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Busy busy month guys. I told you guys I was going to my friends’ wedding, that was so so much fun. I’m so happy for Vaughn and Vivi, I’m so grateful they let me be a part of it. It was a great weekend.
I’ve been doing a little bit more with proxmox and truenas recently. I still need to make a video or something to show off my homelab. I’m finally understanding a good way to mesh the 2 together in a way that makes sense and solves some of the issues I’ve been having with them both.
In short I have 2x512Gb ssds mirrored for my boot drives for proxmox, I have 2x18Tb drives mirrored for storage mounted directly in proxmox, and then I have 2x12Tb drives mirrored and passed through a sata conroller into a vm of truenas for storage as well. I was sorta using the truenas drives as a backup for the 18Tb drives, but I didn’t really like that, and the 18Tb drives were sometimes being used for container storage which is not good from what I’ve read. I don’t know why I did that to begin with.
I think what I want to do is shrink everything to fit on the 12Tb drives, get everything off of the 18Tb drives and then move them into truenas and then use truenas for all the storage. Then I should probably get another 2 ssds for container storage in proxmox and get all the containers off of my boot drives. I also was mounting nfs shares into lxcs directly instead of having proxmox mount them and then passing them through to the lxc.
What made me start researching this is I wanted to host RomM, a really nice front end for my roms that I have. I ordered an AYN Thor, so I wanted an easy way to download roms straight to the device instead of dealing with sd cards and moving stuff back and forth. I hear that the Cocoon launcher is going to add native support for RomM, which sounds super badass. I’m very excited. I’m also excited to get my server to a really good point. I even want to build 1 or 2 more for an “offsite” (different room) backup so I have something real professional going on.
If you have a Letterboxd account and want to keep up with me, my friends and I are going to be watching a bunch of horror movies this upcoming month. We did it last year and I had a lot of fun. This gives me a way to watch stuff I usually wouldn’t watch, and we get to see some of the classics. Here is the list.
Hopefully this time next month I’ll have my Thor and I can give it a review and show you guys more. For now that’s gonna be it. Happy October!
PS: I forgot to include some tags on last month’s blog. I went and added them, so that might mess with your RSS reader if you use one, sorry! I’ve added default tags to the template now that hopefully will fix that issue moving forward.