any tips on buying used DC SSDs from ebay? #homelab
#homelab
Home lab inspiration
#homelab #vintage #retro #retrocomputing #retrotech #retroart #vintageart #1980s #dougbeekman #fantasyart #fantasy #scifi #scifiart #paperback #sciencefiction #sciencefictionart #darkmage
Did the scariest part of the #minirack project today: setting up the power.
I replaced the 300w power supply in the server with a 600w one, discovering halfway through that I needed to build my own connector to fit the 14-pin motherboard power socket.
Then I ran extra 12v, 5v, and ground wires out the back and up the sides of the frame, and cut off the ends of the individual power supplies to wire them instead to the rack power.
The whole thing now runs off one powerpoint! I still need to do cable management, but there was no point in doing that until I knew my idea would work.
#homelab #minilab #projects
I replaced the 300w power supply in the server with a 600w one, discovering halfway through that I needed to build my own connector to fit the 14-pin motherboard power socket.
Then I ran extra 12v, 5v, and ground wires out the back and up the sides of the frame, and cut off the ends of the individual power supplies to wire them instead to the rack power.
The whole thing now runs off one powerpoint! I still need to do cable management, but there was no point in doing that until I knew my idea would work.
#homelab #minilab #projects
Goals for May Spring Cleaning:
Sell folding bike ✔️
Sell Nishiki bike = US$150
Sell or donate #homelab stuff -
Sell computer = US$150
Sell monitor = US$50
Sell multi-function black and white laser printer = US$100
Sell or donate old Raspberry Pi 3B+ and box of stuff for it = US$50
Donate old laptop and netbook to Free Geek (they will probably just end up being recycled).
Sell or donate #homebrewing stuff = US$100
Donate two or three Kala ukes from my small #ukulele collection to a local music school.
(Though if there is interest in buying one or more, I will take pictures of them. I''ll take reasonable offers.)
Want everything sold or donated and gone by June 1st.
Eureka! I figured out my sleep issue with the new #Framework 13. It was the SSD!. Accidentally grabbed an older Silicon Power NVMe. Now that the WD SN850X is ACTUALLY installed, it sleeps tight.
I swapped out the Mediatek Wi-Fi card for a Qualcomm NCM865. That's getting me 1700Mbps vs the 600Mbps I was getting, so that's great.
At least this gave me the chance to make a new desktop wallpaper for it. #homelab #framework #linux #fedora
I’ve added #UptimeKuma to my #HomeLab setup and it’s an easy setup thus far. I’m sure, like everything I’m doing, there is more to #learn and #understand as I grow my HomeLab and #network.
I’m using #ProxMox for #virtualizing my #services in #LXC containers.
Again using #Obsidian for my #documentation and screen recordings from my #iphone.
#Cybersecurity #InfoSec #selfeducate #Learning #LearningNewSkills :computerfairies: :clippy: :calculator: :ivory_logo: :mastodon:
Drives inside the Jonsbo N1 are sliding up and down the rails with rubber rings (wheels?). That’s so cool!
#TheGRATEmigration11 #diynas #jonsbo #jonsbon1 #homelab #pcbuild #pcbuilding
Debating buying a new laptop. I have a Dell XPS 17 (9700) w/ 10th Gen Intel and a NV 1650 GPU. It's "fine" but there's this one cheesy Windows CAD app that I run that could use a boost.
What is the short list of non-US laptops that are Linux first or at least Linux friendly these days?
While I appreciate Intel's Quick Sync for additional GPU processing (on-machine content capture), I never do that on my laptop so all AMD would be fine.
I don't need a "super crazy" GPU - just something competent for 3D. 4K/UHD+ and great 16"-17" screens are the other non-negot requirement. Dual NVME for dual boot would be nice.
What non-US laptop vendors do you recommend? Is Lenovo considered non-US nowadays? What's out there? Asus? MSI? Tuxedo? Slim? Generic AliExpress (lol)?
Reccos appreciated.
Aaron and Shane both recently had a bad experience when buying hard drives, the hardware we picked for our homelabs, why gigabit LANs aren’t quite cutting it anymore, an update on Shane’s janky Kubernetes setup, and more.
