Hey folks, I have a couple things I would like some advice on. Currently for my home network setup I have my ISP’s modem/router combo set to bridge port 1, and then some google wifi and points connected to that.

My goal is to get rid of the google home wifi and if possible my ISP’s modem/router combo (I don’t really need to replace my ISP if it makes it way more complicated) with something more open and flexible.

I have a couple dell optiplex micros I can use as a pihole/dns/whatever is needed, and I was thinking of picking up a couple of these for my WAP’s and then running the omada docker container to control them.

Would this be enough or would I also need something like openwrt running on another machine as well? If that’s the case I could also pick up this and install it into one of my dell machines so I can run some kind of router software.

TLDR- what would you buy in my situation given you only want to spend about $500 cad max on all the hardware to setup a network in your home lab?

Good day everyone, I need some help with my zpool I created a long time ago. I have 8 Drives in a Z1 raid, each are 3Tb Seagate 7200rpm SAS drives. A couple of weeks ago I had a drive start trowing some errors after going strong for almost 4 years so I quickly replaced it with a spare I had just ordered in. I wasn't totally sure what commands to run so I looked around on a few forums and on the zfs wiki as well and found it would be a simple few commands:

sudo zpool offline TheMass 9173635512214770897

sudo zpool labelclear /dev/sdc

sudo zpool replace TheMass 9173635512214770897 /dev/sdc

As Context here is my lsblk output:

sda 8:0 0 2.7T 0 disk
└─md124 9:124 0 2.7T 0 raid0 ├─md124p1 259:11 0 2G 0 part
└─md124p2 259:12 0 2.7T 0 part
sdb 8:16 0 2.7T 0 disk
└─md121 9:121 0 2.7T 0 raid0 ├─md121p1 259:17 0 2G 0 part
│ └─md116 9:116 0 2G 0 raid1 └─md121p2 259:18 0 2.7T 0 part
sdc 8:32 0 2.7T 0 disk
├─sdc1 8:33 0 2.7T 0 part
└─sdc9 8:41 0 8M 0 part
sdd 8:48 0 2.7T 0 disk
└─md125 9:125 0 2.7T 0 raid0 ├─md125p1 259:9 0 2G 0 part
└─md125p2 259:10 0 2.7T 0 part
sde 8:64 0 2.7T 0 disk
└─md120 9:120 0 2.7T 0 raid0 ├─md120p1 259:19 0 2G 0 part
└─md120p2 259:20 0 2.7T 0 part
sdf 8:80 0 2.7T 0 disk
└─md123 9:123 0 2.7T 0 raid0 ├─md123p1 259:13 0 2G 0 part
│ └─md117 9:117 0 2G 0 raid1 └─md123p2 259:14 0 2.7T 0 part
sdg 8:96 0 2.7T 0 disk
└─md122 9:122 0 2.7T 0 raid0 ├─md122p1 259:15 0 2G 0 part
│ └─md116 9:116 0 2G 0 raid1 └─md122p2 259:16 0 2.7T 0 part
sdh 8:112 0 2.7T 0 disk
└─md119 9:119 0 2.7T 0 raid0 ├─md119p1 259:21 0 2G 0 part
│ └─md117 9:117 0 2G 0 raid1 └─md119p2 259:22 0 2.7T 0 part

I removed the old sdc drive, and replaced it with a new one and then ran those commands, The pool began to re-silver and I thought everything was alright until I noticed the new sdc drive didn't have all the other formatting on it like the other drives, and my performance isn't what it use to be. My pool is up and running given zpool status:

`pool: TheMass state: ONLINE scan: scrub repaired 0B in 03:47:04 with 0 errors on Fri Oct 6 20:24:26 2023 checkpoint: created Fri Oct 6 22:14:02 2023, consumes 1.41M config:

NAME                        STATE     READ WRITE CKSUM
TheMass                     ONLINE       0     0     0
  raidz1-0                  ONLINE       0     0     0
    md124p2                 ONLINE       0     0     0
    scsi-35000c500562bfc4b  ONLINE       0     0     0
    md119p2                 ONLINE       0     0     0
    md121p2                 ONLINE       0     0     0
    md122p2                 ONLINE       0     0     0
    md123p2                 ONLINE       0     0     0
    md125p2                 ONLINE       0     0     0
    md120p2                 ONLINE       0     0     0`

So my question is, did I do this correctly? if not, what and where did I go wrong so I can fix this? Also, if you could give me the commands that I would need, that would be amazing!

If theres any other commands you need me to run for information just let me know!

Like the title implies, I’m trying to figure out where to pickup cheap used or new battery backups (ups) in Canada.

I have a couple of small servers I run, so around 1000+ watts should be good.

If I have to replace the battery inside, that’s not a problem, there is a battery place inside my city that offered cheap replacements for around $30.

Any suggestions help!