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+++ Categories = [] Tags = [] date = "2026-01-27T00:00:00-04:00" title = "Hardware"
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I selfhost this blog, do a lot of coding, and generally do "computer stuff" on a number of different systems. Here's what I use, current as of 2026-01-27.
Client Devices
Primary Laptop: Lenovo Thinkpad T14 G4 (AMD)
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,g$$P"" """Y$$.". OS: Debian GNU/Linux 13 (trixie) x86_64
,$$P' `$$$. Host: 21K30044GE (ThinkPad T14 Gen 4)
',$$P ,ggs. `$$b: Kernel: Linux 6.12.63+deb13-amd64
`d$$' ,$P"' . $$$ Uptime: 4 days, 3 hours, 27 mins
$$P d$' , $$P Packages: 2790 (dpkg), 28 (flatpak)
$$: $$. - ,d$$' Shell: bash 5.2.37
$$; Y$b._ _,d$P' Display (SDC4193): 2880x1800 @ 90 Hz (as 1920x1200) in 14" [Built-in]
Y$$. `.`"Y$$$$P"' DE: GNOME 48.7
`$$b "-.__ WM: Mutter (Wayland)
`Y$$b WM Theme: Adwaita-dark
`Y$$. Theme: Adwaita-dark [GTK2/3/4]
`$$b. Icons: Adwaita [GTK2/3/4]
`Y$$b. Font: Cantarell (11pt) [GTK2/3/4]
`"Y$b._ Cursor: Adwaita (24px)
`"""" Terminal: tmux
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U (16) @ 5.13 GHz
GPU: AMD Radeon 780M
Memory: 32GB DDR5
NVMe: 1x WD Blue SN5100 2TB, ext4+LVM+dmcrypt (I'm old-school like that)
Smartphone: Google Pixel 8
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+mMMMMMMMMMMMMm+ OS: LineageOS 22 (Android 15) aarch64
`dMMm:NMMMMMMN:mMMd` Host: Google Pixel 8
hMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMh Kernel: 6.1.99-android14-11
.. yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy .. Uptime: 21 days, 3 hours, 23 mins
.mMMm`MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM`mMMm. Packages: 75 (dpkg), 1 (pkg)
:MMMM-MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM-MMMM: Shell: bash 5.2.26 (Termux)
:MMMM-MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM-MMMM: CPU: (9) @ 1.704GHz
:MMMM-MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM-MMMM: Memory: 8GB
:MMMM-MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM-MMMM: Storage: 128GB
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Home Base (Headless server "Desktop-in-the-cloud"): Dell PowerEdge R730
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,g$$P" """Y$$.". OS: Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm) x86_64
,$$P' `$$$. Model: Dell PowerEdge R730
',$$P ,ggs. `$$b: Kernel: 6.1.0-32-amd64
`d$$' ,$P"' . $$$ Uptime: 60 days, 8 hours, 56 mins
$$P d$' , $$P Packages: 2309 (dpkg), 13 (flatpak)
$$: $$. - ,d$$' Shell: bash 5.2.15
$$; Y$b._ _,d$P' Resolution: 1920x1080
Y$$. `.`"Y$$$$P"' Terminal: /dev/pts/1
`$$b "-.__ CPU: 2x Intel Xeon E5-2620 v4 (32) @ 3.000GHz
`Y$$ GPU: 1x NVIDIA Tesla P4, 1x NVIDIA GeForce GTX1660
`Y$$. Memory: 512GB DDR4 ECC
`$$b. NVMe: 2x XPG GAMIX S70 BLADE 2TB, ZFS mirror
`Y$$b. SSD: N/A
`"Y$b._ HDD: N/A
`"""
Servers
My server infrastructure is quite sprawling, but here's the short info. For more detail, please see my perpetually-"upcoming" blog post or my rack tour videos on YouTube.
