More upgrades but… no more NVMe
With the last update, I mentioned upgrading from 990FX to X99 with the intent of eventually adding an NVMe carrier card and additional NVMe drives so I could ha...
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Migrating Plex from a VM to Docker
In a previous article, I described migrating Plex from one VM to another. In recently rebuilding my virtualization server, now called Cordelia, I decided agains...
Troubleshooting 2.5Gb power over Ethernet
This quick post is for those with a 2.5Gb PoE device, such as a WiFi 6 access point, that either won’t run at 2.5GbE speeds at all or falls back to 1Gb or...
Hands-off script for installing Apache Guacamole for Docker
So what’s different with this over other methods of setting up Apache Guacamole? The main thing is it’s entirely hands-off. It’ll pull the ima...
Goodbye, MikroTik
Four (4) years ago, I bought the MikroTik CRS317 after seeing it retailing for… around 300 USD. And it’s a great switch, so long as you use it as a ...
It’s final (for now) form
New specs: The chassis and power supply were the previous of each in Mira before I upgraded to the beQuiet Dark Base 900 and EVGA 1000 G6. The former was to get...
The road to 5Gb
In the mention of my custom router, I talked about how Google Fiber would soon be introducing 5Gb and 8Gb service. Recently I was upgraded to the 5Gb service an...
Throwing a short pass
In the previous iteration, I mentioned my intent to add more NVMe drives to Nasira. Right now there is only one that is being used as an SLOG, which I’m d...
Coming full circle
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...