My home lab is undergoing a bit of a shift, as I experiment with different management interfaces for a virtualised server farm. Its all the fault of my Supermicro X9DRH-7F, which is running as a separate home lab with currently 128GB of memory, as I’m exploring ways to make my home server more complex, but…
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Ok, I posted a review the other day of a Vantec EZ Swap F4 (model MRK-425ST-BK) in which I noted that the thing screams like a banshee. Well ok, so maybe that’s a bit overly dramatic, but I don’t like noise, and prefer my technology to be unobtrusive, and the fan in the EZ swap…
My current off-site backup is a couple of hard drives in external (usb2) enclosures, which are rotated to a family member’s house. I’m now pondering adding a cloud-based backup to my environment. The problem with cloud backups is security – I want to encrypt the data locally, and then be able to rsync it to…
I specifically chose the case for my new home server for its internal bays (7x 3.5″) and its external dimensions, as it has to fit on the same closet shelf as my old Microserver N36L. I ended up choosing the Lian-Li PC-V354b Case which is working out great for me. More on that in another…
Ok, so no posts for a couple of weeks. Why? Well I’ve been banging my head against various ZFS appliances, trying to make them do what I want 🙂 What I want is to migrate my old HP Microserver over to new hardware, and in the process, change out a bunch of the network services…
So I’ve just grabbed a Dell H310 off of fleabay as part of my new server build. First challenge is to figure out how to flash it with an IT firmware, so that I can use it as a controller card for a virtualised file server. The Perc H310 is a sas2008 based card, and…