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(DIR) Post #AzRVRSipdyHAYAGbpo by fox@social.hostnetwork.xyz
2025-10-04T19:39:08Z
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can anyone suggest me any cool things i can do with 212gb of free ram?#selfhosting #homelab #server
(DIR) Post #AzRVRTx34bF4MXvTdI by ShredderFeeder@shredderfood.com
2025-10-21T18:50:23Z
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@fox My TrueNas has 256G in it, about a dozen containers running including an ollama AI model, and whatever is left is automatically dedicated to ZFS cache. :)
(DIR) Post #AzRZRZWekPqVT3sb3I by fox@social.hostnetwork.xyz
2025-10-21T19:35:17Z
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@ShredderFeeder i dont like to run stuff on truenas since for me its rather jank, i only host stuff on it if it needs large amounts of storage and doesnt work with/support my S3. and i still have engouth ram in my truenas vm for zfs to take which is not taking more.
(DIR) Post #AzSiNvZJwaMBQ6QHB2 by ShredderFeeder@shredderfood.com
2025-10-21T23:12:28Z
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@fox I don't run VMs in truenas...but an R730 with 12x 20tb drives for my plex/*arr setup, I have an R630 esx server with a half terabyte of DDR4 for VMs, and another R630 single node nutanix with a quarter terabyte, and an R630 HyperV box with a quarter terabyte that also houses a virtual rubric. (6x 5tb drives for backup)And the electricity bill that goes with it. ;-)
(DIR) Post #AzSjSqSiSPKwz6F5PM by fox@social.hostnetwork.xyz
2025-10-22T09:02:16Z
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@ShredderFeeder im 96gb short of half a terrabyte of ram. The electricity bill is what stops me from running anything more then my main server(i have a entire bladesystem lol). Also can you send a *fetch of your strongest server?
(DIR) Post #AzT3yJsF9Yl0GPT5BQ by ShredderFeeder@shredderfood.com
2025-10-22T12:52:01Z
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@fox Oh god bladecenters suck up electricity. No I stick with the pizza boxes except for the R730XD which runs truenas, it's a 2U, 12x3.5" bay monster. Even running an NVidia 2070 I had lying around for the Plex Transcoding and AI containers.But by far, my "strongest" system is my workstation. ;-)(Sending because none of the other systems are capable of fastfetch)
(DIR) Post #AzT8GgCRHjF2XDvONc by fox@social.hostnetwork.xyz
2025-10-22T13:40:12Z
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@ShredderFeeder only 64gb of ram and swap enabled? Also I dont have a bladecenter, IBM stuff is too fancy for me, I have a half broken hp bladesystem C3000. The only server I have running is my huge 6u ML350G9
(DIR) Post #AzT9im7cxWUoxudQPY by ShredderFeeder@shredderfood.com
2025-10-22T13:55:55Z
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@fox Yeah, just reinstalled last week and haven't turned swap off, this is a good reminder. 64G is fine for a workstation/gaming PC. :) Don't see the need to go higher as I don't virtualize anything under it. Jesus that blade is a beast. What do you use the GPUs for? Mining or AI?I may add one more R630 running proxmox just to round out my hypervisor experience. I tried proxmox a while back and was unimpressed with both the interface and the setup.. I have an older R720 (DDR3) with about 120TB of ram sitting on a shelf, maybe I'll dust it off and see if it still boots.
(DIR) Post #AzTCRfJjJ0rUnfpRVw by fox@social.hostnetwork.xyz
2025-10-22T14:27:00Z
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@ShredderFeeder is the 120TB a typo?I dont use the gpus for ai, well i used the k80 for ai but then the ai made it braindead? But the gpu stuff is for vdi.Also my current workstation has 128gb of ram amd winfetch doesnt say it but i have 2 cpus in it.
(DIR) Post #AzTCdXRIQCETqH1sUS by ShredderFeeder@shredderfood.com
2025-10-22T14:29:06Z
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@fox No, that's my old NAS that I decommed in favor of the new R730 w/ 240TB. ;-)I keep a running resource graph at all times on my case display, It never gets over 50% even when gaming, so I think I'm good.
(DIR) Post #AzTDJ7Hs2oUmtaRkiO by fox@social.hostnetwork.xyz
2025-10-22T14:36:40Z
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@ShredderFeeder you wrote 120TB of ram lol
(DIR) Post #AzTDM5pZuomvFPdGng by ShredderFeeder@shredderfood.com
2025-10-22T14:37:11Z
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@fox Oh, LOL, that's funny, will correct. 120TB of Disk, 192GB of Ram. ;-)
(DIR) Post #AzTHqgrbC2icbeQHXk by ShredderFeeder@shredderfood.com
2025-10-22T15:27:06Z
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@fox Running Windows on a Mac-Pro seems like the worst of both worlds. ;-)
(DIR) Post #AzTIOcweGiuyIay1WS by fox@social.hostnetwork.xyz
2025-10-22T15:33:41Z
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@ShredderFeeder How?
