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Ubiquiti is an interesting company. It seems to be well-managed https://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/08/tech-firm-ubiquiti-suffe... https://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/06/crooks-use-hacked-router... https://www.bankinfosecurity.com/ubiquiti-insider-hacker-sen... https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/31/22360409/ubiquiti-network... https://www.bankinfosecurity.com/ubiquiti-insider-hacker-sen... https://www.theregister.com/security…
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OpenZFS released the zpool expansion as stable last year. Hopefully QNAP is charting a path to allow their users to migrate from their fork to OpenZFS, though of course these kinds of things take time to develop. I would be really worried if they are diverging further from OpenZFS rather than converging.
Last I looked at their releases of code, they had branched from ZFS before it became OpenZFS, and had a lot of proprietary extensions beyond just the reshaping (from memory, they implemented encryption differently, as one example, and I think they had one or two checksums that I assume were because something they shipped had hardware support for it?) so I wouldn't hold out hope that their goal is to rebase on OpenZFS…
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Companies are also much more inclined to spend money to solve a problem while hobbyists are much more likely to get enjoyment out of the process of building. I'm firmly in the latter category, having built a rather robust ZFS array on NixOS with a pretty gnarly NVMe cache hierarchy built on LVM. It was fun to do.
I don't have the NVMe cache but I too have quite a robost ZFS array on NixOS. I feel less guilty about running it now since it is powered almost exclusively off solar in my backyard :)
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How did you hide it so that the thieves didn't find it?
A 7U cabinet in an overhead space that is difficult to access. Installation and configuration were a bit of a headache but ended up being worth it. There was a NAS in the office and they stripped 7 drives, sleds and all, out of it. I'm guessing with such an obvious endpoint for the camera storage it never occurred to anyone there was a second box. I had something like this in mind when I wired the building. It seemed…
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Interesting - but I just run it in docker. I also run opnsense, which is a FreeBSD, and I find it very high friction.
Long time ago I used these BSD-based appliances such as opnsense, beleiving I'll have it easier with their web interfaces than with editing config files in vi. In the long run, after investing some time into learning actual BSDs I find editing a few config files much more convenient than clicking around in web interfaces. OpenBSD is great for a router. https://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/example1.html
“Enterprise” First hand experience many times over: there is little more regrettable than placing Ubiquitis latest test-it-in-prod release in to an Enterprise setting.
https://app.opencve.io/cve/?vendor=ubiquiti Yeah, that's the kind of people you want to be running your company's storage appliance. Tons of those are pretty basic web security stuff. Nearly as bad as TP-Link, a bargain-basement brand. Compare and contrast: https://app.opencve.io/cve/?vendor=freenas https://app.opencve.io/cve/?q=vendor%3Aproxmox Proxmox's record in 2025 wasn't particularly great but it's a hell of a…
What about Cisco?
Ubiquiti bubble is so tiring, it is like AI bubble and Apple bubble. These people live within a bubble. Overpriced piece of hardware that you will never own because it runs proprietary firmware, you are forced to install apps to take full advantage from those devices.
I'm in the market for some wifi access points. If Ubiquiti is not so great can you name some alternatives?
Business: aruba instant-on. They cost more and updates are much less frequent. They are also more reliable and the support experience is far superior even though it is HP.
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A 7U cabinet in an overhead space that is difficult to access. Installation and configuration were a bit of a headache but ended up being worth it. There was a NAS in the office and they stripped 7 drives, sleds and all, out of it. I'm guessing with such an obvious endpoint for the camera storage it never occurred to anyone there was a second box. I had something like this in mind when I wired the building. It seemed…
I've read through your story and I think you're on the right track with what you're doing. But, re: alarms, I'd like to add a suggestion: Indoor sirens. They can be intolerably, painfully loud for not very much money (because piezos are cheap and square waves are easy). Using a small, random mixture of them can let them beat at different frequencies and periods, which can make them very unpleasant to behold even with…