Mysterious Life Form Sanctuary

This upgrade has been a few months in the making. We're going to upgrade an old AM4 B550 to X570 and move things out of the office!

Quick post about hard disk behavior

Testing multiple configurations for optane drives in a poweredge r720 TrueNAS Scale ZFS pool where bifurcation is not available.

Using 5v WS2812 ARGB lighting inside an IKEA detolf cabinet controlled using an ESP32 and Homeassistant

Using a serial connection to an otherwise "dumb" MD1200 disk shelf, we are able to force its fans to slow down from jet-turbine to box-fan levels