I’ve owned them for a while but agree. I’m also going to pick up 1 or 2 rack chassis models soon for free, which I would recommend over paying for a qnap.

Off the shelf NAS like Synology or qnap both have this feature.

I went with a nas since I needed storage and barely any compute, and I wanted it on all of the time. I also wanted a cloud sync service.

Keep in mind that SMB and NFS work fine across any network but iSCSI needs a reliable hardwire network with decent buffers on the switch.

Attaches storage uses USB which isn’t that great. eSATA is better. External drives start to add up too.

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A different domain name won’t fix the issue you’re describing.

Can you explain the connection issues? Dynamic dns services aren’t much different than a normal domain name.

If the problem is with your ip address changing then you need to get a more permanent ip.

In fact you can usually get a domain name from the dynamic dns provider and they can update it.

A way around this is to use a service like Tailscale. Their ip address for your host won’t change. The downside is you need to be on von to access it. There might be other options.

If you want to really tinker there is a uConsole kvm project.

If it’s an intel cpu you might have vapor, which is a native kvm. If you have AMT then I think you get kvm to the bios but it won’t give you kvm once the OS boots.

Tracking inventory is literally one of its primary use cases.

The default channel is usually populated enough and I think nodes relay other channels using lora too.

My range to the next node is 7 miles.

AirTags work but chirp and thieves know to dump them.

Buy a few t1000 to see how it works and if you have any other nodes in your area. If you do you’ll have decent coverage.

The t1000 doesn’t have amazing battery life but I think there’s devices that are dedicated to gps tracking that last a lot longer.

I have helium nodes near me. Not sure how blockchain fits in, but they offer money if you donate your wifi or LoRa, and you can buy service to use that wifi or LoRa.

I like the idea but WiFi doesn’t have the range to be very useful except maybe in an apartment building.

Meshtastic. Be sure to set it up to not broadcast your precise position over the default channel.

Here is an example.

https://www.seeedstudio.com/sensecap-t1000-tracker

4 bay usb dock? The one that you just attach the bare drive. I think you can find them for $70.

USB sata adapters are like $10 each.

Isn’t Kmip how this is solved?

Upsize your NAS drives. Get rid of external drives. Set up one nas to back up to the other, or pay for cloud backups. Synology cloud is relatively cheap.

You need licensing to play music over intercoms.

Why not the overpaid c-suite?

Veeam has a free client backup app that you can point to a share.

Set throttling.

Ideally set it at your egress point so that sessions get throttled only when your max upload is reached.

If your switch plugs into a switch then they are in the same network (excluding L3 switches). Your devices will be sharing the 1gb link between switches but that’s not usually a problem for most home networks.