# Nodito

Nodito is my main selfhosted box.

## Notes from building

I started building Nodito on 2025-10-20. Here's the bill of materials:
- Case: Fractal Node 804
- Motherboard: ASUS PRIME B650M-A II-CSM
- PSU: MSI MAG A750GL PCIE5 II ATX 3.1 750W 80 Plus Gold Modular
- CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 7600 3.8/5.1 GHz Box
- CPU Fan: Be Quiet! Dark Rock TF 2 Ventilador CPU 135mm
- RAM: Kingston FURY Beast DDR5 5600MHz 32GB 2x16GB CL36
- OS Storage: Kingston KC3000 SSD 512GB M.2 PCIe 4.0 NVMe
- Data Storage: Seagate IronWolf Pro ST4000NT001 3.5" 4TB SATA (2 units)

Some notes from assembling:
- It all went smooth, except for the IO Shield being slightly bent. It was a pain in the ass to bend it back into proper shape but I managed.
- Cable management in the guts could be better, but good enough for now.
- PCComponentes fucked up the package and dind't include the RAM sticks, so I'm waiting for those to arrive to complete things.
- I'm also missing cables for the HDDs. I've decided I'll use the molex cable that comes out of the PSU to put one x2 SATA power splitter on each molex. That way I can dedicate one single molex to every pair of HDDs. I'll also need some data cables.
- I labeled the first two HDDs Agapito 1 and Agapito 2, since they will live together in RAID 1 for now.
- Fractal ships the case with a gazillion screws, rubber separators and other really cool stuff. I must store that real good, because it will make long term maintenance of the box much easier and nice.

Some other notes:
- The Fractal fits even more drives than I thought. Beside having the funny design shelves to store 8 drives, it can also have two more big drives in the floor of the motherboard area and two thin SSD like drives in the front cover of the case.
- The box fans are not PWM, but fixed. They come with a switch behind with three positions (H/M/L).

## BIOS Settings

- In the Advanced Mode, AI Tweaker section, I set AI Overclock Tuner from AUTO to EXPO1 so that the RAM frequency is set to 5600MHz instead of 4800MHz. This way I can use the full frequency of the RAM sticks.
- I also changed the Q-Fan config from the default to "Silent". We'll see how hot the CPU gets with this one.
- Finally, there's this one called `Restore AC Power Loss` that I enabled. The idea is that, if power goes off unexpectedly and later comes back, the server will start on its own as soon as power comes in.

## Installing Proxmox

On 2025-10-26, I start installing Proxmox on nodito as an OS. I download version 9.0, ISO installer and flash it on a USB drive.

Some notes of stuff I did during the install wizard:
- I set a ZFS pool in RAID0 with the default settings for the OS install.
- root pwd is noesfacilvivirenunmundo...
- Networking: I set nodito.rmip as the hostname and let other values default

Once Proxmox was running, I assigned the static IP 192.168.1.139 to it by DHCP Binding in the router.