ever one going to ues it
I'm just here to help
Whats your opinion on protonvpn?
nothing wrong with it that I can see. It's more expensive than PIA, and I can't imagine it being any faster... so I'm good to stick with PIA.
It's Eyeballs and Ear Holes
My DROBO Sucked. The file shares constantly dropped off. I am interrested in how much electricity my system draws more and more instead of how big it can be. I used an old gaming pc for a UNRAID server. I moved all my drives from the DROBO into the unraid server. I LOST all my files on DROBO because the hardware failed and I am not going to buy a new piece of crap to restore files I can download again. The 8 core CPU on my UNRAID cannot keep up with the files sucked down on my fiber. I also schedule and turn it off at night, because I don't need to pay for electricity for something that is not needed. Minimalism is the near future for some of us nerds. Like, I have an RTX 2080 TI. It plays my BF5 just fine. I will be turning down graphics settings instead of blowing 1500 on a new card, and the the trickle down of MB memory and power supply. For what? a few FPS? I can enjoyably play on lower FPS.
May I ask you to do some videos on City Planning ??
I remember you wanted to do that once
(Maybe it was in your debunking Elon Musk video)
& maybe a few videos on linux ?
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jesus, what happened to this guy.
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what about it?
Such a blast from the past. Is that pretty vaping girl still around?
I like your minimal setup. I also fell in love with Synology years ago.
I have 4 of their units now, including a router.
Built my own NAS4free and FreeNAS in the old days but I always fell back on Synology. Such a great company to deal with as well.
I got switches coming from switches.
I have the same idea, - I am working towards a working 'skeleton system' ...with just enough for absolute basics such as smart switches, phones etc, - all my powerful goodies will only power up with 'LABS' ....but nobody does LABS while JAMMING (unplugged) ...a DAW system which is being used to JAM must be OFFLINE!!!