Recent content by Deluded

Damn it guys, you're making it even more confusing than before! Now I find out that even supermicro plays the same game?! Ugh. I think, if I don't find anything that fits the specific supermicro server chassis that Samir was kind enough to dig up, I'll just get a couple universal rails and be...

1. That is a downside, but like you said, once I set up the server, it's going to be untouched for a very long time. And my business is a one person business (me), so I don't see anybody else touching it for any reason. 2. I'm not going to fill up the cabinet, worst comes to worst and I need to...

Well the eBay seller hasn't responded to my offer, so I haven't bought anything. If all I need is a pair of network rack kits like that, I could buy that. Not like I'm going to need a sliding rail because I'll be doing SO much work on the server.... As long as those rack kits work, it's fine...

Surprisingly enough, the supermicro rail you provided is identical to my first ebay link. So we will see if he accepts my offer. Thanks again!

Changing the thermal paste worked for me to cure the monitor blanking issue.

I don't even know where to put this. Got a new office, decided that I want to do unraid properly, so managed to score a 12 bay server (Supermicro CSE-826 if you were curious) for the low, low price of free from a buddy. Also got a UPS and power conditioner and a server cabinet from a different...

Smoking deal. If this is still up by the time I finish moving into my office, I'm all over this.

Like I said, you're at a decent start. At least you know not to melt the two solder globs together -- that's more than half of the hack jobs I see from supposed "professionals". From here on, it's all practice. Not all soldering irons are created equal, not all solder are equal, so it takes...

Not a bad start. For now keep practicing. Your ideal soldering glob is about 1/3 of that, or less. You want to see a shiny film of solder covering the hole, but it should not protrude out too much. Basically if you run your finger over it, you should feel a very slight bump. If you're going to...

Well, I do have my most recent gaming PC that I've retired -- 4960X and 24Gb of ram, I think. Should be enough. Just need a few things, and ain't I just lucky that the PSU is in short supply nationally? Well, I still have two more weeks to putter about and then come back and ask you guys for...

Well, all that will be tested end of the month when I move in the new office. I just didn't want to have the same sort of clutter that I do in my current place. That's why I've been looking at turning my old gaming computer into a NAS, but my office is big enough to stuff a server rack in it...

I tried that in the past, but the device drivers were global, meaning changing the device drivers were installed for all users, not just the specific users. Good thought though! Most of the software I use have very low ram requirement. I think the most demanding one requires 1Gb of ram, so if...

Hmmmm, very good idea. I would have to test it extensively, I'm not sure if VM is capable of direct hardware passthrough, some of the devices I work with are really horribly coded and most of them rely on ancient FDTI serial COM drivers, and I'm not sure if the VM hypervisor is intelligent...

I don't even know where to put this. In ages past, I used to be level 2 in a corp, and once I got out I promptly forgot everything. Now I'm in automotive electronics and I just secured a lease on a office. So in anticipation of the move to the new office, I am wondering if it is possible to...

On #1..... A thought just occurred to me just now. Suppose I set it up, remove GPU and boot it up, it'll still connect to the onboard realtek NIC, and I should be able to SSH into it from another machine. I don't have much experience with freeNAS or unraid, but do they support adding another...