Recent content by matt_garman

Random thought: in what kind of case is the failing motherboard? Many many years ago, I had an ASRock Rack mini-itx motherboard that mysteriously died. I thought it was just a dud board, until I realized the case had some poorly-placed metal bits protruding from the area under the motherboard...

Just wanted to give @zac1 another kudos. I ordered a 5019A-FTN4 (A2SDi-8C-HLN4F) system from him. Less than 18 hours from California to the Chicago suburbs! I was a bit hesitant to pull the trigger, as his price was quite literally too good to be true. Normally I'm leery of stuff that falls...

I haven't looked into this in detail in several years now, but last I looked at this, those lower-TDP CPU variants essentially just have a lower heat/power ceiling, but the floor is the same (assuming you have all the power-saving features enabled). The target for the lower-TDP variants is when...

Thanks for posting the long-term follow up! I admire your ability to more or less leave a system be, rather than constantly upgrading and being seduced by new toys. We had very similar systems, at least at one time. I've too-often been seduced by "shiny new things" and/or "change for change's...

Thanks for the feedback - that's basically in line with what I had assumed. Sounds like for my particular use-case, TrueNAS could indeed be a viable all-in-one solution.

In general, if a filer OS (such as TrueNAS/FreeNAS) natively supports virtualization, why would one run that as a virtualized guest under a hypervisor OS (such as Proxmox), rather than natively? For example, The Proxmox VE KVM-based All-in-One with FreeNAS: why couldn't that be simplified to...

To be clear, you're saying the chassis will need to be physically modified, right? As far as removing the PDB, do you happen to know offhand, can that be done with screws? Or is the PDB attached with rivets that would need to be drilled out? By "making holes", I assume you mean drilling holes...

Attached are a couple pictures of my Supermicro power supply and a generic 1U PSU I have on hand. The Supermicro is a PWS-721P-1R, and the generic is a Seasonic SS-250SU. Obviously there's no way I can use the generic 1U in my SM case: the SM PSU is meant to plug into a "backplane", so there...

No disagreement with your math, but in my case, I have two HGST He8 drives and two Seagate Helium 10TB drives (all SATA). Runtime power consumption is 7.4W and 8.4W, respectively, so 31.6W. I don't see spinup power consumption numbers, but assume 30W, that's still only 120W at startup. Two...

Likely due to me posting without 100% knowledge of SM's PSU lineup. :) I didn't realize they could be had that cheap, I just saw the $200 retail price. I might give this a try... it's an option anyway. But I'm kind of with EffrafaxOfWug, a 920W power supply is serious overkill for my...

I've gone back and forth on home server cases more times than I care to admit. Every time I switch I promise myself, this time it's permanent. I haven't kept my promises. :) My current home server is housed in a Supermicro 825 (2U) series chassis. As much as I like SM stuff, there are two...

So I'd like to dip my toes into the world of machine learning. I have most of STH's Starter ML build already as my home server. Except for the GPU, and also, it's in a 2U rackmount chassis. Specifically, the Supermicro SC825TQ-536LPB; the "LPB" part of the model name stands for "low-profile...

With all the camera packages I've used, I've always manually entered the stream URL. Shinobi actually has a giant list of stream URLs for cameras. Some can also be found in the Zoneminder forums or Wiki. Decent cameras should provide you with the stream URLs in their documentation. But, VLC...

Side anecdote: I used MythTV as a DVR/media PC app for probably over a decade. It always felt "fragile" to me, and once I got it working, I was afraid to touch for fear of breaking it again. Someone on this forum suggested Plex Media Center as a replacement. At first I was like, "nah, the...

I couldn't tell from the docs - does Shinobi allow for very granular "zone based" motion detection configurations? In ZM, I can define one or more "zones" within the camera's frame. These zones are basically just subsets of the total image area. Each zone can have its own very granular motion...