2025
🗄️ A mysterious Google server Part 3 - One cut at a time
Abstract
Time to make some metal modifications and make room for our final components.
🗄️ A mysterious Google server Part 2 - A custom backplane
Abstract
As mentioned in the previous post, you can't simply repurpose the existing Google chassis without some extensive modifications. In this post I will be sharing my progress on how I designed my own backplane (by cheating).
🗄️ A mysterious Google server Part 1 - What is it?
Abstract
I recently found a Google-branded server, and am looking for a way to repurpose it.
What is it?
Doing some cleanup in a datacenter, one of the servers that was supposed to be thrown away stood out to me. A bright yellow server with Google branding on this. My curiosity got the better of me and I took it home to find out what it was.
🖥️ A custom server rack screen
Abstract
I created a monitoring screen to place in my server rack. The screen is used to display different server statistics such as cpu, ram, disk, etc. usage for my servers (Proxmox, Unraid,..). To accomplish this, I got a Raspberry Pi with a screen. My server statistics are gathered via different Home Assistant integrations. Alternatively, you could use something like Grafana.
