perihelion, a tale of jank
posted Aug 22, 2023 by huskee
As of early-mid 2023, perihelion has been decomissioned. Sleep well my little prince
perihelion is a home server. Specifically my home server. It's an Intel Core 2 Quad Q8200 with 4GB of RAM running openSUSE Leap.
And that's where the normal stuff stops. Time to release the Janken
perihelion
- has a motherboard that is working by miracle. When the board was bought, it had a shot MOSFET which was replaced. Although it works, BIOS reports no CPU voltage at all
- has a CPU that's certainly broken in some way. I've used that poor Q8200 in 4-5 different systems, even overclocked it sometimes
- is very picky with its memory. Originally running with 6GB of DDR2, the sticks would only work together in specific slots, which meant I had to swap sticks for an hour every time it stopped working. Bonus round: it stopped working whenever the system lost mains power
- has an ATI Radeon X300 SE, which was last seen in a computer when I was 4. Works kinda well for connecting a screen when stuff goes wrong, but it doesn't play well with openSUSE Tumbleweed
- will sometimes completely refuse to boot if a specific flash drive is connected
- is currently running openSUSE Leap 15.5 alpha, with a backported version of glibc so I can run the latest version of cockpit (from the Tumbleweed repos of course, because what could go wrong when mixing rolling and stable repos?)
- has a multicard reader on its front panel that is not connected to anything. Basically the reader hasn't even got a cable anymore
and finally
- is running a RAID5 consisting of 3 disks of different brands and form factors (unstable), 2 of which are 500GB while the third is 640GB (unstable), also did I mention it's a btrfs RAID5? (unstableeeeee)
So yeah, it's basically a nas/pihole/space heater for now.