Added NVME heatsink to DL2 (removed the old heatsink with lights..)
Added Quadro GPU to Truenas
basel.lan: Swapped out 4Gb RAM sticks with 16GB sticks. Now ~122GB RAM available. 32GB and 16GB are incompatible.
Sep 26, 2025
Set RAID 6 with 6 HDDs, and mounted them to storage. Used ext4, single partition. One healthy and one sketchy HDD are available for exchange if one breaks. Moved Raid Controller to PCI Slot 1.
Sep 22, 2025
Added 4 HDDs (checked by sebastian) to basel.lan
Added Simpler 6GB Raid Controller (new) to basel.lan, to be used for the HDD cage now, instead of the 12GB one that was not detected beforehand.
Sep 15, 2025
Added SSD for data (1TB Samsung 860 PRO) to CMPT2. Used the 3.5“ front entry.
Sep 11, 2025
Added RAID controller 'HPE Smart Array P440ar Controller' to basel.lan. Trying out different cable configurations. This will manage the SSD Cage.
Added RAID Controller P440 to basel.lan. This manages the HDD cage. Checked and working.
Added Cable from mainboard SAS controller to individual SSDs (no cage, SAS → multiple SATA) for OS. Set up logical device (i.e. its working).
Notes:
The P440ar can not be accessed from within the UEFI, since it relies on the smart array storage utilities of HP, which require the flash memory of the ilo, which is corrupted and cannot be replaced.
The idea is to manage it later on within the OS.
Sep 01, 2025
DL2: Added heatsink to SSD
DL2: Added SSD (512GB) for OS.
Basel: Added all available 4GB Ram sticks (56GB)
Basel: Added second CPU
Basel: Set up SoftRaid1 for Ubuntu Server 24.04 LTS (separate RAID1 for boot/root/swap) on two 1TB Samsung HDDs. Note: Only good tutorial at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQKMlRsEWRE
Aug 26, 2025
All RAM sticks (DDR3) that fit into 'basel' were tested without finding a failure.
Aug 12, 2025
Added the 1TB 980 PRO NVME M.2 SSD to the DL2. (Note: From patrick, currently not used). Note: It has no heatsink right now.
Aug 11, 2025
Set up Laptop in server room for maintenance → passphrases available in Bitwarden
Testing out 4GB RAM sticks using Ubuntus 'memchecker'
Aug 08, 2025
Moved RAID Cache from the open/broken HPE ProLiant ML350p to the strg2.
SSD 128GB SATA MZ7KE128 can not be combined with the two `10K SAS 300GB 653955` in a cage. The RAID controller doesn't allow selecting them together for a logical unit.