A+ is a big book and this was a 12 week class. Lots of reading but so much learning and refreshing what I had already learned at American River College in Sacramento California. Any class that gets me excited to grab my iFixit kit and tear things open is going to be a fun class. My desk was filled with Samsung 2TB m.2 SSD’s SODIMM RAM sticks and peripherals. A monitor and a box of NUC’s to test out different configurations systems and in the back was the Celeron CPU on a full ATX board helping me learn about RAID NIC’s and virtualization. Reconfiguring the Home Network to run multiple game servers on one 4TB 2.5â€SSD (Samsung QVO) to running one Minecraft server on a RAID Array of 6 Western Digital Blue 1TB 2.5†SSD’s in RAID 5 configuration for faster performance better redundancy and more badass look as there are now 8 LED’s on the server chassis instead of one and I added dual 80mm fans to the intake of the server chassis that also have blue LED’s. Why Blue because it’s a “cool” color.. get it? No but really blue was picked just because the chassis LED lights are blue as well.
I’ve built a NAS that turned into a super server which turned into a Type-1 vSphere host and now I’m looking to stack a bunch of 1Gbps quad NIC’s in it via the PCI-e. I’d like to do 10Gbps quad NIC’s but from what I’m learning in my N+ class there really isn’t a reason for that. The NAS I built has a storage array of 8 8TB Samsung QVO 2.5, SSD’s in an IcyDock 8 SSD bay adapter for a 5.25†external bay. Why you ask? Because. No but seriously it’s all going through a PCI-e RAID Controller card from SAS to SATA by Intel and I can turn on my stream now and record at the same time through the network directly onto my NAS because it is so super fa-fa-fast!
I’ve had a lot of fun this semester and look forward to my future classes.