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I picked up an ASRock NUC BOX-225H (they have a 255H I wanted but out of stock) which might be a better alternative depending on storage needs and sensitivity t

by p_ing 1y ago

I picked up an ASRock NUC BOX-225H (they have a 255H I wanted but out of stock) which might be a better alternative depending on storage needs and sensitivity to price. (Progress Quest is awesome)

LargoLasskhyfv 1y ago
How is the Bios? Does it run Genode? ;> OFC they are 'better', and have much more oomph.
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- p_ing 1y ago
  I believe the BIOS is American Megatrends. It's the 'good' kind of BIOS, text only menu system. My system is headless right now so I can't dive into it.
  - LargoLasskhyfv 1y ago
    I asked that in a half-joking way. But the look of it, or even the brand wasn't what I meant to say. Let me explain. 'Home-lab' can mean many different things. When you put some common OS on a thing, and then run that head-less 24/7 to fiddle with virtualization/containerization/clustering on top of that OS mostly, the 'quality' of the BIOS/UEFI doesn't really matter. It's used during initial setup, and that's it. Maybe some tuning, but one interacts not that often with it. This changes when one uses that thing to throw anything at it that was ever made for AMD64. Exotic stuff like Genode, for instance. Though that also is a question of hardware and driver support. This continues with the implementation of ACPI, leading to the cleanest bootlogs ever, with no errors at all. It goes on with all sorts of Netbooting/PXE, be it as a client, or server. Other niceties are suspend to ram, wake on lan, reliably working every single time. This is amplified by having several of them, using at least some of them not 24/7 with the same setup, but changing everything, suspending them, or shutting them down, using them only on demand (via WOL/magic packet), testing failover/HA, and whatnot else. Again, without interacting with the BIOS/UEFI, it just has to work with everything behind the scenes. That's what I meant to say in the context of home-lab. It needs to be able to flawlessly work with all sorts of ever changing stuff. Which is not a given.

by p_ing 1y ago

I picked up an ASRock NUC BOX-225H (they have a 255H I wanted but out of stock) which might be a better alternative depending on storage needs and sensitivity to price. (Progress Quest is awesome)

LargoLasskhyfv 1y ago

How is the Bios? Does it run Genode? ;> OFC they are 'better', and have much more oomph.

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p_ing 1y ago
I believe the BIOS is American Megatrends. It's the 'good' kind of BIOS, text only menu system. My system is headless right now so I can't dive into it.
- LargoLasskhyfv 1y ago
  I asked that in a half-joking way. But the look of it, or even the brand wasn't what I meant to say. Let me explain. 'Home-lab' can mean many different things. When you put some common OS on a thing, and then run that head-less 24/7 to fiddle with virtualization/containerization/clustering on top of that OS mostly, the 'quality' of the BIOS/UEFI doesn't really matter. It's used during initial setup, and that's it. Maybe some tuning, but one interacts not that often with it. This changes when one uses that thing to throw anything at it that was ever made for AMD64. Exotic stuff like Genode, for instance. Though that also is a question of hardware and driver support. This continues with the implementation of ACPI, leading to the cleanest bootlogs ever, with no errors at all. It goes on with all sorts of Netbooting/PXE, be it as a client, or server. Other niceties are suspend to ram, wake on lan, reliably working every single time. This is amplified by having several of them, using at least some of them not 24/7 with the same setup, but changing everything, suspending them, or shutting them down, using them only on demand (via WOL/magic packet), testing failover/HA, and whatnot else. Again, without interacting with the BIOS/UEFI, it just has to work with everything behind the scenes. That's what I meant to say in the context of home-lab. It needs to be able to flawlessly work with all sorts of ever changing stuff. Which is not a given.