Just want to check how people are doing offsite backups nowadays?

I have grown out of my "a NAS at a relative's place" arrangement so am in need of some ideas. I used to do Crashplan many years ago so I'm guessing Backblaze is the new Crashplan?

Hey folks, About three months ago, I repurposed my ThinkPad W520 into a private cloud server. In that time, it became my Swiss Army knife: an image server, an IoT device dashboard, a Nextcloud instance, and a Docker apps playground. I was even planning on adding a CI/CD pipeline and more services. Yesterday, though, I tried tweaking the BIOS to get more out of the GPU (without installing proper drivers first). You can guess the rest—now it’s bricked.

Anyone else been here? Any advice on unbricking a ThinkPad after a BIOS misconfig?

I’ve been working in IT liquidation for a while, and every now and then we come across some truly bizarre stuff — servers still powered on in abandoned racks, ancient tape drives, random 90s gear tucked away in a data center corner… you name it.

Curious — what’s the strangest or oldest piece of hardware you’ve come across in the wild? Could be something funny, nostalgic, or just plain confusing.

Always cool to hear what’s out there — and who knows, maybe someone’s got a room full of floppy disks they forgot about 😄

Hello everyone,
I currently have several servers, mostly r620s, and I’ve been calculating the costs of running them at home (electricity, additional bandwidth, static IPs). For someone living in Belgium, it seems more cost-effective to colocate them in Germany rather than hosting them at my place.

So how do you guys manage to keep those chunky racks at your homes? Also, how do you handle IP addresses? I’m assuming you don’t have IPv4 blocks, right?

Thanks in advance!

So. I'm using a desktop PC, an homemade NAS PC, an Intel NUC an a Dell Wyse 5070 all connected together on a shelf on wheels. It's not perfect but it's nice enough for me for doing some networking dev in between games. I use a cheap DP KVM with only two ports split between my NUC and PC, with two 15m fiber cables (USB and DP) going all the way to my desk to keep the noise and heat away from me.

This is all well and good, but I had very poor behaviour when switching back and forth between devices. I've successfully attributed this problem to the lack of EDID emulation. The NUC has an option in BIOS to keep displaying to HDMI even if screen gets disconnected. this combined with an HDMI to DP converter, makes this device work, no issues. Desktop uses AMD card (I use linux on it too), and so fat I haven't found a way to prevent unplugging screen from breaking display apps.

Since I need to upgrade that old cheap kvm to have 4 inputs (and possibly to add another display to my desk), I've considered the possibility to switch to a HDMI KVM with emulation builtin, and possibly using a trustworthy brand instead of some cheap amazon brand. I saw Level1Techs offer EDID emulation only for their HDMI KVM. Price is steep too (and taxes might hurt me even more because I'm in Europe). Do you have any recommendations for me, to be able to use my NUC as a desktop when I don't need high performances, and debug my NUC or Wyse with their TTY ?

I've got an i5 13 500 and am currently looking at motherboards. I'm aware that asrock boards usuallly have some diffculty enabling higher c states. I've also seen online that some boards say they will support higher c states but then actually don't ?? Is there anyway of identifying this before hand or is the only way to rely on other users results with a specific board?

Hi, I'm currently going in and out of history searches and stuff in the info section of this subreddit, but honestly it's a lot of info, so any pointers or links is greatly appreciated.

I'm looking to get into home labs and servers while building my IT and coding knowledge. I've built my own pc, done some upgrades to laptops, a bit familiar with web development although that was over a decade ago. I figured the best way to go about this is to have tangible goals to work on and trouble shoot. I want to start out building a media server and beginner home lab, for the media server I was hoping to use my desktop that I built around 2020.

Ryzen 7 3700X, Sapphire Nitro + SE 5500 XT, 32gb ddr4 3200 CL16 ram, 1tb ssd (gonna swap to as large a capacity hard drive as I can get, maybe throw in some spare m.2 2280 ssd to fill in the slots on the motherboard), MSI MPG B550 Gaming Edge Plus.

Would that be ok for the media server, and then what would be a good beginner budget build for a homelab?

Starting out I can use virtual machines for practice and such, using a Thinkpad X1 Extreme gen2 as my daily driver atm, just installed 64gb ram and a 4tb Samsung 990 Evo Plus with Windows 11 and about to add a 2tb WD N570 to dual boot a Linux based OS when I decide which one, but this way I'll be good to experiment quite a bit.