Hardware

Photos

A Grafana dashboard form my Home Lab.

Systems

Personal Laptop

Despite the majority of my professional career on MacBooks - I use a Surface Pro 6 to run … Linux. I use this for general open source development and admin.

• Intel i5-8250U 4 Cores@1.6-3.4GHz
• Samsung 8GB DDR3@1600MHz
• Toshiba 128GB SSD NVMe

$ hdparm -Tt /dev/sda

/dev/sda:
 Timing cached reads:   17742 MB in  1.99 seconds = 8922.07 MB/sec
 Timing buffered disk reads: 1358 MB in  3.00 seconds = 452.51 MB/sec

Budget Build Desktop

I’ve love value builds.

• AMD Ryzen 3 1300X 4 Core@3.5-3.7GHz
• Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4@2400MHz
• Samsung 960 EVO 250GB SSD NVMe
• WD Green 250GB SSD mSATA
• Asus Strix RX570@1300MHz (2048SP) 4GB DDR5@7000MHz

$ hdparm -Tt /dev/sda

/dev/sda:
 Timing cached reads:   18744 MB in  2.00 seconds = 9381.70 MB/sec
 Timing buffered disk reads: 5822 MB in  3.00 seconds = 1940.50 MB/sec

Home Lab

I use this compact and low power Intel NUC to run docker workloads with gitops. I use this primarily for media, storage, and monitoring.

• Intel i3-4010U 2 Core@1.7GHz
• Corsair 8GB (1x8GB) DDR3@1600MHz
• Micron M600 128GB SSD mSATA

$ hdparm -Tt /dev/sda

/dev/sda:
 Timing cached reads:   7664 MB in  1.99 seconds = 3854.47 MB/sec
 Timing buffered disk reads: 1348 MB in  3.00 seconds = 448.90 MB/sec

VPCs

I have workloads running in both AWS and GCP. I use these for work related experiements, testing best practices, and creating examples e.g. CI, CD, IAM, and networking patterns.

$ yum install python python-pip -y \
 && pip install --upgrade pip \
 && pip install speedtest-cli \
 && speedtest-cli

Download: 3283.42 Mbit/s Upload: 2274.26 Mbit/s