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What's going on on your servers?

I had to bite the bullet and buy new drives after the old ones filled up. I went for used enterprise SSDs on eBay and eventually found some that had an okay price, even though it's been much more than last time I got some. Combined with Hetzner's hefty price increase some month ago, my hobby has become a bit more expensive again thanks to the ever growing appetite of companies building more data centers to churn more energy.

Anyways, the drives are in, my Ansible playbook to properly encrypt them and make them available in Proxmox worked, so that was smooth (ignoring the part where I disassembled the Lenovo tiny from the rack, open it, SSD out, SSD in, close it and put it back in only to realize I put in the old ssd again).

Any changes in your hardware setups? Did the price increase make you reconsider some design decisions? Let us know!

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[–] TheRagingGeek@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah it was pretty crazy I’ve heard ram tends to go obsolete before it dies, but I do have a potential root cause, I did notice after hooking up the new motherboard that the side and back case fans weren’t plugged in, they were routed through a cheap case rgb controller board which must’ve fallen off the tape in the back side of the case, so I’m guessing thermals took them out and 1 just happened to survive(likely the one furthest from the CPU)

[–] SpikesOtherDog@ani.social 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Woof, good theory. There is (or at least used to be) a section of board next to the CPU that controls the voltage, inherently controlling the internal clock speed and the FSB. As the temps increased, resistances and compositions possibly changed, causing that area to perform out of spec, theoretically damaging the board, CPU and memory.

Just to be safe though, I would not trust that PSU either. Another idea is that the PSU was malfunctioning and sent inconsistent voltages, resulting in a multi-component failure.

If you were a business that could afford to gamble on it I'd say risk it. $50 is a low cost for peace of mind. That PSU can go to local market at $10, with a disclaimer.

[–] TheRagingGeek@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The power supply is a bit on the older side it’s a TX650 gold. So it will probably be the next thing my platform sees in terms of update

[–] SpikesOtherDog@ani.social 2 points 1 day ago

$60 seems to be the comparable price. I'd buy now before there is a run on PSUs.