Building a High-Performance Home Lab Server Setup

Alex's new Epyc server build, and Jon Seager from Canonical joins us to chat about Nix in the homelab, packaging Scrutiny, and how Nix fits with existing infrastructure management tools.

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• Packaging Scrutiny for NixOS · Jon Seager — In a recent (well, recent-ish) episode of the Self Hosted Show, there was some talk of a hard drive monitoring tool called Scrutiny. Scrutiny is a hard drive monitoring tool that exposes S.M.A.R.T data in a nice, clean dashboard. It gathers that S.M.A.R.T data using the venerable smartd, which is a Linux daemon that monitors S.M.A.R.T data from a huge number of ATA, IDE, SCSI-3 drives. The code is available on Github.
• Contributing Scrutiny to nixpkgs · Jon Seager
• Packaging a go app for NixOS — When I found that one of the apps I use daily on my servers was not available in nixpkgs, I thought I'd take a stab at packaging it.
• KTZ Systems YouTube - An Epyc Homelab Monster: the Perfect Media Server mega upgrade — With 24 cores and 48 threads, the EPYC 7402 is a monster of a CPU. Paired with the Supermicro H12SSL-i motherboard, and more PCIe devices than you can shake a stick at. Today, Alex builds the homelab box to end all boxes.
• KTZ Systems YouTube - My Perfect Media Server isn't so perfect anymore... — I gave a consumer platform the old college try, but it just didn't work out. Find out why in part 1 of a new series on the channel about upgrading the servers at Badger Labs.
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