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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 Β―_(γ)_/Β―
A little late to the party, but here's mine.
Oh yeah, now that's a HOMElab
So clean, I'm jealous
How can you hear the DJ tunes over the server fans?
the hardrive just out in the wild, living life like it was meant to be lived.
Okay I'll bite.
Dang so very jealous. When I finally get a job i'm so building a little datacenter in my walk-in closet :D
Projects that im running:
Old system 76 machine from a while back. Its what is running a majority of my services for self hosting. Only one screw keeps the case together, since I get into the insides quite often.
Solar powered web server. Its going to be repurposed into a meshtastic node soon.
Somewhat jank setup of a heltek which is also an ebook reader. It runs a webserver to upload the book in txt format, then I can take it on the go. I still have to do some work on the text.
I was too lazy to put on clothes and go out to my shack. This picture is a bit old. It's missing a lot of mess and my PeerTube server.
Only two of the minis are in use. The other two i am just messing with different things. Still have three more not in use and unsure what I am going to do with them. Two extreme AP not being used and probably never will.
β Rackmounted
β Professional
What front end are using for your apps? Looks nice.
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.
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
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
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.
This is a great thread. I had to join too!
I have my "network closet" which is like a hole in the wall where my ISP comes in:
And then my "server room" which is literally a closet. There's a big ass old enterprise server and a 3 node laptop cluster:
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.
My little Raspberry Pi 5 with an old 1tb Hard drive connected to a WiFi extender. It ain't much but I like it.
I used to work in automation as an electrician so I'm all about those coils and curves.
it's a mini pc, standing sideways, with a USB to ethernet adapter and USB HDD
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.
Just cleaned mine up a bit recently!
PC on the left, RPi for simple stuff and an Odroid HC4 as my media and backup server.
Not pictured: another RPi dedicated to HomeAssistant, a magic mirror, and networking stuff.
Also not pictured: my workbench tools on the upper shelves, which have not been tidied recently.
Including sbcs there are 8 computers in there. There are 5 more laptops and another retired desktop joining. There are plans to get solar and batteries so I'm checking how much power I can actually draw.
edit: just found the weird netbook with usb3 ethernet that I used to run homeassistant bare metal back in the day. one more for the computer pile.
The server is the black box on top of the rack. In the rack it's networking and UPSs for both the server and my computer on the desk.
Nothing fancy myself as well. Not unemployed but I don't necessarily wanna spend a lot on something I'm really just cutting my teeth with so far.
The central hub is up top, a Bosgame P4 Mini with 16GB DDR4, 512GB NVMe and a decent last-last gen Ryzen 7. It's enough to run Jellyfin, HA, and PiHole all through Proxmox. Been rock solid outside of a planned power outage Peco was doing (and actually did it this time!)
I also have Jellyfin connected to an 8TB RAID1 NAS that resides upstairs in our shared space, and HA connected to the basement tech, mostly lighting and the TV and PC.
Bonus battlestation pic (not really lol)
Not as clean as I would like, but way better than it started!
5 node Kubernetes cluster and a NAS. Runs about 250 pods.
Hard-drives deserve to be free to their cases! Free the drives!
Behold the Splendor!
Did some one ask for dust cos I got plenty! Also have one desktop with 30TB of memory, separate small form for HA and Pihole, networking equipment, cooling fans and a UPS all packed into one (un)tidy cupboard. The door doesn't quite close but enough to hide it from my partner!
Makes mine look boring.
Yours looks power hungry thoughβ¦
I'm on a variable rate electricity tariff and I use Home Assistant and iLO to power things on and off automatically, so most of the time it pulls 30-50W. At peak it pulls north of 1.5KW but that's really rare.
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Here is my combination lab and workbench. I have been busy trying to buy/sell/trade computers that I have become significantly behind on cleaning as I go. I also just got the network rack:
I haven't had time between work, hustling, and home maintenance to finish getting the cabling managed or the NAS:
The goal is to get the NAS in the rack, UPS to the items in the rack, the 3D printer under the bench, and the monitors on the wall and off the bench. Then I'll start in on plastic organizers for the bits and parts that clutter my bench.