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Downsizing my Home Lab to a SINGLE PC
Downsizing my Home Lab to a SINGLE PC
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The biggest problems with utilizing older hardware I've found in my fairly recent explorations of homelab stuff – for my needs – have been the lack of RAM or RAM slots, and power consumption.
It's a bit ironic than you've mentined $10 cost for game server, but forgot to mention that to use hardware video transcodoing with plex, a Plex Pass (premium option) of $120 lifetime or $5/month subscription.
I wonder if this is going to be given away in the future?
How do you find out what CPUs are compatible with old machines like this? Seems like there are so many options on the market I don’t even know where to start.
Good job.
Just in the process of setting up an intel NUC with proxmox, pfsense and some virtual machines to play with some stuff, was originally going to be AHV as use that for work, but unfortunately requires min 3 physical SSD's – was using ESXi but it was more of a pain though was working! First thing was to get Plex up an running as didn't run well on my NAS! One of the reasons for the NUC was very lower power usage even when running maxed out.
Hi! which portainer app templates URL are you using on your setup?
you threw some money at this and value wise it is ok but not pushing any boundaries – maxing out the ram was good but 40g fail – you need to get the 56g cards to run 40gbe – they are only 50 bucks and would have made this more awesome, as is, more or less meh – you tried to do too much and be all things to all people and you may have been better off getting 3-4 of these boxes for a better experience and just put less hw into them – spread out the load and jobs for better reliability/redundancy – all in all it highlights 6th gen which is probably the value champ at this point until zen5 debuts and older parts have big price drops but for now it is representative and that is what counts since in 2024 anything can happen and will happen. people should be advised you neutered some of these parts and if people go with full tower they may get a x16 and x4 plus some x1 ports….
I used to run my firewall in proxmox, but I had to mess with the computer one too many times, and I really did not want to lose internet for no reason again. I bought a thin client and put pfsense onto that, and I haven't even had to look at it even once after I set it up.
700 USD… that's what I spent on a Lenovo p920. 2 x 20 core Xeon processors, 64 GB RAM, 515 SSD/ 2×4 TB HD, nvidia quadro 2000 (IIRC).
Honestly interesting as a scenario for this video, but not that much practical, cost wise 😅
BTW I already knew your channel thanks to the algorithm but the sponsor segway in this video made me a subscriber 😂😂😂
You have a pretty intense room resonance at 380hz. Cool video as always.
For PFSENSE you should builde a cluster and use HA then the network will not be down when one proxmox fails.
Rather than giving thePfSense/OPNSense VM 2 dedicated NICs, could do with just a single physical NIC for the WAN link and its LAN link be a virtual one on ProxMox's vswitch along with all the other VMs on ProxMox's bridge port. Sure, it's all on a shared 1Gb port to anything external, but internally between VMs, it's much faster. Also, later on, could install a 2.5/10/etc Gb NIC and make it the bridge port for the vswitch. Save a PCIe slot, particularly if your home network is only 1Gb.
I'm still a fan of using retired server gear like E5 Xeons and Supermicro Boards. My "new" main server (E5-2680V2/X9SRL-F) is idling at around 60W and is literally whisper quiet. This stuff is old but you get more IOMMU-Groups for passing devices through to VMs and DDR3 registered ECC RAM is dirt cheap. The board even supports PCIE-bifurcation so i can use multiple NVME drives quite easily. For smaller setups (router/firewall/homeassistant/backupserver) i prefer the intel N100 series. Low cost, very low power consumption and more than enough computing power for these tasks using ProxMox and TrueNAS Scale.
This is way above my pay grade 🙈
How many users is the patchcase serving.
Why the old PC ? Not fast enough if you get users that use it !
WHY SLOW AND CREAPIE ? needs ? What are the needs, not any usars ?
woohoo i made 7/10 status !
Love the content even tho I don’t know much about servers! I have an i7-6700 and had that RX6400 (No encoders) but now playing with an Intel ARC A380 LP (but dual slots). Need a newer CPU to enable ReBar. Great content always 👍🏼
How the f did you afford rails for your Silverstone?
I bought the RM44 now my wife and kids (not me) are going to have to go without food for the next 3 or 4 months, depending on how good they act.
Also, you should hire someone that actually knows about computers to help you with your wiring job, you're a pretty face but your cable management looks like you're too poor to afford long enough cables. I'd say makes it looks like you don't care, but obviously you do, you have some flashy color lights on something'er'other at the back, so you've obviously got mommy problems and are starved for attention. At least that's what RGB lights mean to me.
Love you bud, keep the bald head rockin' goodly. 😎
i made exactly the opposite. im sick of single workstations. got a "normal" pc now and builded a rack with used ebay hardware for about 20k USD. i prefer a rack as its easier to maintain and much cheaper in long time view in case of the need to change broken parts…
thanks for this great video! it shows that high end components are not that important for a good home VM environment. How it is the power consumption?
i build my server on optiplex755 – Q9505, 8gb ram, rx560 4gb, 8x1tb hdd. work very nice on proxmox))
You passed the 1gb nics to the firewall? But – then what about the 2.5 – hmmmm.
Damn, that transition at the start was so clean!!! Who's your editor?