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ICY DOCK 6 Bay Enclosure

Add drives to a Linux RAID for more storage

Ed Brandon  -  October 10, 2022

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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My New Mini Home Proxmox Server

Ed Brandon  -  August 11, 2022

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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Uptime-Kuma Status Page

Monitor your Home Network easily with Uptime-Kuma

Ed Brandon  -  March 31, 2022

Uptime-Kuma – An easy way to monitor your home network or lab Since I’ve setup my Docker Swarm cluster and have added many smart home devices to my network there was always something that maybe was not working as it should. I wanted a easy way to monitor your home network. I’ve used Nagios in...

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