The worse the Internet becomes, the more I go full-Smeagol with the server in my basement.
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That's a Lord of the Rings reference.
Seeing some noise about changes to Plex's subscription policy today. I'm out of the loop since converting to Jellyfin so not sure if there was an actual change or not.
Anyway...
The purpose of this message is to reassure Plex users that are considering switching to Jellyfin that it is worth the change.
I used a lifetime Plex Pass for something like 10+ years. I switched to Jellyfin about six months ago.
I have zero regrets.
Every little change to Plex in the last ~five years has been abrasive to the user. One thing that really bothered me was using their centralized sign-in mechanisms. For a locally hosted library why do I need to auth using something off-site, especially when I'm at a remote, low bandwidth site that has intermittent connectivity... and this causes issues. I get it, some of their auto-magic remote access features more or less requires this - still don't like.
What really put a sour taste for me was realizing they are farming usage data. Yeah, eff that noize.
Jellyfin can be a little rough around the edges at times. The UX is not at the same level as Plex. You know what though, this many months in I don't even notice any more. It is perfectly adequate and in the absence of Plex would probably be considered best in class.
Also, Jellyfin is noticeably improving release over release. I notice little tweaks here and there that make it nicer and there has been good improvements in the speed of the backend. A year ago Jellyfin was basically unusable for my large library. Now speed is a non-issue.
Embrace Jellyfin plugins. They are very helpful for meta data and tagging. Migrating my library was mostly painless. There were a dozen or so assets that needed manual intervention and when investigating it was like "how did this even work under Plex?".
Hope this is the "pep talk" needed to give Jellyfin a try.
Weiter gehts mit #alpinelinux diskless Server.
Die unzuverlässigen JMS578 HDD-Gehäuse ausgetauscht – die Neuen mit ASM225CM-Controller, modern & UAS-fähig. 1,5 TB kopiert + Checksummen fehlerfrei: so soll’s sein. Mitgelieferte USB-Kabel sind schlecht geschirmt und stören WLAN – besser ersetzen. Wenn sich die Gehäuse bewähren, kommt noch eins auf Reserve.
Jetzt Daten ordnen, Dienste mit lokaler HDD statt NAS wieder aktivieren und gleich Backup-Strategie (btrbk etc.) einrichten.
#linux #homelab
I was recently having a ton of problems with one of my virtual servers. I'd given it 1GB of RAM and suddenly it was timing out frequently, I couldn't even SSH in to it, and the virtual console was hung.
Because I had Beszel monitoring my servers, I was able to tell some of what was going on, specifically to guess it was RAM related.
I doubled the RAM to 2GB and now she's happy as can be! Memory usage increased as expected, but peaked around 1GB and disk I/O returned to normal since a ton of jobs were no longer backed up!
I guess you'll never be able to take the sysadmin out of me.
That was tough, but I made it.
Connected SATA cables to the backplate of #Jonsbo N1. Three of them will go to the motherboard, and the other two are connected to the HBA SAS controller (it’s on the second photo at the bottom of motherboard).
#TheGRATEmigration11 #diynas #pcbuilding #pcbuild #JonsboN1 #homelab
My overengineered home network now has a 10GbE core. I had a 10G link between router+switch and 2.5 GbE beween server and desktop before, now I have the minisforum server connected with 2x10GbE DAC cables and 10Gbase-T into my thunderbolt dock, no more bottlenecks in the network. #homelab #upgrade
PSA: It's 15:00 on Friday, and I'm done with literally all the chores. The rest of the weekend is reading and Homelab time. 🎉
My Prometheus volume is at 96% again. So I will attempt to set up Thanos quickly to head off the embarrassment of having to increase the volume size beyond 250 GB. When it's all just in a humongous S3 bucket it's going to be a lot easier to pretend I don't have a metrics hoarding problem. 😁
Self-Host Weekly (2 May 2025)
#Icon updates, software updates and launches, a spotlight on #Mazanoke -- an image conversion web app, #community content, and more in this week's #selfhosted recap!
https://selfh.st/weekly/2025-05-02/
#selfhost #selfhosting #newsletter #opensource #foss #homelab #homeserver #app #apps #software #update
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