https://www.labland.tech/ Recent content on LabLand Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Copyright © 2008–2018, Steve Francia and the Hugo Authors; all rights reserved. Sun, 17 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.labland.tech/post/new_nas_on_the_block/ Sun, 17 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.labland.tech/post/new_nas_on_the_block/ Notice - Migrated from legacy site - some formatting may be incorrect. In my time labbing, I’ve been fortunate to find cracking deals on the compute and network components of my lab, but never had to address storage hosts, until now. This blog post documents the parts, problems and events of the build of my first dedicated storage box. The main goal of producing the new storage box was to fit several 3. https://www.labland.tech/post/upss_come_in_threes/ Fri, 28 Dec 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.labland.tech/post/upss_come_in_threes/ Notice - Migrated from legacy site - some formatting may be incorrect. A few weeks ago, I was writing up a report for my university course, on some testing that I was doing surrounding efficiency of computer systems. It was focused on what varying the cores enabled and hyperthreading did to the efficiency of the system, using an Intel® E3-1270v3 CPU for the tests. I was looking into efficiency, therefore I wanted to measure wattage against the relative performance https://www.labland.tech/post/dell_r210ii_fan_mod/ Wed, 03 Oct 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.labland.tech/post/dell_r210ii_fan_mod/ Notice - Migrated from legacy site - some formatting may be incorrect. In my lab I have a Dell R210ii server that currently being used as a storage head. In its current role, it is staying on nearby to me, running 24/7, so the noise that its kicking out is starting to be more of a concern to me. I therefore went about finding methods to quieten it down. The most common suggestion for reducing the noise of 1u servers its to change out the fans for quieter aftermarket ones. https://www.labland.tech/post/finding_a_rack/ Thu, 20 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.labland.tech/post/finding_a_rack/ Notice - Migrated from legacy site - some formatting may be incorrect. I started off my homelab rather unusually, in the sense that I began by obtaining a rack, rather that any equiptment. This hapend though me trawling the internet, where I stumbled across a rack by browsing a site in the UK called FreeCycle, that aims to rehome items. A friendly message regarding the listing the item later, I was set to go and pick up my rack from the company that was getting rid of it. https://www.labland.tech/post/background/ Wed, 19 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.labland.tech/post/background/ Notice - Migrated from legacy site - some formatting may be incorrect. Hi, Welcome to my blog. This is the first post on here, so your either really keen to see what I said in the past, or are early to the party, and I hope you stick around and find something interesting. Withing this blog I’m going to start putting up semi-regular posts about what I’m up to.