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35 changes: 21 additions & 14 deletions docs/hardware.md
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[#418](https://github.com/Gerrrt/HomeLab/issues/418) is the cautionary tale
for, and `CSM [Disabled]`, so it boots UEFI as TrueNAS wants.
Two 3.5" trays, both empty — exactly the mirror and no spare.
**The 5.25" bay is not empty**: a PLDS `DVD-RW DU8AESH` answers on SATA5.
**The 5.25" bay was not empty**: a PLDS `DVD-RW DU8AESH` answered on SATA5.
A photograph of the open case had been read here as an empty cage and was
wrong; the BIOS summary is what caught it. Pulling the optical drive frees
the bay for the boot disk, frees the port, and leaves power and data already
run to it — so the bracket inherits a cable that would otherwise have had to
be found.
wrong; the BIOS summary is what caught it. The optical drive came out on
2026-09-16 and the boot disk took its place, its port and both its cables.
The bay is a cage carrying its own fan on the board's `AUX1_FAN` header, and
that fan is **not optional**: it is the airflow over the drive bays, and two
7200 rpm Exos under a scrub will want it. Reconnected after the swap and
reading `Aux Fan: Operating`.
- 2× Seagate Exos X20 18 TB (`ST18000NM003D`), 3.5" SATA — bought
2026-09-11, in transit. `smaug`'s ZFS mirror
([ADR-0016](adr/0016-open-casabonita-inward-and-keep-it-terminal-outward.md),
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that is merely fast. The TS150's optical bay is 5.25" and this is a 2.5"
drive, so it cannot be fitted bare: **a bracket for the bay and
double-sided tape to mount it were bought 2026-09-11**, alongside the drive,
and both landed with it on 2026-09-15. Neither is named here yet — that was
deferred because nothing is recorded before it is in hand, and they now are,
so it is a naming this document owes rather than one it is waiting on.
**Checked on arrival, not assumed:** the drive's model, part number and
serial, and `smartctl -a` read back **before** the install rather than after
— the same caution the Exos pair below is bought under, and for the same
reason: a listing's hours are a claim. That the bracket is a 5.25"-to-2.5"
adapter and not the 3.5" version, which would fit neither the drive nor the
bay, goes here with them.
and both landed with it on 2026-09-15. The bracket is a 5.25"-to-2.5" adapter
and does fit both the drive and the bay — an assumption until it was fitted.
It and the tape are still unnamed here, which is a naming this document owes
rather than one it is waiting on.
**Fitted 2026-09-16 and detected:** the BIOS summary reads
`SATA Drive 5 Hard Disk INTEL SSDSC2BB240G7`, and the `G7` suffix is the
S3520 generation — so the part is what the listing said, on the port the
optical drive vacated, with both its cables inherited rather than found.
**Still owed, and needing `smartctl` rather than the BIOS:** the serial,
`Power_On_Hours` and `Percentage_Used`, read **before** TrueNAS is written to
it rather than after — the same caution the Exos pair below is bought under,
and for the same reason: a listing's hours are a claim. The installer's shell
is where that happens, one menu choice ahead of the install that would
otherwise make it moot.
- 2× Samsung SM863a 960 GB (`MZ-7KM960N`), 2.5" SATA 6 Gb/s enterprise
SSDs with power-loss protection[^SM863a] — purchased 2026-09-09, in transit,
for the ProLiant's SFF bays. Bought against the number every sizing
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