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Startech 12U Rack
The main 19" rack I use to hold all of my equipment in is this extendable-length startech unit. I'm lucky to have it, these are rare to come by on the used market since they're so difficult to transport. The table below shows what's in all of it's 12 units of rack space:
| Front | Back |
|---|---|
| Startech SV431DD2DUA 4 port dual monitor KVM Switch | Startech SV831DVIU 8 port DVI KVM Switch, Intel Compute Stick |
| Mikrotik CSS610-8G-2S+IN, Mikrotik CRS112-8P-4S-IN | Netgate SG-1100 router, External Hard drive, TL-RP108GE |
| Cable management brush | Powercool 850VA UPS |
| xcpng0 virtualization platform | Powercool 850VA UPS |
| TrueNAS NAS | Blikvm PiKVM |
| TrueNAS NAS | |
| blahaj0 workstation | |
| blahaj0 workstation | |
| Backup NAS | |
| Backup NAS | PDU |
| Backup NAS | |
| Backup NAS | Netgear GS516TP |
Laptops
I have a number of laptops I use for personal computing and other general purpose stuff. I especially like thinkpads. I have:
- IBM Thinkpad T30 (2002) - back from when it was still IBM that were making thinkpads. This has an intel pentium 4 mobile in and 512Mb of memory. Surprisingly, it still runs okay today with debian (even with a desktop environment). It is used as a CUPS print server, since it has a parallel port it is connected to a very old dot matrix printer which can handle continuous paper. Ideal for reading research papers!
- Lenovo Thinkpad x200 (2008) - The newest thinkpad that can have a fully open source BIOS. This is a beautiful piece of hardware with a lovely keyboard. Sadly its battery is kinda fucked. I use it for writing latex documents. It has an intel core 2 duo cpu and 4Gb of memory, which is plenty for me. CPUs haven't really gotten any faster in the past 10 years so it's still perfectly fine for general computing. See the libreboot project[1].
- Lenovo Thinkpad x260 (2016) - My main laptop for doing uni work is this, it has an intel 6500U and 16gb of memory, and a 1Tb SSD. It currently has 3 different operating systems, Windows 10, debian sid, and ubuntu 20.04 for ROS stuff.
Wi-Fi
I use the TP-Link Omada ecosystem of Wi-Fi controllers and access points. The controller is run on my Intel Compute Stick. I have to access points:
- EAP225(EU) v4.0
- EAP110(EU) v4.0
Both of which are powered off POE directly from my switches. As you can see, they are installed in a HIGHLY PROFESSIONAL manner.
