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What’s Running in my Home Lab? – Hardware Edition 2023
What’s Running in my Home Lab? – Hardware Edition 2023
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“Raid Owl”
Networking:
UDM Pro –
Enterprise 24 PoE –
Enterprise XG –
Enterprise 8 –
Flex XG –
Flex Mini -…
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Could you please do a walktrough on your Proxmox & Truenas setup? Im interested to know how you pass trough the disks or if its better to run Truenas bare metal.
Thought this was a ubiquity ad for a second. 🤪 I'm not committed to a networking ecosystem because that makes things expensive when I can buy random 10Gb SFP+ switches for under $100.
what's the first step to overcoming an addiction….. when you have aircon curtains for your rack…..
I love that you walk through your setup with the diagram
Are you sure 'te' didn't learnt any hungarian in any of your previous lives? Te, hehe! Lovely rack setup. Wish I could have the space for such thing to build.
You should have stuck with pfSense. There’s a way to bypass AT&T’s ghetto gateway with full instructions on the website.
Looking to upgrade my 5 bay Silverstone server chassis so I can support more HDDs. Would you recommend the Rosewill chassis or the HL15?
Are you looking to unload the Netgate appliance? 🙂
Great setup, and ofcourse you needed that Enterprise swtich, I mean, you'd be crazy if you didn't have it 😂
Great to see this! I have the components for my first real server build on order right now and im very excited! Can you tell me how your UPSs are set up? Do you just split the devices between them, or do they work together in anyway?
This dude is my spirit animal. Just like a good workshop, most of the hobby is building the workshop. It's why every youtube homelab person seems to have a pile of gear that is almost all totally idle. I don't need half the gear I've got, but where's the fun in that!
Good luck with the InWall POEs. Had three of them and they ALL overheat.
just curious, what did you use to replace pfSense haproxy tho? it was a pretty good tool
Great stuff!
Hey. I can't find anything about a Rosewill Rails. And I've come across your video which actually shows that you have one, sadly you haven't talked about it. So simple way to ask this, where did you find the rail or what is the name. Btw loved the tour!!!
good stuff.. Can't wait for the HL15 content.. what Xeon did u go with?
$800 USD for 1 switch? And you think this is the 'perfect' switch for a HomeLab?
My entire network costs less than $800 INCLUDING the fiber/Cat6a in the walls. And it does WAAAAY more.
I have 1G, 2.5G, 10G, 40G, .11ae, .11ax, PoE, SDN, layer 2/3/*, and all the fun alphabet-soup protocols for learning REAL networking.
All this 'luxury' HomeLab gear really muddies the water. HomeLab is about hacking and learning on real equipment.
What experience does a 'premium' plug-n-play switch get you?
everyone's HomeLab is unique just like the individual it belongs too.
This is way over my budget for homelab. I have classic pc with i3-13100, 64GB ddr4, lsi 9207-8i, 4xWD Red SA500 2tb in raid5, one 16tb, 2x nvme for os and VM's, 2×2,5gbit nic, one dumb 2,5gbit switch, Tp link AP eap225.. Virtualized Opnsense and few services. This homelab in video is so big I can't afford in years. 😁
That's a lot of kit! Have you worked out the total power draw for you whole home lab (including AC)? Your power bills must be pretty high!
Ugh now i also want a patchbox …
hello there fellow person that is bad with money
Well I just added the patch box to my cart…😂
Great setup though. As someone who’s had a home lab since 2001 I’m finally moving my gear to a rack this month and putting a 5950x with one of those nice Asrock Rack boards in to replace my ancient dual xeon workhorse.
Your video last year was great motivation to get it all planned out. Just had to bank some vacation time to do it! 👍
I'm so damn fed by legit tech trustworthy homelab youtubers like you promoting this bullshit cheap ass 45 "home" lab case that is sold like enterprise grade server chassis. 45 drives management live in another reality and clearly do not understand our needs.
I ditched the home lab thing about a decade ago. I’m fortunate to own a company that has a large datacenter presence and I can leverage that for anything I might need. The power and cooling costs at home would make me cringe.
That's hardware heaven for me, heheh. Awesome setup man!
It’s an awesome home lab setup, fun to look at and dream about, and a great assert for building your channel. Love your style, so coming up with the great content. Maybe add some advice on how to build a lab like yours without first signing the divorce agreement. 😉
i could see you going to 40g or 100g – going dual nas would be an appropriate upgrade and what about ai – you have no power sucking multi gpu boxes, also going to nvme arrays would be nice – you should have a good 2024 lined up and upgrades aplenty but generally pretty good on bw and power savings – instead of adding more nodes to cluster why not just make another cluster and then if you need you can spin up a vm instead of adding a node – you want a bit more redundancy and better faster networking to the extent it is feasible but mostly on the ws and to your nas (dual nas – this is the core and going to 100g you could do point to point – no switch needed, i would say that is the place where going to 100g from 25g would save you time- and it adds up – think about doing a opnsense box with fast cards – i think adequate pci lanes is the issue but you want to think bottlenecks for internal net
I've been thinking about a homelab for a few years now, but I've also been thinking about using equipment efficiently.
I don't want to have dozens of devices that do nothing.
I mean, it looks cool, but…
One server with a new 7970X 32 cores threadripper and 128GB of memory can easily perform any of my tasks.
Instead of buying crazy expensive SSD NAS and 100Gbit network adapters, I can plug 4 NVME SSDs into an pci-e expansion card,
and slot it into the server, do a software raid5. This will give about 30 GB/s (257 Gb/s) – incomparably faster and cheaper than SAN and NAS for fast storage.
To keep the data safe, I will need a separate 923+ synology with a 10 Gbit network (mainly, for backups).
Also, 10Gb 4 ports switch + 8 port 2.5 Gb switch, some kind of dream machine and several Wi-Fi access points.
And UPS, of course. This is much more efficient (per watt) than a cluster of N old servers with a total performance equal to one threadripper.
As practice shows, even one computer can easily last for decades without breakdowns (except SSDs and HHDs) – it is acceptable for home.
But wait, there is an even more effective build – instead of spending a lot of money on a threadripper,
I can build 2 servers based on the AMD 7950x (and something like ASRock Rack B650D4U), these are the same Zen4 16 cores each, but 2 times cheaper and faster, due to higher frequencies and less power hungry.
Plus, two servers provide fault tolerance. In my opinion, this is the way. Also it's good idea to have one or two mini PCs for some small tasks.
I don't really understand the switch from pfsense to unifi. That's a serious downgrade in capabilities 🤔
great to see your rack filled! this time next year, i think you might have two racks! btw, whats your average power consumption on the epyc server man?