Home Assistant System: Dell PowerEdge R430
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,g$$P" """Y$$.". OS: Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm) x86_64
,$$P' `$$$. Host: PowerEdge R430
',$$P ,ggs. `$$b: Kernel: 6.1.0-40-amd64
`d$$' ,$P"' . $$$ Uptime: 23 days, 13 hours, 52 mins
$$P d$' , $$P Packages: 663 (dpkg)
$$: $$. - ,d$$' Shell: bash 5.2.15
$$; Y$b._ _,d$P' Resolution: 1024x768
Y$$. `.`"Y$$$$P"' Terminal: /dev/pts/5
`$$b "-.__ CPU: Intel Xeon E5-2667 v4 (16) @ 3.600GHz
`Y$$ GPU: NVIDIA Tesla P4
`Y$$. Memory: 32GB DDR4 ECC
`$$b. NVMe: N/A
`Y$$b. SSD: 2x Intel DC S3700 800GB, ZFS mirror
`"Y$b._ HDD: N/A
`"""
Primary Hypervisor Cluster: Dell PowerEdge R630 (x3)
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,g$$P" """Y$$.". OS: Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm) x86_64
,$$P' `$$$. Host: Dell PowerEdge R630
',$$P ,ggs. `$$b: Kernel: 6.1.0-32-amd64
`d$$' ,$P"' . $$$ Uptime: 13 days, 19 hours, 13 mins
$$P d$' , $$P Packages: 886 (dpkg)
$$: $$. - ,d$$' Shell: bash 5.1.4
$$; Y$b._ _,d$P' Resolution: 1024x768
Y$$. `.`"Y$$$$P"' Terminal: /dev/pts/19
`$$b "-.__ CPU: 2x Intel Xeon E5-2683 v4 (64) @ 3.000GHz
`Y$$ GPU: N/A
`Y$$. Memory: 512GB DDR4 ECC
`$$b. NVMe: N/A
`Y$$b. SSD: 2x Intel DC S3700 200GB, RAID-1/ext4 (system); 2x Intel DC S3700 800GB (PVC Ceph c3)
`"Y$b._ HDD: N/A
`"""
Testing Hypervisor Cluster: Dell PowerEdge R430 (x3)
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,g$$P" """Y$$.". OS: Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm) x86_64
,$$P' `$$$. Host: Dell PowerEdge R430
',$$P ,ggs. `$$b: Kernel: 6.1.0-32-amd64
`d$$' ,$P"' . $$$ Uptime: 25 mins
$$P d$' , $$P Packages: 931 (dpkg)
$$: $$. - ,d$$' Shell: bash 5.2.15
$$; Y$b._ _,d$P' Resolution: 1024x768
Y$$. `.`"Y$$$$P"' Terminal: /dev/pts/2
`$$b "-.__ CPU: Intel Xeon E5-2603 v3 (6) @ 1.600GHz
`Y$$ GPU: N/A
`Y$$. Memory: 32GB DDR4 ECC
`$$b. NVMe: N/A
`Y$$b. SSD: 1x Intel DC S3610 200GB, ext4 (system); 1x Samsung PM883 480GB (PVC Ceph c3)
`"Y$b._ HDD: N/A
`"""
Ceph Storage Cluster: Dell PowerEdge R720xd (x3)
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,g$$P" """Y$$.". OS: Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm) x86_64
,$$P' `$$$. Host: Dell PowerEdge R720xd
',$$P ,ggs. `$$b: Kernel: 6.1.0-32-amd64
`d$$' ,$P"' . $$$ Uptime: 116 days, 19 hours, 33 mins
$$P d$' , $$P Packages: 636 (dpkg)
$$: $$. - ,d$$' Shell: bash 5.1.4
$$; Y$b._ _,d$P' Resolution: 1024x768
Y$$. `.`"Y$$$$P"' Terminal: /dev/pts/0
`$$b "-.__ CPU: Intel Xeon E5-2697 v2 (24) @ 3.500GHz
`Y$$ GPU: N/A
`Y$$. Memory: 96GB DDR4 ECC
`$$b. NVMe: N/A
`Y$$b. SSD: 2x Intel DC S3700 200GB, RAID-1/ext4 (system); 1x Intel DC P3700 2TB HHHL (Ceph c3)
