Kingston NV2 (HP Z Turbo G2 M.2 PCIe Adapter) vs onboard NVME

Tested two fast drives and a slow drive. CrystalDiskMark numbers which aren't good benchmarks, but they'll be funny to re-read in 10-20 years.

Modding the HP Z Turbo G2 M.2 PCIe Adapter

This HP card mounts in a PCIe expansion slot and provides a M.2 NVME socket. But then it gets weird - HP locked these so they could only be used with HP Z4x0s. Or did they?

Supermicro AOC-S3008L-L8E + Noctua NF-A4x20

LSI-based HBAs are designed for the airflow of a server chassis, not a repurposed desktop PC. They run hot, and - in my opinion - should get a little cooling assistance.

LSI HBA Flashing

I recently acquired an LSI 9300-8i Supermicro HBA and needed to flash the firmware for use with TrueNAS... the process was more of a hassle than I'd expected.

Github Pages and Hugo

These are the steps I followed to get a basic almost-zero-effort blog published to Github Pages. Adding posts simply requires creating/committing/pushing a new markdown file to your github repo - building the site and publishing it are completely automated.