Summer Clean on the PCs
It is summertime. A lot of people like to do the summer cleaning. For me, I would like to clean my PC. In my house, there are three PCs. Including mine, my daughter’s, and my wife’s and son’s desktop. I...
MediaWiki upgrade to 1.40.0
I have a MediaWiki installation in my Home Lab. It is for my own internal purpose. There are many sensitive information. So there is no way to access it from the Internet. The MediaWiki installation was 1.39.2. To upgrade the...
Upgrade the PC BIOS firmware
It is time to check the BIOS version of my PC. I do regular maintenance for a few months. The upgrade procedure is the same as before. The motherboard is Asus PRIME B450M-A II. The version of BIOS on the...
How much power does a NAS use?
It is a question. And I have the answer. I used an Ammeter to measure the power consumption of the 4-bay NAS system. The NAS is built based on the U-NAS hardware. HARDWARE INFORMATION CPU Model: Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU J3160 @...
How to save the energy bill with the home lab servers
All the home lab servers are running 24 hours, 7 days. So power consumption is one of the critical facts of maintenance. Reduce it to save your electrical bill. For my Proxmox VE machine. The hardware specs: Motherboard: Gigabyte B450M...
Speed Test – Cloudflare
Recently I saw a tweet talking about the speed test tools powered by Cloudflare. It is so cool. The speed test checks the Internet Speed and every small segment. For example, my Internet is 100MB download /10MB upload with CIK...
Upgrade RAM of my Proxmox VE Host
My Proxmox VE is running on the old PC. Motherboard: Gigabyte B450M DS3H CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 2400G RAM: 2X8GB 2400Mhz DDR4 Storage: 1TB NVMe SSD, WD Blue SN570 Last week, I ordered a 2X8GB kit on Amazon.ca. Cost me...
How I choose VM CPU type in Proxmox VE
I just upgrade my Proxmox VE to the latest v8.0.3. The release notes said the default CPU type of the new VM is X86-64-v2-AES. The x86-64-v2-AES model is the new default CPU type for VMs created via the web interface....
Upgrade Proxmox from 7.4.15 to 8.0.3
I saw the news of the release of Proxmox VE 8. It is a big version upgrade and a lot of changes to the system. I have the PVE running in my HomeLab. Today is a great day, Sunday, a...
Fix the Xbox by upgrading the HDD to SSD
My Xbox One S game console is over five years. Since last winter, I sometimes get stuck when I play the game. The Xbox One S replaced the Xbox 360 which was 6 years old. So I am thinking about...
Full Error Scan on the 1TB Toshiba hard drive
Today, I leave the error scan running on my computer. The hard drive, 1TB Toshiba 2.5″, took from Xbox One S. It took over seven hours to finish. The report as below. HD Tune Pro: ExternalUSB3.0 Error Scan Scanned data...
Toshiba External Hard Drive
In Jan. 2020, I bought a Toshiba External Hard Drive, 2TB as the external storage for Xbox One S. Because the games are bigger and bigger. I feel the internal 1TB storage will be full soon. You can still buy...
One more test on HDD
I did some tests of the HDD I took down from Xbox One S yesterday. Later, I get the software, HD Tune Pro 5.75 to do the surface check of it. The S.M.A.R.T Health information is as below. The C5...
Check the HDD health
I took down the HDD from my Xbox One S console today. it is a Toshiba HDD. Toshiba Disk Drive MQ01ABD100 Drive REV AGM AB01/AX102V DC +5V 1.0A Date: 10 May 2016 5400RPM Buffer Size: 8MB MTTF: 600000h Interface: SATA...
Recent trial of VPS
Recently, I did some trial use on the following VPS. Hetzner Google Cloud Contabo Vultr Oracle Cloud Oracle Cloud https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vQLu9_T0iljC3jhWmRIgOFA7rdiLM3s-FcKl-EMXgL_7Fh6htcqZRqcClwFBsBKmBQThYmhmU6zshjP/pubhtml?gid=0&single=true