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How did you get started and what’s your favorite homelab project? (alien.top)

submitted 10 months ago by BusyPooping@alien.top to c/homelab@selfhosted.forum

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I’m trying to get some ideas of what is out there that can be done. I feel like I’ve been doing it for sometime, don’t really know what homelab is or encompasses, and want to know more.

So what got you started and what’s your favorite homelab project? Anything you’ve done or want to do?

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[–] mats_o42@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

It started with a laptop with a broken screen (a Compaq Armada something).
It was my work laptop and instead of throwing it on the scrapheap I adopted it and took it home.

It was trash for my Company. For me it was:
* A small NAS (one harddrive and one cdrom)
* A UPS for that NAS (laptop battery)
* A printer server (It had a LPT port)
* A router (US Robotics Courier modem on the serial port)

I was truly sad when its motherboard failed a number of years later.

The favorite is not in the homelab but my workstation. Built on a HFX mini chassis with a Ryzen 3600 and a 1650 graphics card - zero moving parts and zero noise. You have to look at the power led to know if its on