Its been a hell of a ride.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So within recent memory I pulled the consumer drives from the Main server as they were causing issues again and kept making the system unstable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Both the Main and Sub server updated to ESXi 7 during a routine update, which didn’t go well, The main servers age proved to be a detriment as its hardware raid, the raid I just got done putting the new enterprise SSDs in, was no longer supported in 7, nor was the 10\/40GB SFP+ Nic cards, I ended up downgrading the Main server back to 6.7 but keeping the Sub on 7, The main server needed the raid but I figured I could always test the Sub and see if those Nics ever came back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I bought a Raspberry pi 4, after a few different Project, Retro pi, Zabbix Server, Cluster Head, It settled into the role of the NAS for a few Months, I got a four Drive USB 3 “Toaster” that I put four of the consumer SSDs in and backed it with a 5TB USB 3 HDD, This ran great, low power usage and the SSDs never gave me any grief, I had the system rsync nightly the changes from the flash “raid” to the HDD, Until..<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Introduction of the i7! Ok so its nothing new, This is my fathers old system and by old I mean 3960X, it had 64GB of RAM but before giving me the system he pulled half for other systems, Not a big deal, First thing I did was yank it out of the case it was in and put it in a 4U Rack case, Little tricky with it having a 240mm water cooler but eventually I got it all to fit, Stole the drives back from the PI, All of them. Built the system using Manjaro Architect, Things were ok for a while, I bought the missing 32 GB for the i7, was running a Minecraft server on it for my kids and family, slowly instability crept in along with corruption, I shut it down for months as I didn’t have time to troubleshoot what was going on, I bought some new drives and decided to tear it all apart and test components, found one of the 8GB RAM sticks was bad, rebuit it with couple 2TB Ent SSDs, a 120GB ENT Boot SSD, the 4X500 Consumer toaster, and the 5TB Rust. it been running Arch since last weekend and after tuning the Network setting its been stable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Raspberry pi 4 \/4GB became my Zabbix system, I bought one of the newer pi4 8GB and ran it as my desktop for about a month before calling it quits, Thinking of moving my (this) Web site and mail server to it so its easier to shutdown the servers without interrupting services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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