Hi! I’ve got a new (old) plan for the case!
Turns out I’m going to be able to reuse my existing gaming PC’s motherboard, CPU, and RAM later this year, so that will be the building block of the new home server, which frees up the NUC to use with the case!
While the NUC doesn’t have provisions for PoE, it does have a remote console, so that will facilitate easy shutdown. If my estimation is correct, the NUC is smaller than the Fitlet3 will be, so this will easily allow for routing of power to a combiner.
This also allows us to use OPNsense instead of RouterOS for the firewall VM if I feel up to it. After all, the NUC is running quite a few VMs at present in its 16 GB of RAM, so I have high hopes.
I need to test this again sometime soon before making a final decision, though.
Until next time!