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 2.5”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
