Some infrastructure updates. —
We had a basement flood about 2 months ago now caused by a burst water heater, it destroyed some of the infrastructure systems for our house, unfortunately my NAS servers, some network gear, and house mechanical systems were all flooded and damaged/lost.
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- About half the water pumped out, everything that was stacked or on a low shelf floated around and made a HUGE mess.
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- Storage area mess, most the plastic totes I thought would be flood safe all floated, tipped over, and filled with water anyways, anything that was on top of them tipped off too.
Luckily my Router, CCTV surveillance server, and domain controller were all sitting on top of the NAS servers and were spared from the flood.
I have an old slow HP Microserver L40N acting as my NAS for the time being, however, I will be picking up something faster, and rack-mountable, since I was able to get a “1/2 rack” that was being disposed of from work. I have a new network switch (with 4x10G SFP+ ports) on the way, I will be installing all the current and future equipment into the rack once I get it down into the basement (it needs to be disassembled, it will not fit down the stairs in one piece). I will be keeping equipment (other than maybe a UPS/PDU) out of the bottom 12U just in case we ever flood again.
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- The Dell 1/2 rack I was able to get from work (all equipment was removed)
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- New mechanical systems in the basement, and storage area cleaned up.
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