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If you had to start your homelab from scratch... (alien.top)

submitted 2 years ago by diffraa@alien.top to c/homelab@selfhosted.forum

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For reasons unexplained, you have no homelab hardware, but $1,000 in cash earmarked for the purpose.

What are you buying, what are you installing on it, and how is it different from what you've done previously (i.e. lessons learned)?

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[–] Sylvester88@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago (7 children)

3 optiplex 7040s micros - put 32gb ram and a 2tb ssd in each and call it a day

[–] Howkins99_@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

Legit same

[–] poldertrash@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

This is what I did with 3060s. Eventually added a 4th, because... well... 3 is less than 4 and I had an empty slot in my rack.

[–] sqomoa@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

I already have one 7040 Micro and I really wish I had two more for this exactly. Just cluster those puppies.

[–] j0hnp0s@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

I would only add a single SFF so that I can fit a couple of big 3.5 disks for my backup and data hoarding needs.

Other than that, yeah.... Micro/tiny/micro is the way

[–] Ezurek@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

Would you also recommend 7050 if those are available?

[–] Ornias1993@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

An am4 mobo+4500 = <150 euros. Cheap atx case + psu = 75 Leaves you 75 for ram to price-match those 7040 with lots more expandability and ecc support.

[–] Sylvester88@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

I like the optiplex micros because they're small

[–] SR_Lut3t1um@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

I figure you need to buy networking equipment too?