homelab

Hello, I'm pretty new the to home lab adventure. I experimented somewhat with old laptops and mini PCs. But I now want to build my own rack mounted home lab server. I read a bunch of posts and articles, and watched videos from Wolfgang' channel, hardware haven, raid owl, wundertech etc. I...

Hi there STH, Im trying to decide on an efficent Server/NAS setup for my home, I’ve been going around in circles and finaly I’ve decided I need to engage others with more experience than myself. My goal is to host SMB shares, Plex, Sonar, Radar, Jellyseer and Home assistant OS. Currently im...

Hello! I am setting up my first homelab and I was wondering if y'all could help me out (I've been stuck for days on this). Objective: Create an internal "LAN" network separate from my Home network "WAN". All my servers will live in here and my OPNsense VM will be the gateway (10.10.0.1)...

Build’s Name: The BIG one Operating System/ Storage Platform: Linux/Proxmox CPU: Intel 14500/14600 (?) Motherboard: Asus W680 IPMI (?) Chassis: Fractal Define XL 7 (?) Drives: At least 12x20TB Exos drives RAM: 64/128GB non-ECC Add-in Cards: LSI HBA 16 slots (?), Intel 2xSFP+ Power Supply: (?)...

Hello everyone, I currently have a basic homelab comprising of a low end NUC machine running homeassistant and a synology NAS that serves double duty of data warehousing and also hosting a bunch of other services I use via docker. This includes things like Pi-hole, portainer, *arr stack, amongst...

Selling an Ice Lake Xeon Gold 5320 (LGA 4189). The processor was purchased new in November 2022 and I have been the only owner. It has been a fantastic processor for my workstation and is in like-new condition. Specifications are given below and pictures attached. Specs: - Total Cores: 26 -...

Got a China OEM Epyc from ebay. Put it into my compute server, now only need silent cooling set up. Specifications: Architecture: Zen2 Cores: 48(96) Base Clock: 2.6GHz Boost Clock: 3.3GHz L3 Cache: 196MB TDP: 240W This CPU will serve in a Gigabyte g292-z20 8GPU server and will mainly do FEM...

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Hello everyone, I'm in the process of setting up my own homelab and would greatly appreciate your recommendations and advice. Below, I provide the details and requirements of my project: Goals and Essential Requirements: Homelab Server with Proxmox: I want to create an environment to learn...

Hi there, Here in Bulgaria, in the middle of the street we have metal boxes which hosts ISP telecom active equipment. Yeah they have ventilation holes, but hey - when outside is almost 40C degrees, do they are able to cool down? I'm not sure.. Do you have the same in your countries? Have you...

Good evening everyone, I was hoping someone here could possibly tell me if a Supermicro CSE-847BE1C-R1K28LPB would be compatible with a PWS-1K11P-1R -48vdc PSU? I've contacted Supermicro directly and have basically gotten the basic "It's the PWS-1k11P-1R is a direct swap for the PWS-1K28P-SQ...

So, I'm planning to renew a bit my current server to try to save some electricity and improve performance a bit (single thread performance is suffering). I've been mulling over this for quite a while, but a post on reddit about downsizing/reducing electricity gave me a bit of a push so I wanted...

So i recently i've gotten into learning networking and cloud, and would like to have my own private server/cloud instead of paying google/amazon and all the rest of cloud based softwares. I've looked into synology and qnap for nas, but for the price of them I realized i could just build my own...

I am planning on making a homelab using older business mini towers as the servers to run services. The goals are to self-host everything, have 10 gig and learn. My infrastructure layout was a machine for each of these functions: dns, router, nas, IoT server, game server, and mail/web server. I...

Hey guys, after starting a new job and getting interested about Cluster, shared storage etc. I still can't decide how to start my homelab for testing and maybe some things like a private cloud, Bitwarden etc. and use one of the nodes as a firewall if possible. What I want: low form factor...

Hello my fellow STH enthusiasts! I've been spending weeks trying to research a replacement build for my current 1st Gen EPYC(7551p/256GB RAM) as I have outgrown this. I was wondering if anyone had below spec'ed parts for grabs. Perfect opportunity(excuse) for you to upgrade to Milan or Genoa...

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Lenovo Thinkstation D30: 2x E5-2603 $300 + RAM + shipping Lenovo Thinkstation S30: 1x Xeon E5-1620 $100 + RAM + shipping Working well, just don't need this kind of capacity at home any more. Amazing home servers--load them up with RAM and SSDs to your heart's content. I have gobs of 16GB...

I recently stumbled upon some offerings for a Router called "R86s" on aliexpress. (They seem to even have an official product page at R86S) It looks like it would be great for a small homelab. It's a small Firewall Appliance featuring: * Intel N5105 or N6005 Processor * 8 or 16gb Ram * 128gb...

Hi I can get used machines from my workplace. My goal is to use one of those for a homelab ESXi server. My price for both is identical. The specs are similar but not exactly and now I'm seeking advice/experience to make the best choice. The specs I have for the actual contenders are...