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This is a changelog for various software and hardware modifications to my HomeLab. When organizing, I found that many of my earlier blog posts were rather dull, overly detailed, and not worth a standalone article. So I’ve created this single post to log some trivial changes. Entries before 2024/11 are backfilled from historical records, while entries after that date will be updated in real time.
2026-05-10
- 1U servers are just too damn loud—sold the HR630x, and even made a small profit after parting it out… the hardware market is wild.
2026-04-12
- Full HomeLab platform overhaul: acquired 270K Plus + MAXSUN Z890 Terminator + DDR5 16G
- Successfully sold DDR4 32G x2
2025-11-25
- Sold HC550,
made 400 bucks in 10 months - Purchased two Exos 14TB drives, plus added a 2008 RAID controller
2025-10-22
- Host experienced several random panics, also power-limited
- Replaced RAM—no fix. Bought new CPU—still no fix
- Swapped motherboard to B460M Mortar—confirmed the old ASRock board was faulty. System now stable
- Upgraded mobile broadband to 1000Mbps downstream
2025-10-06
- Acquired HR630x rack server, currently setting it up
2025-01-21
- Bought a 1.92T “Little Dolphin” 6531, sold the 1.92T “Dongting N2”
- Picked up a HC550 with 3-year store warranty for only 900 RMB
- Big mistake swapping to QTB1—host started random panics. Throttling power helps a bit…
2024-11-08
- PVE has been running stably for over a year. Main change during this time: backup script updates
- SN640 was massively underutilized, so I sold it and replaced it with a 1.92T “Dongting-N2” (enterprise-grade drives are just better—ended up making profit on the SN640 sale)
- Sold i3-10100, upgraded to QTB1 (an ES version of i9-10900). Barely any price difference, and zero issues so far
- My “cloud NAS” plan completely failed. Migrated cold data from SN640 back to HDDs. Now using OneDrive for backup (storing cold data I access once a year on an SSD? Too luxurious)
2024-09-20
- Started using Ansible to manage PVE host configurations—prepping for future hardware changes
2024-08-01
- Replaced my custom zfs send backup script with restic for cloud backups
2023-12-16
- Enabled GVT-g to virtualize integrated GPU for VMs (though Windows GVT-g drivers have some bugs that can occasionally freeze the guest—low chance but real). Intel also discontinued GVT-g support in 2024
- Tons of GVT-g guides online—
I won’t bother writing another one
2023-09-17
- Added a DIY IPKVM for remote management
2023-07-08
- Acquired a 7.68TB U.2 SN640—plenty of space for all my data (
though I later realized I wouldn’t need it all) - Switched from unRAID to PVE, details here
- Funny enough, the system that’s lasted the longest turned out to be the original hacked Synology—only using its QuickConnect feature
- Of course, the Windows & Ubuntu 22.04 test machines from two years ago are still running—Windows upgraded once from 10 to 11
2023-07-02
- Original ST4000VX013 bought from JD triggered SMART warnings twice. Got it replaced under warranty—full refund at original price. JD’s support wasn’t bad.
2022-08-13
- Bought Samsung PM983a (PE4010), using it with a 2280→22110 adapter
2022-07-08
- After a year on ESXi + hacked Synology, switched to unRAID due to Synology upgrade difficulties—details here
- Never actually bought a unRAID license,
but cracking it was pretty easy
2022-05-16
- Gradually acquired two 32G RAM sticks—total RAM now 80G (16+32+32)
- Added two 4T OEM HDDs (Seagate + WD) for unRAID array
- Used a 512G NVMe SSD salvaged from an old laptop
2022-02-04
- Upgraded AC2100 OpenWRT to the official release, replaced the previous heavily-modded custom firmware (now only runs DDNS—stable for over 2 years)
2022-01-21
- Running a series of Docker containers on Synology
- Figured out how to
run VMess over QuickConnect—basically proxy any protocol through QC
2021-08-13
- Running hacked Synology and Windows. Passed HDDs through to Synology for storage management. Synology hosts various Docker containers (scrapers, databases, etc.)
2021-07-28
- Despite the beautiful industrial design, it had too many bugs—listed on Xianyu (idle fish) and sold
- Built a new HomeLab host with B460M + Intel i3-10100—details here
- Later tried installing ESXi on a USB drive—turned out unstable. Bought a 16G Optane drive specifically for ESXi
2021-07-22
- iLO management system had a bug: during boot with Ethernet connected, it would throw an error about an
Intel(R) PRO/1000 9.4.06 PCI-ENIC—despite the machine not having that card - Sent it back to the Wuhan lab for repair—firmware update fixed it
2021-07-02
- Received HP Gen10+ from Germany, installed ESXi as the base system (this model even has a cracked iLO card!)
2021-06-09 (Where it all began)
- Ordered HP Gen10+ from Amazon Germany
- Bought Redmi AC2100, flashed with OpenWRT
- Acquired a 4TB HDD for storage
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Author: lyc8503, Article link: https://blog.lyc8503.net/en/post/aio-changelog/
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