Gonna spend the weekend trying to reorganize my office network. Just my office.
Trying to clean up make it easier to function. In reality, I need to get rid of stuff.
There are some things that do not need to be here any more.
Did swim today, feeling good.
Weight: 321.6
OK not physically moving homes but moving data and parts.
Currently as I post I am moving data from an 3.5 inch disk to a 2.5 inch SSD. The data taken up is only 28GB and the file system is only 64GB, but the disk is 2TB and 3.5″ and I am going to replace it eventually with a 14TB disk. Because I want to organize the data better.
Tomorrow I will do more detailed planning after my normal Friday tasks, but in morning of Saturday I am going to move the guts of a server another box that has better airflow.
Sunday I am going to work on moving and preparing data.
Weight: 323.4
I didn’t have to crossflash it but the HBA is functional. It is SAS 9300, got it on my bench.
After I finished I rebooted to CentOS7 and it looked fine.
Thinking of doing Rocky 9 as well.
Got the instruction and files to flash from https://github.com/EverLand1/9300-8i_IT-Mode
After creating the flash drive I boot to uefi mode and did these steps
# This erases the running flash/bios on the RAID controller.
sas3flash.efi -f SAS9300_8e_IT.bin -noreset
# Power Off
# Erases the card's NVRAM
sas3flash.efi -o -e 7 < Erase everything
sas3flash.efi -o -e 6 < keeps manufacturer stuff (this is preferred)
# and another
sas3flash.efi -f SAS9300_8e_IT.bin -b mptsas3.rom -b mpt3x64.rom
# Check if address still there
sas3flash.efi -list
# If not
sas3flash.efi -o -sasadd XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Type reset
Last night my legs were cramping while I slept, I pretty sure I dehydrated myself while I was asleep.
Woke up and weighed in was really low. Weighed in again after swim and am same weight.
Weight: 321.2
Got my first JonsBro N3, 3D printed system done.
Needed those correct inserts and they just worked.
I tested out access one of the drives using a USB to SATA connection. It worked!!!
The JBOD rack is done.
Hoping there is time tomorrow to test the HBA.
Just did pushups and situps. Too cold and didnt sleep well.
Weight: 323.4
Before I give an update, I want to say that it may be cheaper to buy a purpose built case, I am doing three of these so I got a little bit of that economy of scale going for me. When done I will do a BOM on all this and we can compare.
Why three?
Replacing this monstrosity
Yes that is a Samsung SSD hanging by the friction of the connectors.
And recall this post? https://www.apolonio.com/blog/?p=12520
Here is an updated picture with 16 x 4TB drives
So that is actually two units but considering it one.
Then here is the first one.
Still a few more things to print. On the back interface and HBA it is almost ready
Got the wrong brass inserts though, they are too big, and the ones I had on hand were too small.
Anyway it is coming along, predict it will be done by end of Sunday, maybe not in production but production ready.
Keep getting problems with drive alignment. Had to a custom one with a drive a did a block check.
When I did a pvcreate I had to do this
pvcreate --dataalignment 1m /dev/sdc1
Went swimming today, got a lot done too. Feeling good. But it is late.
I didn’t display it but my lowest weight since I was recording was the data Toto passed, it was 322.4, the next day I was 322.6 I am a pound away at beating those numbers. It is possible to crack 320 by end of Month and an outside chance of cracking 310 by end of year.
Weight: 323.2
Been over a month since Toto left us.
The healing continues though, but seems to moving too slow.
I touched his memorial today, reminded me of him being around.
Life is quiet, not ready for a new dog… yet.
Almost got one last week.
On the daily notes, Seahawks lost, got a bunch cleaned up at home. Got new rack going.
Keeping busy, getting ready for next dog.
Weight: 326.8
I spend hours in this chair I am sitting in. It is not unusual for me to be in my chair for 12 hours in a day. So I looked at some high end chairs
The chair which looks like a gaming chair is over 4k. But I admit it is comfortable. Can’t do it. Too expensive.
Finally got home at about 5:30PM and I tried to get my new JBOD going, but the inserts I got was too small.
I pivoted and got most of my physical drives monitored on my network. Noticed more heat. Heat is the issue.
Haven’t mentioned it but the days I did not swim I did not do 10k steps. Too cold.
Weight: 326.8
Got a bunch drives that a needed to replace, kind of a pain. I finished one on my media center, and my backup server. It was a lot of work to get in to.
I did swim today, got a lot done in the evening, went swim, got meds, got food, picked up my amazon.
Lot of things to do this weekend.
My JBOD server is coming around too.
Weight: 324.6
Last night I had a scare, one of the archive checksums did not match up.
Luckily got backups and it was discovered while I was replacing the hard drives.
One thing I been on lately is checking on the health of my hard drives. I can’t do much for the ESXi hosts, but I can do for the physical hosts especially the linux ones.
I found a couple of bad drives, one in my media center and another one in my filer.
Heat is also an issue so I am putting in monitors for all of that.
Finally, I have not been backing up my desktop since I got it, no drive space left.
I have ordered a couple of hard drives, one to replace the bad drive in my filer another to add media capacity, and finally one to backup my data.
Weight: 325.6
This JBOD backplane came in yesterday from aliexpress. I didn’t have plans for it but it was cheap and was worth a look. Turned out to burn a hole in my wallet.
Has huge promise, got a few things to test it out. Hoping to get it rack mounted this weekend.
Oh yeah need a new rack now.
Looks like this kicks of my 2026 network reorg plans.
Weight: 323.8
