perihelion, a tale of jank
the story of my (now decomissioned) home server
Aug 2023update: as of early-mid 2023, perihelion has been decomissioned and replaced by parahelion, the Oracle Cloud server serving you this home baked site. 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.