Reconnecting FatAgnus - part 1

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April 18, 2024 last modified November 2, 2026 by Jan Holbo Rasmussen

Some of my family’s data resides on a ZFS pool made up of 4 disks that are mirrored two and two. This data has been offline for a little while and I need to reconnect it to look through and reorganise our data storage. The YouTube video futher down this article documents my endeavours to get to these files and data

In this first part I will be looking at the computer I intend to use for this task and I install TrueNAS Scale. The drives are already in the server but I may need to reorganise the hardware a bit.

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My home servers · Part 3

Setup 2024 - taking stock of my servers

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February 3, 2024 last modified October 20, 2026 by Jan Holbo Rasmussen

It is time for taking stock of my servers. My setup has evolved a bit, but not as well planned as I would like it to have. I currently have 4 servers - 5 if you count my Linode/Akamai VPS but only one of them is actual dedicated server hardware.

Servers as of February 2024

Server number 1 is a Raspberry Pi 4B 2 GB running my Home Assistant and Unifi controller. This boots off a 2.5" 250 GB SSD connected via USB.

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My home servers · Part 2

Time to upgrade the HP SmartArray P410

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October 22, 2020 last modified October 30, 2026 by Jan Holbo Rasmussen

My Home Server is struggling with high IOWait under IO load and the time has come to upgrade the HP SmartArray P410 SAS/SATA controller with Write Cache.

In Setting up a Home Server using an old (2009) HP Proliant ML150 G6 I describe how my storage pool is using a mixed set of drives. The drives are connected to two different

Hardware installation

The HP Proliant ML150 G6 server that I am using for our Home Server has 2 storage controllers. It has an onboard SATA controller with 6 SATA ports. In addition to that it has an HP SmartArray P410 8 port SAS/SATA controller.

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My home servers · Part 1

Setting up a Home Server using an old (2009) HP Proliant ML150 G6

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October 13, 2020 last modified October 30, 2026 by Jan Holbo Rasmussen

Having a Home Server enables you to host locally your files and services. It might save you some money subscribing to paid (cloud) solutions. And enable you to try out cool things like containers and Virtual Machines. In this post I will document how I setup my current Home Server. I am using an old HP Proliant ML150 G6 I was given. This is a 5U tower server from 2009 with a Dual CPU motherboard.

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My Commodore Amigas

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December 2, 2020 last modified October 20, 2026 by Jan Holbo Rasmussen

Latest update: 2026-07-28

The below was as of 2019, but I have since sold off all my Amigas. If I will have any again, I am not sure.

I bought my first Amiga 500 around 1989/1990. Later I had an A2000 and a CD32 but offloaded them all.

Most legacy systems can be emulated on a standard PC or through specialised hardware like FPGAs. But nothing beats having the real thing, so I have found some original Amigas. Below is listed my Commodore Amigas.

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HP Proliant ML150 G6 as a Home Server

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October 13, 2020 last modified October 30, 2026 by Jan Holbo Rasmussen

Since the latest update on this page back in October 13th, 2020 I have retired this server. I will keep the below as historical data. They may be some updates missing inbetween 2020 and now, but I’d rather keep the page as it is.

Above you see my Home server - a HP Proliant ML150 G6. This server was released by HP in the beginning of 2009, so the design is already more than 11 years old. This means that it has USB 2.0 (instead of 3.0) and PCI Express 2.0 (instead of 4.0), so peripherals are not as speedy as the current (2020) specifications.

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Welcome to the J-Cave!

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September 23, 2020 last modified October 20, 2026 by Jan Holbo Rasmussen

Update July 28th, 2026

I took down the man cave a while back and then we moved from this house in August of 2025. We moved all the way from Vejle in Jutland to outside a little village called Jersie in Solrød Municipality. We are mostly in place in the new house, and is re-doing the garage to be an office. When I am ready, I will share photos of the new setup.

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