October 2026
-
Replacing a 14-Year-Old Family PC With a $300 Dell OptiPlex
No comments on Replacing a 14-Year-Old Family PC With a $300 Dell OptiPlexBack in 2012, I built a desktop computer for my parents. It was an AMD quad-core system, running Windows 7, and was a perfectly respectable machine for its day. In fact, it was the exact same hardware that my first ESXi build featured. Over the years, it received a few upgrades. More RAM when I…
-
Why I Replaced RAID-10 (mostly) With RAID-1 in My Home Lab
RAID-10 on a hardware controller has some real advantages over RAID-1, particularly when it comes to performance. And with four drives instead of two, it can tolerate certain combinations of drive failures that would take down a simple mirror. At my organization, we’d been running servers in-house for many years, and we’d always used mirrored…
-
Rebuilding My Aging Plex Server: Linux Mint 19.3 to Mint 22.3
I have been running Plex for a long time. Like a lot of things in my home lab, the Plex server has been upgraded and modified over the years, but the underlying operating system hasn’t received nearly as much attention. It has just worked. My current Plex server is a virtual machine running Linux Mint…
Categories
- About Me (2)
- Backups (12)
- Esxi (18)
- Home Lab (7)
- Informational Sites (3)
- Network (9)
- NFS (4)
- OMV (6)
- OpenFiler (8)
- PC Build (1)
- PC Hardware (3)
- Plex (4)
- Proxmox (3)
- Roku (1)
- Servers (7)
- T3500 (2)
- Uncategorized (5)
- UPS (1)
- veeam (2)
- vSphere (9)
- WSFU (2)
- XBMC (5)
Archives
- October 2026 (3)
- September 2026 (7)
- August 2026 (3)
- June 2016 (3)
- August 2015 (1)
- April 2015 (3)
- January 2015 (2)
- October 2012 (2)
- September 2012 (1)
- August 2012 (1)
- July 2012 (2)
- June 2011 (1)
- March 2011 (1)
- February 2011 (3)
- January 2011 (1)
- November 2010 (1)
- October 2010 (2)
- September 2010 (2)
- August 2010 (6)
- July 2010 (6)