technical A USB Fan Controller that now works under Linux Relying on the built-in motherboard headers on server grade motherboards to reliably control fans with Linux has been a crapshoot since forever. I'm pleased to report that last summer the Corsair Commander Pro received native Linux kernel driver support in the 5.9 release.
technical Scrutiny - A SMART Hard Drive Monitoring tool Scrutiny is a (currently) closed source SMART hard drive monitoring tool with a pretty web interface and integration with Backblazes' excellent quarterly stats.
hardware Awesomo Server - Build Log Entry #2 Things were getting a bit toasty in there. The watercooled Xeon E5 2690 v2 CPUs themselves were fine sitting at around 40c but the PCH (kind of like the Southbridge) and RAM were hitting 70c+ constantly.
linux New server build log That means I need a lot of threads and a lot of memory and a lot of storage.
technical New Hard Drive Rituals That new hard drive. Should you trust it? Maybe. Edit: This article was originally published on https://blog.linuxserver.io. Over the last 10 years that I've been messing around
opinion pfSense APU 1D 4GB early review After many years of telling myself I didn't need one finally this week, I purchased a dedicated pfSense box. The unit is the LinITX APU 1D 4GB from linitx.com.
