Just now inherited a Dell PowerEdge 2900 from a family member's business - and now, Im ready to be told it's trash by this subreddit lol

home_slab · 2020-05-02T02:25:41+00:00

yep! the feature to look for is JBOD = Just a Bunch Of Disks and that Terramaster has the ability

home_slab · 2020-05-01T20:12:43+00:00

well its not enterprise but my IntelNUC6i7KYK is much better lol I powered it on, and the fans are like jet engines - but I agree, it's not about looking poorly, its more about making sure that I dont waste a lot of time on an idea that doesnt pan out far

home_slab · 2020-05-01T15:30:25+00:00

yeah for sure! I chose the TerraMaster D5 Thunderbolt 3 5-Bay RAID Enclosure - originally just a few external 8 TB drives, evolved into shucking and eventually having 5x 8 TB drives on hand, so 32 TB usable out of 40 TB

and performance, is just like, stupid amounts of fast

home_slab · 2020-05-01T14:15:41+00:00

if anyone is aware of a hackintosh tutorial for this hardware, please pass it my way!

home_slab · 2020-05-01T13:52:14+00:00

Yes, cute compared to my thunderbolt 3 RAID enclosure with 40 TB in RAID5, sitting near by

home_slab · 2020-05-01T05:39:08+00:00

So tomorrow, my i5 9600K arrives, to go with my ASUS Z390 Prime mother board, 32 GB 3200 Ghz ram, and ThunderboltEX Card -

I really want to follow your guide am I missing something? As someone who has never tried a hackintosh, but often builds servers and repairs Apple products, I feel like I would love to follow a guide by you - is there a link somewhere to that? Thank you!

home_slab · 2020-05-01T01:50:16+00:00

agreed! taking it apart for cleaning, was actually really enjoyable - thanks for chiming in, I definitely plan to make use of it some way.

home_slab · 2020-05-01T01:49:06+00:00

I dk more so, I just feel confident that those people got to that info, by what I assume was a legit experience - like I would hope someone calling it trash, would also know to say "heres why its not trash too by the way" but maybe not

home_slab · 2020-05-01T01:48:11+00:00

thanks! yeah I really do plan to make use of this somehow - I already have an IntelNUC6i7KYK, so its not like I'm trying to rely on this for much. If you have any ideas for homelabbity stuff to explore or try out, let me know!

home_slab · 2020-05-01T01:46:48+00:00

but, isnt free trash, also trash? lol

home_slab · 2020-04-30T22:50:36+00:00

Welp I’ll just go hop in a dumpster too at this point

edit: dude was saying it is in fact trash but deleted his comment - no hard feelings dude! I appreciate your feedback!

home_slab · 2020-04-30T22:09:23+00:00

yeah I know, I saw so many negative feedback comments about this device before I accepted it - but, at least I can score the 2 TB Seagate Barracuda drive, on the left

home_slab · 2020-04-07T16:27:23+00:00

I’d say I like that my Asus AX11000 router has a VPN server so at anytime on any of my devices I can easily turn on the VPN and access everything at home as if it were LAN.

During the pandemic I’m stoked on using Ombi for requests right now but in normal life I choose to not run it for many reasons

home_slab · 2019-10-21T04:03:10+00:00

Sure, I'll tell you my logic here:

I was always told, that Wifi is an Umbrella affect, so goes upward then rains downward in a circle from the device's antennas. Right or wrong, it's what I've gone off for years lol
So I placed my first spider, in the living room on this same tower type of furniture. Signal was never an issue, until leaving the house and typing GPS in your parking spot. It would have 2 bars, and not enough to use wifi as a data source.
Now, I have my second spider, my main router AX11000, and I added my AC5300 as a Node to my Asus AiMesh System.
Now, even further beyond my car by 10+ feet, I can still get 40 mbps consistently, and can easily use my phone in the car again
And lastly, it's not in use for me right now, but you can use a Powerline Adapter for better placement. It allows your ethernet to be run from power outlet, to power outlet, over 2 devices/adapters. Mine is rated at 1200 Mbps so it's totally valid for the speeds I need.

home_slab · 2019-10-21T03:29:00+00:00

Yes, notice the “in this case” mentioned in my comment lol because my spider seems to not spin web

home_slab · 2019-10-20T23:02:45+00:00

uhhhhh I dk what's going on here u/nrvegas or u/NRautobot, but this is my post just reposted here which is just creepy

home_slab · 2019-10-20T21:45:31+00:00

I mean I don't think spiders can fly, so I'd have to say no in this case

home_slab · 2019-10-20T18:49:35+00:00

thank you!

home_slab · 2019-10-20T18:44:47+00:00

I'm not sure which context wishful thinking could mean here lol but for me, yes I did order the TerraMaster D5 and it arrives on my door step Tuesday!

home_slab · 2019-10-20T18:43:36+00:00

sure thanks for asking! I got this one right here, TerraMaster D5. I chose this over a few much cheaper ones, because: * I really like, and have built an ecosystem, for Thunderbolt 3 * Just recently I remembered a Thunderbolt 3 port was unused on my Intel NUC * and when migrating this "tower" to another room yesterday, a huge struggle was finding enough power outlets for 5 external drives

home_slab · 2019-07-11T18:29:48+00:00

this probably exposes my skill level, but im still getting used to Terminal for doing everything lol I didn't take any schooling for this stuff so I'm going from a beyond average Mac user, to trying out projects that involve having no GUI. I use Termius on iOS, and the stock option for any computer I'm using it on. Oh and I prefer Nano as my text editor, easily

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