Health Of Hard Drives

Posted on November 13, 2025 by larry

Last night I had a scare, one of the archive checksums did not match up.

Luckily got backups and it was discovered while I was replacing the hard drives.

One thing I been on lately is checking on the health of my hard drives. I can’t do much for the ESXi hosts, but I can do for the physical hosts especially the linux ones.

I found a couple of bad drives, one in my media center and another one in my filer.

Heat is also an issue so I am putting in monitors for all of that.

Finally, I have not been backing up my desktop since I got it, no drive space left.

I have ordered a couple of hard drives, one to replace the bad drive in my filer another to add media capacity, and finally one to backup my data.

Weight: 325.6

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Accidental JBOD

Posted on November 12, 2025 by larry

This JBOD backplane came in yesterday from aliexpress. I didn’t have plans for it but it was cheap and was worth a look. Turned out to burn a hole in my wallet.

Has huge promise, got a few things to test it out. Hoping to get it rack mounted this weekend.

Oh yeah need a new rack now.

Looks like this kicks of my 2026 network reorg plans.

Weight: 323.8

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Repeating Blog Post Titles

Posted on November 11, 2025 by larry

Was about to title this Cleaning Up Network, yesterday I was going to post it as back to swim. I am starting to notice I have so many posts, the titles are getting reused.

Anyway, I am cleaning up my network, something low effort I can do. One thing I started today was to clean up my influxdb telegraf database. As I post it is currently backing up. Should be done tomorrow morning and I can remove some older records.

The database needs some serious cleaning up.

No workout today, felt weak and tired all day.

Weight: 328.2

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Back To Swimming Routine

Posted on November 10, 2025 by larry

Back in the pool today, got to admit, I was kind of off, almost was late, forgot my locker combination, almost forgot my swimming headphones, had to think about what I needed.

Also to add to the confusion it was cold.

Went to OT today, convinced to get a new chair, looks like my arms need to be higher.

Figured out how to use device id instead of device name in nagios. Should make things more reliable.

So instead of using /dev/sda I would use something like /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_XXXXX

Weight going down though, am tired should sleep well.

Weight: 324.8

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Living Room Rack

Posted on November 9, 2025 by larry

Here is another rack I just finished. This one services the living room entertainment area.

Note the Rpi on the top, I am considering using one of the blank areas below for it.

As I was building this, I was thinking about redoing my entertainment media both the front end and the back end.

Seahawks won today, my Windows 11 is mostly built.

Weight: 325.6

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Windows 11 Rebuilt

Posted on November 8, 2025 by larry

I finally rebuilt my desktop, I spent most of the day getting my data backed up and restored.

Ninite is awesome, got a lot of my apps installed quickly.

Remember the launcher from a few days ago, that helped a lot too.

One hiccup was the X520-D2 drivers. Had to hand install that.

Still a lot to go, want to document install what I need.

Weight: 326.0

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Running Errands

Posted on November 7, 2025 by larry

Today went to Factoria to throw away some syringes at their hazardous waste facitility.

Kind of shows how many needles and autoinjectors went through our home.

Reminds me of how sick Toto was getting, but also told me these meds helped cause I was getting better.

Hit the gym today, not sure if I made up enough of yesterday, but I did average 3.1 MPH for most of my 30 minute run, the only time not at 3.1 was when I was ramping it up at the beginning.

I think next week I gonna go back to the pool. I told myself when I hit 3.0 or higher I will return to the pool.

It is time.

Did a bunch of errands today, even the front yard is clean. Had to clear out my schedule for tomorrow where I rebuild my desktop.

Weight: 325.6

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Too Cold Too Tired

Posted on November 6, 2025 by larry

Didn’t get my steps like I planned, been really wet and cold and not ready to put myself through that yet. Also I been worn down, need some sleep. I thought I went to bed early enough but was still tired.

I did figure out how to authenticate apache against ldap via SSL on to a webdav folder. I was then able to add a mapping to the folder. Now I can transfer files via port 443.

I thinking of going to bed early today.

Weight: 328.2

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Weird Problem With KVMHOST

Posted on November 5, 2025 by larry

Struggled a bit today trying to get my KVMHOST to communicate at 1000mb Full. Ran the following and I think it worked

  • nmcli connection modify enp0 802-3-ethernet.speed 1000
  • nmcli connection modify enp0s31f6 802-3-ethernet.auto-negotiate no
  • nmcli connection modify enp0s31f6 802-3-ethernet.duplex full
  • nmcli con down enp0
  • nmcli con up enp0
  • ethtool enp0

A full reboot seems to work and moving it from a cheap netgear switch to the mikrotik also helped.

Strange thing is it did work in the past on the netgear.

Starting to get into a normal pattern, went to gym again. But need normal sleep.

Also wondering if cold is hitting me weird.

Weight: 327.2

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Election Day

Posted on November 4, 2025 by larry

First time in the history of our household we all voted. Very happy for my family we can do that in our country.

Was a pretty overcast day, got my fitbit steps done.

Was speaking to a coworker telling her how I am seeking to regain balance in my life, which is true. I owe so much money right now, it looks like I am going to tap into our emergency funds.

Planning next years goals, they include some financial some network.

Ordered another 32GB of RAM, RAM prices are nuts and news says they will not be going down.

  • In July 32GB was 77.20
  • In September 32GB was 72.19
  • Later in September, same 32GB 74.92
  • Today 32GB 116.91

Nuts.

Weight: 326.2

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