The problem with resurrecting older hardware is that......it's old. And old means susceptible to problems. In my case I started seeing ata port issues and usb ports started not working. It reached the stage where only one USB worked and I had to bite the bullet and buy new equipment.
For the TL:DR brigade, an Intel Core i5 12400F on a Gigabyte B760M DS3H AX DDR4 motherboard with 32GB RAM, 3TB NVMe drives and another 1TB SSD. The Spinning HDDs, installed to copy data from, are now superfluous and will be removed next time I open the box. Is it fast? Yes, reasonably so, but not that much quicker than the Ryzen 5 1600 AF. The 2.5 GBe lan is nice, but nothing else I have is that fast, so it runs at 1000 Mbps, so connection to my server is fast enough. Total cost around $600AUD for motherboard, CPU, RAM and 2 x NVMe drives. Power consumption is about half, so it will be cheaper to run and the box I used has nice big 120mm fans, so very quiet. I'm happy enough but somewhat disappointed that the necessary changes to the kernel are unlikely to happen while AMD really don't care either.
Full, clean installation of Debian 12, initially taking the default settings for most things. I've since changed Plasma to run on X11 rather than Wayland after noticing odd things happening. From what I read and experienced, Wayland still has a way to go with KDE/Plasma - maybe the next major release will see it as a really viable replacement. I've also installed the Nvidia driver over the Nouveau since this always worked better with the very basic graphics card that I run. It's taken a week to set it all up again, but rock solid and while still not solved (unlikely to happen while affected numbers are small) it is no longer my problem.
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chris@MAINDESK:~$ inxi -FSystem: Host: MAINDESK Kernel: 6.1.0-23-amd64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 5.27.5 Distro: Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)Machine: Type: Desktop System: Gigabyte product: B760M DS3H AX DDR4 v: N/A serial: <superuser required> Mobo: Gigabyte model: B760M DS3H AX DDR4 v: x.x serial: <superuser required> UEFI: American Megatrends LLC. v: F16 date: 12/14/2023CPU: Info: 6-core model: 12th Gen Intel Core i5-12400F bits: 64 type: MT MCP cache: L2: 7.5 MiB Speed (MHz): avg: 800 min/max: 800/5600 cores: 1: 800 2: 800 3: 800 4: 800 5: 800 6: 800 7: 800 8: 800 9: 800 10: 800 11: 800 12: 800Graphics: Device-1: NVIDIA GK208B [GeForce GT 710] driver: nvidia v: 470.256.02 Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.7 with: Xwayland v: 22.1.9 driver: X: loaded: nvidia unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,nouveau,vesa gpu: nvidia resolution: 1: 1920x1200~60Hz 2: 1200x1920~60Hz API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 470.256.02 renderer: NVIDIA GeForce GT 710/PCIe/SSE2Audio: Device-1: Intel Raptor Lake High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel Device-2: NVIDIA GK208 HDMI/DP Audio driver: snd_hda_intel API: ALSA v: k6.1.0-23-amd64 status: kernel-api Server-1: PulseAudio v: 16.1 status: activeNetwork: Device-1: Intel Raptor Lake-S PCH CNVi WiFi driver: iwlwifi IF: wlo1 state: down mac: 3e:d5:2e:a1:17:d8 Device-2: Realtek RTL8125 2.5GbE driver: r8169 IF: enp6s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: 10:ff:e0:11:ed:21Bluetooth: Device-1: Intel AX211 Bluetooth type: USB driver: btusb Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 state: up address: F8:FE:5E:91:7D:31Drives: Local Storage: total: 9.1 TiB used: 4.11 TiB (45.2%) ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Kingston model: SNV2S1000G size: 931.51 GiB ID-2: /dev/nvme1n1 vendor: Kingston model: SNV2S2000G size: 1.82 TiB ID-3: /dev/sda vendor: Seagate model: ST1000DM003-1ER162 size: 931.51 GiB ID-4: /dev/sdb vendor: Toshiba model: DT01ACA100 size: 931.51 GiB ID-5: /dev/sdc vendor: Samsung model: SSD 860 EVO 1TB size: 931.51 GiB ID-6: /dev/sdd type: USB vendor: Western Digital model: WD40NDZW-11MR8S1 size: 3.64 TiBPartition: ID-1: / size: 24.44 GiB used: 10.43 GiB (42.7%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 ID-2: /boot/efi size: 98.4 MiB used: 5.8 MiB (5.9%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 ID-3: /home size: 58.76 GiB used: 2.75 GiB (4.7%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3Swap: ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 35 GiB used: 1024 KiB (0.0%) dev: /dev/nvme0n1p10Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 28.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: nvidia temp: 51 C Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: nvidia fan: 50%Info: Processes: 377 Uptime: 1d 19h 41m Memory: 31.18 GiB used: 4.85 GiB (15.5%) Shell: Bash inxi: 3.3.26Full, clean installation of Debian 12, initially taking the default settings for most things. I've since changed Plasma to run on X11 rather than Wayland after noticing odd things happening. From what I read and experienced, Wayland still has a way to go with KDE/Plasma - maybe the next major release will see it as a really viable replacement. I've also installed the Nvidia driver over the Nouveau since this always worked better with the very basic graphics card that I run. It's taken a week to set it all up again, but rock solid and while still not solved (unlikely to happen while affected numbers are small) it is no longer my problem.
Statistics: Posted by NFT5 — 2024-07-21 10:51 — Replies 9 — Views 8375