Yet Another Unraid Build

Why right? Short answer, I had 2 server builds and 1 of them smoked in the literal sense. Smoke was coming from the CPU socket and I had to put the air purifier in max to get rid of the awful smell. It was supposed to be a ProxMox build to host all of my VMs in my home lab. What an epic fail! Smoked Build It was my first time ever building PCs that went horribly wrong. But the good news is I can salvage most everything from the build except for the PSU, CPU, Motherboard and GPU. I remember I had a slip of the fingers when I was installing the GPU into the motherboard but I was sure I didn’t knocked any components in the GPU. To be safe, I wrote off that old Quadro GPU. ...

September 19, 2023 · Batista Harahap

Unraid - (Semi) Pro Home

I made the jump to buy a license for my Unraid box and finally writing this blog post to elaborate what I’ve done with it. Such simplicity with the power to do anything you can imagine off of a home server. I still think I’m only scratching the surface here, haven’t even begun to maximize my usage. There are a few more new additions to the box I want to talk about in this blog post. ...

March 3, 2020 · Batista Harahap

SuperNAS with unRAID at Home

This started with a spare CPU and a dead motherboard. Had an Intel Core i3 6100 lying around with 16 gigs of memory sticks. Was leaning towards an AMD Hackintosh but Youtube convinced me unRAID is my next curiousity target. So I build a PC (again). PCPartPicker Part List Type Item CPU Intel Core i3-6100 3.7 GHz Dual-Core Processor CPU Cooler Intel E97379-001 CPU Cooler Motherboard Biostar RACING Z170GTN Mini ITX LGA1151 Motherboard Memory G.Skill NT Series 8 GB (1 x 8 GB) DDR4-2400 Memory Memory G.Skill NT Series 8 GB (1 x 8 GB) DDR4-2400 Memory Storage Western Digital Green 480 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive Case Cooler Master Elite 130 Mini ITX Tower Case Power Supply Corsair VS 450 W 80+ Certified ATX Power Supply Wired Network Adapter Intel E1G44HTBLK PCIe x4 1000 Mbit/s Network Adapter The parts list listed a standard Intel CPU fan but I hated the noise. I had a generic brand CPU water cooler I installed onto the CPU. ...

February 3, 2020 · Batista Harahap

Squeezing Cubieboard for Performance

For the past month, I’ve been pleasantly hacking my Cubieboard to try out several different things. This time, I wanna know how performant Cubieboard is. Benchmarks are configured in such a way to replicate a real Web Application. Preparing Here are the specs for my Cubieboard: AllWinner A10 ARM Single Core CPU 1 GB DDR3 @ 480 MHz 5V / 2A = 10 Watts SATA HD - 5400 RPM Cubian r7 - http://cubian.org 2 GB Swapfile (SATA HD) US$ 49 I’ve written a tutorial on how to install Cubian to a SATA HD here. The main reason why I’m doing a SATA HD Install for this is to preserve my micro-SD’s lifetime. We’re gonna be compiling and doing I/O intensive tasks so it’s best to delegate off the micro-SD card. ...

January 16, 2014 · Batista Harahap

Cloud Install Linux With a Browser!

So these past days, I’ve been looking for a nifty replacement (new home) for hostingMUREH.com - The only webhosting with 10 gigs web space for just 200K/year! Sorry for the hard selling gesture, completely intentional :p After a few sessions with Google, I stumbled CloudSigma.com, it comes with a 7 days free trial I might add. First look at its website does not resemble anything like the other cloud server providers. No fancy stuffs, the get right to the point. ...

January 5, 2011 · Batista Harahap