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Creating a ZFS Pool of Mismatched Old Storage!

Posted by wendell on

Who says you need the newest stuff to fulfill your self-hosting storage dreams? Not Wendell!!
Check out the forum post here:
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eBay Affiliate Listing for Disk Shelf: https://ebay.us/iA3zrO

0:00 Intro
1:44 Basement Hoard and Disk Shelf
7:10 Controller Machine
11:39 Software and ZFS AnyRaid
17:23 What's the Catch?
19:27 Running It
27:18 Conclusion

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Edited by Autumn
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Falcon North West 9950x3D2 Fragbox Review and Community Engagement

Posted by wendell on

Wendell was given another Falcon, but this time, Wendell wants to give it away for some outside testing!

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Linux Weekly 8: Small News, Long Projects

Posted by wendell on

It was another busy week for Wendell, but Linux never stops!

0:00 Intro
00:24 News
3:24 Project Storage
7:55 Project Networking
18:52 Outro
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Computer Janitor Wendell to the Rescue!!

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Wendell was called to Boston for his computer janitoring skills to help Chef @NickDiGiovanni get his kitchen hooked up with some delicious networking!

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https://forum.level1techs.com/t/chef-nick-modern-problems-require-moder…

Check out 45 Drives: https://www.45drives.com/products/hybrid-storage-server-storinator-f8x2/

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Reviewing the MPG 341CQR QD-OLED X36 from MSI

Posted by wendell on

MSI sent Wendell an Ultra Wide monitor to prove him wrong. But did it work?
https://www.msi.com/Monitor/MPG-341CQR-QD-OLED-X36/Overview

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Down With 16:9 Aspect Ratios! BenQ RD280UG Programming Monitor Review

Posted by wendell on

Check it out here:
RD280UG official website https://benqurl.biz/4mNScAF
Amazon page https://benqurl.biz/4vqeEUl

OR show off YOUR programming setup in the forum

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AMD: What's up with the ECC 5200 Limit in the latest AGESA 1.3.0.0?? Oopsie not intentional (I hope)

Posted by wendell on

What is happening?!? ECC issues of course... what?

0:00 Intro
0:11 ECC Memory on AM5
1:38 Something Weird is Happening
3:47 Our Testing Gigabyte
6:23 ASUS
7:01 Linux Users
8:27 ASRock
10:00 Why is this Happening?
13:43 Conclusion

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Linux Weekly 7: Security, Security, Security...

Posted by wendell on

It's been a heck of a week for Wendell, and maybe for you too.

0:00 Intro
1:08 Security Updates
17:45 Project Updates

Links to Articles here:
https://ringmast4r.substack.com/p/we-may-be-living-through-the-most

https://copy.fail/

https://www.rapid7.com/blog/post/etr-cve-2026-41940-cpanel-whm-authenti…

https://thehackernews.com/2026/04/cisa-adds-actively-exploited.html

https://www.rescana.com/post/fast16-malware-pre-stuxnet-cyber-sabotage-…

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The FORBIDDEN Motherboard!! Hacking More Lanes into AM5: LR-Link Broadcom PCIe Expansion

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Does it exist? Not yet. Wendell has to do some wendelling to make it work!

0:00 Intro
0:29 Backstory
1:35 Comparisons
5:06 Chipsets and Lanes
10:19 What Things Currently Look Like
11:16 Good News Bad News
14:53 Performance with Current Set Up
20:38 So What Does the Ideal Motherboard Look Like?

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Building with Fractal's Pop 2 Vision

Posted by wendell on

It's class! I mean glass? Glass Edge for sure.

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