Dumb shit that I do that might help you too
DSTIDTMHYT for short
I recently bought a bunch of WD Elements 8TB drives so I can rip the drives out and use them in my home server. Doing this for large capacity drives is typically far cheaper than buying the drives alone. Due to the high capacities, these drives are typically NAS or Datacentre level drives, which for…
Like me you’re probably wondering how the heck you enable RAID for your shiny new NVMe drives. Turns out, in a stroke of genius and true adhesion to the old ways, the NVMe RAID option is in fact, non-existent. To enable RAID for your NVMe drives, you need to turn SATA RAID… That’s right… SATA…….
This command is known (By at least one person) as “The best command out there for network mapping”, as it tells you what port things are plugged into, and the next hop and IP address of that thing. In the case of both brands, you must be in ‘enabled’ mode first using en, and then…
Us homelabbers constantly battle with two things. Heat, and noise (and sometimes power, like those with fully populated 42U racks and no regard for their wallets). I personally have a Dell Poweredge R610, and whilst it’s not as loud as my now decommissioned R410, it sure does manage to be audible throughout the entire house…