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Stardate: 20220118.1646 | |
Location: xiled rumination concentrator | |
Input Device: xrc console | |
Audio: aNONradio - The Resistance with DJ bronzie94 | |
Visual: xrc interior, interior LED colers fading, cycling. | |
Emotional State: alert, with m0ar coffee! | |
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Continuing where I left off from my last phost [1] | |
The desk that I found at Guitar Center that was able to house my | |
rackmounted equipment was the Studio RTA Producer Station.[2] I | |
bought the maple version. Music studio furniture is not cheap, but I | |
found the price of this one to be reasonable for what I was prepared | |
to spend on a computer desk. The desk has rack space on top and to | |
the left and the right sides of the desk. I have disassembled and | |
reassembled the desk for 3 moves and it is still in great shape. It | |
is still my main battlestation in the lab. | |
Fast-forward to now. I have aging rackmounted equipment in the lab, | |
some of which is active, some powered on occasionally, some filling | |
in rack space, and some piled up next to my desk. I have re-gifted | |
some rackmounted devices previously and have kept the small pile for | |
parts or to repurpose. | |
For some time I have been contemplating repurposing one of the | |
4U cases to house a bunch of single board computers, but it seemed | |
a bit much for what I would need so I put this idea off to the side | |
until recently, when my year-end backups were being completed and I | |
needed to rebuild my NAS. Since I had some hardware and some time, | |
I decided to revisit the idea and build something. I ended up | |
repurposing a 1U 16-port 10/100 switch[3] to house 2 Raspberry Pi | |
NAS servers. | |
The 1U switch was in the pile next to my desk and was no longer | |
being used on my network. It had noisy fan problems and was used | |
just for testing. I decided to use this for the NAS. | |
I started opening up the case and removing the internals.[4] I | |
took out the power supply and decided to read the specifications on | |
the label.[5] Output: +5VDC @ 8A. The Raspberry Pis run off of | |
5 volts DC, so I decided to repurpose the power supply as well. | |
Originally, I was just going to use the case and figure out | |
something for the power, but didn't have to, so I cleaned up the | |
power supply and mounted it back inside the case. | |
OK, that's it for now. I have other matters to attend to. | |
[1] 20220117_1u_pi_nas_1of2 | |
[2] Studio RTA Producer Station | |
[3] Pic: Old 1U 16-port 10/100 NWay Switch (pre-mod) | |
[4] Pic: Switch internals | |
[5] Pic: Power supply label | |
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