My 6 Terabyte 4 drive RAID 5 array was starting to get tight on space. Upgrading the motherboard to a GIGABYTE X570 AORUS ELITE gave me 6 SATA ports so I could finally populate the the two empty bays in my 6 bay ICY Dock enclosure. I’m adding two Seagate BarraCuda 2TB 2.5 inch Internal...
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It was becoming very clear my traefik server running on a raspberry pi 4 was being overwhelmed as the size of my Docker Swarm has grown. While looking into upgrading my main desktop’s CPU from an old AMD Ryzen 5 1500x to a Ryzen 5 5600 I started to think what am I doing to...
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I’ve been running a Ryzen 5 1500X on a GIGABYTE AB350-Gaming 3 board for 4 years now. I finally got the itch to upgrade. While my system is working perfectly fine there is no need to spend the money to build a new system. Upgrading to right CPU will give a few more years to...
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The 825GB internal SSD in the PS5 can only hold a handful of installed games at a time. Thankfully Sony included a M.2 SSD expansion slot in the PS5 to allow additional storage for PS5 games to be installed. However there a few requirements in choosing the best M.2 SSD for PS5. PCI-Express Gen4x4 supported...
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Need more internal storage in your desktop PC? Meet the 6 bay SATA HHD / SSD ICY Dock This 5.15 inch drive cage will allow you to add 6 HHD/SSD drives. This cage is perfect for adding a RAID array to your desktop. I’ve been using ICY Dock products for over a decade and decided...
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After installing BlinkT! LED strips on my Raspberry Pi’s I could no longer use the tiny little fans that came with the GeeekPi Raspberry Pi 4 Cluster Case. My Pi’s were running well over 40 degrees Celsius and going much higher on load. My Solution… This cheap USB powered fan on medium dropped the CPU...
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Blinkt! While I was using pimoroni example scripts to show CPU usage on my Docker Swarm nodes running on my Raspberry Pi 4b I wanted more. I found the is Docker image cisecke/blinkt-cpu-info however I felt no need to run this Python script as a container. The advantage of this is the script will startup...
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