I’m not tech illiterate, but it’s also not my job or anything. That said I managed to figure out how to get a synology up and running and it hosts my Jellyfin and *arrs. Nothing too exciting. I also have a couple of vps’s that I use for nextcloud, a recipe server, all in docker containers. Not nothing but also, not the hardest thing to accomplish.
Well, my manager gifted me an old Dell PowerEdge R720 and 4 hard drives. Yeah, this is way more than I know what to do with, or even where to start. Do I need to plug both power cables in? I still need to figure out how to get a monitor hooked up to it with what looks to be a VGA cable. And even then this thing is a behemoth and what do I even do with it?? My manager was so excited to talk to me about it and I’m all 😵💫
Where do I start?
Yeah, I’m glad I don’t work with enterprise gear anymore, I swear I have permanent hearing damage from the server room…
My current setup is an old PC, a Raspberry Pi, and a Mikrotik router. Oh, and a VPS because CGNAT. Everything is quiet, and soon I’ll replace the old PC with something more power efficient (currently sucks 50W or so idle for no good reason).
Honestly you might. I bring my earplugs any time I go into the server room. And a jacket, because it’s nipple-crinkling cold in there. Or I stand in the hot aisle next to the SANs while I’m waiting for something.
Member when a single lightbulb was fucking 70-100W? What a shit hole civilization.