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Yeah I setup unifi and pfsense mainly thanks to him. I have to research TrueNas more now thanks to you. I was set on Synology but I prefer open source. 🤙

Seanz 10mo ago

I had a Synology about 5 years ago before truenas. It was fine. The main problem I had with it was the price for the quality of hardware. You could build a FAR better device for MUCH cheaper and load truenas onto it. Yes you have to figure a lot out yourself. And the support you have is forums. But people in the truenas forums are very helpful.

There are a ton of apps already ported over to truenas. Plex and unifi controller to name a few. Also immich for photos. And nextcloud if you're into that.

The one thing I found that Synology does much better is surveillance cameras.

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Jaret 10mo ago

I have nextcloud setup already. Yeah, Synology is moving aware from intel chips I think. I appreciate this info. I was set on a couple 1522+ but I am going to pause and research. Separately, I setup a unifi controller on raspi. Now that it’s setup it works well.

One question you might know:

For Vlans should you only can tag one port per vlan for the switch? I have it working but I have vlans pointing to multiple ports and that can likely be improved.

Seanz 10mo ago

You can have multiple ports per vlan. I don't used managed switches so I configure vlans in the unifi controller on the access points. For example I will tag the guest network as a separate vlan. Then I control all the routing with firewall rules on pfsense.

Jaret 10mo ago

That’s how I have it. Thank you.

Jaret 10mo ago

Do you backup phones/laptops with your setup?

Jaret 10mo ago

I may cave. The building/dyi of the hardware is likely too time consuming vs. Synology.

Seanz 10mo ago

Do you have an old computer you can use and attach disks to?

Jaret 10mo ago

Mac Mini (not that old)

Seanz 10mo ago

Hm. Yea, I mean if you have to buy all new hardware it might not be worth it to you. I bought a used server (10 years old) on ebay and I loaded truenas onto that. But that may not work for you.

Jaret 10mo ago

Thanks .. I appreciate your input/ideas!