New Build - Network Cabling

iampetesmith

There's mine, the door is normally on but I took it off when I was working on it. The POE injector above powers the CCTV camera and the CCTV DVR and NAS are inside the cabinet. The two little boxes on top are for the Hue lights and Hive heating.

The sockets I did like this:

I used trunking that takes the cabling up and through the ceiling, doesn't look as good as if it was behind the walls but the house is 100 years old so I had to fit it when we moved in before all the furniture got in the way.

AdrianC

JJR45 said:

8 bay Synology NAS maybe a little overkill for some households though.😉

Wish I'd bought a 4-bay instead of just 2...

FWIW, that rack is not mine. It's just a googled image.

JJR45

AdrianC said:

JJR45 said:

8 bay Synology NAS maybe a little overkill for some households though.😉

Wish I'd bought a 4-bay instead of just 2...

FWIW, that rack is not mine. It's just a googled image.

If you are using 3.5" SATA and mirroring there are some massive disks now 12TB etc.
The one advantage of the onset of big data is ever expanding enterprise drive sizes.

AdrianC

JJR45 said:

AdrianC said:

JJR45 said:

8 bay Synology NAS maybe a little overkill for some households though.😉

Wish I'd bought a 4-bay instead of just 2...

If you are using 3.5" SATA and mirroring there are some massive disks now 12TB etc.

Oh, indeed. It's not so much absolute capacity - I'd simply rather have proper RAID than simple mirroring.

JJR45

AdrianC said:

JJR45 said:

AdrianC said:

JJR45 said:

8 bay Synology NAS maybe a little overkill for some households though.😉

Wish I'd bought a 4-bay instead of just 2...

If you are using 3.5" SATA and mirroring there are some massive disks now 12TB etc.

Oh, indeed. It's not so much absolute capacity - I'd simply rather have proper RAID than simple mirroring.

Just remember you keep full disk speed on raid 1, raid 1 or 10  are ideal for home use really.
Although raid 6 may give you the security of an ultra rare double disk failure. It would be better just to invest the additional disk or two costs to make sure you have a decent external disk to back up to every now and then.
At least with raid 1 you will be more minded to check disk health, you will be surprised how many just forget about 5&6 array health as they think it will be fine (until it suddenly goes offline and they notice two or 3 orange light)
But I may be preaching to the converted here.😂

AdrianC

JJR45 said:

But I may be preaching to the converted here.😂

<grin> You are speaking to a man who once spent a very long weekend restoring server VMs to DR hardware from off-site tapes after a raid controller went down whilst rebuilding the array after a drive failure.

Sunsaru

AdrianC said:

JJR45 said:

But I may be preaching to the converted here.😂

<grin> You are speaking to a man who once spent a very long weekend restoring server VMs to DR hardware from off-site tapes after a raid controller went down whilst rebuilding the array after a drive failure.

Been there once or twice myself. Sweet memories.

SpiderLegs

Mickey666 said:

Cash-Cows said:

Seems shortsighted that this is not standard let alone an option. 
Walkaway and then in the feedback from the sales agent to HQ they will have this as reason for lost sale. Won't help you but these days it's like buying a car with no aircon. 

Absolutely!  indeed, I'd go one further and say it should be a requirement in building regulations for new builds.

The two problems, I'd say, are that few people understand the concept of 'flood wiring' a house, even though it's standard practice in office buildings and really is cheap as chips, plus most people think everything can be done via wifi these days, even though this forum is full of people having wifi problems!

Oh god no. Why make a requirement that adds cost and resources across the board and benefits hardly anyone.

superblade

Some nice setups guys!  
Bit more info from me and why i'm doing it:
The new house has FTTP, currently i'm renting a house which also has FTTP, i have 2x ASUS XT8 Wifi6 mesh routers bridged over a dedicated wireless backbone at the moment which is OK, my FTTP is 900mbps but i'm getting about 500mbps over the bridge. Of course when i move to the new house I want to take full advantage of the 900mbps wherever possible hence the CAT6. But CAT6 i'll also use to keep the living room 'box free' as in just a TV and soundbar on the wall with the SKYQ box hidden behind the TV. If i want to plug anything over HDMI then i can do that via the CAT6 and have whatever the AV component is anywhere in the house so it doesn't have to go under the TV so for instance it could go in the corner of the living room.
I also want CCTV using PoE hence putting points in for those too.

Mutton_Geoff

I've got a 24 port Gigaswitch in my 5 bed house. Most of the ports are connected as they include POE which feed 5 WAPs (4 internal and one external) as my house is old with thick brick walls that reduce wifi capability. Each of the main rooms have a network point to feed the TV. My main TV room and office have local switches that split the network to more local devices (TV, receiver, Blu Ray, audio transport device & Apple TV in TV room) and two PCs, printer, VOIP phone, another WAP in the office.

The "equipment room" (cupboard under stairs) containing the switch also houses the incoming modem, another printer, two network drives (media and work files on separate drives), CCTV, Tado heating control and intruder alarm interface.

It was quite easy to find a home for all those CAT 6 connections