Dan Forden, the guy who said "Toasty" in Mortal Kombat, has left NetherRealm after more than 30 years.

Running various disk read and write benchmarks with and without ARC/ZIL caching on TrueNAS Scale using TN-Bench.

Thinking upgrading to 10GbE for your homelab isn't enough? How about 25GbE? How about 100GbE? The MikroTik CRS510-8XS-2XQ-IN is an absolute beast of a switch with 8x 25GbE SFP28 ports and 2x 100GbE QSFP ports for nearly all the high-bandwidth connections you'd ever need. Power

Monitoring IOPS of the scrub on the TrueNAS ZFS striped mirror array with 12 8TB HGST HDDs and two mirrored 1.9TB SK Hynix PE6110 NVMes for SLOG and metadata. 2.8GB/s read speed? I'll take it!

Grab used SK hynix PE6110 1.92TB NVMe for ~$120—same price as new 2TB Gen4 consumer drives! Gen3 speeds (3,200/1,900 MB/s) but 3x the endurance (3,504 TB TBW vs. 1,200 TB). Perfect for homelab heavy writes! 🖥️💾

Finally, some honesty!

Thinking of using a Dell PowerEdge R250 as a firewall with pfSense? What's the power consumption? Lets find out!

Saved a couple of Nvidia Quadro FX 3500s from crossing over into the forever dumpster. Time clean these 2006 relics up and maybe toss them in a QX6700 or E6700 build. Pretty much a scaled down Quadro FX 5500, they each feature 256MBs of GDDR3 and a G71GL GPU clocked in at

"I'm pretty much a haxor now"

Dual 1.92TB Samsung PM983 NVMes, for when you need an extra little boost in I/O for that 48TB ZFS striped mirror spinning rust array. Using a PA41 quad M.2 NVMe PCIe adapter with bifurcation enabled, these two enterprise NVMes will be mirrored and partitioned to leverage SLOG

Every homelabber knows.

I swear I didn't do it. 🤷🏻‍♂️

You have to admit, it had a feel to it.

When buying an OS was like a Black Friday event. How times have changed.

Get ready for Windows 11 25H2! Windows 11 version 25H2 is coming this fall, likely in September or October, and will share the same servicing and platform release as version 24H2. Right now Microsoft is working on a handful of new features, one being a new Start menu for

The art of manipulation.

Cisco strikes again...

Just an innocent dolphin.

The Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTX: A 2006 Tesla legend with 128 CUDA cores, 768MB GDDR3, and 86.4GB/s bandwidth on a 384-bit bus. Clocked at 575MHz, it pioneered DirectX 10 and unified shaders via PCIe x16. It crushed F.E.A.R. at 60+ FPS (1920x1200, max settings) and ran Oblivion

The original QUAKE computer... Robert M. Atkins: "This is the super computer John Carmack and Michael Abrash built to compile the original QUAKE game. There wasn't a software compiler at the time. I own it because id Software gave it to my company Hipnotic (ritual Entertainment)