Moving Nasira to a different chassis
This is a long-overdue update. But before getting into the discussion, here’s the current configuration of the NAS: Chassis: Rosewill RSV-L4500 with three...
Category: Projects
Calibrating an LED driver board
I’ve recently been getting into projects using LEDs. And one project is building a light using the YujiLED 100W COB. (Only available in pairs, it seems.) ...
MikroTik CSS610
About two years ago, I bought and put into service a MikroTik CRS317 10GbE router/switch. At the time I also bought several SFP modules to consolidate several G...
Quasi-diskless Linux installation with iSCSI and no PXE
So let me set the scene. On my rack I have Nasira, which is a FreeNAS server with about 30TB effective storage. It’s connected to a 10GbE connection, buil...
A more intelligent radiator box
Last I left this series, I mentioned a next step was making the radiator box smarter. The current iteration of the radiator box now includes intelligent control...
IKEA BESTÅ wall-mount (or free-stand) rack cabinet
Looking online there are plenty of options for a wall-mount 19″ rack. Open frame. Enclosed cabinet with doors and accessible sides. And there are plenty o...
Back to AMD
Mira started life back in late 2016 as my first foray back to Intel in… 17 years. Here’s a rough timeline: 1998: 486 DX2 (used Gateway machine) 1999...
A few problems to overcome
Two years passed since I last looked at Desert Sapphire. I was supposed to do maintenance on it last year, but some badly timed food poisoning (when is it ever ...
Some changes to the radiator box
Back almost three years ago in 2016, I set out to do something rather unique with regard to water cooling: building an external, self-contained radiator box. An...
MikroTik CRS317 10GbE switch
For the last two years I’ve been using the Quanta LB6M as the backbone of my home network. A 24 port SFP+ switch with four (4) GbE RJ45 ports connecting t...