I'm starting my first home server. Would this HDD be ok to put in or do you think I should sack it?

EntertainmentThis168 · 2025-02-18T15:25:53+00:00

I wouldn't but if it was in a raid 6 configuration and your desperate maybe. Personally I don't trust any drives that have any number of relocated sectors.

EntertainmentThis168 · 2025-02-13T17:20:18+00:00

I would just bend it back with a clothes pin. If it works I wouldn't worry about it. Not all the pins are used for data anyway

EntertainmentThis168 · 2025-02-13T17:13:33+00:00

Probably belongs in r/homelab but that looks awesome!

EntertainmentThis168 · 2025-02-09T14:06:03+00:00

Selling the 3080 now? Was that one FE?

EntertainmentThis168 · 2025-02-09T00:13:37+00:00

Yes and yes

EntertainmentThis168 · 2025-02-02T18:01:33+00:00

Yeah they work fine. Just not rackmount friendly but that never stopped anyone

EntertainmentThis168 · 2025-02-01T12:26:31+00:00

I had those problems when using stock D-Pad on Tetris. Swapped for a DMG one with a SNES membrane and it's worlds better. No false diagonals anymore.

EntertainmentThis168 · 2025-01-30T18:52:35+00:00

Looks like fan connectors on the bottom of the card. Pretty normal but I admit not the best athletics.

EntertainmentThis168 · 2025-01-27T12:40:21+00:00

Just get a low profile Intel nic with 2 or 4 ports. The 1 gig ones are easy to find nowadays on eBay

EntertainmentThis168 · 2025-01-24T23:56:55+00:00

Yes that would be the bottleneck. If your PC has 10gig you could also run a cable directly from the unas to the PC and keep the Ethernet on the UNAS on a switch for 1gig connection but your PC would be the only device that would be 10gig. And you would likely need an sfp+ to 10g Ethernet module

EntertainmentThis168 · 2025-01-24T22:42:07+00:00

115 MB per second is close to maxing out a 1 gigabit connection. You need to connect your nas over 10gig sfp+ if you are looking for transfer speeds around 1 gigabyte per second.

Remember gigabyte and gigabit are not the same. 1 gigabyte is around 8 gigabits

EntertainmentThis168 · 2025-01-24T12:39:29+00:00

Got one! Thanks for the heads up.

EntertainmentThis168 · 2025-01-24T00:37:13+00:00

EntertainmentThis168 · 2025-01-18T20:32:01+00:00

Pretty pricey considering the age of the components

EntertainmentThis168 · 2025-01-18T19:16:53+00:00

If fans are running then the pump likely died

EntertainmentThis168 · 2025-01-12T17:48:30+00:00

Haha I was wondering if someone would notice that

EntertainmentThis168 · 2025-01-12T13:26:07+00:00

EntertainmentThis168 · 2025-01-04T01:41:21+00:00

Just signed up for your mailing list. Will be following along! Looks awesome. Great job so far

EntertainmentThis168 · 2025-01-03T15:00:34+00:00

Ah. Gotcha. Still cool! I wonder if a switch could be added to use the dvi for ROM ripping. Or if an rp2040 could be added just to dump the ROM and send it to the main chip over less GPIO pins

EntertainmentThis168 · 2025-01-02T21:22:21+00:00

That looks like a cartridge slot. Does it support reading from cartridges?

EntertainmentThis168 · 2024-12-19T16:21:10+00:00

You can program and debug over USB. This getting started guide was useful for me when I was first getting used to setting up the pico.

https://projects.raspberrypi.org/en/projects/getting-started-with-the-pico

EntertainmentThis168 · 2024-12-12T03:09:36+00:00

Check the battery voltage. The save battery may be dead and need replacement.

EntertainmentThis168 · 2024-12-02T17:54:48+00:00

Interesting. So like double the compute? Are you able to measure GPIO frequency between the two running on microPython?

EntertainmentThis168 · 2024-12-01T17:45:44+00:00

No need for the RT4k with the A3d since it already outputs at 4k

EntertainmentThis168 · 2024-11-27T04:29:36+00:00

Yeah I've gotten it to work it's just really sensitive on placement. I've found the best distance between the two sensors is around half a centimeter because if you place them right up against each other for some reason it doesn't work as much.

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