`"Y$b._ HDD: 3x Western Digital Red 14TB; 6x Western Digital Red 8TB (Ceph c2)
`"""
Backup Server: Whitebox 2U
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,$$P' `$$$. Host: Whitebox (Supermicro X10SRL-F)
',$$P ,ggs. `$$b: Kernel: 6.1.0-32-amd64
`d$$' ,$P"' . $$$ Uptime: 116 days, 19 hours, 40 mins
$$P d$' , $$P Packages: 790 (dpkg)
$$: $$. - ,d$$' Shell: bash 5.1.4
$$; Y$b._ _,d$P' Resolution: 1024x768
Y$$. `.`"Y$$$$P"' Terminal: /dev/pts/0
`$$b "-.__ CPU: Intel Xeon E5-2620 v3 (12) @ 3.200GHz
`Y$$ GPU: N/A
`Y$$. Memory: 32GB DDR4 ECC
`$$b. NVMe: N/A
`Y$$b. SSD: 1x Intel 320 40GB, ext4 (system)
`"Y$b._ HDD: 4x Western Digital Red 8TB, ZFS RAID-Z; 1x Western Digital USB3.0 8TB, ZFS
`"""
Networking
My network infrastructure hardware is relatively tame - a pair of switches and a pair of FreeBSD pf router/firewall systems at each side for redundancy.
Core Switches
Dell N3048P - 48x 1GbE PoE + 2x 10GbE SFP+
Dell N4064F - 48x 10GbE SFP+ + 2x 40GbE QSFP+
Wireless Access Points (x2)
Ubiquiti Unifi UAP-AC Pro 2.4GHz/5GHz 802.3ac PoE
Local Routers: FreeBSD on Debian on SZBOX G30B Mini-PCs (x2)
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+o .--` /y:` +. OS: FreeBSD 14.3-RELEASE amd64
yo`:. :o `+- Uptime: 3 days, 15 hours, 11 mins
y/ -/` -o/ Packages: 142 (pkg)
.- ::/sy+:. Shell: bash 5.2.37
/ `-- / Terminal: /dev/pts/1
`: :` CPU: QEMU Virtual version (4) @ 1.996GHz
`: :` Memory: 6GB (virtual)
/ / NVMe: 1x QEMU 80GB, ZFS (virtual system)
.- -. SSD: N/A
-- -. HDD: N/A
`:` `:`
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Which for compatibility reasons are VMs running on top of...
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,$$P' `$$$. Host: SZBOX G30B TVI7309X B0
',$$P ,ggs. `$$b: Kernel: 6.1.0-32-amd64
`d$$' ,$P"' . $$$ Uptime: 9 days, 14 hours, 2 mins
$$P d$' , $$P Packages: 830 (dpkg)
$$: $$. - ,d$$' Shell: bash 5.2.15
$$; Y$b._ _,d$P' Terminal: /dev/pts/1
Y$$. `.`"Y$$$$P"' CPU: Intel Celeron N5105 (4) @ 2.900GHz
`$$b "-.__ GPU: Intel JasperLake [UHD Graphics]
`Y$$ Memory: 8GB DDR4
`Y$$. NVMe: 1x Generic 128GB, ext4 (system)
`$$b. SSD: N/A
`Y$$b. HDD: N/A
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Remote Routers (colo): FreeBSD on Dell PowerEdge C6100 Blades (x2)
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` `.....---.......--.``` -/ ---------------------------
+o .--` /y:` +. OS: FreeBSD 14.3-RELEASE-p4 amd64
yo`:. :o `+- Uptime: 65 days, 12 hours, 25 mins
y/ -/` -o/ Packages: 366 (pkg)
.- ::/sy+:. Shell: bash 5.2.37
/ `-- / Terminal: /dev/pts/0
`: :` CPU: Intel Xeon E5540 (4) @ 2.533GHz
`: :` Memory: 6GB DDR3 ECC
/ / NVMe: N/A
.- -. SSD: 2x Intel SSDSA2CT040G3 80GB, ZFS mirror
-- -. HDD: N/A
`:` `:`
.-- `--.
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