Rui CarmoYeah, I skipped a few weeks’ worth of notes, but the gist of things is that I moved to a new role, had a grueling first week (wasn’t able to leave the house for breaks), slept through most of Saturday and am still trying to figure out where all my free time went.
The high point of the week is that I got a TerraMaster F4-424 MAX NAS in the post, courtesy of Wendell Wilson from Level1Techs–that was (mostly) unexpected, very touching (I appreciate it tremendously), and the starting point for a great project to tackle over the next few weeks (maybe months).
But, overall, it is funny because a few months ago TerraMaster point blank refused to collaborate with me unless I published their press releases (which would make absolutely no sense). And it is also a bit tragic because the hardware is excellent and they are shooting themselves in the foot with that ridiculous requirement.
After dropping in a couple of SSDs for a redundant OS disk, I am now in the process of scrounging together the cash to upgrade the RAM to at least 64GB and get enough NAS HDDs to rotate my existing stock into it, but the fact that the thing is running Ubuntu 22.04 on a 10-core 12th Gen i5-1235U and has dual 10GbE ports makes it an amazing homelab platform.
I can’t wait to set it up properly and install Proxmox, since I want to shut down rogueone, re-purpose the ancient i7 in it and further consolidate my cluster, which thanks to the CM3588 now hosting my ARM64 workloads is down to five nodes instead of seven.
But first, I’m going to take another SBC off the shelf and see if I can do a bit more testing before Monday rolls along.