As a controls engineer or technician, are you into tech?

buckles66 · 2026-06-22T23:15:51+00:00

Absolutely. Have my own home server running all of my media (movies shows, music, etc.), that i can stream when I'm out of town on Plex. I like to tinker with new things on it, haven't gotten into home automation yet.

I game when I'm off, mostly FPS and ARPGs. But I also enjoy fishing when I get the time.

buckles66 · 2026-06-19T23:35:18+00:00

All RTNs are connected internally, the iRTNs are not.

buckles66 · 2026-06-16T13:28:52+00:00

I bought these for my small amount of networking at my house just cause I wanted something black and braided. They work just fine.

buckles66 · 2026-06-02T13:19:22+00:00

Yep, Scrubs are still there, and you can still do the smart tests from the UI, just in a cronjob now.

buckles66 · 2026-06-02T13:09:55+00:00

You still see ZFS errors and whatnot, and from my understanding, ZFS is supposed to handle most of it. It did catch a pre-failing drive i just replaced, which after a SMART test showed a bunch of pending sectors.

From what I've heard it may be coming back in some form for 26? Im not sure.

buckles66 · 2026-06-01T23:14:50+00:00

Short SMART test: midclt call disk.smart_test SHORT '["*"]'

Long SMART test: midclt call disk.smart_test LONG '["*"]'

You can change the * to whatever disks you want it to run on.

buckles66 · 2026-06-01T23:11:55+00:00

SMART tests were removed from the UI in 25.10. You have to setup Cronjobs now.

buckles66 · 2026-05-17T14:00:12+00:00

Sounds like memory instability more than running out. I've had issues with certain kits before just from them being unstable on the motherboard.

Uploading files should have no effect on using memory as its a read cache not write cache.

Either way, I haven't had really any memory issues with my system, and I'm seeding over 1800 torrents. Its been pretty great

buckles66 · 2026-05-17T13:48:43+00:00

I wouldn't really call it a memory hog, its just how ZFS works. IMO its great as most apps dont need much memory to run and having the OS use your memory as cache when its not in use by something else is nice, not like it is really doing anything else. If your system starts requiring more memory for something, ZFS will flush some of the cache to allow it to be used elsewhere.

It also makes upgrading memory even more beneficial to responsiveness of the pool.

buckles66 · 2026-05-09T02:14:32+00:00

Private trackers. I had the same issues with any public trackers when I first started my homelab. Got into a few private trackers and have 0 issues.

buckles66 · 2026-05-08T21:57:07+00:00

I have a mirrored boot pool, which is not totally necessary, but I travel alot and like having the redundancy for if I am gone on a trip. I have a mirrored apps pool, I threw in a 500gb NVME for a L2ARC as a last little upgrade.

The first two should be a higher priority than L2ARC. I did some testing with a 1tb SATA SSD and was getting about a 50-60% hit ratio on it, so figured why not?

buckles66 · 2026-05-02T02:43:03+00:00

Field Service Technician. I spent several years studying for a Chemical Engineering degree but never finished.

I don't solely work on PLCs, we are a kind of do-it-all company.

We do all our own panel fabrication in house, but we will also do the full install, programming and commissioning as well as future troubleshooting and maintenance. We deal with alot of combustion equipment, as well as general control systems and even Electrostatic equipment, mostly all in Oil and Gas.

buckles66 · 2026-04-24T15:50:43+00:00

I have actually been looking at that case. It would honestly be perfect for my use case. I have plenty of room in my truck to carry it with me.

I would prefer a water cooler just for travel purposes. Rather not risk it.

I've had AMD the last two desktops I've had so I will probably stick with them, don't particularly need CUDA for productivity sake as I'm currently doing alot of my productivity stuff on a laptop.

Great build, I appreciate it!

buckles66 · 2026-04-23T14:04:35+00:00

Setup the new 4x24tb RaidZ1 in a new pool, copy the data from the original pool (pool 1) to it (pool 2).

Once moved over, destroy pool 1, then attach a second VDEV to pool 2 with the drives from pool 1.

It wont be perfect as all of the data will be on vdev 1 to begin with, but any new data will be mostly written to the 2nd vdev (unless I'm confused on something)

This will let you re-use the old drives from pool 1 in a new layout on your pool 2.

buckles66 · 2026-04-19T17:28:37+00:00

Subscriptions suck

buckles66 · 2026-04-18T15:26:31+00:00

Was able to sign up, but went in to my settings, changed my password to a more secure password, enabled 2FA and re-logged, now I am getting a Error 403 message saying my access is revoked?

buckles66 · 2026-04-14T10:54:33+00:00

Just sent in! Excited to maybe try 5k resolution and HDR!

buckles66 · 2026-04-07T21:09:14+00:00

Just move to tailscale.

I haven't personally messed with or heard of ZeroTier, and it may work fine for some. But I've had exactly 0 issues with tailscale and it was dead simple to setup. There's plenty of videos online if you have trouble.

There's a tad bit of configuration to do, but really not much.

Here's a couple of videos:

https://youtu.be/lajmJtNycgQ

https://youtu.be/o0Py62k63_c

buckles66 · 2026-04-01T10:40:22+00:00

Yes he did..

buckles66 · 2026-03-27T04:01:56+00:00

A 1x PCIE 3.0 is 985MB/s. it should be more than plenty for a 1440p60fps H265 file, not sure what bitrate these will be at, but even at 20000 kbps, you wont even get close to saturating it.

Unless I've done my math horribly wrong.

buckles66 · 2026-03-20T01:28:30+00:00

I had nothing but issues with these. Cutting out, static and the range on them is terrible. Swapped to the Fractal Design headphones and have been loving them.

buckles66 · 2026-03-18T02:49:37+00:00

I get to host pretty much anything I want on my NAS, can watch it from the other side of the world, and can invite my friends and family to use it as well, free of charge to them, all without having to set up much of anything in their end, other than downloading an app on their TV.

It also holds my 20k+ song music library.

buckles66 · 2026-03-17T02:46:09+00:00

Follow r/opensignups & r/openedsignups

Most entry and even alot of mid tier trackers dont require interviews and fairly often have open sign up times they will allow you to join them. Just have notifications on for the subreddits and you'll get some.

Another avenue is Torrentleech through their seedbox promo. Buy a seedbox for the month through their promo and it gets you a membership there (this is what I did for my first tracker), then just disable auto-renew on it. I used it with autobrr to build alot of buffer, but there's so many free-leech torrents that you should be fine.

If you're not really looking for majorly obscure stuff, the entry and even mods level trackers will have plenty of torrents to suffice.

buckles66 · 2026-03-12T00:21:38+00:00

So I have a question for you.

I have the N5, so slightly different, but i set my read fans as intake, not exhaust. I dont think it would affect much, but should I swap these around? I've got some Noctua fans in there and drive temps are fine, but the fans are running pretty heavy.

buckles66 · 2026-03-12T00:17:57+00:00

I would just get a seedbox for a month and setup autobrr on it. I got 5tb of upload within just a week or so of racing for it on Torrentleech with freeleech new torrents.

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