mats_o42

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Samsung EVO or QVO as boot drive (alien.top)
 

I need a new boot drive for my workstation (must be Sata).
I can get a 2 TB Evo or 4TB QVO for about the same price.

The QVO is slower and has a smaller write life but is a thing to worry about in real life?
It will be running Windows if that matters

I have received more ancient servers. This time a DL380 G4, SCSI version in c/homelab@selfhosted.forum
[–] mats_o42@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

The first 380 with 64 bit support if i remember correctly

Irrational fear about equipment catching fire while not at home in c/homelab@selfhosted.forum
[–] mats_o42@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

Not even an ADSL modem caught fire and that was hit by lightning so good that it partially melted. The power adapter was varm afterwards but not critically so

How did you get started and what’s your favorite homelab project? in c/homelab@selfhosted.forum
[–] mats_o42@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

It started with a laptop with a broken screen (a Compaq Armada something).
It was my work laptop and instead of throwing it on the scrapheap I adopted it and took it home.

It was trash for my Company. For me it was:
* A small NAS (one harddrive and one cdrom)
* A UPS for that NAS (laptop battery)
* A printer server (It had a LPT port)
* A router (US Robotics Courier modem on the serial port)

I was truly sad when its motherboard failed a number of years later.

The favorite is not in the homelab but my workstation. Built on a HFX mini chassis with a Ryzen 3600 and a 1650 graphics card - zero moving parts and zero noise. You have to look at the power led to know if its on