Recent content by Michael Paulmeno

According to Crucial the SSDs are incompatible with my motherboard. I didn't think it made a difference, but perhaps it does. Today I discovered the working drive is throwing Event ID 153 errors. So perhaps the drives don't play well with the board. I do have an WD SE hard drive, but...

I *think* I solved the problem. After hooking the SSDs directly to the motherboard did not help, I decided to try the Diskpart clean command. One drive (the one I had been using to install Windows on incidentally) failed with an "I/O device error". It may have an issue. The other went fine...

I hooked the SSDs up to a SATA-to-USB device (I am short on Windows computers). According to CrystalDiskInfo both drives are fine. Crucial's own Storage Executive would not pick them up. Since both CrystalDiskInfo and Diskpart detected them I am going to chalk it up to the program not playing...

I am in the process of building a home server for myself. Thus far I have succeeded in crafting a system with the following specs and getting it to POST: Supermicro X10-DRL-i motherboard 1 Intel Xeon E5-2603 v3 CPU 16GB DDR4 server RAM (1 Crucial stick) 2 Crucial MX200 250GB SSDs The above is...

Over the weekend I installed Pfsense. It was far easier than expected. The most confusing part was getting the install image to boot. Evidently either Pfsense or FreeBSD does not like AHCI requiring a switch to Legacy ATA mode for my hard discs. Otherwise the setup was fairly straight...

Just to give one final update I finally got the board back last Tuesday, March 22. It took two months, but Supermicro fixed the damaged CPU socket. They had to send it off to an outside vendor which explains the delay. After exercising much caution I was able to fully assemble the server and...

I think I will go with Pfsense as it offers the best opportunity to learn important networking concepts.

Interesting point. I already know some of the basic concepts and wish to learn more. It sounds as if Pfsense may be right for me.

Good point. I'm not learning much if I'm just checking boxes. As a general rule all my public servers are hosted in the cloud (AWS currently) so I don't have to worry about allowing traffic into my network. So for me this is mostly a hobby although I do want to learn a few concepts about...

I am in the process of setting up a firewall appliance for my home network. This is more of a hobby/learning experience. While a Ubiquiti EdgeRouter would probably work well, I instead purchased a used Dell R210 off of eBay (fortunately it boots). The specs are: -Quad Core Intel Xeon X3340...

Supermicro agreed to fix my motherboard. The work will cost $50 which is much better than replacing the whole board.

I have submitted an RMA request. The worst they can say is no.