Homelab

371 readers

3 users here now

Rules

Be Civil.
Post about your homelab, discussion of your homelab, questions you may have, or general discussion about transition your skill from the homelab to the workplace.
No memes or potato images.
We love detailed homelab builds, especially network diagrams!
Report any posts that you feel should be brought to our attention.
Please no shitposting or blogspam.
No Referral Linking.
Keep piracy discussion off of this community

founded 11 months ago

MODERATORS

communick@selfhosted.forum

rglullis

Black Friday Homelab Projects (alien.top)

submitted 9 months ago by Adventurous-Mud-5508@alien.top to c/homelab@selfhosted.forum

32 comments fedilink hide all child comments

What did you all waste money on for your homelabs this holiday discount season? I snagged a rosewill 4u case for $80 on Newegg. Currently my NAS is a guest in a ryzen based proxmox host in a silverstone case with a ton of 3.5 bays. Gonna move an older supermicro server mobo into that silverstone case and make it a dedicated bare metal NAS that I’ll probably only run a few hours a month, and then build a “new” game/vm server with the ryzen parts in the rosewill case. That way I can run my more demanding stuff without also having to power a bunch of spinning rust all the time. Yes the ~70 watts for 24/7 HDD’s nags at me that much; don’t try to tell me how long it will take me to make my $80 back 😂

What projects did y’all find for yourselves?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] aridhol@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

I bought 2x20TB exos drives to put in my unraid array, one to take over parity. I also bought 3x2TB nvme drives, 2 of which will go in that same unraid machine to serve as cache drives for my appdata and fast storage for downloading/transferring files.

All of this started with me getting a mikrotik CRS312 10Gig switch :)