2025-01-19
Today I (Femi) made a lot of progress on my personal server! Grief found this old tower computer for me in the RISD E-Waste pile alongside a bunch of old mac laptops and other desktop towers. We gutted it and put in a new graphics card and 5 4tb hard drives, and a ssd to boot from. The server is running linux debian, with no desktop. It's set up in a Raid array. Today we got it hooked up to a network so that i could start uploading files to the server via rsync on the same ip. We had some trouble finding a good 3d print file for the hard drive holder but we just ended up zip-tieing it and it was fine. I used Grief's spellbook to set up most of the raid array and figure out file transferring as we updated it. The 4tb external ssd that had my entire life of files on it was wrapped in gaffer tape along eith 3 other external hard drives, so I had them all in one place. We ripped these apart, in an attempt to extract the ssd from the enclosure for faster transfer times, but the enclosure was too tightly closed, and it seemed as though it would not be one of the drives that would allow us to separate the ssd.
