https://forum.level1techs.com/t/how-to-reformat-520-byte-drives-to-512-bytes-usually/133021

Front door camera as in a camera that is pointed at the front door, or Front door camera as in one that’s mounted in/close to your front door?

Out of curiosity, what log monitoring platform are you using?

Automatic backups are great for recovering from broken updates lol

I just ask for time with them.

Are your drives plugged into a HBA / RAID controller?

Has that HBA / RAID controller been deprecated in ESX7?

Or are the drives plugged into the motherboard?

I’m using an old thermaltake case right now for one of my PCs. Can hold at least 14 hdds, more with some better hotswap bays, but its a tallboi case

I’ve built multiple DIY NASes both virtual and physical. No regrets.

I have some COTS NASes too, they do their job well. I only use them as a NAS - as in just storage. All of my COTS NASes are all secondhand, some of them are over 10 years old, still works ok, a bit slow for bit transfers but for $100 AUD for a 4 bay with 1T drives included or one of them, I’m not complaining lol

Yes, I have one. I don’t know where it came from though. It’s about 500mm in depth from memory.

Why are you doing this in Virtualbox?

How many applications are we talking?

Anything with 8th gen and newer Intel CPUs are good as they have more cores per CPU.

4th gens are ok but limited to 32GB of DDR3 RAM

6th gens are better than 4th gen as they are on DDR4 and will support more RAM.

If you don’t need runtime, any good brand Line-Interactive UPS will be fine.

I’ve terminated them to my patch panel and plugged them into my switch, plugged the NVR into the switch and they talk over that.

you could probably fit 4 in a 4RU case if you just got some really long standoffs between the 2 motherboards. Then just need to dremel out the back of the case and you’re set.

It’s pretty easy to set up when it’s dockerised, but when it’s dockerised, it’s much more annoying to get the plugins installed / working

They’re not cheap everywhere unfortunately. I wish they were cheap for me!

You could do your ideal scenario with LVM or with linux mdraid.

I’m not too familar with ZFS so not sure if you could do it on ZFS.

Graylog is pretty simple

Install, point syslog to graylog, voila

Cisco 3750X with the 10G NIM is also an option if you only need 2 uplinks. It’s getting a bit dated though, but can be had for cheap.