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[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

The height of the drive cage is wider than the case. Its a surprisingly compact case

 

My main homelab server runs a bunch of stuff but was a little limited in the hardware department.

Here's the overview of the upgrade. Old -> New CPU: i7-3370K 4c/8t -> xeon e5 2630L 8c/16t RAM: 16 GB mixed non ECC 1333 DDR3 -> 32 GB Micron DDR4 2133 (running at 1866) CPU COOLER: AIO -> air cooling MB: No idea -> Asrock x99 extreme 4 with 10 SATA ports!!! GPU: None -> RTX 610 passively cooled

Runs: Nextcloud, pihole, unbound, security stuff like fail2ban, hosts a couple small databases, VPN.

This upgrade will allow for expandability in terms of upgrade CPU cache, bus speed, maximum allowed RAM (32 GB to 128), and extra cores to maybe do some light compute with when I'm writing some code without sacrificing performance of other services. All of this while having similar "net" TDP (I didn't measure either idle power draw).

Here's where the fail comes in. I got the whole original machine and drives for free from a recycle pile at my old job. I threw in a drive cage where the DVD drive use to be and it fit like a glove! Felt like a really cool "sleeper" server build with hot swap drive cages. My new mother board is wider by an inch and the drive cage covered the 24 pin connector. So now my drive cage hangs out and is supported by zip ties and I can't close my case in the front lmao... See linked pictures so you can laugh at it with me: https://imgur.com/a/1XqALZ4

So I'm looking for either a new case or a relatively small 4-bay drive cage thats cheap. The total ive invested in this build after this upgrade is ~$200 and I don't want to spend a ton more so I'm wildly disappointed at my oversight. Any advice or suggestions would be appreciated!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

I wish I had a solution. But its the same with all shitty titles, you have to hope people click and read the article/comments in order to get the nuanced information.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 7 months ago (4 children)

This post title is pretty bad. Even the news article says "Scientists use AI [read: machine learning] to [come up with new battery idea]".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I did that for a while but some features were limited and also required internet. It was also slower in general.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Improvement to Libre Impress or an alternative that is better. PowerPoint is one of the only things keeping windows around for me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Mine are also literary. They are references to Sanderson's cosmere series and the names chosen reflect their purpose.

I have an old optiplex SFF which is called Preservation because it has a disk drive for ripping media, it's a disk wiping station for repurposing drives, and it's old hardware I'm preserving.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Agreed. Everyone should learn to seek out multiple reviews while searching for products and not trust one source.

Love channels like Jeff geerling and craft computing for homelab stuff. They manage to keep things short from, fun, and informative. GN and Explaining Computers is too long form and dry for me. Nothing I'm doing is that deep. But they are super necessary for the space and I recognize that.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I would never follow what they do in server videos exactly, but I learned a ton from their server video backlog. Also find their server shenanigans very fun. Think server and the occasional actually useful tech tip video are still their best stuff.

Most else feels half baked or falls into the GN video criticism.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Another comparable thing is the retro emulator boxes where they play a couple games and go: "Well, it played games, it's either fine or terrible. now check out out sponsor!!"

I still really like their server content and the home pool water cooling has been a recent cool series.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Signal killing sms was heart breaking

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The only thing I really found, based on a Google search, is that they sold copyrighted data to train AI models. Still bad, but for completely different reasons and that's a bigger fish than just brave.

But maybe I didn't find what the other commenter was thinking of.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I'm only replacing my Galaxy S8 because apps are beginning to malfunction and some apps are even emailing me to warn about end of software support for my phones OS, which I cant upgrade because of the age of the phone lol.

I think you would notice a difference between models with the specs you list at the bottom of the post though...

 

I have a NAS with a 3rd gen i7 and 8 GB (2x 4GB DDR3 1600 MHz) of non-ECC RAM which has a RAID 5 mdadm array. I don't have any memory issues but I could as I add more services. I have two other 4 GB sticks 1333 MHz DDR3 which I have no other use for. I don't care about the minor speed decrease. I know mixing is generally a bad idea.

But, all of the posts I've seen about this are in regard to playing games or in production environments with server-grade hardware (ECC RAM, maybe hardware RAID). Not in a consumer hardware-focused homelab-type environment

What do you all think? Has anyone else done something similar? Am I asking for trouble here?

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