https://chatgpt.com/g/g-693ccd5961008191be1c44b2945adf2e-diagzip-analyzer (GPT link) Modern systems are complicated. Not just servers — everything. Between PCIe Gen5, NUMA weirdness, NIC lane constraints, GPU fabrics, RDMA stacks, and vendor-specific quirks, it’s incredibly easy to misinterpret, or flat out not understand, what a system is actually doing versus what the
When evaluating storage performance, particularly in high-throughput and low-latency environments with local NVMe and NVMe-over-Fabrics (NVMe-oF), the CPU architecture becomes far more than just the background actor on stage. With AMD’s EPYC Genoa and particularly Turin families, we’re talking about platforms architected from the ground up to handle
FOREWORD: First and foremost you should absolutely go watch the Tech Tangents video. Its fun, and educational. I have a long standing friendly relationship with Shelby and stand wholly behind his mission of archival and preservation. What he is doing is more important to technology history than anything that I
So, you’ve got some fancy NVMe drives in your homelab, and you’re ready to flex your hardware muscles. But it’s not just about slapping those drives into your system and calling it a day. If you want to maximize performance (or just keep your drives from dying
You’ve launched yourself a shiny new Windows Server 2022 installation and heard that WSL2 (Windows Subsystem for Linux) is where all the cool kids are hanging out. But, of course, Microsoft hasn’t exactly made it intuitive to enable WSL2 on a server OS. My pain is now your
We have all been there. Working on a new platform and trying out some random github that looks cool, and you installed too many things and make a whole mess. Sometimes you just need to nuke it all and start over. This is my notes transcribed into a guide on
Bringing a Gateway 2000 486 DX Back to Life in a Virtual World I recently stumbled across a fully working Gateway 2000 486 DX that was about to meet its fate at an e-waste recycler. For those who might not remember, the Gateway 2000 486 DX was an iconic machine
So, you’ve got a couple of NVMe SSDs lying around and think, "Why not strap these rockets together with RAID 0 and see how fast we can go?" Well, good news: it’s actually pretty simple. Just remember, RAID 0 is all about speed. You lose one