Mastodawn

So a mixing of interests. Here is Abbie inspecting the delivery of the #Unifi #UnasPro8 for #Caturday and marks the start of my transition away from #Synology which will take time due to the extortionate HDD prices. Mixed feelings on leaving Synology as never had an issue with either of my #NAS from them in 10+ years. They lost me with the abysmal drive lock in policy subsequently reversed. Also a tired hardware refresh in 2025 which was years in waiting & simply not worth the wait. #SelfHosted

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Rob Adamson

And installed. Quite a learning curve even with 2 years of all things #Unifi but figured out local access, the peculiarities of a new browser interface & SMB mounting. The drive is up and running and transferring first files over. Very silent even with 4TB transfer in flight. For the keen eyesight, yes that is an original IKEA Lack table server rack. Finally using it. My UCG Fibre is on its side a weird noise if laid flat. That’s a tomorrow problem!#UnasPro8 #Synology #NAS #SelfHosted

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Rob Adamson Mar 14

Had to improvise due to the #Unifi supplied rails being too big for my Lack Server Rack so added these to support the #UnasPro8 from below. Seems to have worked! - Edit I should have noted, they are turned upside down so I could add them as the UNAS rack ears were in the way. #NAS #SelfHosted

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Pascal Bourque Mar 15

@Rob wait, what? A Lack server rack? Interesting!

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Rob Adamson Mar 15

@bourquep Found it years ago and made one but never used it properly until now. One of life’s weird coincidences that the internal measurement was perfect for rack equipment fitted with ears. Key is the hollow legs and filling with a solid 45x45mm block of wood. Mines is two Lacks, one upside down, no glue needed, friction fit the legs onto the correctly cut to length piece of wood. Very strong after that.