Alex rewires his rack with a Unifi PDU Pro, an 8 port HDMI PiKVM switch and installs new hard drives

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3 ай бұрын

Time to put right some bodges that were in place whilst Alex was traveling. Sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do!
In today's video Alex installs an upgraded power cable for the Sliger Epyc build, rewires the entire rack with a new Unifi PDU Pro unit for power monitoring and other remote power related goodness, and moves hard drives around between boxes for his ZFS master plan.
* Disk burn-in and testing script - github.com/Spearfoot/disk-bur...
* KareonKables - kareonkables.com/
* TESMART managed multiport KVM switch - docs.pikvm.org/tesmart/
* TechnoTim 8 port KVM - • Homepage Dashboard, Pi...
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@badnetmask 3 ай бұрын

I just wanted to say this is the first time I watch one full video of yours, and I really appreciate the fact that you don't edit yourself to sound/look perfect. Watching this is like I'm standing there next to you while you're making decisions on the fly. A breath of fresh air on KZfaq. Thanks!

@ktzsystems 3 ай бұрын

thank you bud! That was the vibe I was going for and I’m pleased you enjoyed it. techhub.social/@ironicbadger/112163003071956819

@JamesTenniswood 3 ай бұрын

Love this stuff, don't over think the production values, it's still super interesting

@PizzaGoat323 3 ай бұрын

Brilliant video. I love these kinds of videos no real script or big edits just you working on stuff and showing us

@pealock 3 ай бұрын

Love your videos, been listening to Self-hosted for quite a while. Just wanted to share some love, thanks for all you do for the self-hosted FOSS and homelab community!

@Drkayb 3 ай бұрын

Excellent video, mate. Thanks for taking the time to make these, they are giving me lots of interesting ideas for my own homelab 🤘

@Solanum.95 3 ай бұрын

Great video! I have all my network equipment and my server in a self made wood rack similar to yours, It’s cheap, strong and you can build it however you like!

@liamgreenwood 3 ай бұрын

Hi Alex - nice to see a local doing home server videos! I'm in Cary so not that far.

@ktzsystems 3 ай бұрын

Cool! I’m sure there must be a lot of us in the triangle given RTP and Red Hat!

@Nimitz_oceo 2 ай бұрын

Front loading disks is just way better. I get the 45 Drives have a reputation but imagine have to pull out a rack mounted server just to check one disk. Nope I would prefer easy access

@richschumacher6464 2 ай бұрын

D1 Mini spotted 🕵

@kevinwhiten2804 3 ай бұрын

Would love to know what UPS you are using! Love your content.

@trapexit 3 ай бұрын

Reminds me... I really need to rework my bbf tool and properly release it. I've got some burnin functionality that I've found useful beyond what I've found elsewhere. I've had situations where SMART shows up fine and other scans and general workload can work but heavy usage leads to intermittent errors. bbf has a mode to thrash a filesystem by spawning numerous threads that run different commands in hard loops to stress the drive and the filesystem. I've found a couple bad drives and cables that way.

@ktzsystems 3 ай бұрын

Do eeeet

@trapexit 3 ай бұрын

@@ktzsystemsAfter I get passthrough working in mergerfs. I've got the release candidate kernel setup and I've been prototyping. Burned a lot of cycles on bad error reporting in the FUSE driver but... is what it is.

@ktzsystems 3 ай бұрын

@@trapexit passthrough means what in this context?

@woe2you2 3 ай бұрын

Those m.2 carrier cards are great until one dies.

@pr19580 3 ай бұрын

Great video, thanks! What is that rack mount for your two Dell Optplexes?

@ktzsystems 3 ай бұрын

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/p713bLli28uRiYk.htmlsi=jebJ-CnQm7xcI4ji

@darokis 3 ай бұрын

Hay Alex. I have same Sliger case. Can you tell us the exact spec of the SATA power cable you ordered from KareonKables. What did you selected on the website. 12" long, 10 connectors (lockable or non lockable) ? etc. Thank you

@ktzsystems 3 ай бұрын

I will once I get the final version (a replacement is en-route to fix the 3.3v issue discussed in the video). You can always email Adam directly, he's very responsive.

@cdnStephen 3 ай бұрын

The locking ability of the cable not functioning is not an issue with the cable but with the connectors built into the case. I still ordered the cable with locking option for future use.