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Nasira

Coming full circle

Posted on January 28, 2023 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

When I first built Nasira almost 7 years ago, I knew the day would come when the first pair of 4TB hard drives would be pulled and replaced. Whether due to fail...

Server projects

Virtualization server gets more storage

Posted on January 7, 2023 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

An NVMe solid-state drive in a dual-Opteron server… Just ponder that for a moment. Why in the world would anyone do that? The big reason: storage is cheap...

10Gb network upgrade/Server projects

Creating an Omada Controller VM

Posted on January 6, 2023 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

This will outline how to create a VM for running the TP-Link Omada Controller software. These same steps can also be used to install the software to a physical ...

10Gb network upgrade

Building a router

Posted on December 23, 2022 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

Amazing that it’s been… 6 years (as of this writing) since I decided to pursue 10GbE. First trying to build a custom switch, then dropping all that ...

Power adapters

Replace 9V batteries with USB type-C

Posted on July 1, 2022 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

With portable chargers everywhere, including ones that support USB type-C power delivery and USB type-A QC, I’ve been on a bit of a USB type-C kick lately...

Mira

Upgrading the chassis

Posted on June 19, 2022 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

I realize this will sound hypocritical in the wake of what I said with the latest update on Amethyst. But I did say to only swap out the chassis and power suppl...

Amethyst

Amethyst finally gets an upgrade

Posted on April 26, 2022 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

Wow it’s been a while since I’ve written on Amethyst. But there really hasn’t been much in the way of changes to it aside from a platform upgr...

Nasira

Adding an SLOG… or not

Posted on February 19, 2022 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

Let me preface this: for most home NAS users, any kind of cache devices with ZFS are a waste. Only if you are frequently copying a lot of files to your NAS or m...

Power adapters

USB type-C to Milwaukee M12 adapter

Posted on February 4, 2022 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

In figuring out a portable light wand, I discovered some very small USB type-C power boards, one specifically locked at 12V. And I’ve used them in testing...

Electrical and electronics

DIY audio input switch

Posted on January 26, 2022 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

Courtesy of the pandemic, I’ve been a full-time work from home (WHF) software engineer for coming up on 2 years. I previously wrote that I have a pair of ...

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