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Yeah, it mostly affected config changes. And holy shit, the outage continues. This is insane.
Apparently there was some huge power issue in the PNW, which is where their core datacenters are. This caused all the separate, regional DCs to switch to backup. Then some of the generators didn't start. And now everything is still fucked 24 hours later.
They've got some fucking tired IT staff right now.
Apparently there was some huge power issue in the PNW, which is where their core datacenters are. This caused all the separate, regional DCs to switch to backup. Then some of the generators didn't start. And now everything is still fucked 24 hours later.
They've got some fucking tired IT staff right now.
I scored an Optiplex 3050M out of the scrap bin at work. One of these cute lil things:
www.servethehome.com
It has an i5-7500T in it. For now I tossed in a 512mb NVMe drive, 16gb RAM and a better wifi 6 card I salvaged from a broken laptop, and threw Win10 on there to verify shit works, and it does, pretty snappy machine for the size of it. I have no idea why they tossed it.
Power consumption on these things is real nice, so it's probably gonna finally be the replacement for my old-ass "OpenRD" ARM thin client I've been using as my home NAS for the last, uh, 15ish years. For file storage I'll probably buy a couple SATA SSDs, throw one in the internal 2.5" bay, throw one in an external USB3 enclosure, and RAID 1 the things using btrfs or zfs or whatever for bit rot protection. Or do something dumb like throw a M.2 SATA drive on the mobo, an identical M.2 SATA drive in the drive bay with an adapter sled, and boot it off a USB stick. Haven't decided yet.
The old NAS has a bare debian install with hand-edited smb.conf files and shit, I'm too old/impatient for that so I'll probably fire OpenMediaVault on there.
Dell OptiPlex 3050 Micro Project TinyMiniMicro Guide
In our Dell OptiPlex 3050 Micro Project TinyMiniMicro guide and CE review, we compare this system to other TMM nodes we have tested
www.servethehome.com
It has an i5-7500T in it. For now I tossed in a 512mb NVMe drive, 16gb RAM and a better wifi 6 card I salvaged from a broken laptop, and threw Win10 on there to verify shit works, and it does, pretty snappy machine for the size of it. I have no idea why they tossed it.
Power consumption on these things is real nice, so it's probably gonna finally be the replacement for my old-ass "OpenRD" ARM thin client I've been using as my home NAS for the last, uh, 15ish years. For file storage I'll probably buy a couple SATA SSDs, throw one in the internal 2.5" bay, throw one in an external USB3 enclosure, and RAID 1 the things using btrfs or zfs or whatever for bit rot protection. Or do something dumb like throw a M.2 SATA drive on the mobo, an identical M.2 SATA drive in the drive bay with an adapter sled, and boot it off a USB stick. Haven't decided yet.
The old NAS has a bare debian install with hand-edited smb.conf files and shit, I'm too old/impatient for that so I'll probably fire OpenMediaVault on there.
I'm not a data hoarder. Well I am, but I hoard old shit that doesn't take much space 
The old NAS has four 2.5" 4TB spinning rust drives in it that I shucked out of portable drives long ago, but one of them started throwing SMART errors, so it's time to toss 'em. Once I deleted my collection of DVD rips (lol) I mirrored everything onto a pair of 500gb SSDs. I'm figuring a couple 2TB SSDs in raid 1 will do me for a while. Unraid would make sense if I do something dumb like rob a dozen assorted 128gb/250gb/whatever drives from the scrap bin and YOLO them into a giant array.
OMV also has easy plugins for shit like PhotoPrism, which I'd like to throw at my old DSLR photos and whatever.
The old NAS has four 2.5" 4TB spinning rust drives in it that I shucked out of portable drives long ago, but one of them started throwing SMART errors, so it's time to toss 'em. Once I deleted my collection of DVD rips (lol) I mirrored everything onto a pair of 500gb SSDs. I'm figuring a couple 2TB SSDs in raid 1 will do me for a while. Unraid would make sense if I do something dumb like rob a dozen assorted 128gb/250gb/whatever drives from the scrap bin and YOLO them into a giant array.
OMV also has easy plugins for shit like PhotoPrism, which I'd like to throw at my old DSLR photos and whatever.
Whoever made a dumb comment about my Xeon desktop making a great heater for the winter, you're right!
I fired BOINC on there to max out the CPU/GPU, and the thing's pulling 400-500 watts from the wall, and it's doing a great job heating the office in this house. Don't need to run the oil heat.
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I fired BOINC on there to max out the CPU/GPU, and the thing's pulling 400-500 watts from the wall, and it's doing a great job heating the office in this house. Don't need to run the oil heat.
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I used 3070s at work. They were good lil computers.I scored an Optiplex 3050M out of the scrap bin at work. One of these cute lil things:
Dell OptiPlex 3050 Micro Project TinyMiniMicro Guide
In our Dell OptiPlex 3050 Micro Project TinyMiniMicro guide and CE review, we compare this system to other TMM nodes we have tested
It has an i5-7500T in it. For now I tossed in a 512mb NVMe drive, 16gb RAM and a better wifi 6 card I salvaged from a broken laptop, and threw Win10 on there to verify shit works, and it does, pretty snappy machine for the size of it. I have no idea why they tossed it.
Power consumption on these things is real nice, so it's probably gonna finally be the replacement for my old-ass "OpenRD" ARM thin client I've been using as my home NAS for the last, uh, 15ish years. For file storage I'll probably buy a couple SATA SSDs, throw one in the internal 2.5" bay, throw one in an external USB3 enclosure, and RAID 1 the things using btrfs or zfs or whatever for bit rot protection. Or do something dumb like throw a M.2 SATA drive on the mobo, an identical M.2 SATA drive in the drive bay with an adapter sled, and boot it off a USB stick. Haven't decided yet.
The old NAS has a bare debian install with hand-edited smb.conf files and shit, I'm too old/impatient for that so I'll probably fire OpenMediaVault on there.