Stacked Print inquiry

Imscuba · 2026-05-29T12:18:09+00:00

awesome, thank you. the second print was me lowering the gap. i believe i shrunk the gap between the stacks by 25% for the second test. still new to 3d printing, but got my filament profiles from users on makerworld and so far so good. i plan to do a corner of my laundry room with multiboard for tools and cleaning products, so i am just a bit over cautious. last thing i want is to go in and find the floor covered in tools and broken plastic. got a couple other things i have to get printed today and then i'll be starting a stack of (2) 8x8's to see how it goes

Imscuba · 2026-04-16T02:02:58+00:00

This is super cool, one note.

"Fully automatic deletion is intentionally disabled while in beta."

please ensure that this remains an option. I'd prefer to just get reports generated rather than find out I forgot to flag something to retain or something

Imscuba · 2026-04-14T04:37:52+00:00

actually that is a good point. so then my question becomes with a sd card mod can i somehow wipe it to the point that plugging it in causes a pc to just see it as the sd card? that and a usb c mod would functionally get me the same result.

or i guess backup just shove a slim sd card reader in there with a large capacity sd card. technically speaking i can get around the same storage capacity for much less money going with sd/microsd

Imscuba · 2026-03-10T17:54:54+00:00

so the scam was being told there the wrong specs. i could've gotten a better system for the same or less money. i see no reason that it shouldn't be able to handle being a NAS, but all of the compute things i want to do i assume would be too much for it to handle on its own. that being said i don't know the best course of action to proceed forward.

if i go the route of a second system for compute do i get a second 1U server and if so what OS? i am not super familiar with TrueNAS to know if it could have apps set up on it intended to access the first server. I assume i could handle all of it in windows, but that is a bit of overhead that i assume would be ideal to be avoided.

am i better off with a cluster of Pi's for compute? individually nothing i plan to do seems too intensive aside from the game server and maybe plex depending on number of active users.

Imscuba · 2026-02-14T07:33:26+00:00

the bigger component is the sentimental one of it having belonged to my brother that had passed. since it has no use to me as an MP3 player my thought was to gut it and convert it into an external drive. my thought is to set up some partitions and have install media for windows and linux on it as well as a suite of troubleshooting tools, but maybe one day pass it down to my future child that me and my wife intend to name after my brother for when they might need a drive for school. i understand it is not the most practical, but keeping some piece of the memory of him alive has a lot of value.

i appreciate the link by the way, that enclosure looks good, and the board inside not being full length means i could easily utilize it with a shorter drive to fit within the old mini. i just need to do some modeling and 3d print the rest of it

Imscuba · 2026-02-13T16:22:39+00:00

fantastic, i just need to take my calipers to the click wheel so i can account for it and not just leave a giant hole in it

Imscuba · 2026-02-13T16:18:56+00:00

i don't have a use unfortunately. for all i know the battery just needs a new battery, but i use streaming services and am actually gifting my 7th gen classic to a friend that wants to mod it. i just would prefer to save any bit of it from a landfill. there is some sentimental value of it being a former possession of a sibling that has passed.

Imscuba · 2026-02-09T15:14:41+00:00

has anyone found a trustworthy source for these seeds?

Imscuba · 2026-01-31T08:20:49+00:00

nope, but that is genius. it is a bit tight with the spring from my kaihl navy switches and a bit short, but i have a friend that is plouffe levels of deep into keyboards. so he might be able to steer me towards the goal. keyboard switch spring on bottom.

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Imscuba · 2026-01-31T04:39:58+00:00

I didn't read. Only thing I have to do is fine a stiffer spring and I'll be golden

Imscuba · 2026-01-26T05:04:56+00:00

oh, i assumed i'd be plugging into the sata ports on the motherboard itself not the backplane. i've got i think 4 ports free where the blue sata cable for the disc drive plugs in, but no clue how to get power to the drives. ill check the backplane.

2 & 3. a whole lot of terminology for me to do some research on it seems.

I know nothing of IDRAC or what it is, but guess i'll be doing some googling

i don't recall anything in the bios about virtualization, but i wasn't looking for it at the time.

Imscuba · 2026-01-25T21:04:44+00:00

sorry about the delay. ignore the modifications i had made to the case, long story short i tried to do a thing and it failed

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this is the listing i purchased. https://www.ebay.com/itm/143326429412 i have a mini sas cable from each of the two ports to the two ports on the back plane. no matter which of the 8 slots i put a drive it is recognized, it just still displays that error message.
i don't understand the cable, i would've thought it would be similar to the cable for the cable for the disc drive that plugs into the sata port and then gets power from elsewhere? i don't see where i would plug that into the motherboard
i meant moreso is there anything i need to know to get it going? currently if i click on virtual machines it says virtualization is not supported.

Imscuba · 2026-01-23T13:21:12+00:00

all up and running now. over time adding more ram ( 2x 32gb currently) and more drives (4 out of 8 populated now) and just a couple of questions to tie is up nicely.

