Gav's World

2024-07-21 : New Server SSD Configuration

So, my server started acting up - first sign was that the VMs fell off the network, and then I couldn't access the web GUI of the server, but strangely it was still serving files over NFS (I suspect because the core of TrueNAS was running in RAM).

After investigation, it looked like the carrier card for my 4x mSATA drives (Kalea Informatique, mSATA PCIe Controller Card) was at fault. All 4x mSATA SSDs appeared operational though.

So, purchase of a new SATA card and 4x mSATA to SATA enclosures to house all of the SSDs:

• 10GTek 6 Port PCIe SATA3.0 Expansion Card
• 4x mSATA to 2.5" SATA III Aluminum Enclosure Adapter

2024-04-05 : Website Template Updated : v2.23.3

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2024-04-04 : Not Another Raspberry Pi!

Yes, another one (which is the now 19th Pi that I've bought - here's the full list!)

The Raspberry Pi 5 is quite easily powerful enough (especially with an NVMe drive) to be used as an Every Day Computer!

2024-02-29 : Faster Server Processor

One evening (after the kids had said that Minecraft was a bit laggy when playing on my server from their Mum's house), I decided to see what was available in the Intel Xeon E3 v5 family of processors in the second hand market (well, it was launched in 2016, so not likely to still be available new), as that's what my server is compatible with.

Well, I found a Quad Core Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 (3.7GHz, 4.0GHz Turbo) for a very reasonable price to replace the Quad Core Intel Xeon E3-1225 v5 (3.3GHz, 3.7GHz Turbo) that it came with and had been purring away quite happily.

Luckily, from previous upgrades of the kids' PCs, I had a couple of spare graphics cards, as the E3-1280 doesn't have built-in graphics like the E3-1225 does. Anyway, the swap went without a hitch (apart from having to order heat-sink compound as I'd actually ran out!)

Unfortunately, the kids haven't tried Minecraft again yet to see if it made a difference, or if it was simply (as I suspect) network lag.

2024-02-13 : At Last - A Use For My Zero-W

So obviously, when the Raspberry Pi Zero W was released, I bought one and "played" with it for a couple of days. However, it was sitting idle for years when I finally decided to do something with it! So, it's now my MPD Monitor!

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