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Winter Break 2024

What I Did Over Break

  1. Built Jarvis
    • 2x 12TB Seagate IronWolf Pro Enterprise NAS drives
    • 2x Crucial T705 1TB PCIeV5 M.2 SSDs
    • 2x XPG 1TB GAMMIX S70 Blade PCIeV4 M.2 SSDs
    • 4x 2x48GB Crucial Pro RAM Kit, total of 192GB RAM
    • 1x Nvidia PNY GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super GPU
    • 1x AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D 16 Core, 32 Thread CPU
    • 1x ASUS TUF Gaming X870-PLUS, WiFI 7, AMD AM5 x870 Motherboard
    • 1x Cooler Master 360 Atmos CPU water coller
    • 1x NZXT C1200 PSU: 1200 Watt
    • 4x Thermaltake CT140 PC Cooling Fans
    • 1x Corsair 5000D Airflow Tempered glass case Jarvis Hardware
  2. CephFS Distributed FS across 4 Pi4s with 1TB USB3 attached SSDs
  3. LineageOS + GApps + Widevine and Video Services on Pi4 clients
  4. Research, bought and flashed encrypted firmware on UltraHD Bluray drive
    • Had to extract Archgon Premium Aluminum UHD Bluray Drive (Really just an LG drive inside)
    • Had to plug it directly into the PC via Slimline SATA to SATA Adapter since USB didn’t support updating firmware. Archgon Bluray
  5. Installed and utilized MakeMKV and Handbrake to properly rip UHD disc to mkvs
  6. Utilized ddrescue to save and restore a damaged bluray, mounting the restored image as a loopback device.
  7. JellyFin Media Server
  8. Home Assistant + Jarvis Agent