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    Trying to build my new server, should I wait?

    This is definitely another reason. The V2 hardware is approaching 10 years old, and it needed to be replaced sooner rather than later. Under high loads, the system was locking up. Difficult to prove out, but the leading suspicion is VRMs becoming marginal under the higher load. Plenty of...
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    Trying to build my new server, should I wait?

    In the process of migrating a server from a pair of E5-2697 v2 to a Ryzen 5900x with an ASRock Rack board. Going from 256GB to 128GB of ram is a little tight, but most of that was used by ceph caching, so it wont have much of an impact on VMs and Containers. The reduction in PCIe lanes is a...
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    Compact Micro-ATX case

    I used a Sama IM01 case for a small home server and later used a second one for a desk top build. It was the smallest case I could find that fit an mATX board and was pretty cheap.