Tag: hardware

  • How to install M.2 SSD in HP G2 800 Mini

    As part of my strategy to not worry about the slightly dodgy SMART reporting on the SDD’s in my HP Elitedesk G2 800 Mini Proxmox nodes, I’d decided to make use of the full sized M.2 slot to install 256GB NVME drives. That way I can boot from those, and have the SSD’s running ZFS…

  • HDD Swap on A1278 MacBook Pro

    My MacBook died, I guess about three years ago. It was randomly difficult for a week or so, but then just behaving as if it had no hard drive at all. It’s been in a drawer ever since waiting for me to replace the hard drive and see if I could sell it, which I…

  • Linux Shell Script for Temperature Logging

    A potential solution to my concern about the either perfect, or nearly dead, SSD would be to add a NVMe disk to the M.2 slot in the HP Elitedesk 800 G2’s. I’d use those to boot from and run Proxmox, then the existing SSD’s on each node in the cluster would just be part of…

  • SDD Wearout numbers

    I didn’t understand why the default Proxmox install sets up the storage the way it does – with the available disk split up into an LVM and an LVM thin storage – so I’ve been reading this excellent Proxmox Storage Guide by Programster (spoiler – the LVM thin makes VM snapshots easier). At one point…

  • HP EliteDesk 800 G2 Memory Upgrade

    The hardware engineering of these corporate world mini-PCs is really nice. I swapped out the RAM today to bump my main machine up to 32GB from 16GB. It was a straightforward task – no screwdrivers, no drama. To open the machine up, there is a single large screw on the back that can be undone…