Here’s my beautiful unemployed-for-too-long-have-no-money-dont-care-about-looks lab :)
Hey it’s more than good enough to run all this ¯_(ツ)_/¯
In a walk-in closet. Hdd laying on power cable to reduce vibration, works unexpectedly good.
Still busy building it. Have a few more parts to print, like the back trim and plug holder, and I need to remove the protective plastic from the aluminum sheets.
sexy 😍
Love it, i’ll probably end up doing something like that with a few HP elitedesk.
Thanks! I made it from some scrap pieces of wood from my IKEA headboard, aluminium extrusions and some aluminium sheets, then just 3D printed trim and fittings.
I was lucky and got a good deal on some ram, so each has 24gb.
Its supposed to be my kubernetes homelab. My actual server is hidden in the electrical box in my apartment.
Love this thread, here’s my contribution
Just a pi4B and some external drives for Linux ISOs
edit : they resting on a piece of foam to reduce vibrations
Bonus pic of the zigbee dongle for Home Assistant
I bought a 16U rack this year to organize stuff a bit. Zigbee dongle is still installed exactly like this. I’m not convinced there’s a better solution.
Honestly, I doubt there is. You’re suspending it away from metal and wood, seems like the best solution other than replacing the antenna with something expensive and “mounting” that separately.
It is the way
You may get better signal by not folding the antenna.
Oh! So you mean pointing it downward? Would you mind explain how that works? I’m clueless when it comes to these things
Some context, the house is on two levels and this is level 0. The ceiling above is level 1. Also we’re on the edge of the house not the center, the tip of the antenna is pointing towards the center
Just letting it be straight, as if it didn’t have that joint that allows it to bend 90º, but test and see.
That’s how my ZigBee dongle is mounted, except it’s resting on a shelf
It must hang for its sins (of not working when too close to the pi)
Nice cooler on the pi
Yea really happy with it. It only struggled some summers when I used to live in a small apartment in a large city.
this is the way :)
✅ Rackmounted
❌ Professional
What front end are using for your apps? Looks nice.
heimdall
they posted further down that it’s heimdall
heimdall
Hey it’s my desktop! Love that case. Horizontal motherboards make more sense with how big graphics cards have gotten.
BEHOLD! THE MOTHERBOARD!
“Beware of the leopard.”
This has got grit! I love it.
Wow!
When I’m rich I will also get a NAS/multiple drive enclosure (and fill it, hence the “rich” condition).
Built a year ago, didn’t change anything but drives since. PCengine APU OpnSense, two Proxmox cluster hosts, one mini PC NAS with JBOD. All DIY.
Way too professional looking for this thread.
Also, you got a link to that sticker? Maybe I’ll add that as an ironic reminder to my “Kabelsalat” 😅
I think I missed the irony 🙈
It’s from Kaoskvlt
I’ve seen that one before!
Yeah I posted it when I built it :)
a bunch of ebay specials with more ebay parts scavenged over time + some 3d printing.
The centre tower has a miniitx mb and PSU behind those panels to run the NAS, and the drive bays are in the bottom.
The right is a failover cluster that isn’t finished yet.
That’s a very tiny, dense lab!
i’m not utilising it nearly as much as i should which is why i haven’t gotten around to the failover cluster yet.
Same here wrt utilization. I’ve excess capacity and can’t seem to find anything I want to use it on.
Slick for ebay parts. The 3d printed extras are sharp.
Wow, that looks really good! I like the labels on each server! Are the 3d printed parts custom or did you find them online?
Custom printed.
The front rack grills, keystone panels and thinkcentre mounts are from a website but all the other printed parts are custom.
Behold the Splendor!
- TerraMaster 4 bay - 30 TB usable and hosts all family services
- China special N100 - runs OPNsense
- gobox to provide a SIP DECT bridge; wife wants a landline. I don’t get it either.
- ZBT-2 ZigBee antenna for garage alarm and handling a bunch of IKEA lights.
- a Hive heating controller (UK “smart” heating system).
- A switch with bondable ports.
- All sitting on a custom-built shelf with lots of ventilation and cabling routing holes.
Kudos on taking no space.
The white leds are a nice touch :p (i’m totally not jelly)
Not too noisy? I’m curious.
Not at all! I upgraded the heavy lifters case fans to all noctuas, there’s still fan noise but it’s very easily drowned out. Actually the most noise came from my HAL model. Partly sunny days would trigger its sensor and it’d randomly start spewing lines.
Kinda in a lull with homelabbing ATM, but here I’ve got my router in a custom 3d printed mini rack with 3d printed patch panel, and a couple of old NUCs. Only thing I really use day-to-day is a NUC connected to an amp so I can use the amp as a Spotify connect client
Oh now that is clean. Works really well with the overall display of vinyls.
Here my homelab.
I moved not too long ago and I am still lacking some furniture, so it’s on the floor with cables lying wild. Does not look like much but it actually covers almost all my needs.
I still need a VPS because of email ports and resident ISP not being compatible…Such professional. Much clean.
Not pictured: my raspberry running adguard. It’s tucked behind a TV, because it also runs Kodi.
Also not pictured, my Sophos SG-135 rev 2 running OPNsense. It’s in the box where my Starlink equipment is, on the other side of this room.
That 95% unused switch 😱
Such electricity waste. Much unclean.
The used 48 port was cheaper than the used 24 port.
You call it waste, I call it reuse.
But you seem to only need a 8 port at most 🤯
It is a MANAGED switch, my guy. A simple 8 port switch would not work here.
I have multiple VLANs running.
Also, one of those connections is a 10gbe DAC to the big machine which is my NAS and main server.
Not too many 8 port managed switches out there with an sfp+ 10gbe port for 50 bucks, which is what I paid for that Brocade switch in my picture.
But hey, if you feel like buying one for me, I’ll happily take it, and start using it instead.
Not too many 8 port managed switches out there with an sfp+ 10gbe port for 50 bucks
Easy to get these days actually, with 10gbit sfp+ and 8x 2.5gbit, managed switches. About $60.
But my actual argument was that your 48 port switch eats electricity like crazy. That aint a cheap switch at all.
The only brand new, 10gbe managed switches that I can find for less than 60 bucks are off-brand chinese junk. No thank you.
As far as electricity cost goes? After doing that math, it might cost me a dollar fifty a year to use. That machine sitting on the bottom is a much bigger chunk than the switch itself, as it has 6 7200rpm SAS drives in it. Plus it’s a Xeon E3 CPU.
Those drives, each, use as much electricity as that switch does, even before considering the CPU itself.
Started with a nicely packaged mini-pc running some docker containers. Recently added an external gpu through an m.2 to oculink adapter, so now it also hosts wolf for game streaming 😁 Will package it all up at some point…
I used to have a random server box. This past year my hobby has been CAD work and 3D printing to turn a bunch of mini PCs into a fully remote controlled cluster, complete with a DIY IPMI KVM and custom built outlets that are controllable for power cycling (hard wired, not radio smart outlets). It’s all self-contained with a single plug to the UPS.
I plan on releasing all my models/etc as I usually do on my site when everything is finished.
I will say, I don’t miss the dusty box 😄
Edit: And yes, I color coded cables from each system. ¯\(ツ)/¯
