Where it started
One day while on a call with my Watch Party coworker Creed, I started chatting about what he used to do for a living before he became a Software Engineer. He told me that he worked as a network engineer for a school district and then he walked me through some of the crazy parts of his personal home setup. He had a firewall setup with a firewalla and he had a Ubiquiti setup which absolutely inspired me to assemble my own sick setup.
My Lil NAS
The NAS has 16TB of storage in RAID 1 for redundancy. This is mostly intended for my parents to have enough storage for family photos and shared files. The rule I am following is to imagine how much storage you might ever need and then multiply that number by 5. Because my family has always hovered a little under 1TB per month with iCloud Drive, I felt like 16TB would fit my parent’s needs for now.
Ubiquiti Modem + Router
Because I am using non-fiber internet, I actually require a Modem to get internet from Xfinity (rebranded Comcast).