well…its a hit or miss, i recently just got lucky with 2 16tb drives i got for 400, it probably came from a chinese chia server or some shit idk, but i did basic checks like SMART and they seem fine. I had my rx580 years ago also probably from a mining data center.

My logic and xp with these used “enterprise” stuff is that they are definitely used but not as abused like being OCed, etc. because they are optimized to run for a long time unless they are being decomissioned.

after finding out that palantir has been milking military contracts, they also decided to jump in the bandwagon …sighs what a sickass world

Thats understandable and fair, some US/publicly traded companies are kinda nutsy nowadays.

At first I was also drawn with Mikrotik but setting them up is a bit…yea, I’m not thrashing them, it just made me realize “do i really want to spend a lot of time setting this up?”

but don’t get me wrong, they’re amazing. I’ve seen my cousin doing his ISP business with 1000+ clients using their CCR line up and the cost to perf ratio is crazy.

most of their stuff are local, unless you have activated remote access on your unifi controller which will require an online account on unifi (ui.com)

i only have their aps and my unifi controller is hosted on a local machine, and so far i haven’t found any suspicious queries from them, i havent done any packet trace or port checks because they seem ok for me

where the unifi controller hosted on a deb machine

one of the ap

as for access control, if your unifi controller is hosted on a local machine then it will just use specific ports that ubiquiti utilizes that im not familiar with (or too lazy to do a port scan). you may also host your controller online via hostifi or other providers or a diy cloud server (if you’re onto that)

for updates, unifi controller will notify you if there are updates but its still up to the controller admin if they decided to do so.

as for janked device configs, i mostly experienced it on controller version 6.x.x and 7.x.x but not on most recent one (9.x.x) and yes it requires a unifi controller admin acct, you may also do scheduled backups of your configs so you can revert back just in case. and if you have no choice then you could locate device > poke reset > re provision on controller.