{"id":8868,"date":"2019-06-22T21:40:57","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T04:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/?p=8868"},"modified":"2019-06-22T21:40:57","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T04:40:57","slug":"this-new-server-taking-a-lot-of-resources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/?p=8868","title":{"rendered":"This New Server Taking A Lot of Resources"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By resources I do not mean CPU and RAM, but something more valuable, time and money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am all in, and I want to see this server to completion, but man it is costing way more than the deal was supposed to be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am still tallying up the damage but here are some points<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>CPU was lacking, so I ordered a pair that is much faster then the single CPU in the server,  the pair was cheap, less than $20, but the heatsink, that was $60<\/li><li>The S300 that was in it is windows only, I found one that was ESXi and Linux friendly, but it crashed every time I tried to format a disk.  Furthermore, it really wanted to use hardware RAID.<\/li><li>Luckily, I found an H310 at a local electronics recycling shop, the nice lady even gave me a discount for not only the cards, but two dual 1G NICS.<\/li><li>But the H310 card used a different connector, not only that but the power connector was not common, luckily it is not proprietary.  But it was a time sink trying to find a power and storage adapter solution.<\/li><li>One issue is the cable is soooo expensive, more expensive then the server, like $130, so I am opting for an adapter instead, ordered one, hopefully it will work.<\/li><li>I thought I was done with all my problems, then as I try to install a hard drive, it came as a surprise that the brackets that were including in the unit were the wrong one.  I was going to head out to try and find a new one, but the time sink to figure out what type of bracket I needed was huge, I found 4 for $10 on ebay, I needed 6 so I had to order another 4 making it $20<\/li><li>This does not include other little components like video, keyboard, power, and mice, but I have those lying around.<\/li><li>This does not include hard drives or memory.  To be fair, any new server would have gotten new hard drives anyway.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking of hard drives<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another time sync were hard drives and why I do new with the servers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>My daughter PC months ago, I replaced the SSD and I just got around to checking it out, not going to call out the vendor, but I would like to see how they handle Warranty replacement.<\/li><li>Another huge time sink was my plex media center, I forgot the drive was refurb, it was a time sink as well.  Drive is such junk, not even Linux can detect it anymore.<\/li><li>I want to use a WD Black drive in another new rig I have, but I tried to back up the data, I did, but I also wanted a clone image for a few months.  I don&#8217;t know why but clonezilla fails.  I am going to try another version.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway there you have it.  A bunch of deferred IT problems, I just need to hit it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By resources I do not mean CPU and RAM, but something more valuable, time and money. 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