@lookitsrain9552
You are extremely lucky with the psu cables not frying any major components. PSA to everyone reading this: never use psu cables from another psu unless you are 100% sure the pinout is the same, even psus of the same exact model can be different internally
@JeffGeerling
6:24 you're welcome! That guide has come in handy now twice more for me, glad you could also benefit from it :)
@kasomoru6
Not having any friends gifting me $7000 cpu's and companies sending me top notch parts is what's holding me back.......
@Tyranticore
I made the Pin out mistake many years back …. That was my first plex server. Destroyed all the drives. It was 2x2tb drives so the restoration was relatively minor Tough lesson to be learned
@eggman9713
The biggest thing holding me back from my homelab projects right now is the lack of fiber internet to my house. So much data I need to upload to remote storage for backup but 40 megabits doesn't cut it for many terabytes of storage. It's been 3 years since most of my neighborhood got fiber except for a little area around my house. Until this week, when they finally started running fiber mains along the poles near my and I should have up to 5 gig fiber internet within the next 1-2 months!
@gomezadams9900
Hi Tim, I had decided to also do a major upgrade to my home server system although not as extreme as yours. My initial goal was to build a small rack system with something like a synology RS422+, but my wife chimed in and I was "encouraged" to go with the DS923+ with 3-12 +1-10 TB drives which replaced my aging 918+ with 4-4TB drives. I bought the M2 Mac mini with replaced my M1 Macbook Air. Everything is now powered by a TKL 8 outlet power controller sequencer. My 923 is now my main server while the 918 is used as backup. I expect that I might still need to upgrade the drives in the backup server when they run out of available storage. But as much as I like the WOW factor on your setup; mine will serve me well enough for my movies, TV shows, music libraries and photos. But I still like to watch what you do with your Lab even if the tech is a bit over my head.
@cjhan47
I used to have a bathroom vanity that had 8 incandescent light bulbs at 100 watts each. It's crazy to me that now you can run this type of hardware for less than a quarter of the power it took just to power one small vanity in a bathroom.
@michaelrobinson9643
Tim its likely not interference losing you zigbee connectivity on the lighting. You have a small gain antenna and small signal amp inside a solid metal shell. The metal shell will absorb the radiated signal. 2.4GHz won't have the energy to penetrate and your grills etc will still mess with it. I would suggest a composite or non metallic window or at least for a test run the dongle outside the case to see how it goes. I tend to fit a small plug to my cases and have my emitter/antenna where I want and a small cable connects to the case. You could do this too for the lighting, even with a small hole just as a passthrough. I have observed interference from 2.4 and 5GHz emitters being used in close proximity to other electronics so do be cautious about using radios inside a case. For a sense of context, I am a radiated and conducted emissions Specialist for the Australian Military (now retired). My work was to integrate systems accomodating EMI/EEE or determine how it led to incidents (plane crash, exploding panels etc).
@synkoptik5
wow hooked up! good catch on those pin outs. Thanks
@Ayjrin
I chuckle every time you say Noctua.
@jonathanchevallier7046
Very nice beast. Thank you for this video Tim.
@JasonsLabVideos
Patrick is SO AWESOME !!
@GenieAJ
Great video! I've been remotely managing my homelab for the past year.. can't wait to get back home to do some upgrades!
@RoloSolis81
Daaaang! Do a video like this with the new 5U HL15!
@IssaSNIPER
I ran into the same issue with PSU cables—while the connectors are standardized, the pinouts aren’t, which can be really dangerous. I accidentally mixed up cables between an ASUS and a Thermaltake PSU, and it ended up frying my AIO cooler which has SATA connection (luckily nothing else was damaged). Always double-check compatibility, even if the connectors look the same!
@phesterful
My guess is that the steel box of the server case is a Faraday shield that will block radio in / out of the case.
@GearSeekers
I dig it! Turned out awesome!
@localadm
With no purple lamps this episode looks a bit like you selling computer stuff on QVC.
@haroldfong8758
An upgrade lots of people can actually relate to. Love it, apart from the 160w idle draw.
@thesargonas