Fortunately p-traps are there and should be (yea, right) removable.

But yea, whole lot better to just not let it happen. BTDT, got the badge.

I’ve taken to taping up most of the vents on my boxes, then putting air conditioner filter media in front of the vents I leave open.

This controls the flow to only come through those vents, so they get filtered.

I clean the filters once a month - it’s nice that you can see them to know they need cleaning.

I do change the fans to more powerful ones, usually compressor style (what people call squirrel cage) because they handle airflow restriction better. The trick is how to orient and duct them.

Wow, yea, that’s bad, haha

Novell??

Holy cow that’s something I haven’t heard in forever.

I get mine from a link on diskprices.com

Usually lead to ebay or Amazon - I’m not particular.

They’re almost always used business drives. Oldest one is now 4 years running.

Edit: My major exclusion is SMR, since I’ll be using them in a NAS of some kind (hardware or Proxmox). Today I’m all SATA - if you can, go with SAS, drive costs are lower.

Businesses replace drives and systems on a schedule regardless of true wear on them - their risk vs cost metric is very different than ours.

So used business hardware is a great value for those of us who have a sunk cost in labor/expertise.

Most drives I’ve owned have run for 10+ years, while any business won’t run them past 5. I can take the risk of losing a drive, while it’s more important for a business to prevent losing a drive. Business disruption is a more costly event.

Well, it explains why a surgical center was needed there…

Right?

I used Discord for about 15 minutes (OK, 6 months) before I could no longer tolerate it’s crappiness.

That took me too darn long to get

Groan (upvote applied)

DietPi is such a game changer.

Currently running it in a VM just for PiHole, and the ease of installing anything is nice.

Yea, small business routers (think old Cisco boxes) use a 5A laptop-style power supply. I suspect this is what OP’s using, as I’ve never seen a consumer model with such power specs. Consumer stuff is built around the cheapest hardware they can get away with.

Thing is, I don’t doubt the Cisco box (or similar business units) may need that much juice at times. Put your hand over one that’s not connected but powered on and they get hot.

Stuff like that they really don’t care about power consumption during design, just capability.

Looks a lot tastier than my last iPod. (Don’t ask).

And most of them are fucking PDF anyway, so another layer of editing and likely a layer removed from daily management

I’m using a 2019 Dell SFF (Small Form Factor) desktop. It idles around 20 watts with max power of 80 watts, which is important. My old desktop idled at 100 watts.

This machine has no trouble doing everything I need for a media server. It’s running VMware ESXi, with multiple VM’s. One VM is for the Jellyfin server, one is the file server, one is a video conversion/DVD ripper/CD ripper, etc.

While ripping DVD’s and converting videos, that box still has no problem serving multiple video streams for Jellyfin.

It really takes so little to stream, especially if you work toward limiting transcoding. Still, even when transcoding I don’t run into performance bottlenecks.

10 years?

My friend, many of us have been warning about SaaS since long before the public knew it as Cloud.

So you’re saying that the current Minecraft servers are all running on desktop hardware and not on standard U-chassis servers in racks in data centers?

If anything I’d expect them to run virtualized on standard rack servers.

Something here doesn’t add up. I don’t buy that enterprise server hardware that can out-perform desktop hardware by orders of magnitude can’t do what you need - especially since that’s surely how the existing servers run.

If this single-threading performance is really an issue, run some kind of virtualization on a rack server, build a VM with the exact hardware config you need, and the host hardware will make it happen (which I’d bet is exactly how current servers are run, because then they can be moved/Load balanced dynamically without missing a beat).

I currently have both single-core, single-cpu VM’s and multi-core, multi-cpu VM’s running on the same host for test purposes. The VM has no idea it’s virtual hardware is actually run on a different multi-cpu/core host.

Check out xcp-ng - it’s arguably the best open source virtualization platform today. VMware server can definitely do this, if you have a license.

Ah, a fellow masochist I see.

That only works from PC to PC (it was my first thought too).

Except it muddies meaning for no apparent reason.