By now you know that I enjoy tech. One with a knack for self-promotion may say I’m “passionate” about it, but I think it’s more in-character for me to say I like it a lot. Technology is a thread that is woven through every aspect of my day whether my eyes are open or shut.…

We usually think of servers as powerful, expensive machines sitting in data centers, and that’s usually accurate enough. Small to medium businesses have tower servers available as an option. Back in the day Intel used to make kits including chassis, mainboards, CPUs, memory, and cooling for DIY servers; SuperMicro has something similar now. I’ve been…

Nothing beats the feeling of opening a box of shiny new tech. Well, peeling the plastic off that piece of shiny new tech beats the pants off opening the box, but given that you have to open the box and witness the peelable plastic first, I’ll defer to the box opening as the best feeling.…

I was fiddling around in my homelab this weekend and finally decided to write this down as the thoughts have been kicking around for a while. Years ago, when the term “Internet of Things” came to be, I thought it was pretty stupid … and let’s face it, in hindsight, it is a pretty stupid…

I’ve played video games for a long time. Not that I’m setting any records or anything, but the first games I ever played were on Atari 2600 and Intellivision. The Atari was destroyed in late 1986 for certain aquatic reasons, and the Intellivision was my cousin’s while we lived in their basement for a while.…

Server’s been up and running happily since the last post. So, it was the enormous VM data volume that was causing the problem. A different hunt has ended as well (for now, of course), completely unrelated to Proxmox: the hunt for a decent camera. Like most people these days I’ve been recording videos on my…

Turns out it wasn’t actually some weird LXC-related permissions thing, which is a bit of a bummer, but it was most definitely file system-related. My Plex server’s data volume was a single monolithic 12TB volume, and when I did anything that caused significant I/O, that resulted in high load for some reason. I split my…

My home server has been running steadily for the past 10 days without any issues … is what I’d say if replacing the RAM with ECC modules fixed 100% of the problems I was encountering. The majority of the problems were indeed fixed, but I encountered some new ones now that I didn’t have to…

The ECC memory has been stable for 24 hours. That’s a good sign, but I’m not going to count my chickens just yet. Most interesting aspect of this is that the RAM is running at 2666, rather than 3200, so now I’m curious how the non-ECC modules perform at slower speeds. I’m working on another…

For the first time in … well, ever, I’m running into some instability with my home lab. There are two major differences between my current platform and the previous ones: it’s running an AMD processor, and the RAM is non-ECC. I know the processor isn’t the problem because I pulled it from my own machine,…