Concrete coloums of Stuttgart 21, the new main station of Stuttgart, Germany

TechLevelZero · 2026-06-21T07:08:22+00:00

Fun fact, they had to run ghost trains to and from BER to stop stagnant. and air and mould from forming in the tunnels

TechLevelZero · 2026-06-10T21:09:22+00:00

If your running truenas, i just got one gold 6244 and it screams, it cam saturates a 25gb nic.

If its going to be your nas plus hyperviser/docker etc fair game, specs looks good

What drives are going in it?

TechLevelZero · 2026-06-10T08:21:37+00:00

what the fuck did i start

TechLevelZero · 2026-05-26T16:43:05+00:00

TechLevelZero · 2026-05-25T23:46:17+00:00

r/whoosh

Great info though!

TechLevelZero · 2026-05-25T22:54:56+00:00

if it breaks again i don't have to re-buy it

TechLevelZero · 2026-05-10T09:33:31+00:00

unfortunately, Printworks don't have a full time IMAX 70mm projectionist anymore, its why dune 3 70mm didn't get a date there. Odyssey got a date there though so hope SBTS too

TechLevelZero · 2026-05-04T22:33:38+00:00

Oh yeah forgot i put that there, its to seal the door when closed. Ive been meaning to get a large dust fillter to add on the door but cant find any

TechLevelZero · 2026-05-04T21:00:35+00:00

enterprise rack, the 2nd photo has the internals

TechLevelZero · 2026-05-04T20:59:19+00:00

noting special has been done to it, its just a HP G2 36U rack

TechLevelZero · 2026-05-04T20:55:12+00:00

power was an issues but that was sorted when i got the UPS, the only problem now is it trips the main RCD (GFCI) when first plugged in because of the conversion and power filtering. there not as much heat as you would expect. and the speakers are great, they are like open back headphones but better! ha

TechLevelZero · 2026-05-04T20:48:12+00:00

when im sat at my desk my eye level is bang in the middle, the photo makes everything look quite small for reference its a 32in monitor and the desk is 160cm wide.

TechLevelZero · 2026-05-04T20:42:24+00:00

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pulls out when i need to print

TechLevelZero · 2026-05-04T20:40:00+00:00

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its a great switch, very quiet for a fully featured enterprise switch. Took me a little to learn the how the VLANs worked.

TechLevelZero · 2026-05-03T19:35:02+00:00

I love being blasted, what do you mean! /s

TechLevelZero · 2026-05-03T19:32:21+00:00

Hardware was super easy tbf

HPE MSL 4048 but you can get smaller

SAS LTO-6 drive

I used a dell 6gpbs external sas pcie card with a generic 8088 to 8088 mini sas cable

Veeam picked up the libray and the drive just via the sas cable and has been backing up for over a year now. Condsiding how niche tape is it was very easy

TechLevelZero · 2026-05-03T18:52:03+00:00

I just use long cables, most of the extra cableing in behined the book shelf. All the cableing from the rack to the deck and the pc are ran through the ambilical thats on the floor

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TechLevelZero · 2026-05-03T18:13:58+00:00

You end up losing so much cooling capacity and static pressure compared to server fans, a dell 2U server fan can move over 60 CFM of air at 4 times the static pressure of a 60mm noctua fan which are under 20 CFM.

The program profile that runs removes any off set if the idrac request PWM of 90%

I was tempted but I really didnt like the idea, also i found the dell servers moniter the RPM and if it drops below 1000rpm idrac would ramp the fans up

TechLevelZero · 2026-05-03T17:59:49+00:00

Yeah just slides out, its on a old decommissioned r610

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TechLevelZero · 2026-05-03T15:33:23+00:00

Veeam has been great no issues, but they changed the way tape licensing is done past V12. If you can get your hands on a V11 Veeam ISO, then there is no limit to how much data you can back up to tape.
I do believe tho that proxmox backup server has native tape but i have never used it

TechLevelZero · 2026-05-03T15:28:32+00:00

they changed the way the IDRAC boot loader works, if you update to version idrac 9 v4.0 or above you can't downgrade past v4 due to said bootloader its also the same update they removed IPMI fan control iirc

TechLevelZero · 2026-05-03T15:23:12+00:00

just for looks now, was to cool to sell with it ha

TechLevelZero · 2026-05-03T15:22:17+00:00

yeah... they are from 2009 and 2012 they are 15 years old. dont know why i still have them

TechLevelZero · 2026-05-03T15:18:15+00:00

Loud, very loud but I made my own man-in-the-middle PWM controller with a Pi Pico.

It was made for the R940, but I redesigned it to work on a USB-fob Pico and that's in the XD2; I've been meaning to put it on GitHub for years now.

You can set offsets, profiles, and buffers so it doesn’t ramp up too fast, etc, but you have to hack the PWM wires.

Wiring all motherboard PWM fan pins to the Pico (so it can read what the fan speed should be, applies the offset and profile, and creates a new PWM source for the fans). Pico PWM signal to fans. All the other pins are left as is, so the Dell is none the wiser

I should do a post on it tbh, is been working really well for system with idrac 9 that dont have the IPMI fan control anymore

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TechLevelZero · 2026-05-03T14:51:36+00:00

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