It Lives! It dies? Our new TrueNAS server is up, and all the hardware is working, but not without some hiccups on the way. After taking a lot longer to build than…
Category: Hardware
Posts about a particular piece of hardware. Might also include details about how the hardware works with Xubuntu Linux.
Building the NAS (Hardware hiccups)
Most of the hardware is assembled A couple of days ago I mentioned that I was planning on building our first regular NAS after work: https://chaslinux.com/2024/09/23/more-progress-on-the-truenas-build/. The past few weeks have been…
More progress on the (True)NAS Build
Planning steps are done It was way back on June 1st, 2024 when I started posting about my plan to migrate our KODI media centre PC to a NAS: Dell PowerEdge T110…
Simple way to clean a Lenovo ThinkPad case
Past Isopropyl is a great way to clean up a lot of plastic, but I found that while it’s helpful for removing grime, caked on stickers (Goo Gone), and other crud, it…
Transitioning our KODI media centre
Moving more to a low-power solution Several months back I replaced the motherboard in the KODI media centre PC that sits in our living room. For many years our media centre has…
Dell PowerEdge T110 II Network Attached Storage (NAS) build – Part II – TrueNAS
Mixed drives of similar size worked In my last post I mentioned the concern that I might not be able to mix drive types. The NAS is currently running 2 x 3TB…
Dell PowerEdge T110 II Network Attached Storage (NAS) build
Migrating the KODI entertainment system On May 5th I mentioned that we’re Running out of space on our media center. In the comments of that post I followed up outlining a plan…
Reboot to the BIOS from Xubuntu Linux
On systemd-based distributions it’s possible to boot to the BIOS from Linux Have you ever found yourself working on a computer that’s just so blindingly fast that you just cannot mash the…
Xubuntu 22.04 – cannot right/left click after laptop lid closed and opened again
You’ve installed Xubuntu 22.04 on your laptop and things are going smoothly… Then you close the lid on your laptop and discover when you open it back up again that when you…
Running out of space on our media center
Our media center configuration Tucked inside a Corsair Spec-01 case, alongside one of the walls in our living room, is the hardware for our media center. The hardware inside the case is…