Thanks very much! Yeah it’s kind of endearingly ghetto, but I’m really happy with it.
Thanks very much! Yeah it’s kind of endearingly ghetto, but I’m really happy with it.
I mainly installed the screen as an easy way to see what’s happening during boot, so I don’t have to lug the server into the other room and connect it to a monitor when I make changes to things. I’m planning on setting up a stats readout so it’s useful the rest of the time - things like network status/traffic, disk/cpu utilisation etc.
I’ve found used SAS drives really cheap. Averaged around £6 per tb.
Well… Most of it has a case.
You know it. The second best way to make things attach to things after zip ties.
I actually really like this take. Maybe this is just social media growing up, becoming more focused and self aware. The fediverse is currently super rough around the edges, but it really knows what it is. That’s more than can be said for pretty much any of the big social networks.
I’m so down for an open, transparent Internet with focused communities and small websites.
Why?
I just grab them off ebay. SAS drives are almost exclusively used in enterprise servers, so there’s fuck all demand for them on the used market. Buy a cheap PCIe SAS controller card and you’re good to go.
I use Unraid which doesn’t care at all about what types of drives you use, so you can mix and match into one huge array. I have 8x SAS and 2x SATA drives in one array.