(DIR) Post #AzTNVSatePdhzhs1tA by ShredderFeeder@shredderfood.com
2025-10-22T16:30:30Z
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@fox Shitty OS running on super-expensive proprietary hardware. ;-)I mean, you're running a 2011 processor and DDR3 ram.. The whole thing is kind of an antique actually, I just threw my last two R820's in the dump because I couldn't sell them even at $250 each with a terabyte of ram..
(DIR) Post #AzTQpvI2y9gweCVEES by fox@social.hostnetwork.xyz
2025-10-22T17:08:16Z
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@ShredderFeeder mac os is way worse then windows. Also a TB of ddr3 ram for 250usd sounds like a pretty good deal, sad to see such hardware get tossed away.
(DIR) Post #AzTTmPSt8awcwAaduK by ShredderFeeder@shredderfood.com
2025-10-22T17:41:13Z
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@fox That's like saying bear shit is worse dog shit to step in. Both are inherently unpleasant. ;-) It's funny, I was able to rip the ram out of the boxes and sell the ram separately on bay for more than I would have gotten for the servers with the ram in them. I sold 64 32g sticks for $10/each, and it took less than a week to have unloaded all of them.I'm booting the R720 now to put proxmox on it. Do you know if it prefers HBA mode vs Raid mode on the controller?
(DIR) Post #AzTUTRGOKKE8y1GKq8 by fox@social.hostnetwork.xyz
2025-10-22T17:49:01Z
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@ShredderFeeder i would assume HBA since its not 2010 anymore but idrk since I forwarded my HBA to my truenas vm
(DIR) Post #AzTVSJoEehkBVs7eYS by ShredderFeeder@shredderfood.com
2025-10-22T18:00:00Z
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@fox Looks like if you're using ZFS HBA mode is recomended, hardware raid for anything else. interesting. I have 12x 10TB drives, I'll probably throw them all at it in a raid-10 ish setup for playing with. Not really worried about performance on this one. And the R720 has a GTX1080TI so I can even throw some GPU at it if it supports it. Good learning experience. (I don't see a lot of Proxmox at work, so it's not really been a focus for me)
(DIR) Post #AzTZfAvtMwa9Z35dMe by fox@social.hostnetwork.xyz
2025-10-22T18:47:09Z
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@ShredderFeeder on mac os i wouldnt be able to use any mordern software and only be able to use a limited ammount of mac edition gpus, also windows just runs faster then mac os.
(DIR) Post #AzTZk85PNbbmBSu4Js by fox@social.hostnetwork.xyz
2025-10-22T18:48:03Z
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@ShredderFeeder you should try running vdi with the 1080ti
(DIR) Post #AzTacLrUNY7EXsFQO0 by ShredderFeeder@shredderfood.com
2025-10-22T18:57:49Z
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@fox I am curious about gaming on it...I've heard that's a possibility but have never managed to get it to work..
(DIR) Post #AzTajo6LmaW29kkogy by ShredderFeeder@shredderfood.com
2025-10-22T18:59:11Z
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@fox You should run Linux on it, you'd get a LOT more out of it. Especially with older hardware.
(DIR) Post #AzTdHZNDFOheESrtQ0 by fox@social.hostnetwork.xyz
2025-10-22T19:27:43Z
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@ShredderFeeder ive never gotten a linux vm to accept the grid client drivers, also the community around nvidia grid is mostly from reddit so they are all dickheads.
(DIR) Post #AzTdVYB8UDCOa4szSq by fox@social.hostnetwork.xyz
2025-10-22T19:30:14Z
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@ShredderFeeder i might be comfortable running linux as a server but as a desktop id rather not. Also i dont think the macpro4,1 motherboard(ik it says i have a macpro5,1 but thats just firmware to make x5690 work) support pcie forwarding. Im also just way mroe comfortable because if the os breaks its usually not my fault on windows.
(DIR) Post #AzTdyvLNRCOgpAgNkG by ShredderFeeder@shredderfood.com
2025-10-22T19:35:32Z
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@fox I've run Linux as my primary workstation for about 10 years now. Made the rounds, from Ubuntu, to Linux Mint, to Bazzite, Nobara, and finally settled on good old Fedora... I love that it's mine, and there is nothing I need to do that I can't do on it, mostly for free.I don't run Nvidia crap either, which makes life easier. (AMD and Linux have always worked wonderfully together.)
(DIR) Post #AzTfcInMHQDUnz6yR6 by fox@social.hostnetwork.xyz
2025-10-22T19:53:27Z
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@ShredderFeeder i love it when my stuff works, linux desktop doesnt offer that to me. Windows just has less problems.
(DIR) Post #AzTfjWU1mmwpHlVrVI by ShredderFeeder@shredderfood.com
2025-10-22T19:55:09Z
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@fox Agree to disagree on this, I found myself reinstalling windows about every 6 months when performance went to shit because the registry was all cluttered with crap...6 months is the average amount of time I go between reboots on my Linux Desktop.. ;-)
(DIR) Post #AzTgAGkKP78oIRtI6C by fox@social.hostnetwork.xyz
2025-10-22T20:00:00Z
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@ShredderFeeder ive been using the same windows install that i had like like 2021, it still had the original windows 7 windows folder lol. I dont have any performance issues.