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Tales From The Forge!
New fan module tested, and built a few. One shot design finish, no prototypes in between. Rare, straight into production.
Built a few of these fire breathers!
They work as exhaust so can be blowing 50-60C air out all day long.
... and in the trash goes the old design parts just printed
Old was multipart, wasted space etc. This new design took 15minutes, is tighter, stronger and faster to assemble, we have now standardized on 3 fans on each mPlate.
Ah! Heatsink found for the AsRock A300/X300 Ryzen minis which fits. Didn't bother getting some custom brackets for Opteron G34 heatsinks (we have hundreds) and bought these, just 20-30$ a piece. Some of ours already have this low.
This enables us to put these on the mPlates.
Not certain what configs we will make, but we will probably do all of them with same config and buy new CPUs for them to make them identical with each other, or a split of A300s with 3000G and X300s with 5600G.
Don't mind the IO is too high, the motherboard sits an extra 4mm too high, have to take angle grinder to the heatsink mount threads to shave of the extra 4mm. Just a few second job.
This is why it takes 2 months to deliver!
Got the 90 degree adapters, they are wong way, not tall enough etc. Hits the switch, and on other side the HDDs.
RGeek makes some picoPSU 90 degree angle which looks like it is on the other way around, contacted them.
Also we have some ATX 24pin extension cables (variety) coming, variety of tiny DC PSUs etc. to test out and pick the best version out of.
This will get solved, but it just takes time!
Mass Production!
Prepped 5 mPlates with nodes in one go.
and Tamed The Chaos!
these beasts will be racked within 2 weeks or so. We are just now prepping another rack in our Helsinki DC (The Battlefield Zone 1), it will be mainly for this NAS version tho.
I think we will host all the NAS titans in Helsinki, while NVMe / SSD goes to the Kerava DC once finished. What an battlefield the upbringing has alone been! But contractor is just finishing some touches, and should soon design enclosures etc. for the cooling control etc.
Dropped more photos and even a video in our discord if you are curious
v cool seeing my box get designed in real-time
when are we seeing the racks?
Thanks!
9 years ago when moving into the current Helsinki DC
If i recall right we moved that rack from previous DC within 3 to 4 hrs. That was fast derack, re-rack, wiring job.
rgeek makes almost the perfect picopsu for this use: https://www.rgeek.com/portfolio-item/rgeek-pico-dc-psu-rp-200p-n-dc-12v-24pin-power-supply-module/
Just needs to be turned 90degrees, cable lenghts etc.
We are ordering a test batch of their 90degree picopsu: https://www.rgeek.com/portfolio-item/rgeek-pico-dc-psu-rp-90pt-dc-12v-20pin-power-supply-module/
We still have to handsolder power wiring loom for the HDDs on this initial batch, but in talks with rgeek for customized version. the minimum order quantity right now is a bit high tho, but at least we have that option on the table.
We just might bite the bullet tho and just order the custom picopsus ... Just that it will be like 95% more units than we envision needing in a few years tho. Then again, we would have a verified model to use any mITX board easily, with HDDs or without, in a wider power band (think Zen5 mITX ....)
Decisions decisions. Hardware development ain't easy.
NAS Power solution is here!
I think we will go with these, 3 arrived now from this manufacturer, will be ordering more.
We also made test order of 10 of 90 degree to RGEEK and have discussed about customized version, Qty 500 MOQ so ... That's a bit more than we need in a few years.
Will be testing next week and hopefully we can deliver first units within 2 weeks!
This was the reason for 2 month preorder, it's still cutting a bit close to the June 1st, even tho we had everything in stock by our estimate and belief, but turns out components didn't match.
This is why HW development is damn slow. Months just fly by when you don't get the exact matches.
meanwhile, today this Elegoo Centauri Carbon hotend bit the dust ... again. Had some serious leveling issues, and this despite preheating / heatsoak.
Some bugs in firmware, this was it's idea of straight line, Z level compensation ....
Bed plate ruined too
Well that is an unexpected tight spot.
No idea yet if this means anything, we have to check more stuff, inventories etc. but stuff like this happens.
Now This Is A Fan
Delay in Delivery
There's a multitude reason we cannot hit the first week of June, will be most likely late June.
The details of delay compensation is on the first post.
That SATA cable height has to be solved, some more testing needs to be done, and additional 90degree PSUs have not arrived yet. And we'd like to stress test internally a little bit before delivery too, or should we add second 3x FAN module on these units.
