Infamous Host Erlangen - After 10 Years Grandpa Is Great Again

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The retail components arrived on 21 February 2014. I installed openSUSE 13.1 on ext4 using a € 45,49 Kingston SV300S3 60 GB SSD. In July 2020 the system was upgraded from the small Intel Haswell i3-4130 to the AMD Ryzen 5 3400G.

Four years later I fetched the i3-4130 from the storage shelf and put it into a Fractal Design Core 2500 case. Configuration is now:

i4130:~ # inxi -zFm
System:
  Kernel: 6.8.7-1-default arch: x86_64 bits: 64
  Console: pty pts/2 Distro: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20240419
Machine:
  Type: Desktop Mobo: ASRock model: Z87 Pro3 serial: <filter> UEFI: American Megatrends v: P2.90
    date: 07/11/2014
Memory:
  System RAM: total: 16 GiB available: 15.3 GiB used: 1.19 GiB (7.8%) igpu: 256 MiB
  Array-1: capacity: 32 GiB slots: 4 modules: 2 EC: None
  Device-1: ChannelA-DIMM0 type: no module installed
  Device-2: ChannelA-DIMM1 type: DDR3 size: 8 GiB speed: 1600 MT/s
  Device-3: ChannelB-DIMM0 type: no module installed
  Device-4: ChannelB-DIMM1 type: DDR3 size: 8 GiB speed: 1600 MT/s
CPU:
  Info: dual core model: Intel Core i3-4130 bits: 64 type: MT MCP cache: L2: 512 KiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 1025 min/max: 800/3400 cores: 1: 800 2: 800 3: 1700 4: 800
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel 4th Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics driver: i915 v: kernel
  Display: server: X.org v: 1.21.1.12 with: Xwayland v: 23.2.6 driver: X: loaded: modesetting
    unloaded: fbdev,vesa dri: crocus gpu: i915 tty: 236x54
  API: EGL v: 1.5 drivers: crocus,swrast platforms: surfaceless,device
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: mesa v: 24.0.3 note: console (EGL sourced)
    renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 4400 (HSW GT2), llvmpipe (LLVM 18.1.3 256 bits)
  API: Vulkan v: 1.3.280 drivers: N/A surfaces: N/A
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor HD Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
  Device-2: Intel 8 Series/C220 Series High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
  API: ALSA v: k6.8.7-1-default status: kernel-api
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Ethernet I217-V driver: e1000e
  IF: enp0s25 state: down mac: <filter>
  Device-2: Qualcomm Atheros AR9287 Wireless Network Adapter driver: ath9k
  IF: wlp2s0 state: up mac: <filter>
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 931.51 GiB used: 8.15 GiB (0.9%)
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Samsung model: SSD 870 EVO 1TB size: 931.51 GiB
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 931.41 GiB used: 8.15 GiB (0.9%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sda2
  ID-2: /boot/efi size: 99.8 MiB used: 332 KiB (0.3%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sda1
  ID-3: /home size: 931.41 GiB used: 8.15 GiB (0.9%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sda2
  ID-4: /opt size: 931.41 GiB used: 8.15 GiB (0.9%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sda2
  ID-5: /var size: 931.41 GiB used: 8.15 GiB (0.9%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sda2
Swap:
  Alert: No swap data was found.
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 25.5 C mobo: 31.0 C
  Fan Speeds (rpm): fan-1: 0 fan-2: 898 fan-3: 0 fan-4: 0 fan-5: 0
Info:
  Processes: 186 Uptime: 9h 50m Init: systemd Shell: Bash inxi: 3.3.34
i4130:~ #

I reused all components, but replaced the Kingston SSD by a newer model:

i4130:~ # fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 931.51 GiB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectors
Disk model: Samsung SSD 870 
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: 7D9FA4BA-4FAA-4A55-A7A8-96335ADF158B

Device      Start        End    Sectors   Size Type
/dev/sda1    2048     206847     204800   100M Microsoft basic data
/dev/sda2  206848 1953525134 1953318287 931.4G Linux filesystem
i4130:~ #

The machine is rock solid as ever and even snappier with btrfs occupying the whole drive:

i4130:~ # btrfs filesystem usage -T /
Overall:
    Device size:                 931.41GiB
    Device allocated:             11.02GiB
    Device unallocated:          920.39GiB
    Device missing:                  0.00B
    Device slack:                  3.50KiB
    Used:                          8.13GiB
    Free (estimated):            921.91GiB      (min: 461.72GiB)
    Free (statfs, df):           921.91GiB
    Data ratio:                       1.00
    Metadata ratio:                   2.00
    Global reserve:               22.05MiB      (used: 0.00B)
    Multiple profiles:                  no

             Data    Metadata  System                                
Id Path      single  DUP       DUP      Unallocated Total     Slack  
-- --------- ------- --------- -------- ----------- --------- -------
 1 /dev/sda2 9.01GiB   2.00GiB 16.00MiB   920.39GiB 931.41GiB 3.50KiB
-- --------- ------- --------- -------- ----------- --------- -------
   Total     9.01GiB   1.00GiB  8.00MiB   920.39GiB 931.41GiB 3.50KiB
   Used      7.49GiB 329.89MiB 16.00KiB                              
i4130:~ #

Performed a Noninteractive System Upgrade from Tumbleweed July 2023 to 20240416 (4000+packages) without a single glitch.

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This machine is Erlangen’s parent?
Curious, why resurrect it now? :thinking:

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Yep: Infamous Host erlangen

I do some assembly and maintenance work. A stock of spare parts is very helpful. Users bringing in their machine are happy with a spare one running their drives in the meantime.

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That’s really going the extra mile :100:
What’s your outfit’s name? I’m nowhere near Germany but it might be useful to other people here.

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Some bring their drive with Tumbleweed to have it fixed.

Users can contact me if professional support would be too expensive.

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