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Networking Gear Recommendations? (starting from scratch)
  • Ubiquiti is good. You just have to learn how it works. But that's like any software defined network. There are times when they will give you a little too much control expecting you know the consequences of your actions and you send the wrong config and lock yourself out. They do make mistakes in their firmware but nowhere near as much as inexperienced techs make a mistake and blame the equipment.

  • [Repost] Reliable alternatives to AWS Deep Glacier for ~5TB?
  • I use idrive e2. When I did the math it's yearly up front cost works out what deep archive is without an egress fee and it's quicker. In the fine print there is a fair use policy on downloads but I think it's 5x the storage amount.

    Deep archive storage alone without puts is $24 TB year. idrive is $15 first year $30 subsequent. But it behaves more like s3 standard instant retrieval which is much more expensive.

    Small company but have been around a long time now.

  • Any recommendations for a 20TB hard drive?
  • Just one tech's opinion but I've worked in storage for almost 20years. WD Ultrastar (formerly Hitachi) has the most consistent reliability historically. The current series of WD Gold's are Ultrastar's with a different sticker and often cheaper than the Ultrastar stickered version.

    They are a little more expensive than their competition but worth it.

    2nd Exos, 3rd everything else.

    I can't remember the last time I had one of my Ultrastar arrays having a failure. If my clients need to choose a cheaper drive on price I have tried Ironwolfs and have replaced a bunch of 10tb Ironwolfs a few 12's.

    In the consumer space the Backblaze drive failure releases are good to pay attention to.

    Performance wise all SoHo CMR drives are pretty similar in the 7200rpm models.

  • Looking for some Google Workspace alternatives
  • It gets hate for the number of users over the years who run a seemingly innocuous update and it suddenly nerfs their server and they have to roll back and wait and ponder why it happened meanwhile being stuck without updates until they figure out why. I left because of it but I'm told it doesn't happen anywhere near as often as it once did.

  • Recommend Me A 365 Backup Solution
  • Hosted MSP360 is set and forget. Wasabi is great but for archive iDrive s3 is noticably cheaper.

    If you want data sovereignty a Synology NAS running Active Backup for M365 is really good for a free/included app.

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