Also a sick leave delays the finishing R&D.
So close to delivery, yet so far.
Good to see that you are still around, after being banned on seedboxes for obvious reasons
You should open up the obvious reasons for everyone.
Such as the entire mod team there was being paid by our competitors for starters. Zero positive comments were allowed to be said on Pulsed Media, unless a mod approved it (almost never was). Only negative things were allowed by default.
Most of the competitors attacking us constantly for all those years, concentrating on trying to strike us down, instead of developing their own services ... Are now bankrupt. The ultimate yardstick.
shrugs what can i say, when you deliver a quality service for some reason customers prefer to stay and renew on the scale of decades. Who figures, what a mystery.
Btw, your handle, reminds me of The Critical Drinker. Very funny movie critic channel!
Oh and the ban got lifted the very moment the mods got replaced ... The rumour is they got replaced more or less because of "corruption" (Reddit Mod SOP, just varying allegiance) etc. External stats showed the moment we were banned, the subreddit started dying as well ... go and figure, must be coincide ... shrugs.
.... I can also reveal at some point new mods (probably now gone and replaced long time ago) approached us asking for money to boost us, and push down our competitors. Directly without any shame requesting monetary benefits. Naturally, we refused to stoop down to our competitors level.
Regardless, we got displayed with evidence it was systematic. We refused to pay for their "services" however, i have no idea which seedbox provider got the main "sponsorship" after we refused. I have good hunch tho who paid.
Reddit is well documented for this being the SOP of all the super mods / high level mods.
Regardless, it is all water under the bridge and irrelevant at this point. The seedbox market is damn near dead, we are standing, most of the competitors are bankrupt or "coincidentally closed doors for non-financial reasons". One reason is the "infighting" between providers, i have NFI how bad it was between those who stooped at that level, but i cannot imagine it being easy, considering how much shade we got, including huge DDOS with 0day vulnerabilities for refusing to sell our business // buy a competitor out with very shady background (i think they were trying to run a multimillion euro scam on us, looking back to it ...). They are still around, just guessing because they sell non-seedbox services ....
Hosting industry has always been shady AF, i remember it even from the 90s for webhosting. Seedboxes took it to another level, and being one of the only transparent providers in the niche ....
Well looks like that hotlink didn't work, the actual photo: https://postimg.cc/ZWRr2239/5cfe9e2b
Regardless, we got several solutions already. If we are lucky, the first couple of units might still realize on the first week of june.
Wiring on these is total PITA. Looking to outsource to another engineer familiar in this kind to build custom backplanes for us. Even if they end up costing say 150€ per mPlate (12x 3.5" on this 2x mITX motherboard setup) it is worth it at a hunch. We can integrate buck conversion etc. into it.
We'll manually wire these first few units, and then consider the custom PCB/Backplane design. Considering the number we need to build these (hundreds to thousands), it's not an unacceptable cost.
Clearance resolved
Already bought angled cables too etc. but also resolved it this way too.
Sadly not a chance we can deliver by next week even tho this last issue was resolved, externalities causing delays.
So still targeting by end of June.
is there any discounts at the moment
No there are not, sorry.
RGeek 90PT PicoPSU
These are turned inwards
the others are outwards.
Software Issues; Intel i226V drivers
Also custom templating has to be finished before delivery because of this + UEFI. Lots of SW development.
Progress Update
Got the UEFI boot with Intel i226-v + deployment scripts proof of concept done finally.
It's now finetuning and making a bunch of distro templates.
Debian 12 Netinst doesn't even have working i226-v driver, so templating/imaging system is the only way to get these to work. Interesting.
We began with custom "mcxRescue" which will host all those scripts and allow you to deploy ~any image to a server.
but step by step. It'll get done. We'll deploy it for all nodes as soon as possible, it will replace the old "SysRescueCD" we've been using through NOC-PS.
NAS mPlate update; 2x mITX 6xHDD mobos + 2x 100x100 NUCs with ~72mm mounting pattern prototyping right now.
These particular NUCs house 4xNVMe (tho x1 per NVMe or x4 shared amongst them)
slight cooling issue, not a big deal tho. and 0.50mm thermal pads, the full 100x100 sheet cannot be easily opened, so might have to go with messy solution (thermal paste). 0.10-0.15mm gap between mPlate and heatsink.
Lovely upcycling of electronic waste.
Interesting to see how it will perform in the supermarket you claim is a datacenter (with no signage).