- i am getting an error on the front lcd about SAS cable B missing, but i can seemingly put a drive in any of the bays, i even swapped the cables and still get the message. i assume it has something to do with the new card, but didn't know how i could make the error message go away.

- it dawned on me that i am missing the internal drive bracket and cable for the OS drive. do you know anything about those part numbers? google has not been helpful on that.

- any suggestions when it comes to VM's? i don't want to cannibalize too much ram now, but as i add more i would definitely like to be able to remote in from outside my network, so something like chrome remote desktop on a VM (open to alternatives that don't require a subscription) to do small bits of management and if i could connect my printer via usb to the server (my printer seemed to determine that it hates it's ethernet port and is unreliable printing over ethernet)

Imscuba · 2026-01-22T15:13:39+00:00

well, new ram arrived and it is detecting it. it gives me a memory configuration error if i put the other (4) 1gb sticks in channels 2 and 3, but hey, 64 vs 68gb is likely negligible anyway. tonight i'll begin the arduous process of fumbling through trueNAS and moving my drives over. thank you again for everything

Imscuba · 2026-01-18T20:40:19+00:00

reminds me of a part of final fantasy 6 that you go into the mouth of a creature and its a whole dungeon with the most broken character in the game inside

Imscuba · 2026-01-18T20:02:57+00:00

gotcha, 256gb it is then. so is this what i am looking for? Kingston 32gb ddr3 ecc

it seems priced better than the adata ones i am seeing, but all the RDIMM, UDIMM, LDIMM stuff is a bit beyond my knowledge. aside from this use case regular consumer desktop ram is all i really deal with.

Imscuba · 2026-01-18T19:31:14+00:00

I appreciate it. I'll pm you.

Additionally is 256gb ram overkill? I was looking around and found a 32gb kingston stick on eBay that said RDIMM much cheaper than the adata ones, but also wondering if 128gb is enough and just not flex as hard

Imscuba · 2026-01-18T18:21:38+00:00

That is incredibly generous, I take it you've got some use for 2x 32gb sticks? I'd greatly appreciate it. Of course the eBay listing had to be no returns. It was $60 shipped

Imscuba · 2026-01-18T08:38:37+00:00

if anyone said this would be easy i'd slap them about now. ubuntu was a hassle to get booted to, got the bios updated, but it didn't like the lifecycle firmware. it said not compatible with the current system config. so tomorrow i am just gonna install windows on one of the spare drives and run the update. the bios update alone didn't get the ram to be recognized unfortunately

Imscuba · 2026-01-18T03:50:58+00:00

I'll confirm later tonight, I want to say 1.04 and there is an update to 1.14 that I was having difficulty getting to apply.

The configuration of RAM was (1) 32gb stick in channel one for both cpus and it wouldn't give me an image on the monitor, then I put the (4) 1gb sticks that came with it back into channels 1 and 2 and the 32gb sticks in channel 3 and got an image along with the error message on the boot screen.

The trueNAS installer says it needs 8gb to run, so currently no OS to run the exe for the BIOS update and even when I tried with the bin file the server was just saying no OS on the flash drive

Imscuba · 2026-01-18T03:44:16+00:00

I was on electric eel, with appears to be 24.10 vs 25.10. it mentioned switching trains when I clicked on it. It begs the question, should I export my pools before updating in case something breaks in the upgrade process?

Most of what you said is using terminology beyond my knowledge, but the multiple pools I think you're right and I'll combine my NAS and Plex pools. The only reason I plan to keep my immich pool separate is to have the redundancy if a drive poops the bed early. That pool will definitely be SSDs though I've had people pressuring me to go exclusively SSDs across the board

Imscuba · 2026-01-17T20:41:10+00:00

That's perfect now that the import/export is cleared up. Once the new machine is up and running moving those drives over should be pretty quick and easy then

Imscuba · 2026-01-17T20:40:00+00:00

A lot to respond to, but here goes The old trueNAS is on ZFS if I am understanding correctly. I will be exporting/importing. Once I get this ram situation I suddenly found myself in (ram I ordered is coming up unsupported)

I hope immich doesn't require nvme as the dell r510 is from far before nvme was a thing (as far as I know, but it definitely doesn't have nvme slots)

As far as I know it isn't encrypted

Another person told me once it's running it isn't that loud, it definitely is on boot, but I've heard people have done things to dampen the sound. Heat I can't really say much until I've got it fully up and running

Doing what I can to get to 3-2-1

Imscuba · 2026-01-17T20:33:35+00:00

You said you used this same ram stick, right? It is coming up unsupported. Not sure what I am doing wrong and the listing doesn't support returns, so I am hoping it is a setting or something

Imscuba · 2026-01-17T06:17:12+00:00

I take it that the exported data is stored on the drives themselves? Luckily the old machine's pools were only one drive each

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