These are brand new hardware for all but the HDDs in these first units.
The building indeed doesn't have our signage, neither has signage of Global Connect, Telia, Elisa, Nebula, Cogent, FNE etc. present in the same building. The building is an old factory and owned by Nordea these days. It has multitude of datacenters, if you look carefully on google street view you can see cooling equipment etc. All the sea fiber from Stockholm terminates to this very building, it is literally the most closest hop to Stockholm in Helsinki.
The building has it's own transformer, Telia/Nebula has their own generator room, building managers typically manage generators on site during electrical maintenance.
In our new DC either we do not advertise datacenter here. Infact, very rarely it is being advertised as that makes the location high value target, on small size datacenters.
There's multiple buildings like this in Helsinki, with many datacenters, and only thing you know there is datacenters in the building is the cooling equipment, or blocked windows, windows with ducting etc.
Check streetview of Hiomotie 10 (Creanova), Hiomotie 32 (Mediam), Tekniikantie 12 (Innopoli 1, Technopolis. Ficix, Mediam, Maxisat etc there, we had our first DC in that building), Valimotie 13 (Atomidata and others). Rarely advertised.
There are also enterprise high grade DCs in the Pitäjänmäki area which do not officially exist, these are very expensive, high security DCs, only tell tale is the chillers behind the building.
This is how internet is built in the real world typically.
For your information about how security works, I've been a transportation driver in city of Riverside for many years, I know exactly where the 911 call center is, but you could drive through there 10 times a day every day of the week for the rest of your life and you would never know it's there,
And let me also add you could drive down it's Main Street next to it and never even know there's any buildings or facilities on the next street, and if you did drive down the street with the 911 call center is, you would see a few buildings with no Insignia or anything telling you the 911 call center there.
@painfreepc yeap, called OpSec.
There's a reason these are not publicized, not everything can be done high security.
There's no company on earth who could actively monitor all their fiber lines on their full length for example.
This one clearly went over your head.
What exactly is it that went over my head, you're bitching about the fact that there's no signage, not every place has a signage, I used to work in Palmolive Colgate warehouse for example there was no signage on the building or inside the building, are you just being an Internet troll,
if you think there's no security concerns for something like a Palmolive Colgate warehouse, you're very much mistaken, any new product that you read or saw commercial publicly that was about to be launched, we inside the warehouse knew about it months and months before, and we could not talk about it we could even be sued if we did and lose our jobs,
I'm actually going to go ahead and try out one of their servers I see a few around $25, I'm going to try one guess because of you being a dick.
Thanks ^_^
We are very much MVP still with these, so feedback is welcome. Looking to hire developers to get beyond MVP on the user facing features (reinstall, reboot etc.)
... but kinda funny MVP, we have hundreds of this type of node online
That's exactly the point. Yes, people seriously believe that FBI safehouses are marked SUPER SAFE BASE.
OK. I am sorry you feel that you're an expert on security and datacenters because you've been a delivery driver. You're aware they're called Colgate Palmolive and not Palmolive Colgate, right?
For your information, I don't care about your Navy Seal Copy Pasta. I didn't ask for your resume - either way it's boring. Go and touch some grass you overgrown man child.
can u pls reply to my refund ticket
Internet trolling is is strong with this one he's even going to correct how I say Colgate Palmolive haven't worked there in several decades I really don't give a damn what order the words go in and for your information I never been a freaking delivery driver, and do me a favor and go internet troll your mother or father if you're still living.
You have been. Check your email / ticket history. Make sure your ticket is on Open / Answered state and it will be taken care of.
As for your specific ticket; I know i did reply to you specifically earlier today, and last i checked it was waiting for your reply.
If you have mommy or daddy issues, that's on you.
Weirdo. You literally have a picture of a baby as your DP. Did you get permission to use that image of a minor? You need to get some serious help!
Here's to hoping you get better soon so you're not just an oxygen thief.
Said by a guy who searches my profile to look for a post that I made almost a year ago regarding a server that I was canceling that day and just seeing if anybody was actually interested in having it, and he decides to make a smart-ass comment under it a post from June of last year, but I need help.
First NAS mPlate has booted up with the correct parts and hardware. Bursted 308W during spin up, then settled into the 140W range when idle.
This is without the NVMes plus planned 2x NVMe NAS units installed. So the PSU might not be sufficient for the bootup process.
Many tests remain to be done, and then we'll complete the first batch (8x NAS nodes / 4x mPlates) for delivery.